Ongoing updates from the BBC:https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-57168671 Efforts to broker a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants continue, but little progress appears to have been made “The operation is continuing at full-throttle. There is still no ceasefire MORE
In a world in which massive violations of human rights have, tragically, become the norm, why has the hard left focused on one of the least compelling of those causes — namely, the Palestinians? Where MORE
Israel carries out fresh wave of pre-dawn airstrikes US president stops short of demanding halt to hostilities Joe Biden has issued a statement for the first time expressing support for a ceasefire between Israel and MORE
Last spring, people opened their windows to a symphony. Swallows burbled, doves cooed, and sparrows chirped—and to many listeners, these passerine performers had never seemed so loud. For nature lovers, wearied by the tragedy of coronavirus and lockdown MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers — can you believe the news? The CDC has announced that fully vaccinated folks may go maskless inside and outside——-do you feel it? It’s that Sound of Music Julie Andrews twirling MORE
The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate. Liz Cheney, the representative of Wyoming, the daughter of a former vice president, and a MORE
This one’s for you, Rick Santorum. . . . Happy Friday, News Viewers — WHAT a soother to have this place to come to especially now when life is not so much calm as it MORE
After being held without fans last year, the Kentucky Derby welcomed more than 51,000 fans to Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday. It was the largest crowd to gather at a U.S. sporting event since MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers — I see Kentucky hasn’t changed much in my absence…… I can’t believe life just went on, (you mean life doesn’t revolve around me?) it did its normal maskless, exhaley, socially MORE
National Pet Day, April 11, 2021 Happy Pet Day, one day late, where we celebrate all things pet and pet adjacent. We have the expected pets pictured but as we know, people love animals, and MORE
Several Republican leaders on Sunday expressed concern at incendiary comments made by former President Donald Trump during a speech Saturday night at a Republican National Committee donor retreat. “Anything that’s divisive is a concern and MORE
Earlier on Friday, numerous media outlets covered Carlson’s comments, from New York Magazine (“Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name”) to the Washington Post (“Carlson’s espousal of ‘replacement’ theory is both toxic and ahistoric.”)Jonathan MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, another week full of the News and our views, overshadowed by the daily live viewing of the trial of Derek Chauvin, an old issue (killed by cop) presented in a new MORE
Join us here at News Views for a live discussion on President Biden’s beginning actions on guns. The speech is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. ET Hope to see you there.
The COVID-19 pandemic did nothing to slow the root cause of global warming. The level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is now higher than it’s been in at least 3.6 million years, federal scientists announced MORE
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