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Free Range Free Chat
It’s another Monday as we finish out the year, the Monday after Christmas, soon to be 2023. In a year full of drama, chaos, and lightening fast changes, some things stay consistent. What, you may MORE
Articles by Rachel Kennedy
Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Putin says Russia ready to negotiate over Ukraine
“We are ready to negotiate with everyone involved about acceptable solutions, but that is up to them – we are not the ones refusing to negotiate, they are,” Putin told Rossiya 1 state television in MORE
Climate Change
Winter 2022: Flights Cancelled, Blizzard Conditions, Power Outages and One Grouchy Reporter
On Friday, 5,934 flights were canceled after nearly 2,700 cancellations on Thursday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware. Cancellations were highest Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, New York’s LaGuardia, Chicago O’Hare, Denver International and Detroit Metro MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 51
Happy Friday News Viewers, coming to you from Washington DC, where I’m spending Christmas. The present under the tree this year is the J6 report, a report that was researched, investigated, compiled and signed by MORE
Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Russia-Ukraine live updates: President Zelenskyy makes unannounced front-line visit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday made an unannounced trip to Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, posing for pictures with soldiers and handing out awards, as he inspected the front lines. Zelenskyy said Monday that Bakhmut remains MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Monday morning, December 19, and that reflection we see? It’s 2022 in the Rear View….. This is our Monday open forum Free Range, where anything goes and everything stays, that is unless it breaks the MORE
The Press
Former Top Gear Host Jeremy Clarkson Widely Condemned Over ‘Vile’ And ‘Inexcusable’ Meghan Markle Comments
Carol Vorderman and John Bishop are among those who have blasted the former Top Gear presenter after the publication of his hate-filled newspaper column. The 62-year-old said he “hated” the Duchess of Sussex and “dreamt MORE
Health
Scientists are Creating a Vaccine Against Fentanyl
Researchers hope the vaccine, which blocked the drug from entering rats’ brains, could help reduce overdoses in humans A research team led by the University of Houston has developed a vaccine targeting the dangerous synthetic MORE
Craven Assholes
GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson’s false “pedophilia” attack on Katie Porter’s comments fact-checked
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, falsely accused Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., of saying that “pedophilia isn’t a crime” when Porter actually said that LGBTQ people have been wrongly branded on social media as “groomers” and “pedophiles.” MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 50
Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to the free chat zone — the rules are simple, the atmosphere is relaxed, the problems are discussed and the jokes are HILARIOUS. 🙂 Here’s hoping your Christmas is shaping MORE
Immigration
Feds sue Arizona over border wall made of shipping containers
The U.S. government maintains that outgoing Gov. Doug Ducey is building the barrier illegally on federal land. “Arizona has unlawfully and without authority failed to remove the shipping containers from lands owned by the United MORE
Updates
Natural Causes: World Cup Journalist Grant Wahl’s Cause of Death Determined
An autopsy has revealed American soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl died of an ascending aortic aneurysm. An autopsy has revealed American soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl’s wife, Céline Gounder, discussed the cause of death — a burst blood vessel — during an MORE
Science
U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet?
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. For the first time ever in a laboratory, researchers were able to generate more energy from fusion reactions than they used MORE
Climate Change
Winter Storm System Brings Heavy Snow and Rain Across the U.S.
Nearly 16 million people from Arizona up to Montana and across to Minnesota were either under a winter weather advisory or winter storm warning Monday morning, as a major winter storm continues to inch across MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Happy Monday News Viewers, hopefully a happy Monday it is — really 🙂 In the words of Captain Picard, we’ll try to “Make it so” because after all, a good day is better than the MORE
Editorials
How the New York Times helped Republicans win the House
“I get far more concerned with outlets like NYT and NPR than Fox or NY Post because they are far more influential with the ‘gettable middle and moderates.’” NYT all too often at best presents MORE
Sports
Soccer writer Grant Wahl dies at World Cup match in Qatar
Grant Wahl, one of the most well-known soccer writers in the United States, died early Saturday while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands. He was 48. U.S. media seated near him MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 49
Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to our Friday Free Chat on this downhill slide from 2022. IF ONLY we had something to talk about…..😁 Yes, Kidding — maybe someday we can say say, GEE, the MORE
News
Iran holds first execution over anti-government protest
“Found guilty of waging war against God.” From Reuters: Iran hanged a man on Thursday convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency MORE
Updates
January 6 officers and relatives snub top Republicans at gold medal ceremony
Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy denounced as ‘two-faced’ by Brian Sicknick’s mother at Congressional Gold Medal event Senior Republicans Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy were snubbed by law enforcement leaders and a fallen officer’s family at Tuesday’s MORE
Opinion
Hunter Biden’s laptop: The right’s pseudo-scandal industry hopes for another big win
“Of course it’s a non-issue: Republicans hope to force the media to cover it, and hope to make Joe Biden cry” After a couple of weeks facing off an avalanche of criticism, Musk made a MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
My phone says it’s Monday. It lies. It knows nothing of truth, and somewhere on this planet I know it’s still Sunday. . . .
OK, maybe I just need to wake up, face reality……It’s Monday, and welcome to Monday’s Free Chat, our open forum for today, our stream of consciousness with an environmental bent. MORE
Human Rights
Iran to disband morality police amid ongoing protests, says attorney general
Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general says. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri’s comments, yet to be confirmed by other agencies, were made at MORE
Updates
U of I homicides remain unsolved. What to know about the Moscow police investigating
The brutal murders of four University of Idaho students in their home last month have been shrouded in mystery. Weeks after the Nov. 13 killings, police have yet to identify a suspect, and the details about what MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 48
Happy Friday News Viewers, another weekend nearly here in another year nearly over. Before we know it, we’re in 2023. 2023 will be better than 2022 unless it’s not, in which case we can say MORE