Joe Biden Responds To Campus Unrest: “There’s The Right To Protest, But Not The Right To Cause Chaos”

Brittney Griner opened up about the thought of traveling internationally again after being detained in Russia for 10 months.

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Media mogul Haim Saban sent an email to top White House aides criticizing President Joe Biden‘s threat to withhold arms shipments to support an Israeli military invasion of Rafah.

Joe Biden sat for an interview with a mainstream, national news outlet, — a not-too-common occurrence. And while the clear intent in his chat with CNN‘s Erin Burnett was to show a contrast with Donald Trump on the economy, the headline was what the president said about Israel.

Joe Biden‘s campaign team has used Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Euphoria‘ lyrics to diss former US president Donald Trump.The current US President’s campaign team hit out at Trump via social media on Monday (May 6) by using the viral track in a video clip that features various photos of the former president as the song plays in the background.“It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater. I hate the way that you walk over women’s rights, the way that you talk about immigrants.

Joe Biden sharply condemned the rise of antisemitism in the United States, including incidents that have played out on college campuses amid pro-Palestinian protests.

Marc Anthony spent a memorable weekend in his home of Miami. The beloved singer and icon performed the national anthem at the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday, an event that was attended by all manner of celebrities, including Ed Sheeran, who also performed, Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Camila Cabello, Zinedine Zidane, Donald Trump, and more. Marc Anthony’s wife shares sweetest father and son photoMarc Anthony and Nadia Ferreira dazzle at the LAMAS 2024 with color-coordinated looksA post shared by Marc Anthony (@marcanthony)Anthony shared videos on his Instagram stories showing him and his wife Nadia Ferreira taking a tour through some of the location’s key spots.

Bill Maher took aim at President Biden’s latest student loan handout proposal, insisting his own tax dollars, by extension, will be funding the “Jew hating” on college campuses.During Friday night’s panel discussion, while discussing the anti-Israel unrest occurring at top universities in recent weeks, Maher said he gets “so incensed” at how many of the students participating receive federal aid.“When I read about the college loans… ‘Biden administration’s student debt cancelation will cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion. That’s a lot of debt forgiveness,” Maher said.Maher continued, “Colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans.

Michelle Yeoh is receiving a major honor!

President Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation, upon nineteen individuals whose contributions have profoundly shaped the United States. Among these distinguished recipients were two exceptional Latinas, Ellen Ochoa and Teresa Romero, whose achievements have left an indelible mark on their respective fields.Ellen Ochoa, a pioneer in space exploration, etched her name in history as the first Hispanic woman to journey into space and the second female Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Phil Donahue and Michelle Yeoh are among the media and entertainment recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Joe Biden will present at the White House later today.

After calling Time magazine’s long interview with Donald Trump “shocking” and “reprehensible” earlier today, Joe Biden this evening doubled down on his predecessor’s dystopian second term plans.

Joe Biden welcomed journalists, artists, and cultural figures, including prominent Latinos who added their voices to the free press.Among the notable Latino figures in attendance were Boris Sanchez, Rosario Dawson, and Yamiche Alcindor.

Emmy-winning actress Drea de Matteo told Donald Trump Jr. in a podcast interview that many prominent celebrities like herself are against Biden’s agenda but are afraid to speak out.De Matteo, who rose to fame in HBO’s “The Sopranos,” spoke with former President Trump’s son on a recent episode of his “Triggered” podcast.De Matteo has a history of slamming cancel culture, even starting a streetwear brand called “Ultrafree” that helps “promote free speech.”De Matteo spoke about how she has changed her opinions on certain issues such as illegal immigration, and that while she previously voted for Biden based on sympathy for illegal immigrants, the chaos at the border has changed her mind.After showing off a cap from her friends’ company, Sloppy Tease, that read “Close the border you moron,” they discussed the mass illegal immigration of able-bodied, fighting-age men.

Joe Biden got in a few zingers at his rival Donald Trump, but he devoted a large part of his remarks to the serious threat to democracy.

Michaela Zee Colin Jost, the co-lead of “Saturday Night Live’s” long-running “Weekend Update,” is hosting the 2024 White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night in Washington, D.C. The annual event, which typically consists of the night’s comedian roasting powerful political figures and various media outlets, is expected to feature an election-year roast from President Joe Biden.

TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has said that it has no intention of selling the business, and would rather see the platform shut down.The news comes after the US passed a law forcing the company to sell the hugely popular social media platform, or see the app banned in America.The sell-or-ban measure was issued into law by US President Joe Biden earlier this week (April 24), following a long-running dispute over claims that the company’s ownership structure could allow the Chinese government to gain access to the data of its millions of American users.To date, over 30 American states, Canada, and the European Union have separately banned the app from use on government-owned devices over concerns it could be a security risk. India banned the app nationwide in January 2021, while Taiwan and Afghanistan did the same in 2022.The bill was first brought up last month, when the US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 24 to 16 to give President Joe Biden the power to enforce a ban on the social media app over concerns that the app is a national security threat and a Chinese espionage tool.This week’s ruling was voted for with an overwhelming majority of 79 to 18, and was signed by President Joe Biden.

Soulja Boy has shared his interest in purchasing TikTok after US Congress passed a bill that could lead to the app’s potential ban.This week (April 23), US Congress passed the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act that could force TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the platform within nine months. If not, TikTok will be banned from US markets and removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store nationwide. US President Joe Biden signed the legislation yesterday (April 24).After the news broke, the Atlanta rapper took to X/Twitter to show his frustration around the decision.

“It may sound like an exaggeration, but it’s not, today’s legal ruling is a great day for America because it instills in us the faith that there is a justice system,” proclaimed Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala today after New York’s Appeals Court threw out his client’s 2020 conviction and ordered a new trial.

As Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom for another day of his hush money trial, another team of his lawyers will be arguing before the Supreme Court in a case that is of utmost consequence to his fate.