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By Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen – http://www.marines.mil/unit/mcblejeune/PublishingImages/2005/lunchmoney-01.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22969260 There’s a huge debate playing out on X and in Congress over school lunch. The basic framing goes like this: the good, caring Democrats want kids to eat and learn, so they argue there must be free, federally funded school lunch for all students. Meanwhile, under the biased narrative, the evil, stingy Republicans supposedly want kids to go hungry, to stay ignorant, and for the money that would have funded school lunches to somehow end up in Elon Musk’s pocket. As is often the case, about 80% of the…
Topline An official with the Preakness Stakes said Tuesday he was informed that Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not participate in the upcoming second leg of the Triple Crown, marking the seventh-straight year there will not be a Triple Crown winner. Sovereignty jockey Junior Alvarado celebrates winning the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby on May … More 3, 2025, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. (Photo by Jeff Moreland/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Key Facts Mike Rogers, executive vice president of 1/ST Racing, the lead operator of the Preakness, said in a statement that Sovereignty’s…
Female Employee Smiling in the Office, With Her Colleagues in Background. Shallow Focusgetty Trading PTO For Student Loan Repayment Help Would you give up a vacation week to erase some of your student debt? Allowing employees to convert unused paid time off into extra student loan payments is an gaining traction. In a recent report, Fortune highlighted how some borrowers are even ditching PTO to get a payment boost on their student loans. In other words, instead of letting unused vacation days expire or rollover, employees can cash them out to chip away at college debt. This reflects both evolving…
Google’s search chief, Elizabeth Reid, testified that the DOJ’s proposed changes to the company’s search practices could “deeply undermine user trust” and slow down innovation in the search industry. This claim comes after the company censored conservatives on its search engine throughout the Trump era — which clearly undermined user trust in the company. The Verge reports that in testimony during the remedy phase of the search antitrust trial against the internet giant, Elizabeth Reid, Google’s head of search, expressed concerns over the DOJ’s proposed changes to the company’s search practices. The DOJ has suggested that Google should share its…
PARIS (AP) – Syria´s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is visiting Paris on Wednesday for talks with President Emmanuel Macron. It’s his first trip to Europe since taking office in January, and a possible opening to broader ties with Western countries. Al-Sharaa took power after his Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led a dayslong offensive that toppled former President Bashar Assad in December. Assad, a member of Syria´s Alawite minority, ruled for more than two decades. The presidential Elysee Palace said Macron will restate France´s support for “a free, stable, sovereign Syria that respects all components of its society,” while…
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is flipping off Donald Trump, announcing Tuesday he will oppose the president’s nominee for the crucial U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia just hours after Trump called for Senators to support him. Tillis’s decision, first reported by Breitbart News nine hours before Tillis’s confirmation, could sound the death knell for Trump’s nominee, Ed Martin, who has been serving in the office on an interim basis. Breitbart News reported Monday that Tillis withholding his supporting was the critical impediment to Martin’s nomination being advanced before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Without Tillis’s support, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IO)…
The Trump administration is “questioning democratic institutions”, Friedrich Merz charged Feb. 14 The new German government is off to a rocky start as the new Chancellor Friedrich Merz failed to get all his coalition’s votes in the first secret ballot yesterday in the Bundestag (The Gateway Pundit reported). Merz, who is scheduled to talk to President Donald Trump on the phone today, got off on the wrong foot already by criticizing the admninistration’s “absurd statements”. Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party leader and new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was been waiting in the wings, ever since Angela Merkel sidelined him 2002,…
Triston Casas tore his patellar tendon and is out for the season. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved On Friday night, Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas collapsed as he ran to first base trying to beat out a slow roller back to the mound. After being carted off the field in obvious pain, Casas was taken to the hospital for examination. There it was discovered that he had torn the patellar tendon on his left knee. Casas had surgery on Sunday, and will be out for the remainder of the season. This is a…
The notion the United Kingdom government, its people, or way of life are something worth fighting for appears to be in decline, with a survey finding that less than half of the nation would be willing to fight and defend their country for any reason. According to a poll from Ipsos released to coincide with Victory in Europe (VE) Day, which marks the formal surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied nations in 1945, some 48 per cent of Britons would not fight for their country “under any circumstances.” Conversely, a paltry 35 per cent said that they would be willing…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said that there need to be guardrails on ending taxes on tips to define what a tip is and who is eligible and “There also should be some income limits with some of these things” like ending taxes on tips, Social Security, and overtime. Murphy said, “[M]y number one concern is our debt, our deficit, our number one — my number one concern. I know the president has initiatives. We’re going to try to meet all those different initiatives. But if they’re not able — if we’re not able…