Dornoch wins Belmont Stakes, defeating Kentucky Derby and Preakness champs
Dornoch won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday evening in Saratoga Springs, New York, to conclude the 2024 slate of Triple Crown horse races. At 17-1 odds, Dornoch knocked off Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan, who entered with 6-1 odds, and Seize the Grey, who won the Preakness Stakes and was 5-1 to win, in 2:01.64. […]
Mark Meadows pleads not guilty in Arizona fake electors case
Mark Meadows, a former Trump White House chief of staff, pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges Friday in Arizona. The plea comes six weeks after Meadows and others were indicted by a grand jury for their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, which Democrat Joe Biden […]
DNC billboard attack ad to greet Trump as ‘convicted white-collar crook’ in Nevada
Former President Donald Trump will be in Nevada on Sunday, as will a billboard attacking him for his status as a convicted felon, paid for by the Democratic National Committee. The attack ad comes after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last week. While the former president has committed […]
Release of Israeli hostages celebrated as US officials eye ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday reiterated his country’s commitment to securing “the release of all the hostages” still held captive in Gaza after meeting with four who had been rescued during a special military operation earlier in the day. The four hostages were taken by militants following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack. Word […]
Shark attacks nationwide result in closed beaches
A number of shark attacks have led to beach closures in Florida and California. Florida’s Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson Jr. reported that his office was aware of two clashes with sharks on Friday alone. In one case, a woman was attacked and sought medical treatment. The other case involved a teenager later in the […]
Cannabis sales stall by the millions in San Francisco as dispensary owners bemoan black market operations
Cannabis sales in San Francisco have failed to hit the $50 million mark for the quarter for the first time in five years, California tax officials said. The city recorded $46.7 million in taxable cannabis sales in the first three months of 2024. The figure represents a $5.6 million decrease from the last quarter and a […]
Google lifts suspension on conservative content app initiated in ‘error’
Google reinstated the PragerU app in its Play store within hours of suspending it. Google contacted PragerU to inform its developers that the app underwent a review that found “content or speech asserting that a protected group is inhuman, inferior or worthy of being hated.” As a result, the app was suspended from Google Play […]
Israeli divestment ban proposed in Pennsylvania
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to protect the state’s Israeli financial holdings despite mounting public pressure to cut ties amid the ongoing war with Hamas. Sens. Steve Santarsiero, D-Doylestown, and Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-Jacobus, said they’ll soon introduce legislation to “uphold Pennsylvania’s steadfast support for Israel” by banning from […]
White House Report Card: Jobs surge hides Biden’s border ‘baloney’
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden still in France after several days of D-Day ceremonies. In speeches to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the World War II invasion of Nazi-controlled France by allied troops, Biden’s words were adequate but didn’t compare to the notable pro-democracy speeches of the past from former […]
Top Trump allies fight Democratic-led indictments in multiple states
Top allies of Donald Trump are facing unprecedented indictments in at least five states as the former president fights off his own slate of four criminal cases in the heat of the 2024 election season. On Friday, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Mike Roman, a former member of Trump’s campaign team, […]