Newsmax and Fox News quietly back AP over White House ban — after celebrating it on air
Fox News hosts have urged the White House to ‘kick them out’ while Newsmax stars have labeled the wire service the ‘Associated Propaganda’
Day: February 21, 2025
Cognitive Skills Remain Important in Age of AI
In an interview with Presidents Forum, Excelsior University president David Schejbal discussed the importance of higher education in developing the critical thinking and cognitive abilities of students as they prepare …
LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month
Six weeks after devastating wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief amid a public rift over preparations for the fires and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall.
Europe in panic mode as Trump feared to end key NATO protection principle
A leading politician has voiced concern that the US administration might not uphold NATO’s Article 5 – the cornerstone of the alliance.
‘Big Tech censorship’ of users targeted by Trump’s FTC chief
The new leader of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is opening an inquiry into whether a wide range of online services from social media giants such as Meta to ride-sharing companies such as Uber “censor” users.
Donald Trump says Zelenskyy should not be at meetings with Russia as ‘he has no cards’
As Trump is pushing for an immediate resolution to the three-year-long war and Russia is happy about it, US and Russian officials held their first meeting in Saudi Arabia on how to end the war but Ukraine was not included in the meeting. Trump said Zel…
Direct sales of EVs in WA is not a silver bullet
A lack of charging infrastructure, consumer concerns over affordability and public ambivalence about new technology are the greatest obstacles to EV adoption.
Hamas announces names of six living hostages to be freed on Saturday
The Hamas-linked Palestinian prisoners media office said over 600 Palestinians are also to be freed from Israeli prisons.
Migrantising Diplomacy
Migration diplomacy offers a framework for rethinking the tensions between control and sovereignty, cooperation and conflict, domination and resistance, and the link between domestic and foreign policy.
DEI is not ‘overreach.’ Our efforts haven’t gone far enough
I appeal to everyone to be guided by your conscience, ancestral wisdom, evidence, common sense and compassion, a Seattle doctor writes.