Three Democratic Senators have called for an investigation into a student loan cancellation program found not to be living up to its promise. There are 9 million borrowers currently enrolled in income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, MORE
Welcome to Thursday morning’s free chat forum, Coffee Talk. It’s time to grab your mug and get busy chatting and fixing world problems. I made low-carb blueberry muffins this week with almond flour, Greek yogurt, MORE
Grand Rapids Police Department released videos on Wednesday of what led to the shooting of Patrick Lyoya, 26, a refugee of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The MORE
Ignited by Ron DeSantis’s new “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Republicans are using an old dog whistle and scare tactic in a nod to QAnon followers by calling Democrats “groomers.” DeSantis’s press secretary defended the law, MORE
Each Michigan county held GOP conventions on Monday night, but deeply red Macomb County featured three hours of insults, verbal onslaughts, bullhorns, and the eventual ousting of the county’s party convention chairperson. There were lots MORE
Hunter Biden is causing a lot of trouble for Joe Biden, but where is there legal trouble? Vox broke down the investigation into three topics. Taxes, money laundering, and whether he was a registered foreign MORE
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on Sunday joined a group supporting the family of Patrick Lyoya, 26, a Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Grand MORE
At a MAGA rally in North Carolina on Saturday, Trump endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz for a Pennsylvania senate race. Dr. Oz welcomed the endorsement in a statement that said, “President Trump wisely endorsed me because MORE
In a case that highlighted the growth of violent extremism in America, the jury spent three weeks listening to testimony about how four-like minded men bonded over social media, vented about the government controlling their lives, and MORE
A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide who admitted to trading child pornography involving babies was sentenced Thursday to more than 12-and-a-half years in prison. Ruben Verastigui, 29, pleaded guilty to charges of MORE
Because the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overrule or weaken Roe v. Wade, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is asking the state’s Supreme Court to rule that a 1931 state law that criminalizes abortion is MORE
Two men accused of impersonating Homeland Security Investigations agents were arrested by the FBI on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. The two were allegedly providing gifts to four Secret Service agents including rent-free apartments totaling MORE
Good morning, NewsViewers. I’m into my second cup, but still struggling. Is there anyone else who is functioning just fine during the day, but at night……not so much? For about a week now my sleep MORE
When Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee excoriated nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson for declining to define the term “woman,” they could have provided their own answers. It turns out that some of those same Republicans MORE
While conservatives are focusing on the nomination and smearing of the future Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, new polling out today from POLITICO/Morning Consult shows the majority of all registered voters think Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse MORE
The jury in the Governor Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot is deliberating for the second day, and emerged with their second question for the judge. On Monday, they asked for a dictionary, and a legal definition MORE
A bill proposal making its way in the Tennessee legislature seems to leave out any age requirements for marriage between a man and a woman. The bill seems to focus on creating “Record of Marital MORE
As an appeal to the QAnon MAGA crowd, Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted on Monday that any Senator who supports the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court is pro-pedophile. GOP Senators Romney, MORE
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According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing disclosed on Monday morning, Elon Musk has purchased approximately 73.4 million shares in social media platform Twitter. The acquisition makes Musk the largest stockholder of the company with MORE
The Gridiron Club Dinner returned Saturday night after a two year pandemic hiatus. More than 600 guests gathered at the high-profile annual white tie media event that typically features lighthearted barbs and roast-style speeches from MORE
A wide field of candidates are in the running for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat following the death of long time office holder Don Young, Alaska’s only representative for 49 years. Fifty candidates in all MORE
Speaking with Alex Jones on InfoWars, dirty trickster Roger Stone defended Madison Cawthorn’s claims of cocaine-fueled sexual orgies among veteran colleagues in Congress, saying he could confirm both practices to be alive and well. Alex MORE
After Ron DeSantis signed into law the Don’t Say Gay bill on Monday, the Walt Disney Company wrote in a statement that its “goal” was to get the law repealed or defeated in the courts. MORE
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