Jeff Bezos enables Trump’s threat to democracy, Washington Post columnist Rubin says as she quits
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has faced criticism since killing a Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris in the election against Donald Trump.
Americans had mixed reactions to Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program this week, with some telling Fox News Digital that the move was concerning. “Free speech should be absolute,” one respondent told Fox News Digital in Texas. “I don’t think anybody has the authority to censor anybody.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday…
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., resigned from the House last week. That is final. The precedent of the House is that once you bow out, it is done. So, Gaetz cannot revoke his letter of resignation last week. It declared he was stepping aside “effective immediately.” As reported earlier, Gaetz could serve in the new…
The “reinventing government” program cut over 480,000 federal jobs and thousands of regulations. The woman who ran the program says any similarities to DOGE end there.
President Biden does not comment on pardon for Hunter during address in Angola; Stowaway passenger on Delta flight in Paris to return to U.S. tomorrow.
Israel’s new Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has declared that there will be no ceasefire with Hezbollah until Israel’s objectives are met. Katz emphasized that Iran’s nuclear facilities are more vulnerable than ever after Israeli airstrikes. Meanwhile, Hezbollah claims no official ceasefire proposals have been received, despite Israeli media reports suggesting otherwise.
In his “Divine Comedy,” Italian poet Dante Alighieri reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for people who charged usurious interest rates. Seven hundred years later, “usury” doesn’t come up much in common parlance, but the problem hasn’t gone away. Last year, both Republicans and Democrats campaigned on providing economic relief to hard-working…