● Biden calls Putin a ‘crazy SOB’ and says Trump remark on Navalny ‘astounds me’ Lela T. Frisby, 2024-04-082024-04-10 US President Joe Biden has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” during a fundraiser in San Francisco, as well as taking aim at his predecessor, Donald Trump, for comparing himself to a Russian opposition leader who died last week in an Arctic prison. Biden was talking about climate… Continue Reading
The Snake with the Emoji-Patterned Skin Lela T. Frisby, 2024-04-082024-04-10 As Kobylka went around pulling out trays to show me some of his most valuable full-grown pythons, I was reminded that in nature these creatures are ambush predators. Charles Darwin believed that a fear of snakes is, to some degree, hardwired in us. In “The Expression of the Emotions in… Continue Reading
● Martin Luther King Jr memorial vandalized in Colorado park Lela T. Frisby, 2024-04-082024-04-10 A large Martin Luther King Jr memorial in Denver’s City park was vandalized, and police are trying to determine if racial bias was involved. Several pieces of the marble and bronze I Have a Dream memorial were stolen sometime Tuesday. The missing pieces include a bronze torch and angel, as… Continue Reading
● A hospital is suing a quadriplegic 18-year-old to make her go to a nursing home Lela T. Frisby, 2024-04-082024-04-10 A young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own home, close to family and her school. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In North Carolina, there’s an 18-year-old woman who has… Continue Reading
Alabama seeks to carry out 2nd execution using controversial nitrogen gas method Lela T. Frisby, 2024-04-082024-04-10 Enlarge this image Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, shown here in 1999. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, to set… Continue Reading
Lara Trump Says Republicans ‘Absolutely’ Want To Pay Trump’s Legal Bills Lela T. Frisby, 2024-03-102024-02-29 By Kate Plummer Republicans would “absolutely” pay Donald Trump’s legal bills, Lara Trump has said. Asked by a CNN reporter in South Carolina if Republicans would foot the bill for the GOP frontrunner’s soaring legal bills, his daughter-in-law said: “Absolutely. That’s why you see a GoFundMe get started, that’s why… Continue Reading
● Biden considering major new executive actions for migrant crisis Lela T. Frisby, 2024-03-102024-02-22 A trigger mechanism was part of a bipartisan Senate border deal that never reached the floor earlier this month. During the deal’s construction, President Joe Biden repeatedly said it would have given him the authority to “shut down” the border. The administration is also discussing ways to make it harder… Continue Reading
Biden paves way for Mark Rutte to lead NATO — and confront Putin Lela T. Frisby, 2024-03-102024-02-22 The term of current NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who has steadily navigated the political-military bloc through a tumultuous time in transatlantic politics since 2014, ends in October. Pressure is mounting to approve Rutte’s leadership bid before the NATO summit in July, which will be held in Washington to celebrate the… Continue Reading
Steve Bannon Predicts 50 Years of MAGA Lela T. Frisby, 2024-03-102024-02-22 Steve Bannon speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 3, 2023. The former White House chief strategist for the Trump Administration reportedly told a CPAC crowd in… Steve Bannon speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland,… Continue Reading
● Video Captures Cargo Ship Ramming Bridge Before Fatal Collapse Lela T. Frisby, 2024-03-092024-02-29 Footage circulating on Chinese social media websites has captured the moment a cargo ship in southern China caused a bridge to collapse, sending vehicles tumbling into the water below as well as onto the vessel itself. Authorities in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, said the… Continue Reading