UC Berkeley Student Responds to AG Sessions Crackdown on California
Attorney General Sessions cracking down on sanctuary cities in California. UC Berkeley Sohpmore Bradley Devlin, who is a contribute for the Lone Conservative site, shares his reaction to the lawsuit filed by Sessions against the state.
Devlin says there's mixed views on campus over this announcement by Sessions, but recognizes there's a liberal majority in Berkeley.
In other political news, President Trump's economic advisor Gary Cohn announced his resignation Tuesday. "The turnover rate in this presidency is very high" says Devlin who calls Trump's tariff plan a horrible policy.
The House approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
The U.S. Senate, circumventing holds by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, on Thursday confirmed the nominations of two senior military leaders, including the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live.
Israeli troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. With no end in sight after weeks of heavy fighting, U.S. and Arab mediators intensified efforts to ease Israel's siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and called for at least a brief halt to the hostilities in order to aid civilians.
Rep. George Santos easily survived a vote Wednesday to expel him from the House as most Republicans and 31 Democrats opted to withhold punishment while both his criminal trial and a House Ethics Committee investigation proceed.
