A Philadelphia influencer known as “Meatball” avoided jail after she was arrested for live-streaming rabid looters who raided several stores across the city during protests last September. The 22-year-old influencer, whose real name is Dayjia Blackwell, was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to complete 150 hours of community service on Thursday. Blackwell was … Read more
Joseph Komrosky, shown at a 2023 school board meeting in Temecula, has lost a recall by a narrow margin. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A conservative public school board president in Temecula whose promotion of policies on race and gender thrust the district into the national battle over critical race theory in the classroom … Read more
Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised $85 million toward the president’s 2024 re-election effort last month, according to a report — a figure well short of former President Donald Trump’s massive May fundraising haul. The 81-year-old incumbent’s May totals mark the second-best month of fundraising for his campaign and allied groups, the Biden … Read more
An abandoned US veteran who died alone in a Maine nursing home was given a proper goodbye Thursday by hundreds of kind-hearted strangers. Former Marine Gery Brooks’ burial at the Maine Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery in Augusta was marked by a 21-gun salute, a pilot who performed a flyover, a motorcycle escort and full honors thanks … Read more
A general view of an Al Jazeera building in Doha, Qatar, May 5, 2024. REUTERS Considering how much attention the American media get, it’s amazing that one piece of actual, unbelievable subversion keeps going on. That is the Al Jazeera network — founded, funded and directed by the terrorist-supporting state of Qatar. Last month, The … Read more
The 3,300-year-old ship ‘is the very first to be found at such a great distance (about 90 kilometres) with no line of sight to any landmass’ The control room of a ship that participated in the discovery of artifacts in a wreck off the coast of Israel, more than a mile deep on the bed … Read more
A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison. AP A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison while he fights his conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that … Read more
Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was wrong to advise election officials to presume the validity of absentee-ballot signatures, a Michigan judge has ruled. AP Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was wrong to advise election officials to presume the validity of absentee-ballot signatures, a Michigan judge has ruled. In a dispute that dates from … Read more
The driver who hit and decapitated an elderly pedestrian in Brooklyn appeared inconsolable in a new video taken of the gruesome scene. The man was on his knees and at times hunched over in grief on a Brooklyn street as cops and a bystander tried to comfort him, according to a video that emerged on … Read more
A debate over reparations drove one California assemblyman to tears earlier this month after his Republican colleague argued that Asians and Latinos shouldn’t be forced to pay for a measure compensating African American descendants of slaves. “I’m concerned about the proposal to help facilitate distribution of reparations,” Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez (R-Rancho Santa Margarita) said during … Read more
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