Congressman’s wife dies after taking over-the-counter substance for weight loss
He died in December at the age of 61. her husband, United States Congressman Tom McClintocka conservative Republican representing Northern California, found her unresponsive in her locked home. Coroner’s office documents dated March 10 listed her cause of death as dehydration from gastroenteritis and “adverse effects of ingestion of white mulberry leaves.” It is unknown […]
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NFL punter Matt Aliza and two former college teammates accused of rape
Araiza, Zavier Leonard and Nowlin “Pa’a” Ewaliko were on the San Diego State University football team at the time of the alleged incident last October. “I am disappointed that she filed this civil suit against my client just because he didn’t rape her. He never used force against her.” Never, she wasn’t visibly intoxicated, he […]
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Ron DeSantis Suspends Four Broward County Board of Education Members After Grand Jury Investigation Caused by Parkland Massacre
“It is my duty to suspend people when there is clear evidence of incompetence, dereliction of duty, misconduct or misconduct,” DeSantis said in a news release. School Board members Patricia Goode, Donna Cohn, Anne Murray and Laurie Rich Levinson Suspended. Rosalind Osgood, a fifth person also mentioned by the grand jury, is no longer a […]
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Emmett Till Alert System Launched To Warn Black Leaders About Incidents Of Racism And Hate Crime
The Emmett Till Alerts system is named after a 14-year-old black teenager who was murdered in 1955. Her Carolyn Bryant Donham, a white woman, claimed Till whistled at her. This system is modeled after the Amber Alert system. “Hate crimes and terrorist threats must be taken seriously,” said Carl Snowden of the African American Leadership […]
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Banned books: 7 titles governments don’t want people to read
The brutal attack on author Salman Rushdie in New York on August 12 has rekindled the debate over literary censorship. Rushdie’s “devil’s poem, an ambitious work of magical realism, received some of the most violent and enduring backlash in literary history for its treatment of Islamic lore.The 1988 release sparked demonstrations, riots in Muslim-majority countries. […]
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Turkish pop star Gulsen Colakoglu jailed for joking about Turkish religious school
The accusation appears to be related to a video circulating on social media from an April Gulsen concert in which she joked about one of the musicians. He “graduated from an imam hatip (religious school), which is the source of his perverted side,” she said. Several Twitter users were seen sharing the video on Thursday […]
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Opinion: 200 years after Napoleon’s defeat, France and Britain still exchange views
While Russia accelerates its salvo in neighboring Ukraine, even threatening looks like nuclear armageddon Britain and France — both NATO members — have somehow yet to settle the matter. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been engaged in a bitter rivalry with Rishi Sunak for leadership of the ruling Conservative Party. recently asked French President […]
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The US Navy is developing a directed energy system to counter the hypersonic missile threat from China and Russia.
Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, said Thursday that developing systems that use high-energy lasers or high-power microwaves to destroy threats is a top priority for the Navy. “From a defensive standpoint, we’re focused on threats,” Gilday said at an event at the Heritage Foundation on Thursday. “We’re not ignoring it.” Hypersonic missiles traveling […]
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Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow Era Vote Restriction Law
Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution provides for ten felony offenses: murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, acquisition of money or property under false pretext, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, and bigamy. You will lose your voting rights. This law was enacted in 1890 and originally did not include rape and murder, but robbery. In its ruling, the […]
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Families of Mexican miners reject new rescue strategy after weeks of going underground
López Obrador said the proposal to tunnel underground was rejected because it would take too long. The El Pinabete mine in Coahuila, Mexico, collapsed on August 3rd. Rescuers were able to rescue five of him, but ten remain trapped in the flooded shaft. No signs of life or contact with the missing miners have been […]
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