State Watch
Two additional Native American tribes in South Dakota have banned Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) from their reservations after she said earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels. Noem is now banned from traveling to about one-fifth of South Dakota after the Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem and the Sisseton-Wahpeton…
Students at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) walked out of their commencement ceremony to protest an address by Gov. Glenn Younkin (R-Va.). About 100 of the 1,200 graduates at the graduation ceremony Saturday quietly filed out of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, some wearing kaffiyeh scarves and signs reading “Teach Black history” and “Book bans…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) radio show on WABC Radio has been canceled and he was suspended by the station over claims he made about the 2020 election, according to a report from The New York Times. “We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” WABC Radio owner…
A Los Angeles man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) while people were home, according to local police and the mayor’s office. Ephraim Matthew Hunter, 29, smashed a window around 6:40 a.m. on Sunday to gain entry into the Getty House, Bass’s official residence on Irving…
Yale University arrested dozens of protesters on Monday morning when a gathering grew to a few hundred people demanding the school to stop investing in military weapons manufacturers. Yale officials had told the protestors to leave and take their things after giving them numerous warnings at Beinecke Plaza.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) criticized the “antisemitism being expressed at and around the Columbia University campus” in a statement Sunday, highlighting several instances of what he called “hate speech” against Jews. “I am appalled and repulsed by the antisemitism being expressed at and around the Columbia University campus,”…
Columbia University will hold classes virtually on Monday amid ongoing unrest and heightened concern for Jewish students’ safety on campus. The school’s president, Minouche Shafik, announced the shift to online learning early Monday and instructed faculty and stuff to work remotely if they can do so. “Our preference is that students who do not live…
Former President Trump got 23 more delegates for the GOP convention on Sunday by winning the Puerto Rico primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. Running unopposed, Trump — already the party’s presumptive nominee — easily won the primary. He will officially be named the nominee at the party’s convention in Milwaukee in July.…
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said Chicago is prepared to host the Democratic National Convention in August, despite concerns about massive protests against the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. The convention will descend upon the Windy City from Aug. 19 to 22 to officially name President Biden as the party’s presidential nominee. Protesters…
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