When I finished school in 2007 — with an undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s in science journalism — I owed $78,060 in federal loans. I was actually relieved: my loans were below $100,000, a number that seemed like the line between manage ...[
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Last week, Alshaer’s pregnant cousin was killed in an airstrike. While Alshaer herself remains “physically OK,” Alshaer said on Monday that her family in still not safe from Israeli airstrikes. A street going to the nearby Al Shifa hospital has been ...[
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"Well, I'm conservative, but I'm not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I'm pro-choice! I'm pro-same-sex-marriage! I'm not a racist! I just want lower taxes, and smaller government, and less government regulation of busi ...[
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Loyalists and supporters of former President Donald Trump are being mocked for believing the former disgraced president would be reinstalled and somehow resume his former duty of President of the United States.
For months now, Trump supporters have been ...[
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For generations, the GOP has pushed itself as the "pro-business party." But when MAGA Republicans take extremist measures in states they control — voter suppression, opposing vaccine requirements and public safety measures during a pandemic — it makes ...[
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In its lead editorial on Sunday, The New York Times decried what it deemed 'The Digital Virus Called Fake News' and called for Internet censorship to counter this alleged problem, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting ' ...[
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Damascus air defence downed its first Israeli jet (F-16) ever, at a stroke changing the rules of engagement (ROE) with Israel and sending a clear message that it is ready for war and will no longer be silent on violations of its airspace. This clash has t ...[
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Approaching four hours after the Capitol Building was overrun by Trumpist insurrectionists, police are finally beginning to move in force, backed by National Guard forces from both D.C. and Virginia. However, at least one improvised explosive... ...[
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t has been less than two weeks since Americans started getting their second coronavirus relief payments — "stimulus checks" — and the anticipation about a third phase is already heating up.
President-elect Joe Biden has called the current $600 round o ...[
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Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey on Monday urged President Joe Biden to terminate all six sitting members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors for their "silence and complicity" in the face of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ...[
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Body camera footage released Sunday shows Rochester, New York, police officers handcuffing and pepper-spraying a 9-year-old Black girl who refused to sit in one of the officer’s cars. “You’re acting like a child,” one of the officers told the gir ...[
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