Jacob Bojesson While watching the Oct. 13 Democratic debate from his refuge in Moscow, Edward Snowden got a glimpse of hope for the future. Edward Snowden commented on the chances of him returning to the U.S. one day in an interview published Friday by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He said the words of Bernie Sanders and…
Jonah Bennett Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson pulled in $3.5 million in campaign donations this week after furiously fighting off media reports Friday that he lied about his childhood and admission into West Point. The $3.5 million was accompanied by 100,000 new followers on Facebook. “What I have always said about the media is being proven…
Geoffrey Ingersoll Democrats and unions who supported the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline blasted President Barack Obama after he announced Thursday he was rejecting the project following a seven-year federal review. Proponents of the pipeline said the administration is killing job creation and energy independence to pander to environmentalists, despite the State Department’s findings that…
Josh Fatzick The shadow senator for Washington, D.C., who is less a senator and more a lobbyist to Congress, is in Europe this week trying to get the city added to a list of unrepresented nations. Paul Strauss, one of two D.C. shadow senators who are tasked with pushing the cause of D.C. statehood, left…
Geoffrey Ingersoll The Department of State thinks that it’s just fine if Canada and Mexico decide to legalize recreational marijuana. State Spokesman John Kirby answered a question at a Thursday press briefing about whether the recent federal election in Canada, as well as the Mexican Supreme Court ruling, would impact crime cooperation. The ruling established…
Jonah Bennett A judge just killed the lawsuit of Jesse Snodgrass, an autistic teenager who officers arrested in 2013 after a female officer allegedly pretended to like him in order to entrap him in a drug distribution ring. The original charge against Snodgrass didn’t pass muster in court, so his parents Doug and Catherine went…
Geoffrey Ingersoll President Barack Obama just rejected plans to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline Friday, arguing the project wouldn’t do much for the economy and would undercut U.S. efforts to fight global warming. “If we want to prevent the worst effects of climate change before it’s too late, the time to act is now.”…
Blake Neff A new video shows a student at Yale University screaming at one of the school’s professors for allegedly failing to make the campus a “safe space” for students. Yale University has been hit by controversy in the past week after professor Erika Christakis, associate headmaster of the school’s Silliman College, sent an email to the…
Blake Neff Politico has already begun to backtrack its explosive story accusing Ben Carson of lying about an acceptance to West Point, deleting its claim that Carson had confessed to “fabricating” his admission. When it first published its story Friday morning, the Virginia-based blog aggressively declared that Carson had admitted to telling a big lie about his past….
Australian researchers are heralding an astonishing breakthrough. Using a new form of ultrasound treatment the scientists were able to clear the brains of mice of buildups of plaque and harmful proteins that cause Alzheimer’s. Remarkably, 75% of the mice they experimented on regained their memories. Science Alert reports: Australian researchers have come up with a…