A number of years ago, I met Kathryn and Galen. They’d won a contest sponsored by Woman’s Day magazine. The prize? A money makeover and financial coaching with … me! From our first meeting, we became fast friends. Not only were they drowning in debt but Galen was also dealing with a protracted season of
Protesters required police intervention outside a recent “drag queen brunch” in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, labeled as an “all ages event” with a “mature content warning.” Hundreds of “drag defenders” faced off with a few dozen demonstrators protesting against the all-ages drag queen show, which saw Calgary Police deploy significant resources including a police cameraman and
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre snubbed Fox News’ Peter Doocy at the White House press briefing on Friday. The decision not to call on Doocy was unusual because Jean-Pierre almost always calls on him to ask questions. After all, Fox News occupies the No. 2 seat in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room,
The weirdest thing about big-time reporters is that they trash-talk Republicans, saying that have yet to prove Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden’s business dealings. Earth to big-time reporters: Isn’t it your job to investigate that? Instead, they joined Democrats in impeaching Donald Trump for insisting someone should be investigating the Bidens. On Thursday,
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday protested against the expansion of a coal mine in Lützerath, Germany. Greta Thunberg has today been protesting against the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. But the very reason Germany is forced to expand the coal mine in the first place is because they listened to Greta
Despite vast reserves of coal, Eskom, the largest government-run utility in South Africa and on the continent, fails to provide reliable power and operates at only 50% of capacity. South Africa used to have a well-functioning energy sector that was the envy of all Africa, but because of ongoing government corruption and incompetent management, its
Wedding ceremonies are held differently even within India with some couples choosing big religious ceremonies, while others lean toward a more intimate celebration. Rvimages | E+ | Getty Images Indian weddings are big business. But some of them may not be quite so big this year as they once would have been. The celebrations are
Staff at the school where a six-year-old shot his teacher learned the child may have a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not find it despite searching his bag, an official has said. Abigail Zwerner, 25, was shot in the chest by the pupil at Richneck Elementary in Virginia on 6 January
Finally, finally after two recent stories about California Congresswoman Katie Porter first pondering and then announcing her bid for the U.S. Senate, Politico has at last gotten around to revealing the already well known embarrassing employee scandal in her office. A scandal almost as embarrassing as pretending it doesn’t exist as Politico absurdly tried to
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s defection from the Democratic Party back in December was widely seen as problematic for Senate Democrats and their slim majority. But in reality, it was an attempt at self-preservation for Sinema, whose political viability amongst Arizona Democrats has cratered thanks to her marginal independent streak that has helped block key elements of
The U.S. and allies in the Pacific region are stepping up defense cooperation and allowing the U.S. to increase military presence, setting the stage for a potential conflict involving China or North Korea, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Japan understands it is close to both North Korean and Chinese flashpoints and needs to
University of Alabama player Darius Miles has been fingered by law enforcement in the shooting death of a 23-year-old woman. Miles, 21, and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, were both charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Jamea Jonae Harris. Around 1:45 a.m. on Sunday, Tuscaloosa Police Department officers responded to a reported call
The latest “good guy with a gun” story comes out of Iowa, but it is actually a “good gal with a gun” story. A couple attempted to abduct a child, but an armed mother immediately put the kibosh on the kidnapping attempt. Michael Ernest Ross, 43, and Laurie Lynn Potter, 57, repeatedly walked in front
On Friday afternoon, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell spoke with environmental alarmist and frequent guest Michael Mann, giving the liberal activist a forum to call for more restrictions on fossil fuel use to allegedly avoid catastrophe in the future. Mann loves blaming every dire weather event on climate change, and he gets extremely angry when anyone
What a hack. Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff on Sunday said he’s going to “reserve judgement” on Biden’s classified documents scandal. Joe Biden STOLE classified documents when he was Obama’s Vice President and improperly stored the materials at his private office and Delaware home. ABC’s “This Week” host Jon Karl pointed out that Biden’s lawyers found
“Someone cooked this up,” says one expert of the Biden administration’s claims that gas stoves pose a health hazard. Steven Milloy, author of multiple books including “Green Hell” and “Scare Pollution,” is one of several experts in energy, the environment, and public health who are calling the administration’s bluff on the danger of gas stoves.
Is there still a space on screens for films that make light of incredibly serious topics, just for a laugh? Well, the cast of a new Sky film seem to think so. There are referrals to depictions of sexual assault further into this article. Click to subscribe to Backstage wherever you get your podcasts The
Grounded Delta Airlines planes are parked at gates at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 11, 2023, in New York. Yuki Iwamura | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation after two commercial airplanes narrowly avoided a collision at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday, a spokesperson confirmed
New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum pouted about Florida’s governor and potential Republican presidential candidate thumbing his nose at the “national nonpartisan” (!) media, in “Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?” on Wednesday. None of these people have the faintest idea that skipping a beating from the national press endears you to GOP
Next month, residents of Chicago will go to the polls to vote for mayor. With eight major candidates in the race, it’s a near certainty that no one will get 50% of the vote. That means there will be a runoff on April 4 to determine who will win the booby prize of running the
On December 20th a handful of Republican senators shuffled before an audience of reporters prepared to issue fiery polemics on the year-end omnibus bill which sat, heavy and ponderous in all its eight-ream absurdity on a wheeled cart before the five-senator assemblage. “DANGER: $1.7 trillion of hazardous debt” read one of the mock-hazard signs decking the cart.
A California teenage girl on Wednesday said during a city council meeting she was “terrified” at the sight of a “naked man in the women’s locker room” amid her shower at the YMCA in Santee, a San Diego suburb about 20 minutes northeast of the city. What are the details? Rebecca Phillips, 17, told the
You may have seen progressives shoehorn the letter “x” into words to attempt to take gender out of gendered language. Woke liberals use the words “Latinx,” folx,” and “womxn” to try to transform the words into a lexicon that allows for multiple gender identities or no gender identities. The latest attempt to promote non-gender language
On Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC, host Chuck Todd made the laughable claim that he’s a journalist who “deals in facts” during a heated back and forth with Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson on the congressional investigation into President Joe Biden’s drug addict criminal son Hunter Biden. Anyone familiar with Todd’s journalistic track record will
A plane crashed in Nepal Sunday morning — killing at least 68 people. The New York Post reports: Advertisement – story continues below The Yeti Airline plane was carrying 68 passengers and 4 crew members when it crashed near Pokhara International Airport, the Kathmandu Post reported, citing an airline spokesperson. Two infants and 10 foreign
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hailed by many for his inspiring life. But through it all, good or bad, Thomas stays focused on the important things in life. He never has forgotten those who helped him along the way. For many years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the justice would visit his eighth-grade
The food in your kitchen cabinets may not be what it seems. “I guarantee you any time a product can be passed off as something more expensive, it will be. It’s that simple,” Larry Olmsted, author of “Real Food/Fake Food,” told CNBC. Fraudsters motivated by economic gain secretly infiltrate the global food market through a
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing a student several times in the head while on a bus in a suspected racist attack. Billie Davis, 56, is in custody following the attack in Bloomington, Indiana, last week, which was reported to police by shocked passengers who watched her begin to strike the
Author and host of the ABC true crime podcast Truth and Lies: The Informant, Dick Lehr joined Good Morning America on Saturday to discuss the case behind the podcast, a foiled bombing of Somali immigrants in Garden City, Kansas, in 2016. Not content to tell a compelling and true story of undercover law enforcement thwarting
A medical official from China’s National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday that close to 60,000 people had died of COVID-19 and illnesses where COVID was an underlying factor from Dec. 7, when “zero-COVID” restrictions were lifted, to Jan. 12. While that number represents a 12-fold increase in the “official”