Free Chat Friday, Week 40
Good morning, News Viewers, welcome to the 40th week of the year, where we are 31 days out from the 2024 Election. My, where have the last nine years gone? It feels like nine years MORE
Good morning, News Viewers, welcome to the 40th week of the year, where we are 31 days out from the 2024 Election. My, where have the last nine years gone? It feels like nine years MORE
Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk in Colorado, was sentenced to nine years in prison today, handed down by District Judge Matthew Barrett in a packed Colorado court room. Peters was convicted by a jury in MORE
In Melania Trump’s memoir, scheduled to be published in the U.S. next Tuesday, the former BeBest FLOTUS passionately defends abortion rights, even as her hoosband helped destroy Roe v. Wade, the SCOTUS ruling that protected MORE
President Biden ordered the Pentagon to deploy 1,000 active duty troops on Wednesday to the devastated region ravaged by Hurricane Helene in the Southeast. Troops from Fort Liberty in Fayetteville, N.C., will be joining more MORE
The Cook Political Report on Tuesday shifted the political winds in the Texas Senate race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican.” Cook’s reporting noted that Colin Allred’s fundraising and ad spending, coupled with Ted Cruz MORE
A U.S. dockworkers’ strike impacting major ports from Maine to Texas began Tuesday, that is expected to pose a major threat to the supply chain for much of the East and Gulf Coasts of the country. MORE
A 65-year-old man from Sand Lake, Michigan, was facing a county district judge in a virtual arraignment on Monday for making threats outside a Trump rally in Walker, Michigan, on Friday. Police had warned the MORE
The only face-off of the vice presidential candidates is on tonight’s schedule here at News Views, we hope you’ll join us for the festivities. The debate starts at 9pm ET for a 90 minute show, MORE
Hurricane Helene has claimed at least 111 lives over the span of six states, with officials believing the numbers will continue to rise as rescuers reach communities in the Appalachian Mountains, where devastating flooding and MORE
Trump ripped into Fox News during a hatefest in Wisconsin on Saturday for daring to air VP Kamala Harris’s trip to the southern border in Arizona on Friday. In typical autocratic fashion, Trump claimed that MORE
Russia is looking to fight against the ideology of its citizens being childless, saying it threatens the country’s very foundations. Russian lawmakers have proposed a ban on “propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children,” according MORE
On Friday, the Supreme Court rejected Robert Kennedy Jr’s bid to reinstate his name to New York ballots, keeping intact a lower court decision declining to place his name back on the state’s ballot ahead MORE
Ken Klippenstein, an independent journalist who publishes a newsletter on Substack, published on Thursday a document said to have been hacked by Iran, a Trump campaign research oppo file on JD Vance. At least three MORE
Louisiana MAGAt Rep. Clay Higgins is facing a possible censure after deleting a social media post that attacked Haitians as “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who “…better get their mind right and their ass out of MORE
The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed the charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man who allegedly pointed a rifle through the bushes at Trump’s Florida golf course. Coincidentally, Judge MORE
Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and the man behind Project 2025, is alleged to have bragged to university colleagues about two decades ago about killing a dog with a shovel because it was MORE
During a town hall event in Ohio last week, Senate Republican candidate Bernie Moreno questioned why women over 50 care about abortion so much, saying it was a “little crazy” that these women were solely MORE
Ryan Routh, charged with two gun charges in the apparent assassination attempt on Trump, dropped off a box at a person’s home that included a letter that declared, “This was an assassination attempt,” a court MORE
A Florida sheriff who says he is fed up with hoax threats to schools and their disruption is getting the attention of juvenile justice advocates. The sheriff vows to publicly identify any student who makes MORE
The fate of the Rupert Murdoch news empire, including Fox News, is being decided in a Nevada courtroom with the 93-year-old waging a legal battle against several of his children over their family trust. The MORE
The first public court filing that cites sworn testimony affirms that GOP Florida man Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party with an underage girl in 2017. The filing cites sealed affidavits from three eyewitness MORE
Olivia Nuzzi, a New York Magazine reporter who covered Robert Kennedy Jr. in his presidential campaign, has been placed on leave after admitting a personal relationship with a former subject. The magazine’s statement: Recently our MORE
Good Friday morning, News Viewers, on this 38th week of the year, a week that seemingly went to the dogs (and the cats, the pets… of the people). We’re watching the Republican Limbo, how low MORE
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as MORE
Did you hear the one about the dead ABC debate whistleblower?? Following the presidential debate, a thinly sourced rumor claimed that a “whistleblower” at ABC News came forward to reveal that the event was rigged MORE