Elon Musk is the world’s richest man and CEO of Tesla. He also thinks he can fix Twitter. Critics, including the ACLU, adopted an argument Kanye West made popular, no one man should have all that power. Twitter’s Board of Directors approved Musk’s $44 billion cash bid on Monday. Twitter’s user base is significantly smaller…

A U.S. Marine has been released as part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. Trevor Reed had been jailed for nearly three years in a Russian prison. The Marine veteran was swapped for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America, both countries announced Wednesday. The surprise…

Ginni Thomas has the potential to almost singlehandedly compromise the integrity of the United States Supreme Court. If you think that’s hyperbole, give it a second and think about what we’ve learned about her in recent days. Virginia Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, reportedly exchanged numerous text messages with then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows…

Hunter Biden’s business partners visited the White House at least 19 times during the Obama administration, according to official White House visitor logs. The New York Post reported those meetings included at least one sit-down between Vice President Joe Biden and then-president of Rosemont Seneca Partners Eric Schwerin.  President Biden has repeatedly denied that he…

President Joe Biden spent Earth Day 2022 on the wildfire-torn West Coast signing an executive order to protect some of the nation’s largest and oldest forests. The order directs federal land managers to define and inventory mature and old-growth forests nationwide within a year. It also requires the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management…

As Netflix is looking to recover from a major drop in subscribers and stock value, a new Axios report has spelled trouble for CNN+. According to sources who spoke to Axios, Warner Bros. Discovery has suspended all external marketing spend for CNN+ and has laid off CNN’s longtime chief financial officer. Axios reported Tuesday that…

Twitter’s board of directors voted to take a poison pill to try to prevent Elon Musk from executing a hostile takeover. Also called a shareholders-rights plan, a company engages in a poison pill strategy by diluting the value of the hostile party’s shares by flooding the market with new, discounted stock. The practice became widely…

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) latest monthly operational update, there were 209,906 illegal border crossings in March. Illegal border crossings are defined as crossings outside official ports of entry. The 209,906 number, reported Monday, is the highest number of illegal border crossings reported since March 2000. Monday’s CBP numbers also revealed there…

Why in the world are the citizens of Shanghai facing a strict COVID lockdown? Three reasons: weak COVID vaccines, a crisis of legitimacy at the highest level, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let’s start with the vaccine situation. The Chinese vaccine doesn’t work very well at all. And most Chinese citizens have not been…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is expected to leave the Biden Administration for MSNBC. Psaki hasn’t signed a contract yet, but according to multiple reports, she is in advanced talks to host a show on the streaming service Peacock and provide analysis for MSNBC. Psaki said she doesn’t have anything to announce about possible…