Entertainment
Sister Aimee
Based on the life of an actual person, Aimee Semple McPherson, this film is, and I quote, “Based on true events. Mostly made up.”
Year: 2019
News
The KKK holds a rally in North Carolina
The Klan showed up in Hillsborough, North Carolina but were met with peaceful counter-protesters who outnumbered the hate-filled group. Community members and elected officials at the local, state and national level immediately condemned the group MORE
Economy
Trump regrets Tariff War then says he wishes tariffs were higher
The White House said President Trump’s earlier suggestion that he regretted escalating the trade war with China was “misinterpreted” and that what he regrets is not raising tariffs higher. MORE
News
Colts QB Andrew Luck Retires
Andrew Luck – THE nicest guy in football! Enjoy retirement! pic.twitter.com/0XFGThQqnh — NFL UK (@NFLUK) August 25, 2019 The No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, Luck has battled injuries throughout his seven MORE
Economy
Wall Street Journal To ‘Chairman’ Trump: ‘This Isn’t The People’s Republic Of America’
The Wall Street Journal gave President Donald Trump a stiff word-lashing Friday for ratcheting up his no-win trade war with China. “The trouble with trade wars, like shooting wars, is that once they start you MORE
Economy
Trump cited this law to order US companies out of China. It isn’t that simple
Grab your gavel. The case is closed. Or so said Donald Trump in a tweet last night, ahead of today’s G7 summit in France, explaining what gives him power to order US companies to “start looking for an alternative to China,” as he did yesterday in an earlier tweet. MORE
News
Strip down, saddle up: Naked bikers hit Philadelphia streets
Hundreds of bicyclists have been caught with their pants down — and their shirts and underwear off, too. The cyclists gathered in a Philadelphia park on Saturday to disrobe before saddling up and setting off MORE
Movies
Entertainment
Child Musicians
North Carolina’s governor proclaimed a day in honor of soul musician Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, NC in 1933). Nina was what we often call a child prodigy: she started playing piano MORE
Last Call
Last Call-August 24, 2019
So, it’s Saturday night and it’s that time to let it all go. Let go of all the negative stuff that happened this week. Keep the good but let go of the bad. It’s Day MORE
News
“Keep Marysville White!”
A candidate for Marysville, Michigan’s City Council shocked the audience and other candidates with comments she made at a meet the candidates forum on Thursday. Sixty-seven year old Jean Cramer responded to a moderator’s question MORE
2020 Elections
Mitch McConnell Challenger Amy McGrath Releases Blistering Ad In Kentucky: He ‘Left Our Coal Miners Behind’
Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath released an ad Friday attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for having “left our coal miners behind years ago.” The ad, currently running in Kentucky, features a group of coal MORE
News
African-American employee’s office vandalized at Dept. of Education
Earlier this week, an African-American employee with the US Department of Education had her office vandalized; other employees claim the act was racially motivated. According to a few employees and a congressional aid, African art MORE
Entertainment
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is directed and written by, as well as starring Edward Norton, adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s novel of the same name. Also starring Bruce Willis, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Suplee, MORE
News
Appeals Court rules couples can sue former County Clerk Kim Davis
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati dealt a crushing blow to former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. In a 3-0 ruling, the Court held two couples can sue Davis for damages after she MORE
Editorials
Leonard Pitts Jr. on the first slave ship to reach US land
No one knows the exact date of when the first slave ship actually touched land but it is believed to be August 20, 1619, 400 years ago this month. In his new article, Pitts talks MORE
Entertainment
Lady and the Tramp
In their attempt to make us all sick of “live action” remakes, Disney+ brings us a straight to streaming version of Lady and the Tramp, featuring the voices of Justin Theroux as Tramp, Tessa Thompson MORE
Local
Florida man found guilty of manslaughter in ‘Stand Your Ground’ case
In July 2018, Michael Drejka, a white Florida man shot and killed an unarmed black man, Markeis McGlockton, at a convenience store parking lot in Clearwater, Florida. The two men got into an argument over MORE
Environment
Watch bison stampede as one slams into tourists’ rental car in Yellowstone National Park
By Elisha Fieldstadt A family visiting Yellowstone National Park had a scary moment when a herd of bison stampeded past their car, with one crashing into the vehicle as the stunned occupants were inside. Yellowstone has MORE
Economy
Trump boards the bigly airplane to France: G7
On his way to the G-7 meeting in France, Trump answered a few questions from the press, since we no longer have press conferences, and made a few comments. New format, bullet points: On tariffs: MORE
Entertainment
News
DoJ sends email with link to White Nationalist website
In another incident proving the Trump administration’s incompetency, AG William Barr’s DoJ sent an email to immigration court employees but “included a link to a white nationalist website.” The email provided information on immigration news MORE
Asia
North Korea launches two unidentified projectiles
From The Hill and Yonhap News Agency: North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the East Sea on Saturday local time, South Korea’s military announced, the seventh such launch in less than a month. The South Korean MORE
2020 Elections
The Tariff Wars Continue: Trump ups the ante
In the never ending Tariff War between the United States and China, Trump just tweeted that the original 10% tariff on $300 billion dollars worth of Chinese goods, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, MORE
Health
Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the government will purchase “a lot” of the drug esketamine, a derivative of ketamine. Though ketamine is known as a recreational hallucinogen, Trump asserted that a new nasal-spray MORE