New Orleans Police Chief Wants Ban on Concealed Carry for Self-Defense
New Orleans Police Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick wants a gun-free zone in the city that would ban carrying for self-defense, even for licensed concealed carryers. 4WWL report Kirkpatrick said he is pushing for the zone in response to the Constitutional Carry Act signed by Gov. Jeff Landry (R) on March 5, 2024. “New Orleans is unique. […]
Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Ellen Ashe, the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice, wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court’s landmark 1996 school desegregation decision.・Mr. Peters passed away. She was 94 years old. Peters, who was also the first female faculty member at Yale Law School, died Tuesday, according to the […]
Bottom Line: Former Republican chief signs on to guard nutrition programs
Agriculture food insecurity nonprofit Feeding Alabama hired Maynard Nexen PC Advising on Farm Bill reauthorization and advocating for nutrition programs. Feeding Alabama is a national nonprofit organization that has led the fight against Republican-led efforts to cut nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), during the protracted Farm Bill reauthorization process. is part […]
Who is Margo Martin? Trump’s deputy communications chief spotted at trial
Margo Martin, President Donald Trump’s loyal and stylish deputy communications director, was one of the few members of the former president’s inner circle to accompany him to Manhattan criminal court, where the first criminal trial against him began on Monday. Martin, 27, filmed the former president leaving Trump Tower for “Day 1 of the Biden […]
IDF chief of staff says Israel will respond to Iran missile attack | Israel
Israel’s top commander says the country will respond to Iranian missile and drone attacks, but it remains unclear what form that response will take and what could lead to a worsening spiral of violence into a full-blown regional war. It remains unclear how powerful it will be. U.S. officials said Monday that some kind of […]
Border chief issues chilling warning: Keeps me ‘up at night’
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss his take on national security concerns stemming from the border crisis … source
UN chief urges Iran and Israel to ‘step back from the brink’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded with Security Council members to avoid a “full-scale conflict” in the Middle East as tensions rise between Israel and Iran. Guterres’s comments came after Israel called an emergency meeting with members Sunday in the wake of Iran’s drone and missile barrage against Israel. Most of the hundreds of drones […]
‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief | Climate crisis
The former US environment secretary has warned that political leaders who pretend to be “adults” while slowing the pace of climate action are pushing the world into a deeper catastrophe. Todd Stern, who served as special envoy for climate change in President Barack Obama’s administration and helped negotiate the 2015 climate change agreement, said, “We […]
Pompeo warns diversity chief who espoused anti-American ‘Marxist dogma’ will ‘destroy the State Department’
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the State Department’s new senior DEI hire would “destroy” the Foreign Service And he called America “less safe” in an interview with Fox News Digital on Friday. Zakiyah Kerr Johnson was hired by the State Department last week as chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. Fox News Digital […]
Conan O’Brien recalls NBC network chief who was ‘tight with OJ’ that fired SNL’s Norm MacDonald
Late-night show host Conan O’Brien recalled the late comedian Norm Macdonald’s cringing joke about a suspected criminal that led to him being fired from Saturday Night Live, and O. We mourned the death of J. Simpson. In an interview with CNN, O’Brien praised MacDonald’s constant jokes about Simpson and his acquittal as one of the […]