[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Ravi Zacharias, a towering Indian American evangelist who helped legions worldwide believe in Christianity through a ministry focused on open questioning and truth-seeking, led a double life, pressuring multiple massage therapists for sexual attention — including women who accused him of sexual aggression and one...
Georgia Sen. Warnock Under Investigation For Voter Registration Misconduct
[aggregation-styles] Forbes Subscription The Georgia State Election Board voted unanimously Wednesday to move forward with an investigation of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., for his role serving as board chairman of a voter registration organization founded by Stacey Abrams that election officials say failed to follow deadlines, in what appears...
Juveniles Part Of A Huge Increase In Carjackings Across The Country
[aggregation-styles] NPR On a sunny January afternoon, Amy Blumenthal drove to her Chicago home after picking up groceries. She turned off a street and into an alley, backed her car into her garage and started unloading the bags. "All of a sudden, I heard something and looked up and there...
CalHFA Launches Building Black Wealth Initiative to Address Homeownership Gap
[aggregation-styles] The Business Wire Subscription SACRAMENTO -- In alignment with Fair Housing priorities set by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Administration and the California State Legislature, and in recognition of the fact that historical housing discrimination is still having negative effects on the ability of Black Californians to achieve the dream of...
Lucasfilm Ditches ‘Mandalorian’ Star over Social Media Posts
[aggregation-styles] NPR Lucasfilm has fired Gina Carano from her job on "The Mandalorian" after the action star posted on social media that today's political climate in the U.S. is similar to Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews. The comments were "abhorrent," the company said. "Gina Carano is not currently employed by...
Jeep Pulls Springsteen Super Bowl Ad After Learning of The Boss’s DUI Arrest
[aggregation-styles] Variety Subscription Following the news that Bruce Springsteen was arrested in New Jersey on suspicion of drunken driving last November, Jeep has taken down his Super Bowl ad from their YouTube page. In the spot, titled “The Middle,” Springsteen called for national unity and hope amid the partisan strife...
Reuters Exclusive: Dozens of Former Republican Officials in Talks To Form Anti-Trump Third Party
[aggregation-styles] Reuters Feb 10 (Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters. The...
Larry Flynt, Pornographer and Self-Styled First Amendment Champion, Dies at 78
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Larry Flynt, one of America’s most notorious pornographers and self-proclaimed champions of First Amendment freedoms, who built his business interests on the hardcore raunch and grotesque parody of Hustler magazine, died Feb. 10 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 78. His brother Jimmy...
Republicans Came Within 90K Votes of Controlling All of Washington
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The 2020 election was bad for Republicans, full stop. For the first time since 1932, a president came into office with both chambers of Congress under his party’s control, and lost both of them and re-election. Democrats also have unified control of all three levers...
Texas Lawyer, Trapped by Cat Filter on Zoom Call, Informs Judge He Is Not a Cat
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian The coronavirus has been responsible for a series of video-call stumbles and mishaps, and the phenomenon seemingly reached its zenith this week, when a Texas lawyer appeared before a judge as a cat, after being unable to change a video filter. “I’m not a cat,” Rod Ponton...