Hot Air,
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Jazz Shaw
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Ever since Iran's largely failed missile and drone attack on Israel last Saturday, the world has been holding its breath waiting to see what Bibi Netanyahu would do in response. Despite the White House urging "caution" and "restraint," Israel clearly seems to realize that a failure to respond would only serve as a sign of weakness and an invitation for Iran to continue attacking at will. It's now being reported that Netanyahu's first impulse was to hit back quickly and decisively, potentially striking Iran on Monday evening. But Israel reportedly informed the White House on Monday that a decision had been made to wait a while longer. (Axios)
Israel considered conducting
PJ Media,
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Rick Moran
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The war of words between Israel and Iran is heating up as Israel's response to Iran's missile and drone attack last week draws near. The t*-for-tat attacks and retaliation cycle are escalating as a war neither side wants becomes more likely with each statement emanating from the two nation's capitals. “The nuclear facilities of the Zionist enemy have been identified and all the necessary information from all targets is at our disposal,” the IRGC’s Brigadier General Ahmad Haghtalab was quoted as saying.
“Our fingers are on the trigger of firing strong missiles to destroy the designated targets in response to a potential attack by them,”
Red State,
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Jeff Charles
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4/18/2024 3:56:55 PM
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is asking Republican candidates who use his name, image, or likeness to raise funds to give five percent of the proceeds to Trump. The move is ostensibly intended to stop “scammers” from harming his presidential campaign.
The development comes as Team Trump is trying to catch up to President Joe Biden when it comes to raising funds. The demand was made in a letter sent to Republican digital vendors earlier this week.
The letter announced that Trump’s campaign is “issuing new guidelines for candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness in fundraising solicitations.”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Rachel Bowman
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Pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia University have been arrested as police raided their 'Gaza solidarity camp.'
The school's president, Minouche Shafik, sent a letter to the community stating she authorized the arrested, reported WABC.
'I regret that all of these attempts to resolve the situation were rejected by the students involved. As a result, NYPD officers are now on campus and the process of clearing the encampment is underway,' Shafik said. Video shows police raiding an encampment protesters set up on campus in 'solidarity in Gaza' hours before Shafik was scheduled to testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee about rampant anti-Semitism remarks on campus.
Reuters,
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Amina Niasse
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NEW YORK – U.S. mortgage rates increased by the most since June and also crossed the 7% threshold for the first time since December, muddling home sales growth, a Thursday report said.
The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.10% for the week ended April 18 from 6.88% the week prior, Freddie Mac reported. The 22-basis point increase was the largest in about 10 months.
“As rates trend higher, potential homebuyers are deciding whether to buy before rates rise even more or hold off in hopes of decreases later in the year,” said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. “Last week, purchase applications rose modestly, but it remains unclear
Politico,
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Hailey Fuchs
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The Chinese Embassy has held meetings with congressional staff to lobby against the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok, according to two of the Capitol Hill staffers.
TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, has repeatedly denied a relationship with the Chinese government and sought to distance itself from its Chinese origins. But now, with the fate of legislation to force the sale of the company facing an uncertain path forward in the Senate, the Chinese Embassy appears to be leveraging its political weight to protect the company’s future in the United States.
CBS News,
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Graham Kates *
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A woman who was selected to serve on the jury in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York was excused Thursday after she expressed concerns about being identified publicly and questioned her ability to remain impartial.
The juror, a young woman who was chosen to serve on Tuesday, said she "definitely has concerns now" after friends and family asked her if she was a juror, based on reports in the media about those who have been selected. "Aspects of my identity have already been out there in public. Yesterday alone, I had friends and family push things to me,"
New York Post,
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Thomas Barrabi
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Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, to protest the company’s business ties with the Israel government, The Post has learned.
The pro-Palestinian staffers — who wore traditional Arab headscarves as they stormed and occupied the office of a top executive in California on Tuesday — were terminated late Wednesday after an internal investigation, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said in a companywide memo.
“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,” Rackow wrote in the memo obtained by The Post. “Their behavior was
United Press International,
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Doug Cunningham
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The NBA Wednesday banned Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for violating league gambling rules. The NBA said in a statement on X, "The league's investigation found that prior to the Raptor's March 20 game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor. Another individual with whom Porter associated and knew to be an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet with an online sports book, to win $1.1 million, wagering that Porter would underperform in the March 20 game."
Politico,
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Nahal Toosi
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When I asked the U.S. official what President Joe Biden’s Iran strategy is, I was immediately met with laughter. Then, the official said, “You know, a lot of people inside the administration ask that same question. Sometimes they ask it on the first day. Sometimes they ask it six months later. ”
I have an answer for them: There is no Biden strategy for Iran.
If he wants to end the growing chaos in the Middle East, he might want to come up with one.
The Islamist regime in Tehran is, by many measures, at the root of much of the destabilization across the Middle East and more of a threat
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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By golly, I think we've discovered the qualifications that got Katherine Maher hired to run Government Radio.
Christopher Rufo has done extensive digging into Maher's track record, none of which had anything to do with journalism until NPR made her its new CEO in January. Maher did work at Wikipedia as its CEO during the pandemic and the 2020 election, where she took an active role in content control. And by content control, Maher made clear in a remote address to the Atlantic Council in 2021, she means imposing censorship on any information or discussion to which the government objected on both topics (transcript via RealClearPolitics):
National Review,
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Zach Kessel
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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik told the House Education and Workforce Committee in a Wednesday hearing on campus antisemitism that a professor who glorified Hamas’s October 7 attack as “awesome” no longer runs a university committee.
Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), after a quick Google search, found that professor Joseph Massad of the university’s Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies department is still listed as the chair of Columbia’s Arts and Sciences Academic Review Committee.
Only one day after Hamas attacked Israel, Massad wrote an article on the Electronic Intifada website describing the massacres as “stunning,” “awesome,” remarkable,” and said the violence resulted in “jubilation and awe.”