Barack Obama has fallen yet again for a boy-faced Democrat hoping to “turn Texas blue.” During a recent interview on Marc Maron’s podcast, the failed former president touted James Talarico, the Texas state lawmaker running for U.S. Senate, as a “terrific, talented young man.” Democrats haven’t been this…
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Fair-Weather Fraud: Elizabeth Warren SILENT as Fellow Democrats Honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Democratic politicians and their left-wing allies took to social media on Monday to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a phony holiday they invented to erase the legacy of Christopher Columbus. The official X account for the House Democrats posted a photo of a bison to “celebrate the unique histories,…
WATCH: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Says Starved and Tortured Israeli Hostages Were Treated ‘Better Than the Average Gazan’
CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour claimed Israeli hostages, who were tortured and starved for two years by Hamas, were treated better than Gazans. “They’re probably being treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had,” Amanpour said Monday morning…
Minneapolis Schools Declare Capitalism a ‘Pillar of White Supremacy’ in Required Ethnic Studies Classes
One might assume that enrolling in a Hmong studies class would entail learning about the Southeast Asian people’s culture and history. But in Minneapolis, high schoolers are instead taught lessons demonizing capitalism—a system absent in communist China, where many Hmong live—as a pillar of white supremacy alongside slavery…
Tears and Cheers as Israeli Hostages Reunite With Families
The 20 living Israeli hostages who spent two years in Hamas captivity reunited with their families on Monday morning as the terror group released them under the Trump administration’s peace deal. Hamas abducted the hostages, most of them civilians, during its Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel….
They’re Home: All Living Hostages Return to Israel After Two Years in Hamas Captivity
Israel reclaimed its 20 living hostages early Monday after they spent more than two years in Hamas captivity, a triumphant moment that marked the first stage of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Video footage showed some of the hostages speaking to their families from video calls in…
AI Giant Perplexity Is Sponsor of Candace Owens Podcast Suggesting Conservative Commentator Involved in Kirk Assassination
AI chatbot Perplexity is a sponsor of Candace Owens’s podcast, including a Wednesday episode in which Owens implied that conservative commentator Josh Hammer was involved in the killing of Charlie Kirk. Owens, who has said she believes Kirk’s assassination was a “military hit that involved foreign actors,” repeatedly…
Israel and Hamas ‘Signed Off’ on First Phase of Peace Plan, Trump Announces: ‘ALL of the Hostages Will Be Released Very Soon’
Israel and Hamas “both signed off” Wednesday evening on the opening phase of a ceasefire pact to end the war in Gaza that began two years ago after Hamas slaughtered more than 1,200 civilians in its Oct. 7 terror spree, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening. The tentative…
Democrats, Media Rushed To Blame Deadly California Fire on Climate Change. It Was Actually Arson.
Democrats and media outlets were quick to blame climate change and oil companies for the devastating Palisades Fire that ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year. But that narrative crumbled on Wednesday when federal law enforcement officials charged a man for deliberately starting the fire. Federal prosecutors in California…
Don’t Mess with Melania Trump
Melania Trump, the most attractive and intelligent first lady in American history, is doing her part to restore public faith in mainstream media by forcing journalists to atone for their lies. Over the past several weeks, Melania has obtained retractions and apologies from media outlets that published falsehoods…
Liberal Media, Activists Silent as Bari Weiss Makes LGBTQ History at CBS News
Bari Weiss made history this week as the first openly LGBTQ journalist to lead a major network newsroom. Paramount announced Monday that Weiss, the former New York Times opinion writer who founded the Free Press, would serve as editor in chief of CBS News. Alas, the landmark achievement…
‘RALLY, RAGE, & RESIST’: Pro-Hamas Student Groups Plan Nationwide Protests on Oct. 7 Anniversary
Anti-Israel student groups have started this semester with a whimper, keeping low profiles without major protests or unrest. That could change Tuesday as campus radicals plan to mark Oct. 7’s second anniversary with demonstrations planned across the country. Should those demonstrations turn destructive, the response will provide a…
NBC’s Divorce From MSNBC Is Almost Final. Who Gets Custody of the Kids?
NBC News, that failing left-wing media company, celebrated a key milestone Monday in its ongoing divorce from MSNBC, the failing radical left-wing media company soon to be rebranded as MS NOW. As of Oct. 6, NBC News will have officially cut ties with the employees who accepted humiliating…
‘What the F—?’: CBS News Staffers Melt Down Over New Boss Bari Weiss
Paramount formally announced the onetime New York Times opinion writer turned Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its editor in chief on Monday. Staffers at the perennially third-place network and their allies in the mainstream media are not taking it well. Inside CBS News, employees did the courageous thing: They started anonymously leaking their…
Gallery of the Gods
LONDON—Let me start my review of an exquisite exhibition with a small gripe: “Ancient India: living traditions” is saddled with a terrible name. The oh-so-obvious juxtaposition of opposites—of “ancient” with “living”—comes straight out of Headline Writing 101. Couldn’t the British Museum, the greatest repository of cultural artifacts in…
NYU, Facing Backlash, Agrees to 10/7 Federalist Society Event
New York University has reversed course and agreed to work with the Federalist Society to host the conservative scholar Ilya Shapiro on Oct. 7, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and three people familiar with the matter. The move comes after NYU’s law school claimed…
MSNBC Host Ayman Mohyeldin Attends Festival Featuring Former PLO Spokeswoman
A longtime MSNBC host last month attended an anti-Israel gathering alongside a long list of Hamas cheerleaders, social media posts reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. Ayman Mohyeldin, an Egyptian-born MSNBC personality, appeared in an Instagram post at the London “Together for Palestine” music festival with British…
FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Claims She’s ‘Not a Trained Seal’ Who Memorizes Talking Points
Claim: “I am not a trained seal; I’m not going to memorize lines and spout them. I have to understand the logic and building blocks of every argument so I can present it clearly and defend it persuasively.” Who said it: Kamala Harris, the inept career politician who…
Hamas Signals Willingness to Release Hostages in Response to Trump Peace Plan, But Questions Remain
University of Delaware Student-Run TV Network Offers ‘SPECIAL THANKS’ to ‘CHARLIE KIRK’S KILLER’
A student television network at the University of Delaware, which houses the Biden Institute, offered “SPECIAL THANKS” to “CHARLIE KIRK’S KILLER” at the end of a comedy program, then quickly and quietly removed the joke from the episode. The credits for last week’s episode of the Biweekly Show,…
‘It’s Easier To Talk Here Than It Is in America’: Dave Chappelle Takes Shots at US From Saudi-Censored Riyadh Festival
Comedian Dave Chappelle used his performance at the Riyadh Comedy Festival to rail against censorship in the United States—after attendees signed gag orders shielding Saudi royals and cashing in on major paydays. “Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle said during…
Terrorist Kills 2 in Car Ramming, Stabbing Attack Outside UK Synagogue on Yom Kippur
A terrorist killed two and injured three others in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a U.K. synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The assailant first drove a vehicle into a crowd outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Synagogue at around 9:30 a.m. local…
Northwestern’s Center for Enlightened Disagreement Calls for Civil Dialogue. Its Co-Chair Negotiated on Behalf of Encampment Activists Who Called Jews Pigs.
In one of his last acts as president of Northwestern University, Michael Schill announced a $20-million gift for the school’s Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, located within the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, in an attempt to promote civil dialogue between students. Founded in 2024 and renamed earlier…
Massachusetts Judge Includes Anonymous Pro-Trump Note and Rambling Anti-Trump Commentary in Ruling Against Trump Administration
A federal judge’s ruling against the Trump administration’s deportation policies veered off into a rambling personal attack against President Donald Trump, who the judge claimed “simply ignores” the Constitution, has a “fixation with ‘retribution,’” and goes around “wrecking institutions and careers simply because [he finds] them irksome.” The…
NYU Axes Federalist Society Event Scheduled for Oct. 7, Citing Security Concerns
New York University Law School appears to have canceled a Federalist Society event scheduled for Oct. 7 because administrators feared that protesters would disrupt it, according to two people familiar with the matter and emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The cancellation has raised concerns about the…
‘It Was a Fatal Right-Wing Terrorist Incident’: AI Chatbot Giants Claim Charlie Kirk’s Killer Was Right-Wing but Say Left-Wing Violence Is ‘Exceptionally Rare’
The major AI platforms—which have emerged as significant American news sources—describe Charlie Kirk’s assassination as motivated by “right-wing ideology” and downplay left-wing violence as “exceptionally rare,” according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. When asked to name a “recent assassination in the U.S. motivated by right-wing ideology,” multiple…
The Forgotten Minority: Fired State Dept ‘Expert’ Running for Congress as Champion of Federal Bureaucracy
Michael Duffin is running for Congress. Who? You’ve never heard of him, and after reading this article you probably won’t hear about him again for the rest of your life. But we’re going to tell you about him anyway. The Washington Free Beacon does not endorse political candidates,…
Dozens of Ships in Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla ‘Secretly Owned By Hamas,’ Israeli Foreign Ministry Says
Newly discovered documents connect Hamas to two key organizers of Greta Thunberg’s Global Sumud Flotilla and reveal that dozens of the fleet’s boats are owned by the terror group, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday. One document released by the agency showed a list of operatives in the Popular…
Politico Reporter Who Said She Cried Over Trump’s Election Now Covers His Presidency
As a master’s student at Northwestern University’s esteemed journalism school in 2020, Cheyanne Daniels revealed that she cried when President Donald Trump was elected four years earlier because she knew “horrible things were to come.” She now covers the Trump presidency for Politico. Daniels joined the outlet as…
Anti-Trump ABC News Reporter’s Wedding to Soros-Funded Activist Gets Splashy Vogue Feature
Rachel Scott, the ABC News correspondent whose racially charged exchange with Donald Trump made headlines during the 2024 presidential campaign, got married earlier this month at a luxurious estate in California. The New York Times documented the affair, as did Vogue, which published a splashy feature complete with…