As a measure of the significance of the career of filmmaker Norman Jewison, let us consider the following: After his death this month at age 97, is there a single living filmmaker who can boast of having directed Edward G. Robinson and Sidney Poitier, Doris Day and Steve McQueen, and Al Pacino and Cher? Jewison, […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) shared a video with a cameo from the viral “Prof Potato” star to promote her proposal of free two years of community college. Behind the character of Prof Potato is assistant accounting professor Ryan Ball at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. During the coronavirus pandemic, Ball began teaching his […]
In three weeks, officials in Alaska will send out Permanent Fund Dividend payments to another group of eligible residents who have yet to receive their checks from the state program. The Alaska Department of Revenue is slated to send payments on Feb. 15 to those who have the “Eligible-Not Paid” status by Feb. 7 and have yet to […]
Low-income residents in Colorado will receive their February payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in seven days. SNAP households will receive food stamps from Feb. 1 through Feb. 10 in the Centennial State. Those who join the program after Feb. 10 can still receive benefits for the month and will not need to wait until March. Benefits are […]
Arizona’s Republican Party canceled its Freedom Fest event after featured speaker Donald Trump was in New York instead, defending himself in court. The former president was announced as Freedom Fest’s featured speaker on Jan. 15, and the event was scheduled for this Friday. However, the president is giving testimony in his defamation trial with E. […]
The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher referred to the fourth quarter gross domestic product as President Joe Biden’s “boon” for his reelection campaign. Lowe Doescher appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto on Thursday to react to the news that 2023 had finished with 3.3% annualized growth. In her opinion, the report could not have […]
Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon is facing a lawsuit to undo a nondisclosure agreement that a former employee signed after years of alleged sexual assault and sex trafficking. In the lawsuit against McMahon, Janel Grant is seeking compensatory and punitive damages in addition to a judgment that would make the NDA she signed as a […]
President Joe Biden vetoed a GOP-led electric vehicle bill on Wednesday that would have allowed some foreign-made parts to be used in United States EV charging stations. Biden said the bill would have reverted U.S. policy back to the 1980s, which would have overturned his administration’s “made in America” policy and made the U.S. more […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) dispelled rumors that he is ready to abandon a border deal as part of any aid package for Ukraine. In brief comments at Thursday’s Senate GOP conference lunch, McConnell told members that his view had not changed on the subject, according to multiple senators who attended. The comments put […]
Former President Donald Trump took the witness stand in a defamation trial in New York City on Thursday and briefly defended claims he has made about E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused him in 2019 of raping her three decades ago. Trump was on the witness stand for just three minutes. He testified that […]
