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Arizona city proposes memorial to “national treasure” Charlie Kirk

The city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is looking to memorialize slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Scottsdale’s city council voted 5-2 on Monday to direct City Manager Greg Caton to “investigate and report back to the Council on the process for erecting…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Layoffs hit highest point in over two decades: report

Monthly layoffs in the United States hit a 22-year high in October, with companies reporting more than 153,000 planned job cuts, according to a recent report. The report from research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that recent factors like…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“It could have killed us”: Inside the Burning Man art collapse that injured two people

Maureen Maples, 49, has been a regular at the annual Burning Man event in the Nevada desert for the past 20 years. Attending Burning Man has impacted her life in many positive ways, she shared with Salon, even calling some…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“Mass chaos”: FAA to cut flights at 40 major airports as shutdown strains aviation system

The Federal Aviation Administration announced this week it will scale back flights by about 10% at forty of the nation’s busiest airports, a move that could ground thousands of departures per day. The reductions are set to take effect Friday…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Nancy Pelosi announces retirement from Congress after nearly 40 years in the House

Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has announced that she will not seek reelection, bringing to a close her nearly four-decade career in the House. The move follows rumors earlier this week that she was “preparing to exit the…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Another kind of Democratic freshman: Rep. Mikie Sherrill is still working for compromise

When I ask Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a congressional freshman from New Jersey, what’s driving her to serve in this Congress, her answer is simple: “Catholic guilt.” It’s more complex than that, of course, but that response offers a glimpse into…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

My Thanksgiving: How testifying for Native Americans made me a witness to history

In my career as a historian, I have learned in a personal way that being a witness to history is a two-way path. In one direction, encountering events and people from the past has enabled me to construct and refine…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“She saw something I did not”: Tapper apologized to Lara Trump over Biden decline dust-up

Jake Tapper offered a mea culpa to Lara Trump on Tuesday, sharing that he was wrong to berate the Fox News host in a tense 2020 exchange about President Joe Biden‘s alleged mental decline. The CNN host extended the olive…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The National Guardsman who won’t take orders from Trump

Dylan Blaha, an Illinois National Guard member, is waging a campaign focused at bringing an affordability agenda to Washington D.C., while sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s politicization of the United States military. In May, Blaha announced that he…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Trump’s war on comedy threatens free speech for all

For more than 20 years, comedians appearing in the New York Arab American Comedy Festival, which I co-produce — have been making jokes about American presidents. In fact, we were mocking then-President George W. Bush in the midst of the…

November 6, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0