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ICE on Sunday detained British-born Muslim activist Sami Hamdi over his open support for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel and plans to deport him from the country. Mainstream media outlets, though, have claimed the administration targeted Hamdi for criticizing Israel, an assortment of reports from outlets including but not limited to CBS News, CNN, and the New York Times shows. The post Mainstream Media Lament Deportation of Foreign ‘Journalist’ Who Celebrated Oct 7 appeared ...|
A transgender rabbi who was once booted from a Biden White House pride party is headlining a new ad campaign on behalf of Zohran Mamdani. The post Trans Rabbi Booted From Biden White House Event Headlines 'Jews for Zohran' Ad Campaign appeared first on .|
Zohran Mamdani, the extreme left-wing, Israel-hating trust fund kid running for mayor of New York City, sobbed like a girl last week during a speech about so-called Islamophobia. Mamdani lashed out at his political opponents for noticing his ties to radical Islamic preachers, his embrace of violent anti-Semitic rhetoric, and his father's seething contempt for America. He suggested the real victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were Muslims, especially his aunt, who "stopped taking the subway ...|
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday formally petitioned the United Nations to hand over a tranche of internal documents related to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency's (UNRWA) employment of more than a dozen terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R., Tenn.) said his investigation will detail how "U.S. taxpayer funds sent to UNRWA...|
A group of left-wing congresswomen enjoyed some fun in the sun during a glitzy junket to the U.S. Virgin Islands in June—with donors picking up the check—records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. The post 'Squad' Members Enjoy Donor-Funded Resort Weekend in Virgin Islands appeared first on .|
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign manager resigned after just three days on the job, citing his wife's pregnancy and his desire to "lean into this new experience as a family." The post 'Baby on the Way': Platner's New Campaign Manager Quits 3 Days Into Job, Citing Pregnant Wife appeared first on .|
With the government shutdown nearing the one-month mark, the nation's largest union representing federal workers, a close Democratic ally, is demanding that Democratic senators join Republicans in passing a House-approved resolution to reopen the government. The post 'National Disgrace': Largest Federal Workers' Union Rips Into Democrats, Demands Government Reopening appeared first on .|
A journalist for THE CITY, New York City news nonprofit hailed as a beacon of hope for local journalism, served as an organizer for the Bronx Anti-War Coalition, a virulently anti-Israel group that held vigils for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, raised money for the terrorist group Samidoun, and defended Elias Rodriguez's alleged assassination of two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C., earlier this year as "morally justified." The post NYC News Nonprofit Hailed Savior of Local Journalism Hired ...|
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) owned stocks in at least 25 companies that she did not disclose to the public during her first congressional run in 2022, even though she'd quietly admitted to the holdings the previous year as a Texas state legislator. Crockett also didn't reveal the stock holdings once she got to Washington in 2023. The post Inside Jasmine Crockett's Secret Stock Portfolio and Failed Attempts To Become a Marijuana Magnate appeared first on .|
A senior U.N. official jockeying for a prominent role in implementing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan has a history of bashing Trump on his personal X account. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations' undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator in Gaza, has advocated for foreign leaders to boycott the president and warned the world has "a Trump problem," among many other insults in more than two dozen social media posts reviewed by the Washington Free ...|
There's a familiar lament among constitutionalists—one heard at law schools, in courtrooms, and across think tank hallways—that most Americans know next to nothing about the nation's founding document. Ask a random college graduate about the Emoluments Clause or the Compact Clause and you'll get a blank stare. Yet even among lawyers and judges, constitutional knowledge is often shallow, piecemeal, or warped by ideology. The post The Constitutional Commentary We Need appeared first on .|
Early in their biography of the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys announce that they have written a "thematic" as opposed to a "linear" biography. The facts of their subject's life, they hold, are rather unremarkable and straightforward. "We have chosen, therefore, to start and finish his life story with his death and then tell a circular narrative through various thematic sequences." They continue: "The thematic approach also enables us to draw attention...|
In 1982, a bootleg record titled Elvis’ Greatest Shit!! caused a stir by savaging the crass commercialization and cultural deification of Presley in the wake of his death five years before. It was released on the Dog Vomit label, emblazoned with RCA mascot Nipper retching into a gramophone, a dig at the venerable label that had repackaged the King’s songs in a relentless posthumous cash grab. The bootleg featured the worst dreck from Elvis’s schlock-movie career in the ’60s, songs lik...|
Major League Baseball has been in crisis for nearly as long as it has existed. Just 16 years after the American and National Leagues merged, a game-fixing scandal threw the national pastime’s integrity into question and (perhaps incorrectly) cost one of the game’s greats both the rest of his career and a plaque in Cooperstown. It took just four years for Babe Ruth to win his first World Series with the New York Yankees and win back Americans’ trust with each record-setting home run.| freebeacon.com
As Donald Trump boards Air Force One for the first East Asia trip of his second term, he is confronting the main challenge facing the United States and the one that will define his legacy: the ongoing competition with China. There are reasonable grounds for optimism in the White House, but fending off the communist great power will require tremendous focus and determination. If handled well, this trip will set the rest of his term up for success in the Far East.| freebeacon.com
President Donald Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House this week to commence a much-needed renovation of the 123-year-old structure that has existed in its current form since the FDR administration. He plans to build a fabulous ballroom in its place. The post Counterpoint: Calm Down, No One Cares About the White House Renovation appeared first on .|
As experts warn that the United States is at risk of losing a technological arms race to China, others say axing Biden-era restrictions on corporate mergers and acquisitions will help the country remain competitive. The post Bigger Can Be Better: How the US Can Use M&A To Keep the Edge Against China appeared first on .|
Northwestern University provost Kathleen Hagerty, who suggested she would be willing to boycott Israeli products to make a "deal" with student encampment organizers, will leave her post by the end of the academic year, Northwestern announced. The post Northwestern Provost Who Floated Divestment From Israel Resigns Amid Federal Anti-Semitism Probe appeared first on .|
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) on Friday endorsed Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a socialist, following months of pressure from the party's progressive members. The post Another One Bites the Dust: Hakeem Jeffries Endorses Mamdani appeared first on .|
European security services are investigating a former Politico reporter for working as a Chinese spy. The post Politico Reporter Under Investigation for Serving as CCP Spy appeared first on .|
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is already facing controversy over racist social media posts and having a tattoo of a Nazi symbol, also made Reddit comments containing "homophobic slurs, anti-LGBTQ+ jokes, and sexually explicit stories denigrating gay men," according to a Wednesday report.| freebeacon.com
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, the self-described "working class Mainer," attended an elite boarding school in Connecticut that costs upwards of $75,000 a year. Its alumni include Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, former CIA director Porter Goss, Clinton family crony Strobe Talbott, MacKenzie Scott Bezos, and the veteran news anchor Chris Wallace.| freebeacon.com
California Gov. Gavin Newsom personally secured $500,000 in 2023 for a pro-"Defund the Police" nonprofit group that recently launched a bond fund for illegal immigrants in ICE custody, according to state records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.| freebeacon.com
James L. Simon, a co-producer on "Operation Mincemeat," paid a website to run positive coverage of him, pushing his transgression off Google's home page.| freebeacon.com
Graham Platner, the bearded socialist running for U.S. Senate in Maine, has unveiled the new tattoo he got to cover up the Nazi skull on his chest. In place of the Totenkopf, or "death's head," symbol adopted by Holocaust perpetrators during World War II, Platner's new tattoo depicts what might charitably be described as a morbidly obese Celtic wolf drawn by a six-year-old child.| freebeacon.com
Graham Platner (D.), the Bernie Sanders-endorsed Senate candidate in Maine, revealed that he has a Nazi-linked tattoo on his chest but claimed to be unaware of its symbolism. Associates of Platner refuted that claim, with one calling him a history buff who "knows damn well" the meaning of the tattoo and another saying he referred to the ink as "my Totenkopf," a reference to the Nazi symbol.| freebeacon.com
NEWARK, N.J.—Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D., N.J.) rallied with Newark mayor and Louis Farrakhan acolyte Ras Baraka (D.) and Chigozie Onyema, a defund the police advocate, on Sunday as her lead in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race shrinks leading into the home stretch.| freebeacon.com
A Democratic state lawmaker in Colorado resigned Sunday, weeks after facing felony charges alleging she falsified her residency in order to run in her district again following last year's redistricting. Prosecutors say Tracey Bernett, who represented part of Boulder County in the Colorado House of Representatives, lied in sworn documents when she said she lived […]| freebeacon.com
The University of California, San Diego has eliminated a race-based scholarship after a conservative nonprofit challenged its legality under the Ku Klux Klan Act, vindicating a novel legal strategy that could be used to challenge similar programs.| freebeacon.com
Sen. Bernie Sanders has criss-crossed the country on his nationwide Fighting Oligarchy Tour to rail against billionaires and supposed "oligarchs" like Elon Musk—while traveling like an oligarch himself. Campaign expenditures released Tuesday and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Sanders's main campaign committee Friends of Bernie Sanders spent $221,723 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, with the first payment coming just days before the launch of his tour in...| freebeacon.com
The Illinois Board of Higher Education runs a scholarship program for graduate students that explicitly excludes white applicants, a move lawyers say is unconstitutional and could jeopardize the federal funding of more than two dozen participating universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.| freebeacon.com
Man is a ranking animal. He is not content for there to be a multiplicity of greats, all of roughly equal worth. No, there must be a No. 1, a No. 2, a No. 3… Man must rank.| freebeacon.com
The nation's largest teachers' union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references "victims of the Holocaust from different faiths" and teaches that Israel was founded through "forced, violent displacement and dispossession," its most recent guide for members shows.| freebeacon.com
A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a "die in" protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas. The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the student saying "don’t grab me" and "don’t touch my neck" as protesters surround him, blocking his view and their own faces with keffiyehs. Eventually, the student tells them, "I live here," as he tries to make his way through the crowd. "...| freebeacon.com
The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on the Tucker Carlson Show that Winston Churchill "was the chief villain of World War II," which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely.| freebeacon.com
As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing.| freebeacon.com
Harvard University president Claudine Gay was hit with six additional allegations of plagiarism on Monday in a complaint filed with the university, breathing fresh life into a scandal that has embroiled her nascent presidency and pushing the total number of allegations near 50. Seven of Gay’s 17 published works have already been impacted by the scandal, but the new charges, which have not been previously reported, extend into an eighth: In a 2001 article, Gay lifts nearly half a page of mat...| freebeacon.com
