A stampede during a Jewish religious festival in Israel resulted in the deaths of at least 45 people — including Americans — and left another 150 or so injured, in a tragedy that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was one of the worst disasters the country has seen. What are the details? Officials estimated
Month: May 2021
Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, comedian and CNN host W. Kamau Bell declared that the United States not only “was built on racism” but also “currently,” that “racism is running the country in many ways.” As he made the rounds promoting the return of his CNN show, United Shades of America,
(Natural News) Perfumer and “fragrance expert” Sue Phillips from New York City believes she can help people who have recovered from the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) regain their sense of smell. The loss of the sense of smell is a symptom of COVID-19. Many who recover from the virus wait months before their ability to smell returns –
Three Loveland, Colorado police officers who manhandled and mocked a 73-year-old woman with dementia have resigned. Officers Austin Hopp, Daria Jalali and Community Services Officer Tyler Blackett all stepped down, Police Chief Robert Ticer said during a news conference Friday. Chief Robert Ticer did not specify if they were fired or if they resigned. —
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks at a news conference in the parking garage at Union Station in front of new EV charging stations in Washington, D.C., April 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) A commitment to free markets in the abstract does not oblige conservatives to defend McKinsey in particular. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE ‘T he trouble with
Coca-Cola Company CEO James Quincey speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, December 9, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Why the soft-drink giant is pulling back from its left-wing posturing. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C onservatives who are tempted to despair over the abrupt shift of
President Joe Biden has issued a travel ban from India, as the nation grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases. But several Republicans were quick to remind the president of an old tweet he sent last year in reaction to former President Donald Trump issuing travel bans from coronavirus-stricken countries in the early days of
Newsmax settled a lawsuit with a Dominion Voting Systems executive over accusations about election fraud and issued an apology and a retraction of those claims on Friday. The statement on their website said there was no evidence that Dr. Eric Coomer, the Director of Product Strategy and Security at Dominion, had changed the election ballots.
According to Page Six, several cast members of NBC sketch series Saturday Night Live have a real problem with Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk appearing on an upcoming episode, and may be reserving their right to step down from participating in that show. In the past weeks SNL players, including Aidy Bryant, Bowen
A professor at Roosevelt University made an astonishing admission about the nature of her work training future K-12 teachers in her “middle school theory and practice” course. While her remarks may not come as a surprise to parents who have long followed the threats of far-left ideology seeping into education in the forms of transgender
Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) said that the Constitution would have to be amended to grant Washington, D.C., statehood, in comments to the media on Friday. Manchin cited findings by
Employees of Basecamp, a popular software company, quit en masse on Friday after a ban on “societal and political” discussions. The exodus came after a heated debate at the company about their inclusive policies. The original disagreement arose over a list of Basecamp customers with “funny names.” Some employees complained that the names were either
Former President Donald Trump mocked the popular social media platform Twitter Friday after the company’s stock plummeted by more than 15% on Thursday. Trump, who was famously permanently suspended from Twitter after the U.S. Capitol rioting, released a statement blaming the collapse of their stock on their shutting down some accounts. “Twitter stock ‘plunged’ as
In the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss how Biden’s address to Congress was not a popular TV show, drawing the worst rating in 28 years. CNN’s Brian Stelter tried to suggest it reflects the calm of “Biden’s deliberately low-key president…a sharp break from the drama and deceit of the Trump years.” He quoted Susan Glasser of
Joe Biden claimed during his speech to a joint session of Congress that the threat from radical Islam had been replaced by the threat from white supremacists. Music to al-Qaeda’s ears. The terrorists probably breathed a sigh of relief when hearing that the resources of the federal government will now be spent looking under the
All too often, the very people who tell us that we must care about climate change don’t seem to care very much about it themselves. John Kerry is an excellent example of this. Not only does he fly around the world in private jets, he also invested in big oil before joining the Biden administration.
Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) On Wednesday night, the South Carolina senator outshined the president. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D elivering a response to the State of the Union (or the “joint address to Congress,” as it is technically known during
A poll worker casts a mail-in ballot for a voter at a drive-thru polling station during the primary election in Miami, Fla., August 18, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Florida’s Republican-dominated state House and Senate reached a consensus Friday to pass Senate Bill 90, which implements new voter identification requirements and limits mail-in voting. The bill stipulates
Marie Yovanovitch testifies as part of the impeachment inquiry into then-president Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., November 15, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters) Manhattan federal prosecutors sought evidence relating to former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, as well as communications between Rudy Giuliani and a number of Ukrainian officials, in a raid on Giuliani’s apartment on
Steven Crowder, Dave Landau, and the LwC crew discussed the affects that drugs have on addicts and society. In this clip, a deep conversation about addiction was sparked while covering the Derek Chauvin trial. Later, Crowder differentiated between a non-violent addict and a violent criminal. Watch the clip to see a very open and honest
An Alaska couple says the FBI raided their home with guns drawn at them this week in the search for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) laptop, which is apparently still missing after it was reported stolen following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to the couple, Paul and Marilyn Hueper, the feds
A third-party fact-checker on Instagram labeled a quote from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on racism in America as “missing context.” The post that was flagged came from Turning Point USA’s account. The fact-checker Science Feedback bizarrely warned users to “encourage the general public to wear face masks to reduce the COVID-19 transmission.” It added how “the same
Two years ago I noticed what looked like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to woo longtime Democrats into the GOP, and we had just the right man in the Oval Office to make the pitch. In his decades as a businessman and in his too-short stint as an elected official, Donald Trump wasn’t shy about going after