Support for the Black Lives Matter movement, which began as an online campaign a decade ago to combat violence and systemic racism toward African Americans and eventually resonated worldwide, has dropped significantly from its peak in the summer of 2020, according to a new report. Today, about half of U.S. adults, or 51%, said they […]
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Man who shot himself during a dream faces charges
A 62-year-old man is facing firearms charges in Illinois after authorities say he accidentally shot himself in the leg in his sleep —while dreaming that he was defending himself against an “intruder” in his home. The man, identified as Mark Dicara of Lake Barrington, used a .357 Magnum revolver that he owned to fire the […]
US delivers another $325 million of weapons to Ukraine
The Pentagon will deliver a new package of military aid to Ukraine that totals up to $325 million and will include a wide range of rockets, missiles and other munitions aimed at bolstering the counteroffensive against Russia, the State Department said Tuesday. The aid will include missiles for what are considered critical air defense systems […]
Biden poll numbers compared to the Titanic
Joe Biden is more unpopular than Donald Trump was at the same stage in his presidency, according to a comparison of polling data conducted by political analytics website FiveThirtyEight. The website gave Biden a net approval rating of -14.6 percent on June 11, notably lower than the -10.9 percent Trump recorded the same number of […]
Danger! Volunteer firefighters are getting older
Jerry Scarborough is 69 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from jumping behind the wheel of a fire engine when there’s an emergency. Frequently, the 20-plus-year member of the Darlington Volunteer Fire Company in rural Maryland isn’t even the oldest firefighter on the scene. On one call last year, he raced to extinguish a […]
Miami braces for protests over Trump court appearance
The mayor of Miami has said police officials are bracing for large protests when Donald Trump makes his initial appearance in court later today. The former US president faces a 37 charges of hoarding classified documents. He denies any wrongdoing. In a joint press conference with the city’s police chief, Mayor Francis Suarez urged calm […]
Congress returns to session; Trump looms large
House Republicans say they’ll return Monday fresh off a week of infighting that paralyzed the lower chamber, but they’ll have a renewed focus on this: to discredit the inquiry that led to former President Donald Trump’s historic indictment on 37 counts as well as Trump’s political enemies. House Republicans had launched aggressive investigations into President […]
Billions of dollars lost in Covid-19 relief grift
Much of the theft was brazen, even simple. Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks. Cheaters collected those benefits in multiple states. And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers. Criminals and gangs grabbed […]
Trump calls indictment “biased abuse of power”
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday cast his federal indictment as election interference and an abuse of power by the Biden administration. Speaking to the crowd at the Georgia Republican Convention in Columbus, Trump made his first public remarks since the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment a day earlier laying out its case that […]
Dems get warning sign as Gen-Z males turn right
For Democrats, no single voting bloc might be more important to the party’s 2024 success than Gen-Z. Born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, the first generation reared on the internet has come of age, with more than 30 million members of Gen-Z—the oldest of whom are now 26 years old—having reached legal […]
Classified Docs snare Trump; what about Biden?
When former President Donald Trump was indicted over classified documents, several prominent conservatives immediately asked about his successor. Despite his early crowing about irresponsibility, President Joe Biden remains under investigation himself for his sloppy record keeping, and Republicans want to know where that investigation stands in light of the Trump news. “Today is indeed a […]
Biden dismisses multi-million $ bribery scheme
President Joe Biden dismissed as “malarkey” a House GOP accusation that he was involved in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme on Thursday. “Where’s the money?” Biden said in response to a shouted question from a reporter after his news conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “I’m joking. That’s a bunch of malarkey.” The question […]