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‘Peanuts’ Music Owner Settles Lawsuits Over Social Media Ads & Government Christmas Card
The resolutions come two months after CBS inked a licensing deal over Stephen Colbert’s use of “Linus and Lucy” on the final episode of The Late Show.
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Supreme Court asked to review Texas’s Ten Commandment requirement for schools
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear their challenge to Texas’s law requiring public school classrooms to post the Ten Commandments. Representing a group of parents from various faiths, the civil liberties organization says the law violates the First Amendment’s religious protections. “As a rabbi and parent, forcing…
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Baldwin: ‘No ICE at our polling places’
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) on Sunday called for no federal immigration enforcement officers to be at polling places ahead of the November elections. “No ICE at our polling places,” she wrote on a post on the social platform X, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Department of Homeland Security has been met with…
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Trump explains his war exercises decision with South Korea
President Trump said Monday that he was turned off by South Korea not agreeing to help the U.S. denuclearize Iran even though the U.S. has troops in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea, spurring him to reduce the joint military exercises. Trump said he recently spoke on the phone with South Korean President…
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‘We’re not scroungers – we need it’: Furious PIP claimants hit back at Reform’s plan to axe benefits
Over half of the UK’s health benefit claimants would be stripped of their payments under the plans announced by Reform UK
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New UK leader Andy Burnham exchanged messages with a Susie Wiles impersonator
Newly elected UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impersonator posing as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. There was no discussion via phone but several text messages of “no significance” were sent and received before Burnham became suspicious of the communications, a source familiar with the situation but not authorized to…
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Democratic senator: Trump’s praise of North Korea is ‘delusional’
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) went after President Trump on Monday for his praise of North Korea. “The president, in that — this sense, is delusional. He has this egomania that says every powerful figure in the world is — must bow down to me. They do that. That’s exactly the approach he took to [Russian…
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Trump: Released missionary hostage coming home to US
President Trump said Sunday that Kevin Rideout, an American who has been held hostage in Niger, was reunited with his family after months of imprisonment overseas. Rideout, a 50-year-old pilot for a Christian missionary organization, was released from captivity in the West African country with the help of the eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar,…
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Californians divided on billionaire tax, new poll shows
A recent poll shows Californians are split on the one-time tax that would charge the state’s 200 billionaires with a 5 percent tax on their net worth, a measure set to appear on the ballot in November. The Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, found in a survey released Friday that…