Less than one week after perhaps the most egregiously anti-transgender bill in modern US history passed the Arkansas legislature, it was vetoed in a surprise move by Governor Asa Hutchinson, a staunch Republican with a poor record on LGBTQ MORE
Rep. Matt Gaetz, mired in an ongoing federal sex trafficking investigation, is headed to former President Donald Trump’s resort in Doral this Friday where he will be a featured speaker at a summit hosted by a MORE
Police in Maryland are”on scene responding to an active shooter” in the city of Frederick on Tuesday morning, according to a tweet from city police.”Currently there are two victims and one suspect is down,” the MORE
Biological fathers in Utah will be legally required to pay half of a woman’s out-of-pocket pregnancy costs under a new law unique to the state that critics say doesn’t do enough to adequately address maternal MORE
Happy Monday, News Viewers and welcome to Free Range — all animals all the time, oh OK, how about All Life on the Planet all the Time or The Environment and Other Living Things — MORE
While you’re biting the heads off your chocolate bunnies, you might wonder how cartoon rabbits became so central to our Easter celebrations. The Easter Tradition of Bunnies and Eggs, Candy and egg hunts, death and MORE
“Destroyer resting nearly 6.5km below sea level still has gun turrets and torpedo racks in place“ A US Navy destroyer sunk during the second world war and lying nearly 6,500 meters below sea level (21,180ft MORE
Fox News contributor and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said he would start identifying as “Chinese” in a tweet against pushback to Georgia’s new voting bill. Huckabee is also a Baptist Minister and his tweet MORE
ATLANTA — A fired-up Gov. Brian Kemp continued his defense of the Georgia election reform law on Saturday, and continued to hit at the Major League Baseball’s decision to move the 2021 MLB All-Star Game from Georgia. MORE
The first week of the trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in George Floyd’s death concluded Friday with the longest-serving member of the police department testifying that it was “totally unnecessary” MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers…… it’s 7ish in the morning, and I overslept…..I woke up to the sound of……..wait, there is NO sound…..meaning for the first time in several days, the wind has stopped blowing. This MORE
The children, a 5-year-old girl, and a 3-year-old girl are sisters from Ecuador. Smugglers were caught on camera dropping two young children from the top of a 14-foot-high border fence separating the United States and Mexico, MORE
The worst maritime animal welfare tragedy in history could by now, be unavoidable, says Gabrile Păun, the EU director for Animals International, an NGO. There are 16 ships taking live animals from the EU to MORE
When it comes to animals, kids and books, what do we know? According to Axios, information from a new online tool called Epic gives us information. “Children prefer owls to chickens and chickens to hedgehogs. Kids MORE
Murders surged in 2020. Here’s what we know The past year was a nightmare in many ways for the US, between Covid-19 deaths and the collapsing economy. But it’s now clear that 2020 was bad MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped into the federal government’s continued pandemic ban on cruise ships using U.S. ports, threatening Friday to file a lawsuit if one of the state’s biggest tourism sectors is not allowed MORE
At least nine people are shot and two are dead following shootings in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Friday night. Officers patrolling the 1900 block of Atlantic Avenue in a resort area heard multiple gunshots shortly after MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, March 26, 2021…..REALLY? The weeks fly by and we continue to see a country in crisis which is also on the mend. Daily I get the sense that whatever happens, we MORE
Joe Biden is hardly in hiding. Barely a week passes when he doesn’t tour a factory or host a meeting in the Oval Office. He gives interviews and takes questions from time to time as MORE
The former president endorses Rep. Jody Hice, who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, against the Georgia secretary of state. Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign MORE
Hi News Viewers, welcome to the free-ranging convo about all animals, all the time, the planet we live on (yeah, we chat about human animals too, buncha weirdos that we are. . . . 😼) MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and what a week — welcome to Free Chat where anything goes and everything stays (within reason); It’s been a wild week in the news–in politics, in weather, in the pandemic MORE
Washington, DC, police arrested a Texas man outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ official residence, the US Naval Observatory, in the nation’s capital on Wednesday and he’s now facing weapons and ammunition charges. A spokesperson for Washington’s Metropolitan Police said officers MORE
President Joe Biden is defending Major, the first family’s 3-year-old adopted German Shepherd, after he was involved in an incident at the White House earlier this month that caused “a minor injury,” denying he was banished to MORE
Capt Jay Baker also reportedly posted images on Facebook of T-shirts with a racist slogan on China and coronavirus A Georgia sheriff’s captain has faced widespread criticism for appearing to characterise the actions of Robert MORE