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1 Over 2,000 Protesters Have Been Arrested So Far On College Campuses
Protests continue to be a problem on college campuses around the country. So far, over 2,000 students have been arrested across the US on a variety of charges including trespassing and vandalism, and the continuing protests were addressed yesterday from the White House by President Joe Biden. The President said in a brief speech in the Roosevelt Room that, while free speech is vital in America, the rule of law also has to be upheld. “So, let me be clear,” Biden said after calling out vandalism and the cancellation of graduations, “Violent protest is not protected, peaceful protest is.” As he was leaving the room, Biden answered a reporter’s question about if the protests have made him reconsider his policies in the Middle East with a simple “No.”
2 Second Boeing Whistleblower Died This Week
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems, a major Boeing supplier, died on Tuesday morning after being diagnosed with a MRSA bacterial infection. Dean was one of the first people to come forward with warnings about potentially dangerous defects in the Boeing 737 Max jets. He’s the second whistleblower on quality control issues at Boeing to die in the last few months. In March, John Barnett died in Charleston, South Carolina from what the coroner said “appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
3 IRS Says The Number Of Audits Is About To Surge
Get ready for more audits. The IRS says it’s about to ramp up the number of audits it performs to crack down on tax cheats and pull more revenue into the federal government. The agency received $80-billion in new funding from the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, but even though the strategic plan for the IRS is to sharply increase audits, you may still be in the clear; the agency said it won’t boost enforcement for people who earn less than $400,000 annually.