When Gary West taught elementary school social studies two decades ago in a suburb of San Antonio, he wasn’t afraid to take his lessons beyond the bounds of the textbook. West wasn’t told to steer clear of potentially controversial topics, so he shaped lessons that he thought would pique students’ interest. Teaching history, he led discussions about how the founding fathers’ backgrounds—white, wealthy, landowning—might have influenced the way they wrote laws. To teach about the government, he...

The refrain has been splashed across T-shirts and bumper stickers and beer koozies. It has thundered through arenas in Milwaukee and Indianapolis and Chicago and Glendale and Savannah. Crowds wait for Kamala Harris to say it like they might anticipate joining Taylor Swift on the bridge of “Cruel Summer.” “We are not going back!” they roar. “We are not going back!” Here’s the thing, though: The line wasn’t designed to be a catchphrase. President Joe Biden had notified Harris on a Sunday morning...

A new report suggests Boeing is back to leaning on business practices that helped cause the 737 Max door plug blowout which threw its year into disarray. The Seattle Times reports that the planemaker is ramping up so-called out-of-order “traveled work” manufacturing on its 777 jets in order to stockpile planes ahead of a possible machinist strike. The newspaper reports that Boeing is moving incomplete planes along in the production process earlier than it usually would in order to avoid...

The judges noted that it is Kennedy’s ‘clear legal right’ for his name to be removed from the ballot. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference in Phoenix on Aug. 23, 2024. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference in Phoenix on Aug. 23, 2024. Darryl Webb/AP Photo A Michigan appeals court has sided with former...

In the weeks before his bank collapsed last year, exacerbating the largest banking crisis in a generation, First Republic’s chief executive, James Herbert, was busy selling millions of dollars’ worth of his shares in the company. The sales, which netted the executive and his family nearly $7 million over the six months that preceded First Republic’s demise, were waved through by Mr. Herbert’s personal bankers at Morgan Stanley without their passing any judgment on whether he was trading on...

Alleged Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray's father said his son had been called "gay" by classmates in 2023 interview transcripts recently released by police.Colin Gray, 54, has been charged in connection with Wednesday's school shooting, which claimed the lives of two students and two adults in Georgia. Colt Gray, 14, is being tried as an adult in the shooting, which killed four and injured nine others.GEORGIA SCHOOL SHOOTING: NEW AUDIO OF ALLEGED SHOOTER, FATHER ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) had a moment of sanity on Friday when he vetoed an outrageous bill that would have provided loans of up to $150,000 to illegal immigrants who were first time homeowners. As Sarah covered last week, the bill known as AB 1840 passed the state legislature and made it to Newsom's desk. Although Newsom had until September 30 to sign the bill, he returned it without his signature weeks before the deadline, on September 6. "This bill seeks to prohibit the disqualification of...

BRASILIA, Sept. 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's has guaranteed 32 immigrants of various nationalities who are at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport the right not to be forcibly repatriated, according to court rulings seen by Reuters. The preliminary rulings answer to habeas corpus requests filed by the Federal Public Defender's Office asking for the immigrants not to be repatriated and given the legal right to request refuge in Brazil. According to the case documents, the group includes migrants from Nepal,...

All five of the co-hosts of Fox News’ midday program Outnumbered got in on the action Friday of taking shots at one of the Biden-Harris administration’s signature legislative accomplishments: the Inflation Reduction Act. In their criticisms of the law they seemed completely unaware of the dramatic reduction of inflation that has occurred over the past two years, and they dishonestly characterized the bill as a sort of Trojan horse for major climate legislation. On the September 6 edition of Fox...