President Biden Responds To Highland Park Shooting

Joe Biden
Joe Biden

President Biden has responded to the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, in which a gunman killed six people and injured dozens more during a Fourth of July parade on Monday. The wounded victims ranged in age from 8 to 85, and five of the six people killed were adults, according to Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek. The suspect, 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III, was apprehended by police later that day near Lake Forest, Illinois, after a manhunt across the Chicago region. Biden responded to the tragedy by saying that he offered Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering (D) federal support, and praising gun

U.S. Blacklists Five Chinese Firms For Allegedly Supporting Russia’s Military

Vladimir Putin

The U.S. Commerce Department has blacklisted five Chinese companies for allegedly helping Russia’s military, forbidding U.S. companies from doing any business with them. “Commerce officials said the companies had supplied items to Russian entities of concern before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion and ‘continue to contract to supply’ sanctioned Russian entities. They didn’t provide details on the technology involved,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The move, effective Tuesday, marks the first time U.S. officials have taken action against Chinese companies for allegedly supporting Russia in the war. It also comes as U.S. officials and others have continued to say that China has generally

The Declaration of Independence

In 1958, historian Cornel Lengyel published his history of the Declaration of Independence. The book, Four Days in July, recounted the drama and divisions of the delegates to the Continental Congress who were gathered in the summer of 1776 at the State House in Philadelphia to debate the question of whether the thirteen colonies should declare their independence from Great Britain. Lengyel writes this of the dramatic moment after the debates had been concluded and a written declaration, drafted by a committee composed of delegates John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, was approved. “One after

Democrats Respond To SCOTUS Ruling On EPA: ‘Our Planet Is On Fire’

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants because it had not been granted that power by Congress. Democrats responded to the ruling by claiming the world was ending and calling for an end to the Supreme Court. Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) called the Supreme Court “fascist” for the ruling that the democratically elected members of Congress must pass a law allowing an unelected government agency, the EPA, to regulate carbon emissions. “Fascist SCOTUS guts the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon

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