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Amid near-record levels of antisemitic incidents, Chicago business leaders have issued a full-throated open letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson in response to a Chicago City Council resolution calling a “permanent cease-fire” in Gaza, without fully dismantling Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Johnson cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the resolution, which passed 24-23 on Jan. 31. Chairman and …

A Florida judge temporarily blocked a pronoun law from being enforced against one nonbinary and two transgender teachers this week. “Once again, the State of Florida has a First Amendment problem,” Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote in the temporary injunction. “Of late, it has happened so frequently, some might say you can set your clock by it.” “This …

Donald Trump called for NPR to no longer be funded by the public after an insider called out the organization for its lopsided liberal biases, including against the former president. In a bombshell essay published in The Free Press, veteran NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner said the 2016 election of Trump encouraged NPR journalists to find ways to “damage …