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A college student photographed with a cake mocking Charlie Kirk's death is at the center of a campus controversy that has prompted the University of Utah to investigate two College Republicans for charges of misconduct after one posted the photo online.On Sept. 10, 2026, the one-year anniversary of the conservative activist's public murder, a woman approached a group of College Republicans at an event on the school's campus and presented […]

Former Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is dead at the age of 84, his family announced Thursday.Kyl was first sworn in to the Senate in 1995, retiring in 2013. He briefly returned to the Senate in 2018 after former Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., died. Kyl announced he was stepping away from public life in December 2025 after receiving a diagnosis of a neurological disease that resulted in his development of […]

The mastermind behind the multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that even victimized NFL star Travis Kelce is an illegal immigrant from India.Thirty-eight-year-old Siddharth Jawahar was sentenced to 11 years in prison this week for running a $35 million investment wire fraud scheme. At his sentencing, Judge Zachary Bluestone said that through his investment company, Swiftarc Capital LLC, Jawahar "weaponized" investors' trust, resulting in "massive" losses for the victims.Jawahar raised more than $35 […]

A top newspaper in battleground Michigan is skewering left-wing Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed over past radical rhetoric as it endorses Republican rival former Rep. Mike Rogers in a crucial midterm showdown.The race between El-Sayed and Rogers to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is a must-win battle for the Democrats as they try to recapture the Senate majority from the GOP.The Detroit News, which has the second-largest newspaper circulation […]

States with stronger teachers' unions tend to have weaker literacy performance and have adopted fewer of the policies credited with improving reading outcomes, according to a new analysis from a center-left think tank.Eight of the 10 states to score among the worst in the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) assessment of early-literacy policies were home to powerful teachers' unions. Among the top 60% of states in terms of early-literacy policy scores, […]