Russia unleashed “a massive rocket attack” that hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions of Ukraine, the country’s president said Thursday, with officials reporting at least six deaths in the largest such nighttime attack in three weeks. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the barrage that came while many people...
Court Records Reveal Political Directives Behind Fox News Programming
In May 2018, the nation's top Republicans needed help. So they called on the founder of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were trying to stop West Virginia Republicans from nominating Don Blankenship, who had been convicted of violating mine safety standards during a lethal...
Veterans Testify of ‘Catastrophic’ Impact of Afghan Collapse
Active-service members and veterans provided first-hand testimony Wednesday about the implications of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing and explicit detail the trauma experienced on the ground while imploring Congress to help the allies left behind. The initial hearing of a long-promised investigation by House Republicans displayed...
Thinking of Buying an Electric Vehicle? Here Is How to Get the $7,500 Tax Credit
The Inflation Reduction Act has ushered in a new era of clean energy tax incentives and credits, with the $7,500 electric vehicle (EV) credit topping the list. With over 800,000 EV's sold last year and an estimated 1 million EV's to be sold this year, many Americans have the chance...
Slap Fighting: The Next Big Thing, or Unsporting Stupidity?
The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face. When the open-handed blow is delivered, there's a sharp report and the reaction can be dramatic. Some fighters barely move, while others stumble backward or fall to the floor. Some...
Actor Nazanin Boniadi Asks World to Back Iran Women Protests
Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women's rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing "more than a free and politically active woman.” Speaking on the sidelines of the Forbes 30/50 Summit in Abu Dhabi, Boniadi told The...
Navy Veteran Convicted in Capitol Riot. Hoped to ‘Wipe Out’ U.S. Jews.
A military veteran accused of telling an undercover FBI agent about a plan to "wipe out" the nation's Jewish population was convicted on Tuesday of storming the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory. A federal judge heard trial testimony without a jury before convicting Virginia...
‘Boy Meets World’ Star Enters US House Race in Hollywood District
Actor Ben Savage, who starred as a child in the ABC teen sitcom “Boy Meets World,” is running for a U.S. House seat in California, marking his latest attempt to make the jump from Hollywood to politics. Savage, a Democrat, said in an Instagram post Monday that “it’s time to...
Elon Musk Mocks Laid-off Twitter Employee, Later Apologizes
If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it. Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work — only to...
McCarthy Defends Tucker Carlson Effort to Amplify Jan. 6 Lies
Handed some 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage, Fox News' Tucker Carlson has launched an impassioned new effort to explain away the deadly Capitol attack, linking the Republican Party ever more closely to pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot. The conservative commentator aired a first installment to millions of viewers on...