OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — On the second floor of a single-family home in a sprawling suburban development, a three-member production crew sat behind banks of computer monitors and guided the conservative Right Side Broadcasting Network’s coverage of a recent Donald Trump rally. RSBN’s show director, whispering into a microphoned headset, instructed the camera operators and […]
I am told, over and over again, that former President Donald Trump’s MAGA faithful are legion, that they will follow him to the ends of the earth and that his support is massive and unparalleled. But for some reason, the area outside and around Trump’s ongoing criminal trial/pity party in Manhattan has been largely MAGA-free. […]
A pair of pranksters gave fans of Donald Trump a look at what a bible true to the former president might really contain. “Thou shalt put no other person above Trump,” Davram Stiefler of The Good Liars read to MAGA fans waiting outside a recent Trump event. “Thou shalt commit adultery,” read Jason Selvig, the […]
Although the sun shone brightly on an interfaith prayer circle outside the Arizona Capitol, Senate Bill 1040 cast a long shadow. Alfonso Vasquez, 32, was among a little over 30 people who gathered to decry legislation they claim unjustly targets immigrants. SB 1040 struck fear among immigrants when then-Gov. Jan Brewer signed it into law […]
Thousands of pilgrims, along with Catholic leaders from around the world, state and civic officials attended the much-anticipated 2023 dedication of a religious shrine in south Oklahoma City. One year later, the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine‘s first anniversary will be observed at the 12:15 p.m. Mass on Feb. 17 and Masses later in the day […]
Leaders of a Hindu congregation hoping to build a new temple in Gotha will have to find a different location. Orange County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to reject the congregation’s appeal of a zoning board ruling which concluded the proposed temple with a 43-foot-tall spire would be a “detrimental intrusion” in the west Orange […]
The family of a South Mississippi man who has been missing since Christmas Eve says they are “faithful” he will be found. Joseph “Joe” Edwin Ladnier, 60, of Hurley, was last seen at 8 a.m. Dec. 24 leaving his home on Begonia Street in Hurley, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department. He was planning […]