A bronze statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike — toppled in June 2020 during unrest following the killing of George Floyd — will soon return to Washington, D.C. The National Park Service (NPS) confirmed Monday that the White House has tasked them with restoring and reinstalling the statue in Judiciary Square. Why the statue is […]
Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., defended President Donald Trump’s agenda Monday, Aug. 4, in front of a restless and often combative crowd at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Kimball Recital Hall. The packed town hall featured chants of “tax the rich” and “free Palestine” as Flood fielded pointed questions about immigration, health care cuts and his vote […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday, Aug. 5, that he would “probably not” run for a third term. However, the president did say that he wants to run. “I’d like to run,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” When host Joe Kernen corrected him and said he had […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is calling on the Trump administration to commute the sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., who was sentenced to more than seven years behind bars for wire fraud and identity theft. Greene posted a letter she wrote Monday on social media. It’s addressed to the Office of the Pardon […]
Marines, soldiers, sailors and U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel recently performed training to refine humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities at Coast Guard Station Key West, Florida.
During the World War II battle for Tinian Island in the Pacific, Marine Corps Pfc. Robert Lee Wilson gave his life so that three of his comrades could live.
A Major League Soccer fan who filmed himself being kicked out of a Missouri stadium for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap has gone viral — with the video gaining millions of views. The fan, Michael Weitzel, said he was watching the St. Louis SC soccer game on July 26 at Energizer Park when, […]
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, Aug. 4, that Russian President Vladimir Putin remains open to direct talks on ending the war in Ukraine only after necessary preconditions have been met and after general peace terms have been agreed to. Ukraine and Russia remain far apart on the core components of any such agreement, […]
Las Vegas is known for extravagance, big money and of course, gambling. Major League Baseball’s A’s are seemingly involved in all three. The team’s new stadium could become the most expensive non-casino structure ever built in Sin City. What is the new cost for the A’s stadium? A’s owner John Fisher told the Nevada Independent […]
As global consumption grows, the world is facing a “plastic crisis” that only seems to be worsening, according to a report published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday, Aug. 4. “Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health,” the study’s authors said, adding that plastics’ ill effects impact everyone […]
