Miller Sanford Trump’s admin issued an order banning flags other than the American flag from flying at State Department buildings. AP Photo/Julio Cortez The promised return of “common sense” to America will have lots of people squealing. Already there are people complaining that the most common-sensical things of all are somehow a problem. Take the “one flag” … Read more
Ivanka Trump, the only daughter between Donald and Ivana Trump, rose to public notoriety when she starred on “The Apprentice” with her father and became the EVP of her family’s company, Trump Organization. Ivanka — who has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania — later made her way into politics when … Read more
President Trump holds up an order for clemency for people convicted in the invasion and blockade of a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press) President Trump announced Thursday he would pardon antiabortion activists convicted of invading and blocking abortion clinic entrances. “They should not have been prosecuted,” he said as he signed … Read more
A select few Eagles fans got their hands on a special piece of memorabilia from Philadelphia’s Divisional Round win over the Rams at Lincoln Financial Field. Let’s just hope they got it into their freezers quickly. The team sold 100 pints of snow from Sunday’s game for $50 each — and the lot sold out … Read more
East New York has a reputation for violence — with good reason. The 75th precinct has a violent crime rate that’s 84% higher than New York City as a whole and 279% higher than the rest of the country, according to FBI data. It wasn’t always this way. During the early 20th century, it was … Read more
Three federal judges in Washington, DC, reluctantly dropped the cases of several Jan. 6 rioters who were among the 1,500 protesters President Trump pardoned on his first day in office. “No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021,” said Judge Tanya Chutkan in a ruling Wednesday dismissing the pending … Read more
By now no one should be surprised at President Trump’s sweeping reversals of the conventional wisdom on everything from A (asylum) to W (wilderness access) — sorry, no executive orders affecting anything beginning with Z yet. But in revoking President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246 that launched our decades-long imposition of de facto racial … Read more
Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gave Americans a look behind the podium in a telling Vanity Fair piece published on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre, who chose to keep her personal life private while working in the Biden-Harris administration, revealed a private health battle that put significant weight on her and her family. Jean-Pierre recalled attending the Bidens’ … Read more
(Patrick Hruby / Los Angeles Times) Togetherness can be a mixed blessing. As the Palisades fire raged, every member of the Cullen family — deeply rooted in Pacific Palisades since the 1960s — found themselves displaced. 10 family members from multiple households there were forced to flee the homes they owned as the inferno swallowed … Read more
The devastated widow of a firefighter who died on New York City’s notorious “Black Sunday” — exactly 20 years ago Thursday — said she’s still struck by sudden tearful waves of grief when she least expects it. Jeanette Meyran — whose husband Lt. Curtis Meyran was one of three firefighters killed in two blazes on Jan. … Read more
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