House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) has warned former White House press secretary Jen Psaki to submit to an interview about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan or face a subpoena. McCaul’s letter, released Wednesday, noted that he had initially requested an interview last September, which was denied by President Biden’s White House counsel despite Psaki leaving government service in May 2022. “Ms. Psaki was charged with communicating the withdrawal to the American people and possesses key insights into the planning and decision-making regarding the Afghanistan withd ..read more

Hunter Biden’s federal tax trial in Los Angeles has been rescheduled to Sept. 5 after a judge secured a promise from his defense team not to seek further delays. The decision by U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi means the 54-year-old will face trial while his father, President Joe Biden, engages in the second confirmed debate against former President Donald Trump. Biden’s legal team, led by prominent DC attorney Abbe Lowell, requested the trial be postponed due to conflicts with an unrelated gun case in Delaware, set for trial on June 3. The defense argued that the “uniquely challenging and high ..read more

A Louisiana bill empowering state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people who entered the U.S. illegally received approval from lawmakers Wednesday and is likely to soon be on the governor’s desk. Amid national disputes between Republican states and Democratic President Joe Biden over border enforcement, several GOP-led states have passed measures pushing deeper into migrant enforcement. However, laws similar to Louisiana’s legislation — in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Texas — are facing legal challenges. Texas was briefly allowed to enforce its migrant enforcement law in March while legal ..read more

New York City has started evicting migrants from its shelter system to ease the strain on resources, following a more aggressive phase of its response to the ongoing migrant crisis. The first wave of evictions affects adult migrants who received 30-day notices last month. Those wishing to stay longer must meet specific exceptions. This week, 250 migrants are impacted, with 74 denied extensions and 118 granted. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration hopes the threat of eviction will encourage migrants to find other housing, reducing the shelter population of 65,000, primarily families with children ..read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a legal challenge to the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system’s policy on gender identity, first implemented in the 2020-2021 school year. A group of Montgomery County parents and their attorneys argued that the school system’s “gender support plan” infringed on parents’ 14th Amendment rights. They claimed the policy violated their “fundamental rights to direct the care and upbringing of their children.” The MCPS policy allows for a “student-centered” approach when a student decides to change their gender identity, including changing their name an ..read more

A preprint paper published in Research Gate analyzed whether a bias in over-reporting deaths from COVID-19 contributed to an inflated mortality rate from the virus overall. Research sought to estimate the instances of COVID-19 as the “multiple cause of death” versus the “underlying cause of death.” The World Health Organization (WHO) defines “underlying cause-of-death” as the “disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury.” “Our results show that there is a systematic over-report ..read more

A seventh-grade student from California has gone viral after he refused to edit a patriotic speech. Student Jimmy Heyward was told by Saint Bonaventure Catholic School Principal Mary Flock to edit his campaign speech for Commissioner of School Spirit and Patriotism. The student’s mom then launched a petition to remove Flock as the school’s principal. “My son Jimmy Heyward decided to run for Commissioner of School Spirit and Patriotism at his school this year. The Principal, Mary Flock, told him he needed to make changes to his speech,” the mom wrote. “She wanted everything in his speech regard ..read more

The Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters was on lockdown Wednesday morning after a package containing vials of blood was discovered. Hazmat teams appeared on-site to investigate the matter. RNC Headquarters near Capitol Hill is currently being evacuated. Reports of a suspicious package with hazmat teams and a large police presence on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/XFsaNcUJb3 — Global Press (@GlobalPressCorp) May 22, 2024 Journalist Larua Loomer shared footage of fire trucks and EMS vehicles. In addition to RNC HQ being on lockdown, Fire and EMS are also Currently parked outside ..read more

When Clara Barton was ten-years-old, her older brother, David, fell off the roof of a barn during barn-raising in Massachusetts. The doctors had given up hope on him, but Clara helped nurse him back to a full recovery. He became a Captain and served as Assistant Quartermaster for the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1839, at the age of 17, Clara Barton earned her teacher’s certificate. She taught for 12 years in schools in Canada and West Georgia. In 1852, Clara Barton moved to Bordertown, New Jersey,  ..read more

Oakland, California city officials have removed a traffic light at a busy intersection after homeless people repeatedly stole copper wire from an electrical box that supplied power to the lights. According to CBS, officials have since replaced the traffic light with a four-way stop sign to prevent thieves from stealing more copper. The city of Oakland initially placed large cement blocks as barriers to prevent thieves from accessing the electrical box, but the barriers were later removed. Oakland is now replacing traffic lights with stop signs due to homeless encampments stealing from Oaklan ..read more