“I want [Brittney Griner] to return back home. … [but] we cannot trade that horrible human being for her. It’s just not a fair trade,” professional basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom said during a Friday appearance on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum. Freedom, who has been an outspoken critic on human rights issues in countries such as Communist China, officially added the “Freedom” to his name after becoming a U.S. citizen in 2021. WNBA player Griner, who was arrested in February in a Moscow airport with CDB oil in her luggage, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug charges by a Russian court Thursday morning. The Biden administration reportedly made an offer to swap Brittney for convicted arms dealer and “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout, who is being held on a 25-year sentence in the U.S. for selling weapons to a Columbian terror group. “I’ve been following her case very closely and the one thing that I will say, we cannot be sending a … [Read more...] about Enes Kanter Freedom: White House Cannot Exchange ‘Merchant of Death’ for Brittney Griner
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Hinsdale Spends $1.5M To Fight Fair Housing Suits
5 Politics & Government Village leader's statement contradicts what the village attorney said in 2019. David Giuliani , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale has spent $1.5 million fighting fair housing lawsuits filed by the federal government and a sober living house. In the summer of 2019, Trinity Sober Living opened in the house at 111 N. Grant St. Neighbors complained. The village said the home violated its code because more than three unrelated people lived there and it was a commercial operation in a residential neighborhood. In November 2020, Trinity filed a federal lawsuit alleging the village violated its rights under the federal Fair Housing and Americans With Disabilities acts. A year later, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the village, making similar allegations . The village confirmed its legal costs this week. Its law firm in the matter is Chicago-based … [Read more...] about Hinsdale Spends $1.5M To Fight Fair Housing Suits
The Biden Age Is Hitting Its Stride
Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Last week, Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney of the Upper East Side, chair of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Reform, made national headlines by telling me, in the middle of a high-stakes televised debate , that she thinks Joe Biden will voluntarily be a one-term president. “I don’t believe he is running for reelection,” she said in response to my yes/no question about whether Biden ought to be a candidate in 2024. The remark drew a double take from attorney Siraj Patel, one of her fellow debaters, but it wasn’t a gaffe: When asked on CNN to clarify the remark the next morning, Maloney quasi apologized and pledged her support for the president, but reemphasized that she doesn’t believe Biden will be a candidate. Maloney’s remarks fly in the face of emphatic White House statements. “To be clear, as the president has said repeatedly, he plans to run in 2024,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted in June. … [Read more...] about The Biden Age Is Hitting Its Stride