Student journalists and comedy writers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have gotten death threats after an April Fools’ day article and a Saturday Night Live-style video skit—both satirizing issues of race, class, and immigration status—caused a massive uproar on the easily triggered campus. University officials denounced the “completely unacceptable” and “deeply hurtful” satire, and announced an investigation into the video skit, only to backtrack several days later after receiving complaints from national free speech groups, UNC senior Ashley Dowdney reports for the Free Beacon. The student paper, the Daily Tar Heel, included in its annual April 1 satire issue a spoof report about President Donald Trump replacing the state’s Alcohol Law Enforcement agency, despised by many students on campus, with ICE. The “report” indicated that a federal agent had mistakenly arrested “a white girl who was sporting a suspect dark fake tan.” The satirical video skit—published by th...
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Additional reading: That was fast: Vice President J.D. Vance and the rest of the U.S. negotiating team left Pakistan after less than 24 hours of negotiations with Iran. President Donald Trump said the Islamic Republic was—imagine this—”UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS.” As a result, Trump vowed to implement a U.S. blockade of ships entering and exiting Iranian ports—he said he would blockade the Strait of Hormuz but CENTCOM later clarified the operation is narrower—conduct a mine-clearing operation, and “BLOW TO HELL” anyone who fires at the United States while doing so. “Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully ‘LOCKED AND LOADED,’ and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!” Trump said. Liberal congressman and California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell is facing a criminal investigation from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office after former staffers accused him of sexual misconduct, including one who said Swalwell raped he...
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Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California governor Gavin Newsom said he has a “moral duty” to release his tax returns every year but hasn’t done so since 2022, raising questions about the governor’s finances and whether he can actually put his money where his mouth is as he eyes a 2028 presidential bid, our Andrew Kerr reports. Newsom made the commitment while campaigning for his first term as governor in 2017, earning praise from the Sacramento Bee, which said the Democrat “set a standard of transparency.” Two years later, Newsom signed a bill requiring presidential and gubernatorial candidates to release their tax returns to appear on the ballot in California, which Newsom said would deter allegations of “conflicts of interest, self-dealing, or influence from domestic or foreign business interests.” The move was aimed at forcing President Donald Trump to release his own tax returns, though that did not happen: California’s supreme court struck down the provision relate...
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