As an elderly Michigan inmate’s bid for early release amid the coronavirus pandemic continues, garnering support from everyone from a local prosecutor to a reality star, his situation is becoming more dire. Michael Thompson, a 69-year-old former Flint resident, is serving a 40- to 60-year sentence for selling marijuana to an informant in 1994. He […]
To stop its raging coronavirus outbreak, which is currently spreading at a rate of about 60,000 new cases per day, the United States can do one of two things. Either it can lock everybody down completely — or it can test everybody constantly. The lockdown approach works because if infected people can’t get close to […]
The professor famous for accurately predicting the winner of every presidential election since 1984 has issued his verdict for 2020: Joe Biden will defeat President Trump. American University Professor Allan Lichtman uses a system he created of 13 “keys” that decide who will win the White House. In 2016, Lichtman was one of the few forecasters […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Federal prosecutors have charged 11 alleged members and associates of the MS-13 street gang with sex trafficking and other charges after they say a 13-year-old runaway was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat and forced into prostitution in northern Virginia. Charges were unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria. A 48-page FBI […]
President Donald Trump answers question during a press conference at the White House on Wednesday. AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would support additional aid for airlines to keep workers on payroll. The president was asked about a plan from more than a dozen Republican senators to provide another $25 billion in support […]
The historian who is known affectionately as the granddaddy of presidential prediction models says that Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden is a shoo-in to win the 2020 presidential race. The American University historian Allan Lichtman’s predictions are worth paying attention to because he has accurately forecast every election since 1984, including President Donald Trump’s stunning […]
President Donald Trump answers a question during a press conference in the White House on Wednesday. AFP/Getty Images Facebook Inc. on Wednesday removed a post by President Donald Trump that violated its coronavirus misinformation policy. The post was a video clip from a Fox News interview with Trump about reopening schools, in which he wrongly […]
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The battle lines have been drawn. Disney’s decision to release its live-action “Mulan” movie on Disney+ for a $30 fee has split audiences into two camps. They include those furious about being charged three Hamiltons to watch something on a service that they are already paying for, when other releases (like, well, “Hamilton”) are included […]