Month: May 2023

A fetching, furry, very good boy walked across the stage Monday to receive a diploma alongside his companion, NPR and other outlets reported. Six-year-old Justin, a service dog for new graduate Grace Mariani, received his “dogree” at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. As Mariani made her way across the stage in a motorized
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A Florida man pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a deadly human smuggling case at the border between the United States and Canada, Grand Forks Herald reported Saturday. Steve Shand, 48, of Deltona, Florida, entered his plea via video conference before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leo I. Brisbois Friday, according to ABC News. A federal
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Inmate voting, noncitizen voting, and even mandatory voting have been among the initiatives pushed in Democrat-led jurisdictions this year to expand their voting base. “The Left wants to normalize voter classes that nobody took seriously a generation ago—criminals, foreigners—to help them win elections,” J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has extended the probable date that the U.S. will default on its sovereign debt payments absent legislation from Congress to raise the debt ceiling, according to a letter she wrote on Friday. Yellen’s letter, addressed to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, says that the Treasury now estimates the U.S. will default on
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The U.S. Marshals Service located 225 missing children across the nation and beyond during a 10-week operation. The mission dubbed “Operation We Will Find You,” resulted in the U.S. Marshals recovering 169 children and safely located another 59. There were 28 cases referred to “law enforcement agencies for further investigation of crimes such as drugs
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President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached an “agreement in principle” on raising the US debt ceiling, according to sources in Washington. The tentative deal would bring to an end the months-long stalemate between the Republican controlled Congress and Democrat run White House. Currently, the debt ceiling stands at $31.4 trillion (£25.4
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A Florida couple have been charged with manslaughter after a 3-year-old with severe injuries died earlier in the month, according to police. Takesha Williams, 24, and Efrem Allen, Jr., 25, have been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a young child. Allen and Williams are being held at the Polk County Jail on $100,000 bond each.
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Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. featured an unusually testy interview, conducted by journalist Walter Isaacson, with Rich Lowry, the editor of the venerable conservative magazine National Review. It’s rare that conservatives appear on Amanpour, which airs on CNN and tax-funded PBS, and the resulting clash between liberal and conservative journalist threw off a few
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O’Sullivan’s First Law—named after former National Review editor John O’Sullivan, a one-time speechwriter for then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—states that any institution that’s not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing over time. The Walton Family Foundation has proved to be a prime example of that rule. For the past decade or more, second- and third-generation heirs
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Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a landmark $5.7 billion settlement with Walgreens, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, for its role in the nationwide opioid epidemic. Out of the total settlement amount, $340 million has been designated specifically for Texas. This substantial settlement further bolsters the mounting funds obtained through attorneys
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A Norwegian airline advertisement attempted to cash in on the thousands of U.S. sailors disembarking in Oslo this weekend having unprotected sex with local women, according to a photo of the ad posted online Thursday. The advertisement appeared directed at the roughly 4,000 sailors and Marines deployed with the USS Gerald R. Ford, which docked
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A 22-year-old woman has had her leg bitten off by a shark while snorkelling in the Caribbean. The woman, who is from Connecticut in the US but has not been named, was taken to hospital in a serious condition on the Turks and Caicos Islands, police said. She and her friend were snorkelling outside the
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