Former President Donald Trump is weighing the creation of a super PAC as he seeks to assert his authority over the Republican Party and expand his post-presidential political operation. Trump spokesman Jason Miller confirmed Saturday that the former President is considering forming a super PAC, which can raise unlimited amounts of money from virtually any
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Atlanta (WGCL) — Police have issued an arrest warrant charging a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate with murdering a Yale University college student. Police believe the suspect, Qinxuan Pan, 29, may be in the metro Atlanta area. New Haven, Connecticut police issued the warrant on Saturday after police
Continue ReadingFor the thousands of people who work on a spacecraft that journeys to Mars, the result of their efforts often remains unseen once it leaves Earth. That all changed this week when NASA’s Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Martian atmosphere and safe landing on the red planet. The footage
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Millions of struggling renters caught a much-needed break when the federal moratorium on evictions was extended through the end of March. But for many landlords across the US, the news came as a nightmare. “It’s important to recognize that, after 10 months of severe economic distress, job loss, and decline in rent collections, everyone is
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Hendersonville, North Carolina (WLOS) — The volume of food at Interfaith Alliance Ministry speaks to the need and an outpouring of generosity. Meanwhile, the devotion of volunteers speaks volumes about the need to give back. Sometimes, that happens later in life. Tuesday mornings include some fun-loving and hardworking
Continue ReadingThree people were killed Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a ravine shortly after takeoff in Gainesville, Georgia, officials said. The plane, a single-engine Cessna-182, crashed about two miles northeast of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville shortly after takeoff, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Emma Duncan in a statement to CNN. Hall County
Continue ReadingA giant iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Friday, not far from a British scientific outpost. The 490 square miles (1270 square kilometers) chunk of ice is bigger than New York City and broke free in a process called calving, according to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The
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There are two new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,208, the Oregon Health Authority reported Saturday.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new medical papyrus dating back 3,500 years has provided enough new details for Egyptologists to reconstruct the 70-day ancient Egyptian mummifying process. The art of embalming was viewed as sacred and only a select few were trained in completing the process, and
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — A deputy from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men Friday morning. Michael Aponte from New York and Rawy Correa Perez from Wisconsin was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and failure to affix a tax stamp. A Toyota 4Runner was stopped
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Davenport, Iowa (WQAD) — The Harper family recently had to hear some of the worst news a parent could hear, and afterwards, people in their community sprang up to support them. Justin Harper, assistant basketball coach at Davenport North, and his wife, Elizabeth, took their 2-year-old son, Wesley,
Continue ReadingPeppa Pig is looking to hog some of the Florida sunshine enjoyed by Mickey Mouse and Harry Potter. The animated British piglet popular with preschoolers is getting her own tourist attraction — complete with muddy puddles — that developers say will be “perfect for a first theme park experience.” Children everywhere should be squealing to
Continue ReadingThe windows blew open. The building shook. At 1:30 a.m. local time Friday, a resident of al-Bukamal, a city near the Syrian-Iraqi border, was jarred from his sleep. Speaking under the condition of anonymity for security reasons, he told CNN the explosions were unlike anything he had heard before. What he likely heard was the
Continue ReadingFormer NBA star Jeremy Lin will not be naming the person who called him “coronavirus” while he was playing basketball. Lin, who plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors, the G League, or minor league, affiliate of the Golden State Warriors, tweeted Saturday that he will not be “naming or shaming anyone” after sharing the racism
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There is no mystery in how Jamal Khashoggi died, it was cold-blooded and brutal. A Turkish intelligence audio recording captured the moments inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that Saudi government agents drugged, suffocated and dismembered the 59-year-old Washington Post columnist. In the 879 days since, the only geopolitical question of consequence is what role
Continue ReadingA former Republican operative who now leads one of the nation’s most powerful business groups is praising President Joe Biden’s efforts to defeat the coronavirus pandemic. “It is fantastic to have a partner in the White House,” Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, told CNN Business. “We felt like we
Continue ReadingNearly a dozen Trump supporters charged in connection with the US Capitol insurrection have said that Antifa and other left-wing groups weren’t involved in the attack, debunking a false-flag conspiracy theory that is gaining popularity in the pro-Trump orbit. The baseless claim that left-wing infiltrators were responsible for the violent attack has been promoted by
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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation that led to journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal assassination in 2018, according to a declassified US intelligence report the Biden administration released on Friday. While the four-page report supports a conclusion already reached in 2018 by the CIA — that the man known as MBS was
Continue ReadingHouse progressives are furious with the Senate parliamentarian’s decision to remove the $15 minimum wage provision from the Senate’s version of the Covid relief bill, a proposal that is foundational to the left wing’s beliefs and one they have fiercely campaigned on, but it is unclear how they will channel that frustration into next steps.
Continue ReadingA Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer — who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and White supremacist, according to the Justice Department — pleaded guilty last October to federal hate crime and explosive charges
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