House Speaker Mike Johnson may pull Federal funding from campuses over pro-Hamas demonstrations (AUDIO)

SRN News — House Speaker Mike Johnson—who faced-off with pro-Hamas demonstrators at Columbia University earlier this week—says the growing violence and threats to Jewish students cannot be tolerated. And he adds that Washington may need to send
Some urge boycott of Wyoming as rural angst over wolves clashes with cruel scenes of one in a bar

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway
Berkshire Hathaway’s real estate firm to pay $250 million to settle real estate commission lawsuits

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay
Businesses hindered by Baltimore bridge collapse should receive damages, court filing argues

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore publishing company has filed a class action claim arguing the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month should have to pay
A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids’ social transitions

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it — or even children’s social transitioning. Teachers and social workers who support LGBTQ+ rights worry
Tech CEOs Altman, Nadella, Pichai and others join government AI safety board led by DHS’ Mayorkas

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEOs of leading U.S. technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services from “AI-related disruptions.” Homeland Security Secretary
Help is coming for a Jersey Shore town that’s losing the man-vs-nature battle on its eroded beaches

NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A long-running sandstorm at the Jersey Shore could soon come to an end as New Jersey will carry out an emergency beach replenishment project at one of the state’s most badly eroded
A man accused in a Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot is sentenced to 3 years probation

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin was sentenced Thursday to
140,000 people did their taxes with the free IRS direct file pilot. But program’s future is unclear

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS said Friday that more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot program and participants saved roughly $5.6 million in fees they would have otherwise spent with commercial
Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly ‘s challenge of 20-year sentence

CHICAGO (AP) — The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born