A Florida couple have been charged with manslaughter after a 3-year-old with severe injuries died earlier in the month, according to police. Takesha Williams, 24, and Efrem Allen, Jr., 25, have been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a young child. Allen and Williams are being held at the Polk County Jail on $100,000 bond each.
The GOP-controlled Texas House voted 121-23 to adopt 20 articles of impeachment against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton Saturday afternoon. “I am beyond grateful to have the support of millions of Texans who recognize that what we just witnessed is illegal, unethical, and profoundly unjust,” Paxton wrote in a tweet shortly after the vote, also
Social media is abuzz this weekend over a list of “The Top 10 Greatest TV Dads of All Time.” As you can expect, such a list is bound to be divisive, not just for who is included, but who isn’t. So, who did Twitter users rank as the top ten best TV dads? Well, here’s
The city of Seattle is struggling to hire new police officers, which is bad news for the people who live there. Response time on 911 calls is going up and in some parts of the city, crime is so bad that mail delivery has been paused at times. This is what happens when law enforcement
The U.S. Marshals Service located 225 missing children across the nation and beyond during a 10-week operation. The mission dubbed “Operation We Will Find You,” resulted in the U.S. Marshals recovering 169 children and safely located another 59. There were 28 cases referred to “law enforcement agencies for further investigation of crimes such as drugs
The White House and Republicans have reached an agreement in principle to raise the debt ceiling and avert a default, according to multiple reports. Several news outlets are reporting that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a tentative deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, narrowly avoiding the first default in
Target continues to get castigated over its ties to controversial LGBTQ organizations and partners. Many Americans have found Target’s partnerships so incendiary that there have been widespread boycotts of the big-box retail chain. A Target boycott was organized after it was revealed that the retailer sells products from a designer promoting Satanism, LGBTQ onesies for
State Farm General Insurance Company will stop accepting new applications for business and personal lines of property and casualty insurance today, the company announced in a press release Friday. “State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market,”
CBS Saturday Morning and NBC’s Today put their thumb on the scales for Democrats as the White House and House Republicans seek to negotiate a deal to raise the nation’s debt limit. When it came to the GOP demand to add some work requirements for certain welfare programs, both networks would provide Democratic statements denouncing
One of the sanest arguments against the idea of humans choosing their own gender is the complete lack of scientific evidence to prove it. Indeed, as a mammal, human reproduction is fairly straightforward. You’ve got your egg. You’ve got your sperm. And when the two come together, you got life — theoretically, at least. Males
An Indiana funeral director pleaded guilty to the theft of 48 decomposing corpses and cremated remains. The funeral director is also accused of lying about the cremains to the families of the deceased. Randy Lankford – the owner of Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana – pleaded guilty to more than 40
For some time now, there’s been an expectation that the 2024 presidential election would be a rematch of the 2020 election. And there’s some justification for that. Donald Trump has long led in the polls in GOP primary matchups, and Joe Biden is the incumbent president-ish person. Of course, polls have shown that the public
Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. featured an unusually testy interview, conducted by journalist Walter Isaacson, with Rich Lowry, the editor of the venerable conservative magazine National Review. It’s rare that conservatives appear on Amanpour, which airs on CNN and tax-funded PBS, and the resulting clash between liberal and conservative journalist threw off a few
A judge temporarily blocked South Carolina’s six-week abortion ban Friday until the state’s Supreme Court can address a legal challenge brought by Planned Parenthood, the Washington Post reported. “We will continue fighting to protect the lives of the unborn in South Carolina and the constitutional law that protects them. I hope that the Supreme Court
A string of interconnected civil suits has been raging in New York Federal Court, pitting Epstein trafficking victims against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsch bank, as well as the US Virgin Islands territory against the very same banks. The victims’ case against the banks is looking strong, if the latest Judge rulings are to be taken
Due to nostalgia about watching Star Trek: The Next Generation with my dad on summer evenings on the floor in the living room, late at night after most people were asleep, I am currently re-watching the series. What I can see now, illuminated by the political consciousness I’ve developed since childhood, is that I didn’t
The latest bit of fake news to come out of Florida was that teenager Amanda Gorman’s 2020 Inauguration poem was banned from a school library when the reality was it was moved to the middle school section for “vocabulary” reasons. Not that MSNBC Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace cared. She teamed up with twice
Recall the job of the “overseer” for those slave-era plantations? “Overseers supervised the slave plantations” for the slave owners in the day, reminds Encyclopedia.com. In today’s world liberal plantations have taken the place of slave plantations – albeit to the same effect. Just as overseers targeted slaves who dared to try and leave the slave
The city of Chicago opened all 22 area beaches on Friday morning. However, one of the busiest beaches was closed only hours after opening because gunshots rang out. Chicago’s North Avenue Beach opened at 11 a.m. on Friday. Police responded to several shots fired around 1:26 p.m. in the 1600 block of North Lake Shore
If there were any doubt that misogyny is a problem on the right, let us look today at the example that self-described conservative “Christian” Evan Kilgore of Turning Point USA has helpfully posted for everyone to analyze on Twitter. It should be mentioned that mere minutes after I confronted his behavior he deleted the tweet,
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, will face an impeachment vote in the Lone Star State’s GOP-controlled House Saturday, multiple outlets reported. Paxton criticized the measure ahead of the vote in a press conference Friday afternoon, calling the efforts “illegal” and a “scheme to overturn a decision made by Texas voters,” the Center Square
As negotiations over raising the nation’s debt limit drag on, House Democrats are becoming worried that President Joe Biden could produce a deal that is a disaster for them. According to Punchbowl News, which cited Democratic Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania as an example, moderates representing potential swing-seat districts worry that whatever Biden is cooking
MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and Tea Party Patriot Co-founder Jenny Beth Martin took a blowtorch to President Joe Biden’s corrupt Department of Homeland Security following MRC Free Speech America’s explosive report showing the agency weaponized tax dollars against Americans. The pair appeared on the May 25 edition of Newsmax’s The Balance
Social media hasn’t been kind to “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” despite no one having seen the fifth film in the franchise. It’s woke, users cried, citing early snippets, test screening rumors and other minutiae. Co-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge of “Fleabag” fame is the new Indy, they cried, supplanting Harrison Ford’s beloved hero to
The search for a Louisiana teen who went overboard while on a graduation celebration cruise has been called off, the United States Coast Guard announced Friday, citing Bahamian military officials. “We were informed by [Royal Bahamas Defence Force] this evening that they were suspending the active search efforts pending further developments & were not requesting
Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok is beginning to test a new artificial intelligence chatbot even as experts warn about the dangers of AI. TikTok announced Thursday that it was testing a Tako chatbot in the Philippines, making the Chinese Communist Party-tied app the latest social media giant to jump into the AI arms race. According to
A wild brawl broke out and shots were fired on North Avenue Beach today in Chicago. It was the first day the beaches were officially open for the season. Today, on the first day beaches were opened for the season in Chicago, a shooting takes place at the popular North Avenue Beach as about 80
NPR would like the taxpayers to think that they’re nonpartisan news for all people. But in reality, they’re the favorite channel for hard-core lefties. They’re like Fox News for the Pelosi set. Look no further than Friday’s Morning Edition, where co-host Michel Martin interviewed House Minority Whip Katharine Clark of Massachusetts. Martin asked Clark for
A Florida man dressed as a cat stabbed his roommate in the neck, according to police. The victim was seriously injured from the knife attack. Around 5:45 p.m. on May 23, deputies with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance at a home in North Gainesville, Florida. A man contacted 911 to report
Anheuser-Busch has been facing significant backlash since enlisting transgender figure Dylan Mulvaney to advertise Bud Light beer, but apparently that groundswell of negative consumer sentiment has not scared K18 Hair away from continuing to use Mulvaney to promote its products. Mulvaney’s relationship with K18 apparently predates the Bud Light fiasco, as he posted a video