President Donald Trump has renewed his call for Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, to undergo a cognitive test. ”Congresswoman’ Jasmine Crockett is a Low (Very!!!) I.Q. Individual, much in the mold of the AOC Plus Three Gang of Country Destroying Morons – Only slightly dumber,’ Trump wrote on TRUTH Social on Monday. ‘Each of these political hacks should be forced to ...
President Donald Trump took aim at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a press event on Monday over his frustration with the Ukrainian leader’s objection to ‘land swapping.’ ‘I get along with Zelenskyy, but, you know, I disagree with what he’s done, very, very severely, disagree. This is a war that should have never happened,’ Trump said, reiterating his belief that ...
Mike Fox NYU Law Professor Rachel Barkow has written an extraordinary new book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. It is a damning indictment of our judicial system’s complicity in the dramatic expansion of incarceration over the past several decades. Judge-made changes in the law have created a new status quo: The United ...
David J. Bier Immigrant workers seeking a green card—which denotes legal permanent residence in the United States—now face almost a three-and-a-half-year wait to make it through the government’s regulatory morass. Paying a $2,805 fee could reduce this wait to “only” 2.8 years. Since 2016, the government has added over 18 months to the average green card process. This needs to change ...
Pasta Evangelists has unveiled ambitious plans to open 100 restaurants across the UK over the next five years, in a £30 million expansion drive that is expected to create up to 1,500 jobs. The London-based fresh pasta brand, which began as a recipe kit delivery service before branching into dining, is seeking new sites and franchise partners across the South ...
Trump is threatening to ‘federalize’ DC with National Guard and more. Here’s how that could play out
President Donald Trump is weighing whether to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., as early as this week, Fox News has learned, in an effort to help deal with what he characterized as a surge in violent crime. The plans come just one day after Trump vowed on Truth Social to evict homeless persons from that nation’s ...
Jeffrey Miron In November 2020, Oregon voters adopted Measure 109, which legalized the therapeutic use of psilocybin in supervised, licensed facilities. While a significant step away from prohibition, the regulatory framework developed by the Oregon Health Authority still keeps such treatment, while legal, only modestly accessible. The Oregon model does not permit recreational sales or personal cultivation. Instead, it mandates ...
Anthony Thomson, co-founder of Metro Bank and Atom Bank, is launching a new venture aimed exclusively at the global super-rich. Family Offices Bank (FOB) will target ultra-high-net-worth individuals with at least $30 million in investable assets and family offices managing $100 million or more. The bank, to be domiciled in Jersey, plans to sign up 2,000 of the world’s wealthiest ...
Poundland is closing 49 stores across the UK over the next five weeks, with 10 branches shutting their doors for good today, as part of a major restructuring under its new owners. US investment firm Gordon Brothers, which bought the discount retailer from Polish parent Pepco Group in June for a nominal £1, is cutting almost 70 stores from Poundland’s ...
Akiva Malamet, Bautista Vivanco, and Michael F. Cannon The Trump administration is planning to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage of expensive weight-loss drugs like Ozempic under a five-year experiment, according to documents the Washington Post obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. While Ozempic and other GLP‑1 drugs are great at helping patients lose weight (among many other promising ...