Environment
Trump absent from climate session at G-7 summit
French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed to reporters that Trump did not attend today’s G-7 Summit’s session on climate, biodiversity, and oceans. MORE
2020 Elections
Joe Arpaio to run for sheriff in 2020
Unrepentant racist and birther, Joe Arpaio, announced he will run for sheriff of Maricopa County in 2020. If he wins the election, it will be his 7th term. MORE
Environment
Trump suggests nuking hurricanes before they make landfall
Axios reported that on numerous occasions, Trump has suggested nuking hurricanes before they make landfall. In one briefing, the president said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one MORE
News
Trump Allies Target Journalists Over Coverage Deemed Hostile to White House
The White House and a network of Conservatives have allied to identify and discredit news organizations deemed hostile to Trump. They plan to do this by publicizing damaging information about certain journalists. The group has MORE
News
Iran’s Foreign Minister surprises Trump at G-7 summit
From the Washington Post: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise visit to the city hosting the Group of Seven summit Sunday, a move that caught President Trump off-guard and added another element MORE
News
Recent Pew study: Atheists and Agnostics know more about religion than the religious folks
Atheists and agnostics know more about religion than most other religious groups, while people who identify as “nothing in particular” are among the least knowledgeable. Out of 32 multiple-choice questions on the survey, atheists and MORE
2020 Elections
Joe Walsh announces plan to primary Trump
On ABC’s This Week, former Congressman Joe Walsh announced his plan to primary Trump. “I’m going to run for president,” Walsh told Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. ABC: George Stephanopoulos pointed out to Walsh that MORE
Entertainment
Sister Aimee
Based on the life of an actual person, Aimee Semple McPherson, this film is, and I quote, “Based on true events. Mostly made up.”
News
The KKK holds a rally in North Carolina
The Klan showed up in Hillsborough, North Carolina but were met with peaceful counter-protesters who outnumbered the hate-filled group. Community members and elected officials at the local, state and national level immediately condemned the group MORE
Economy
Trump regrets Tariff War then says he wishes tariffs were higher
The White House said President Trump’s earlier suggestion that he regretted escalating the trade war with China was “misinterpreted” and that what he regrets is not raising tariffs higher. MORE
News
Colts QB Andrew Luck Retires
Andrew Luck – THE nicest guy in football! Enjoy retirement! pic.twitter.com/0XFGThQqnh — NFL UK (@NFLUK) August 25, 2019 The No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, Luck has battled injuries throughout his seven MORE
Economy
Wall Street Journal To ‘Chairman’ Trump: ‘This Isn’t The People’s Republic Of America’
The Wall Street Journal gave President Donald Trump a stiff word-lashing Friday for ratcheting up his no-win trade war with China. “The trouble with trade wars, like shooting wars, is that once they start you MORE
Economy
Trump cited this law to order US companies out of China. It isn’t that simple
Grab your gavel. The case is closed. Or so said Donald Trump in a tweet last night, ahead of today’s G7 summit in France, explaining what gives him power to order US companies to “start looking for an alternative to China,” as he did yesterday in an earlier tweet. MORE
News
Strip down, saddle up: Naked bikers hit Philadelphia streets
Hundreds of bicyclists have been caught with their pants down — and their shirts and underwear off, too. The cyclists gathered in a Philadelphia park on Saturday to disrobe before saddling up and setting off MORE
Movies
Entertainment
Child Musicians
North Carolina’s governor proclaimed a day in honor of soul musician Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, NC in 1933). Nina was what we often call a child prodigy: she started playing piano MORE
Last Call
Last Call-August 24, 2019
So, it’s Saturday night and it’s that time to let it all go. Let go of all the negative stuff that happened this week. Keep the good but let go of the bad. It’s Day MORE
News
“Keep Marysville White!”
A candidate for Marysville, Michigan’s City Council shocked the audience and other candidates with comments she made at a meet the candidates forum on Thursday. Sixty-seven year old Jean Cramer responded to a moderator’s question MORE
2020 Elections
Mitch McConnell Challenger Amy McGrath Releases Blistering Ad In Kentucky: He ‘Left Our Coal Miners Behind’
Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath released an ad Friday attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for having “left our coal miners behind years ago.” The ad, currently running in Kentucky, features a group of coal MORE
News
African-American employee’s office vandalized at Dept. of Education
Earlier this week, an African-American employee with the US Department of Education had her office vandalized; other employees claim the act was racially motivated. According to a few employees and a congressional aid, African art MORE
Entertainment
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is directed and written by, as well as starring Edward Norton, adapted from Jonathan Lethem’s novel of the same name. Also starring Bruce Willis, Michael Kenneth Williams, Leslie Mann, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Suplee, MORE
News
Appeals Court rules couples can sue former County Clerk Kim Davis
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati dealt a crushing blow to former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. In a 3-0 ruling, the Court held two couples can sue Davis for damages after she MORE
Editorials
Leonard Pitts Jr. on the first slave ship to reach US land
No one knows the exact date of when the first slave ship actually touched land but it is believed to be August 20, 1619, 400 years ago this month. In his new article, Pitts talks MORE
Entertainment
Lady and the Tramp
In their attempt to make us all sick of “live action” remakes, Disney+ brings us a straight to streaming version of Lady and the Tramp, featuring the voices of Justin Theroux as Tramp, Tessa Thompson MORE
Local
Florida man found guilty of manslaughter in ‘Stand Your Ground’ case
In July 2018, Michael Drejka, a white Florida man shot and killed an unarmed black man, Markeis McGlockton, at a convenience store parking lot in Clearwater, Florida. The two men got into an argument over MORE