The first lady’s steadfast support of President Biden after his heavily criticized debate performance Thursday may seem admirable to some Americans, but not all of them. Bill Stevenson, who was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975, candidly discussed his ex-wife in an interview with the New York Post Saturday. “The Dr. Jill Biden […]
Wyndham Clark has low expectations about defending his US Open title as he struggles to get his game back on track. The 30-year-old has yet to make a cut in a major this year despite an impressive start which saw him win at Pebble Beach in February and finish runner-up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational […]
Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state, in accepting the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award Sunday night for defending the integrity of Kentucky’s elections, said today’s politics have been tainted by “demagoguery” and the “reigning mob of the moment.” “As touched and as grateful beyond words that I am to be given this award, […]
Iga Swiatek made a flying start to her bid for a third successive Roland Garros crown. The world number one from Poland spent exactly one hour on Court Philippe Chatrier as she dispatched French wild card Leolia Jeanjean 6-1 6-2. Swiatek is bidding to become the first woman to win three straight French Opens since […]
The 2024 Senate elections — which will run concurrent with the presidential race — are approaching. Democrats will have to defend several vulnerable incumbents in swing and GOP-heavy states. However, the party has held their own in the last three cycles in navigating tough Senate races. In the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats defied political expectations […]
In the village of Lyptsi, Ukrainian forces appear to have blunted Russia’s surprise offensive. A few weeks ago, they were rapidly advancing towards Kharkiv. But with the help of reinforcements Ukraine is slowly stemming the tide. The threat from the north though has not gone away. Lyptsi is still a target. There’s the heavy thud […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was heckled outside the Manhattan courthouse Thursday where she was attempting to defend former President Trump at his criminal hush money trial. As Boebert and several other Republicans broke away from a makeshift press conference podium, she leaned into the microphones to say one last thing. “And I want all of […]
LONG ISLAND CITY, Queens (PIX11) — A man followed a woman onto a train in a Queens subway station and slashed her with a box cutter when she lifted her leg to defend herself, police said. The suspect attacked the 22-year-old victim on a Manhattan-bound E train in the Queens Plaza subway station at around […]
It’s extremely embarrassing that we still allow our disabled children to be spanked, hit and paddled at school. No child should have to deal with that, but it’s truly terrible that we can’t even agree to spare some of our most vulnerable children. Yet, for a second year in a row, our lawmakers are spending […]
On April 10, Iowa celebrated its 11th annual Religious Freedom Day at the State Capitol and at Drake University. After men from the Sikh community performed a hymn in the rotunda, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation that states in part that “we all benefit from a pluralistic society where all people can work together […]
A law firm that has long defended Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses from employment lawsuits has abruptly asked to withdraw from a yearslong case over what it calls an “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship.” The firm — LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin and McPartland — has represented Trump’s political operation in numerous suits […]
An artist’s depiction of a Mars sample-return mission. NASA is set to offer its response to that hard-hitting report issued last September by the Mars Sample Return Independent Review Board, including the rolling out of next steps for the program. On Monday (April 15), NASA shared the agency’s recommendations regarding a path forward for the […]