A meeting among Turkish officials erupted into a brawl as tensions flared amid disagreements over the cost of celebrations to honor the creation of the country, during a period of economic hardship. The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Council allocated 69 million Turkish lira, the equivalent of $2 million, for a concert featuring singer Ebru Gündeş during the October 29 Republic Day ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was spotted on his daughter’s Instagram page this week shortly after he and Vice President Kamala Harris were defeated by President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance in Tuesday’s election. ‘The Earth keeps spinning and we live to fight another day,’ Walz’s daughter Hope posted on her Instagram story along with a photo of a somber ...
Neal McCluskey When it comes to the most important issues in the just-completed presidential election, education was not likely among them, coming in sixth in recent Gallup polling behind the economy, concerns about democracy, and a few other issues. The topic got only fleeting mentions in presidential debates and was never brought up by moderators. And education is rightly small ...
First of all, for those of you looking for a new video this week, I have intentionally skipped it because I didn’t want to make a video right before such an important event with much uncertainty. After the elections, which were obviously eventful, I wanted to see what the market’s reaction would be and let the dust settle down before ...
In the final days of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, he honed in on a culture war issue that may have locked in more swing votes and with it the election, a conservative activist instrumental in the ad campaign argues. ‘Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you,’ the narrator of Trump’s advertisement said. The ad, which focused on ...
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., says President-elect Trump should not offer Hunter Biden a pardon after Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in September. ‘I don’t think he should pardon Hunter,’ Johnson said in an interview on NewsNation’s ‘Dan Abrams Live.’ ‘I think we need to be very careful about having a dual system of justice where the powerful, or ...
Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday filed a motion to vacate all deadlines in the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump in Washington, D.C., a widely expected move, but one that stops short of dropping the case against him completely. The filing from Smith was widely expected following Trump’s election to a second term, and is in keeping with ...
Chris Edwards Coming into office next year, Donald Trump will face massive budget deficits of $2 trillion a year and rising. Trump and every member of Congress now know that excessive deficits and spending can spike inflation, which is very unpopular with voters. The president and his budget team must find spending cuts to tackle the deficit monster. However, Trump ...
Thomas A. Berry and Ethan Yang In March 2022, the FBI raided a private vault company, seizing any boxes holding over $5,000. The raid was executed on the purported suspicion that such funds had illegal origins. Without express authorization from a warrant, the agency seized over 400 safes, including one belonging to Linda Martin. Martin was an innocent patron of ...
Colleen Hroncich Every once in a while, I talk to someone who is doing so many amazing things that it’s hard to know where to start. Kansas mom Dalena Wallace is a perfect example. Like many education entrepreneurs, she started out homeschooling her own children. Her journey has included starting a microschool, a homeschool co-op, a network of school founders ...