15+ min ago (555+ words) A graduate assistant was removed from her position amid investigations into a contested discrimination report filed by a disgruntled student who repeatedly referenced the Bible in an essay response to an article about gender stereotypes " for a course taught by a transgender instructor. In her essay, which was supposed to cover "how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender," University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky presented a Biblically-fueled tirade against the notion that there are multiple genders. The psychology course's professor, graduate student Mel Curth, who uses "she/they" pronouns, failed Fulnecky on the grounds that she neglected to address the prompt and relied more on "personal ideology" than "empirical evidence," according to a bombshell thread shared by the university's Turning Point USA chapter. In the essay, Fulnecky repeats ad nauseam that she doesn't take issue with gender…...

22+ min ago (417+ words) Exactly what Team Trump intends to do with (or to) Venezuela is far from clear, but it clearly wants the Maduro regime gone ASAP, and with excellent reason. Operation Southern Spear has sunk roughly two dozen drug-cartel boats in recent weeks, while the Pentagon has now built up the largest US military presence in the region in more than three decades " with Marines as well as Navy and Air Force assets deployed not just to US territory in the region, but in allied nations such as the Dominican Republic as well as Trinidad and Tobago. President Donald Trump even warned Saturday on Truth Social that airlines and criminals should "consider" Venezuelan airspace "closed," though he evidently hasn't ordered US forces to make that happen, since flights continued through at least Sunday afternoon. Critics fume that US forces can't know the…...

45+ min ago (499+ words) More than 10 US warships, including the country's largest carrier, the USS Gerald F. Ford, are bearing down on the Caribbean amid escalating tensions between President Trump and Venezuela. A Marine Expeditionary Unit capable of an amphibious land invasion has also been deployed as part of efforts to stem the flow of drugs into the US from the socialist country. "The military's job is to defend the homeland," Secretary of the Navy John Phelan told Fox News on Saturday night. "That's exactly what we're doing, and we're using our best assets to defend the homeland. "Drugs kill more Americans than we've ever lost in wars," he said. "So I think at the end of the day, the president has correctly identified this as an attack on the country, which it is." Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, is being blamed for allowing narco…...

58+ min ago (464+ words) Venezuelan President Nicol's Maduro has received little support from long-time allies Russia and China as President Trump ramps up military pressure against Caracas. Beijing and Moscow, Maduro's two most powerful allies, have previously provided Venezuela with military equipment, financial aid, and army training in the face of American aggression " but both nations have strayed from their usual tactics as they face their own military and economic woes. While Russia previously deployed two nuclear-capable bombers to Venezuela as a united show of force against the US in 2018, Moscow's generosity has apparently dried up as it approaches its fourth year of war in Ukraine. So far, Russia has only provided two oil tankers to help Caracas' pump its own crude oil for export to China, Vladimir Rouvinski, an international relations professor at Icesi University, told the Wall Street Journal. "These are small…...

1+ hour ago (344+ words) Helping Ukraine defeat Russia is a cheaper prospect for Europe than giving into the Kremlin's concessions, according to a new study titled "Europe's Choice" out of Norway. Funding Ukraine's war effort over four years will cost European governments between $606 and $972 billion, but it would cost them almost double, between $1.4 and $1.8 trillion, to reinforce its eastern flank if Moscow gets its way. "The recent 28-point peace plan proposed from the Trump administration illustrates the urgent need for Europe to take initiative and ownership of diplomatic efforts to end Russia's illegal war," read the study, published by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and consultants at Corisk. The researchers said the Trump administration is "out of touch with the real issues at stake," and conducted their study assuming Ukraine will receive almost no support from the United States. Without increased military support…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago (260+ words) The masses have flocked to review boards to voice their displeasure after a Staten Island esthetician bullied an older Jewish couple, demanding they say "Free Palestine" when they asked her for help paying a parking meter. In a since deleted TikTok, Eman Masoud, proprietor of Pure with Nature, brags about berating an elderly couple who asked if they could pay her cash to help them with a parking kiosk, telling them, "I'll do it if you say "Free Palestine." "You had the audacity to ask me to help you, knowing who I am based on what I look like," said Masoud, who wears a hijab in the video released by StopAntisemitism on Friday. "You know what, go screw yourself!" she said into the camera. Masoud's Staten Island skincare business has been bombarded with negative reviews referencing the incident since the…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago (150+ words) President Trump gave Venezuelan President Nicol's Maduro a chance to escape the country with his life " but he had to do it immediately, according to a bombshell report. During a call between Trump" and Maduro last week, the South American dictator demanded that he be allowed to maintain control of the military and wanted global amnesty for all crimes,"according to the Miami Herald, citing sources. Trump's response was reportedly blunt, and the talks quickly broke down. Maduro, his wife and son would be allowed to leave Venezuela safely, but they must do it immediately. Following the failed attempt to reach a detente, Trump announced he was closing the airspace around the South American country " as America's largest warship, the USS Gerald Ford, and a Marine Expeditionary Unit " capable of amphibious invasion " float offshore. Trump warned over the weekend that…...

2+ hour, 57+ min ago (385+ words) A Hamas commander and three other terrorists equipped with a slain Israeli soldier's rifle were killed trying to escape a Gaza tunnel housing dozens of trapped operatives, the IDF said Sunday. The terrorists were spotted emerging from a tunnel under Israeli control in eastern Rafah early Sunday and taken out by nearby Israel Defense Force soldiers and the Israeli Air Force. Israeli Col. Arik Moyal appeared on social media to announce the attack, which killed the commander of Hamas' East Rafah Battalion, his deputy, a company commander and the son of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad. Moyal is seen in the footage holding a Tavor assault rifle recovered from the slain terrorists, which he said belonged to Staff Sgt. Or Mizrahi, an IDF soldier killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the Times of Israel reported. "This is what happens to those…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago (189+ words) Former Mayor Bill de Blasio was spotted dining with police Commissioner Jessica Tish Saturday at Flora restaurant in Park Slope. But both participants are staying mum on what they discussed. A source familiar with the chat said de Blasio requested the casual meeting with Tisch, who he knows well from his time in office. De Blasio Tisch appointed Tisch as his commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication in 2019, where she led the IT response during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic. She previously served the de Blasio administration as then-police Commissioner William Bratton "s deputy for information technology. Tisch, who served as sanitation commissioner and then police commissioner under current Mayor Eric Adams, has agreed to stay as the NYPD boss under Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani " who de Blasio supported during this year's election…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago (285+ words) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused the US of making a "colonial threat" to his nation after President Trump called for the closing of the airspace above the socialist state. The country's government said it "forcefully rejects" Trump's claim about closing the airspace, branding it an attempt to undermine Venezuela's "territorial integrity, aeronautical security and full sovereignty," according to a statement from its Foreign Ministry Saturday. "Such declarations constitute a hostile, unilateral and arbitrary act," the statement continued. The leftist leadership was speaking after President Trump stepped up pressure on the Caracas regime in a post on his Truth Social platform. "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY," Trump said in a post Saturday. Iran, one of Venezuela's biggest allies, condemned the president's announcement…...