2024 Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke out Thursday against the backlash to country star Jason Aldean’s song and music video “Try That in a Small Town.” DeSantis, alongside his wife Casey, said the U.S. is “off the rocker” when it comes to censorship issues and cancel culture on […]
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Heat wave intensifies wildfires in Greece, international firefighting teams mobilize to assist
Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries headed to Greece on Thursday to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heat wave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures above 104 degrees Fahrenheit. New evacuations were ordered Wednesday as wildfires raged near Athens. In a round-the-clock battle to […]
Read MoreOfficials open investigations into Mississippi workplace death of teen poultry worker
Federal, state and local agencies have opened investigations after a 16-year-old died while working at a Mississippi poultry plant. The accident happened about 8 p.m. Friday at the Mar-Jac Poultr y processing facility in Hattiesburg, authorities said. According to a news release from the company, an employee “conducting sanitation operations” […]
Read MoreNC Republican activists file lawsuit accusing mobile voting app of violating convention election rules
Three North Carolina Republican activists have sued for new state party leadership elections to be conducted after they say voting procedures and other rules governing last month’s state convention were violated. The lawsuit filed this week by Mike Urben, Andrae DeHaan and Aryn Schloemer in Wake County court alleges that […]
Read MoreUSWNT’s Lynn Williams laments Auckland shooting, says US has ‘dealt with this far too many times’
Two members of the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) reacted to the Auckland shooting that took the lives of two people on Thursday as the Women’s World Cup gets underway in New Zealand and Australia. Police say a 24-year-old armed man entered a construction site in Auckland at around […]
Read MoreFBI official testifies agency knew Hunter Biden laptop was real
The same FBI personnel who warned social media companies that the Hunter Biden laptop could be part of a potential Russian “hack and leak” operation ahead of the 2020 election knew that it was not disinformation, an FBI official told the House Judiciary Committee. Section Chief of the FBI’s Foreign […]
Read MoreDemocrats refuse to face ‘real evidence of crimes’ by Hunter Biden, GOP rep. says
House Oversight Committee member Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, told “America’s Newsroom” Thursday that testimony from two IRS whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden case proved the Department of Justice overlooked “significant crimes,” but Democrats refuse to face the “facts.” COMER TOUTS HUNTER BIDEN HEARING: DEMS AREN’T USED TO EVIDENCE; RASKIN, SCHIFF ‘PULL […]
Read MoreOklahoma executes death row inmate who killed 20-year-old woman with butcher knife
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after his escape from a prison work center. Jemaine Cannon, 51, received a lethal injection at 10:01 a.m. and was pronounced dead 12 minutes later at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. […]
Read MoreStanford University president to resign after board reviews decades-old research papers
The president of Stanford University announced Wednesday that he would be resigning after an independent review found “serious flaws” in five scientific papers in which he was the principal author. In a statement to students and staff, Marc Tessier-Lavigne said he would step down effective Aug. 31 despite defending himself […]
Read More‘The View’ hits CMT for censoring Jason Aldean song, despite being ‘deplorable’
“The View” hosts criticized country singer Jason Aldean’s song “Try that in a Small Town” on Thursday and described it as “deplorable” before defending Aldean against any censorship of the song. “There’s no reason to separate big city people from small city people,” co-host Joy Behar said. “That to me […]
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