WashPost: RNC Chair McDaniel Offered to Quit If Trump Wanted
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, during the many talks she and former President Donald Trump had last fall over her refusal to cancel the party’s primary debates, at one point offered to resign if he became the GOP presidential nominee and wanted her out, according to a new report. He turned down the offer, […]
Paul McCartney’s Stolen Bass Returned After 51 Years
A 1961 Höfner bass guitar, purchased by Paul McCartney, has finally been returned to the former Beatle following an extensive global effort to recover the stolen instrument. The bass guitar, featured prominently in recordings of iconic Beatles hits like “Love Me Do” and “Twist and Shout,” vanished without a trace after being stolen in 1972, […]
2 Juveniles Charged in Mass Shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl Parade
Two juveniles have been charged with crimes connected to the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally, authorities said Friday. A news release from the Jackson County Family Court said the juveniles are being detained in the county’s Juvenile Detention Center “on gun-related and resisting arrest charges.” The release said it is “anticipated […]
AP-NORC Poll: Americans Divided on TikTok Ban
President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country. A new poll by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds a three-way split when it comes to […]
House Committee Subpoenas Harvard in Antisemitism Probe
A U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Friday it was subpoenaing Harvard for failing to produce priority documents related to the committee’s antisemitism investigation, a move the university said was “unfortunate” and “unwarranted.” Harvard University was asked last month to turn over a raft of material, including documents and other items showing its responses to […]
Jailed Kremlin Critic Navalny Dead: Prison Service
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most famous opposition leader, died on Friday after collapsing and losing consciousness at the penal colony north of the Arctic Circle where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said. Navalny, 47, rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin and the Russian […]
Is Trump’s NATO Strategy Working? European Military Spending Soars
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Wednesday that a record number of allies – 18 of 31 member states – are poised to meet the alliance’s defense spending target of 2% of GDP this year, with prospects for an increase as budgets are reviewed. Signaling a long-awaited shift in its approach to national security, […]
What Is Russia’s New Purported Space Weapon?
New intelligence reports that suggest Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon that could pose an international threat aren’t surprising to space experts who have been sounding the alarm that the next big threat could come from above. A bombshell report released on Wednesday claimed that Moscow plans to place a nuclear weapon in […]
99 Journalists Killed in 2023, 77 in Gaza War: Report
Seventy-seven of the 99 journalists killed in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in that conflict, the CPJ […]
Maine Police Defend Search for Gunman Who Killed 18, Saying They Feared Ambush
Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush. The Oct. 25 shooting at a bowling alley and a bar was the deadliest in state history. But it […]