Saturday, August 15, 2026
The unseen costs of fashion
Skyrocketing number of Californians stricken with incurable disease tied to common kitchen item: study
Three juveniles – ages 12, 13 and 16 – were arrested in connection with the shooting and charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, and participation in a criminal street gang, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.
Dad’s heartbreaking final moments with son as 12-year-old charged in fatal Fresno shooting: ‘It was too late already”
Intentionally blind to the threats or just protecting leftist institutions?
‘Isolated and Episodic’: Clinton-Appointed Judge Tosses Trump Lawsuit Against Harvard Over Lack of Jewish Student Protections
A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard University that had alleged the school failed to protect Jewish students from harassment.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns of Massachusetts, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled the federal government failed to show an ongoing violation of federal civil rights law on Harvard’s campus after the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks by Hamas. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed the lawsuit in March.
“Only three incidents are alleged to have occurred after this period, all of which took place nearly a full year later (and more than one full academic year before this case was filed) in March of 2025,” Stearns wrote in his ruling.
Stearns further said the Justice Department didn’t demonstrate failures by the university after Harvard was warned in June 2025 that it was not complying with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The provision prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national origin in programs that receive federal funding.
“Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day,” the judge continued.
In a March press release announcing the lawsuit, the Justice Department said the university “ignored what its own Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias deemed the ‘exclusion of Israeli or Zionist students from social spaces and extracurricular activities.’”
“This Department of Justice will not tolerate the harassment, assault, or intimidation of Jewish and Israeli students, and neither should Harvard,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a statement when the lawsuit was filed.
The Trump administration previously sought to freeze Harvard’s existing grants and seek repayment of grants already distributed.• August 13, 2026The Justice Department complaint filed in March says that since the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel “Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard University were harassed, physically assaulted, stalked, and spat upon.”
“For several years, Jewish and Israeli students endured a hostile educational environment,” the complaint says.
The complaint later adds, “One method by which Jewish and Israeli students were exposed to harassment was that in many cases, demonstrations occurred in classrooms and libraries where students can expect the ability to retreat to a greater measure of relief from protests than they might in a public square.”
Communists never turn over power peacefully
Another Country Turns on Cuba As Delcy
Goes Rogue With Fidel Tribute
Something interesting happened in the Dominican Republic on Thursday. The country, which is one of our greatest Caribbean allies, requested that Cuba withdraw nine members of its diplomatic mission in Santo Domingo, including their relatives who were living there. They have seven days to leave the country.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Delivers Massive Win For Trump in Alien Enemies Act Case
A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a huge win for President Trump in a key Alien Enemies Act lawsuit.
The en banc panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (a decision from the court’s entire slate of judges) ruled that a key lawsuit is moot because the three men who brought the case have been deported.
“The Supreme Court remanded this case to us when the three named petitioners were still in the country. But we have since learned that the government has removed them. Given this change, we conclude that the appeal is moot,” the judges wrote.
“Given the lack of any named petitioners to whom we could grant relief in this appeal, and given that this case has never and does not now feature any class, we conclude that the appeal is moot. We therefore DISMISS the appeal for lack of jurisdiction,” the judges wrote.Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee, wrote a blistering concurring opinion backing President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.
President Trump last year invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport dangerous Venezuelan gang members.
Although several district court judges have ruled against President Trump’s decision to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan aliens, a federal judge in Pennsylvania became the first to say Trump can invoke the AEA to deport Tren de Aragua gang members.
Last year, the US Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from deporting dangerous Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
In an unsigned order, the high court said the Trump DOJ did not give the Venezuelans enough time to challenge their removals.
“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the unsigned decision read.
The Supreme Court punted the case back down to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Last year, a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted down Trump’s invocation of the AEA.
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