Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of "cultural appropriation." Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized "fatphobia," even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably aimed at white supremacy. Meanwhile, a slew of studies and papers and articles argued that punctuality, excellence, and other forms of professionalism are "the systemic, institutionalized centering of whiteness."

Today, as universities are dismantling their DEI bureaucracies, corporations are scaling back antiracism training, and academic trigger warnings and diversity pledges have become punch lines rather than cudgels, it is tempting to believe that the excesses of the woke movement have not just peaked but are a thing of the past, a passing fever dream of a peculiar era.

In a major twist in the investigation of a bombing in Monaco that injured three people, including a business tycoon from Ukraine, prosecutors on Friday said the suspect is a Ukrainian woman.

Interpol, the international criminal police organization, issued a "red notice," or arrest warrant, for 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovsk, identified as the suspect in the June 29 bombing at an apartment building in the Mediterranean sovereign principality, known for its casino and wealthy residents.

Investigators previously described the suspect as a man, but during a news conference on Friday, prosecutors said Berezovsk was allegedly dressed as a man during the package bomb attack.

Berezovsk, who authorities believe lives in Germany, remained at large on Friday. Prosecutors said investigators managed to identify her as the suspected bomber by combing through hours of surveillance video that recorded her at the scene of the attack.

A journey through south Lebanon reveals a resilient population refusing to abandon its land as Israel intensifies its campaign of destruction, ethnic cleansing, and permanent occupation.

When The Cradle arrived in the Lebanese town of Nabatieh on the afternoon of 18 June, the sight of the immense damage inflicted by months of Israeli bombing was shocking. Particularly hard hit was the town center, home to the city's historical market. It was targeted in the last war in 2024 and rebuilt, only to be struck and destroyed again after the war resumed in early March.

Upon entering the town center, we saw pictures of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and martyred Hezbollah fighters hanging on a light pole, overlooking the destruction on the main street passing the market.

Yet another civil conflict is brewing this week as the Supreme Court tackles a number of foreign citizenship debates, including Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and Birthright Citizenship. The court has ruled that hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants residing in the US under TPS are no longer safe from mass deportations (a win). But, they have also ruled in favor of migrant anchor babies (a big loss).

Both issues deal with changing American perceptions on what is "constitutional" when it comes to foreign access to citizenship. The Supreme Court's decisions aside, I find it mind boggling that this debate has been ongoing for so many decades. Frankly, foreigners should not have any citizenship rights under the constitution until they have demonstrated assimilation. Until that time, there should be a separate set of rules handling newcomers (and invaders).

Police in Payette, Idaho, arrested Andrea Shaw on Tuesday afternoon, more than a year after her two children — fraternal twins Dallas and Tyson Shaw — were found dead at their home on May 1, 2025, eight days after receiving their 18-month vaccines. Police charged Shaw with two counts of first-degree murder. Shaw said doctors ignored her when she warned that the twins' father had previously experienced a bad reaction to a flu vaccine.

A 23-year-old mother charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her twin toddlers was set to be arraigned later today, after an Idaho grand jury indicted her late Monday, the Payette Police Department said in a press release.

The Payette Police Department said the arrest follows "a lengthy and thorough investigation" and said it would have no further comment regarding evidence in the case. "Future information will be presented through the judicial process," officials said.

Shaw alleges that her twins' deaths were caused by the vaccines they received at a routine doctor's appointment.

Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson intends to start a new political party after disavowing President Trump and the Republican Party over the Iran war.

"I'm going to help build a third party," Carlson said in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review published Wednesday. "There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country."

The former Fox News host argued that when it comes to the two issues he views as most consequential for Americans - "war and finance" - Democrats and Republicans "are in lockstep solidarity with each other."

"That's not a democracy," he said. "That's a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken, and there's going to be a third party, and I'm going to do everything I can to bring that about."

A JetBlue flight reportedly struck a drone while approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport for landing Monday morning, according to federal officials.

The incident involved JetBlue Airlines Flight 948, which departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Preliminary reports indicate the aircraft struck the drone at an altitude of about 3,000 feet.

"The pilot of JetBlue Airlines Flight 948 reported striking a drone at approximately 3,000 feet altitude while on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. local time on Monday," the FAA said.

The New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to freeze rents on about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments for up to two years, giving tenants a win on a central campaign promise from Mayor Zohran Mamdani while revealing tensions over the board's independence.

The board set the annual increase at zero percent for both one-year and two-year leases starting in October. The affected apartments house roughly 2.5 million residents. The board's 2025 study found the average monthly rent in regulated units was $1,599 last year, far below the $3,950 that listings agency StreetEasy said was the median for new market-rate leases citywide.

As Kimberley Hayek reports for The Epoch Times, the decision comes after the board's usual review of wages, inflation, maintenance costs, taxes, and landlord incomes. Tenants at public hearings called for a freeze or outright reduction, citing stagnant pay and higher living costs. Landlord representatives argued that a zero percent increase would hurt building upkeep and mortgage payments. Some owners have offset losses by raising rents on unregulated apartments, the board was told.

The agreement comes after an investigation by federal antitrust enforcers and state attorneys general alleged that Cal-Maine Food, Versova/Centrum and Hickman's Egg Ranch coordinated to artificially inflate daily egg price quotations between June 2022 and March 2025, leading to higher prices for retailers and consumers.

Three major egg producers have reached a $3.3 million settlement to resolve allegations of price fixing after being sued by the Justice Department (DOJ) and 17 U.S. states' Attorneys General.

Just the News reports that the complaint — filed in Iowa's Northern District Court — contends that the defendants conspired to artificially inflate the daily price quotations of market reporting company Urner Barry Publications.

According to the DOJ Office of Public Affairs, a civil lawsuit was filed against Cal-Maine Foods Inc. (Cal-Maine); Hickman's Egg Ranch Inc. (Hickman's); and Centrum Valley Holdings LLC, Versova Holdings LLC, and Versova Management Cooperative (Versova) for unlawful coordinated manipulation of egg prices.

The Attorneys General of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin joined the Department in the complaint and proposed settlements.

Robert Owen bought a town to prove socialism works. The DSA should study what happened.

Something is happening inside the Democratic Party, and it is no longer subtle. In Denver this spring, Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old, foreign-born, self-described democratic socialist endorsed by both Denver DSA and the national Democratic Socialists of America, defeated longtime Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for CO-1, running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and a slate of ambitious economic planks. In upper Manhattan, 32-year-old Darializa Avila Chevalier, NYC-DSA's candidate for NY-13, toppled Rep. Adriano Espaillat. In Brooklyn's NY-7, Claire Valdez, a 36-year-old UAW organizer and former NYC-DSA membership chair who calls herself a proud democratic socialist, captured the Democratic nomination. In Philadelphia, Chris Rabb, a DSA member endorsed by the national organization, won the primary in a seat so blue that DSA's own publication is already calling him the next Democratic Socialist in Congress.

These are not isolated flukes. They join a movement with sitting members. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in NY-14 and Rashida Tlaib in MI-12 appear on DSA's own list of federal officeholders, and more challengers are lined up behind them. Oliver Larkin, a 33-year-old DSA member since 2020, carries the organization's first federal endorsement of 2026 into FL-23. Donavan McKinney, a 34-year-old state representative who publicly brands himself a democratic socialist, is challenging Rep. Shri Thanedar in MI-13. Cori Bush is mounting a DSA-backed comeback in Missouri alongside Hartzell Gray, an open democratic socialist running in MO-4. In Sacramento, DSA-endorsed Mai Vang has advanced to a November runoff against Rep. Doris Matsui. And hovering above the whole wave is the prospect that party insiders now discuss without embarrassment, Ocasio-Cortez, the movement's model and its most famous member, as a serious presidential candidate in 2028.