Switzerland’s supreme court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, upholding his conviction for rape and sexual coercion. Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, had been sentenced by a Geneva appeals court in 2023 to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, for assaulting a woman in a Geneva hotel nearly two decades ago.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) downplayed reports that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter identified as transgender and expressed anti-Trump sentiments, instead shifting focus to gun control during an interview Wednesday on MSNBC’s The Briefing.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) defended recently fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, dismissing mortgage fraud allegations against her as nothing more than a political hit job orchestrated by allies of President Donald Trump.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, contrasted President Donald Trump’s decisive leadership against terror with the weakness of many Western leaders, especially in Europe, who have condemned Israel as it closes in on victory over Hamas in Gaza.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is refusing to acknowledge the extent of antisemitism at UCLA, where Jewish students were harassed and excluded from campus spaces by anti-Israel protesters during 2024’s encampments. His dismissal comes as the Trump administration presses the university to pay a $1 billion fine for civil rights violations and implement reforms to protect Jewish and Israeli students.
Federal officials confirmed Wednesday that the deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school is being investigated as an anti-Christian hate crime after evidence revealed the gunman’s open hostility toward Christianity.
