A high-ranking Florida A&M official resigned last week as fallout from the university’s recent announcement of a dubious donation continues. Shawnta Friday-Stroud resigned as the Tallahassee school’s vice president for university advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation, said university President Larry Robinson at a board of trustees meeting on Wednesday. Friday-Stroud, who will […]
A high-ranking Florida A&M official resigned Wednesday as fallout from the university’s recent announcement of a dubious donation continues. Shawnta Friday-Stroud resigned as the Tallahassee school’s vice president for university advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation, said the university President Larry Robinson during Thursday’s board of trustees meeting. Friday-Stroud, who will remain with […]
Two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the oil industry had reason to be pleased with Republican control in Washington, D.C. ExxonMobil’s former CEO had just been confirmed as the secretary of State; congressional Republicans agreed to make it easier for oil giants to hide payments to foreign governments; and the new Republican administration was already […]
In the weeks immediately after Hamas’s 7 October surprise attack on Israel, the Israel Defense Forces allegedly intentionally targeted civilian homes and allegedly used an AI-based programme called Lavender to generate targets for assassination, generating scores of bombings based on decisions made with scant human review. At one point, the system used mass surveillance in […]
Donald Trump claimed 82% of the nation believes the 2020 election was rigged against him, citing a poll that appears to be very difficult to find. (Watch the video below.) In the umpteenth regurgitation of lies that he was denied victory through fraud, the criminally indicted former president told supporters in North Carolina Saturday that […]
Claim: In February 2024, AOC tweeted: “We should just print the 34 trillion dollars and pay off our national debt.” Rating: Rating: Labeled Satire On Feb. 14, 2024, a post attributed to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – better known as AOC – on X (formerly Twitter) went viral in which she appeared to say: “We […]
A handful of centuries-old sponges from deep in the Caribbean are causing some scientists to think human-caused climate change began sooner and has heated the world more than they thought. They calculate that the world has already gone past the internationally approved target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since […]
Sen. John Cornyn expressed doubts that ongoing Senate negotiations over border policy will lead to legislation that will be enacted. “This is a very delicate and difficult negotiation,” the Texas Republican told host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.” Cornyn suggested that even if leading Senate negotiators can reach an agreement on immigration in the […]
A federal appeals court panel took a skeptical stance Friday toward an effort by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to have a federal court take and potentially dismiss the state charges pending against him for allegedly trying to tamper with the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. All three members of the […]