From NBC: For the fifth time since taking office less than a year ago, President Joe Biden is taking on the grim task Wednesday of visiting an area impacted by natural disaster to offer comfort MORE
Happy Monday, News Viewers, and welcome to Free Range, our environmentally focused open thread where the topics are wide ranging and the conversation free flowing. Our focus is the earth we inhabit, the space above MORE
Storms unleashed devastating tornadoes late Friday and early Saturday across parts of the central and southern US including Kentucky, where the governor says the death toll will exceed 50 after “one of the toughest nights in Kentucky MORE
In Pittsburgh; Memphis, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers on this the 49th week of 2021; this is today’s free chat where keyboard to keyboard we exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, frustrations and solutions with each other. Any and all topics MORE
Mark Meadows, is suing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the members of the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection after the panel threatened to pursue a contempt citation against the former White House chief MORE
The Senate voted Wednesday night to overturn President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine or testing mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees. While it likely won’t become law since its chances of getting a vote in MORE
Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers are causing slow loading or failures for significant chunks of the internet. Amazon’s widespread network of data centers powers many of the things you interact with online, MORE
Happy Monday News ‘Viewers, and welcome to Free Range, our Monday Free Chat with a focus on the planet and all things existing on, above and beneath the surface. Today we look ahead because frankly MORE
From The Daily Beast: WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday evening, bearing American flags and mildly menacing plastic shields while marching to the beat of a snare drum MORE
Rep. Thomas Massie sparked lots of outrage over the weekend when he posted a Christmas photo to Twitter showing him and six family members each carrying a military-style weapon inside the house. “Merry Christmas,” wrote the MORE
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., attempted to downplay the tumultuous week in the Republican conference on Friday, acknowledging only that some of his hard-right members distract from the GOP midterm message in their feuds MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday proposed reestablishing a World War II-era civilian-military force that he would control. DeSantis pitched the idea of creating the Florida State Guard, which would be independent of federal control, while speaking MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and here we are in the 48th week of a 52 year long 2021 or some would say a 104 week long 2020. The top collection of cartoons are a few MORE
After a second video was released of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., suggesting to a crowd that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was a “black-hearted” terrorist was unveiled on Tuesday, Democrats are now rallying to condemn the GOP. The MORE
Alec Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger on a prop firearm that discharged on the “Rust” movie set. The October 21 shooting in Santa Fe killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza. “The trigger MORE
Join us today for the White House Press Briefing with Jen Psaki and ‘Dr. Anthony Fauci. We will have a live discussion concerning the Omicron Variant and other Covid related developments.
The US politician Ilhan Omar played a harrowing death threat left recently on her voicemail, as she implored House Republican leaders to do more to tamp down “anti-Muslim hatred” in their ranks and “hold those who perpetuate MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers, a Monday also known as “Cyber Monday”, another day to “buy things I don’t need with money I don’t have to impress people I don’t like. . .” as my Dad MORE
A passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight from San Jose, California, to San Diego last April allegedly guzzled their private stash of booze on the plane, sexually assaulted the flight attendant who told them that MORE
The new Omicron coronavirus variant – identified first in South Africa, but also detected in Europe and Asia – is raising concern worldwide given the number of mutations, which might help it spread or even MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers — Day after Thanksgiving, and today I’m thankful that Thanksgiving is over for another year. . . .We call this “Black Friday,” a day for shopping and deals; I’m reclaiming the MORE
B.1.1.529 was added to the World Health Organization’s list of variants under monitoring on Wednesday. Scientists have voiced concern about a new COVID variant that has a “really awful” combination of mutations that could possibly MORE
From WFLA-NBC Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of Gabby Petito and person of interest in her death, died from a self-inflicted gunshot, autopsy results show. The District 12 Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Tuesday it had completed its investigation MORE