Robert MacNeil, the first anchor of what’s now known as PBS NewsHour, died Friday at 93. MacNeil died of natural causes, according to his daughter Alison. He was at New York-Presbyterian Hospital at the time of his death. The journalist started with his own PBS show, the Robert MacNeil Report on WNET-TV, in 1975. In 1983, […]
Actress Candace Cameron Bure commended fellow child star Drake Bell for being “so brave” in telling his story of sexual abuse. Bure appeared on ABC’s The View and shared her reaction to the documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. She spoke about her experience as a child star, best known for […]
President Joe Biden’s campaign is hiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion director, even as such initiatives in corporate America and academia increasingly come under fire. The position, posted on Friday, is looking for a candidate who will “focus on creating and executing a comprehensive strategy to attract and support diverse talent” while also working on […]
President Joe Biden wanted to ban gas stoves but ultimately backed down due to backlash. Now we know his administration tries to rewrite history by pressuring “fact checkers.” According to emails acquired by the watchdog group Functional Government Initiative, the Consumer Product Safety Commission pressured fact-checking site Snopes to change its rating on the claim […]
Reparation activists are at odds with California lawmakers, claiming the California Legislative Black Caucus’s slate of 14 proposed legislation measures introduced in January does not go far enough to mend the wrongdoings of slavery for black residents. The slate of reparation bills comes as the state is dealing with a $70 billion deficit, with several lawmakers […]
President Joe Biden plans to tout his progress on closing the “racial wealth gap” Friday in a speech at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s 2024 convention. Biden is locked in a dead heat with former President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 general election in November, and polling indicates that his popularity among […]
First lady Jill Biden took aim at former President Donald Trump on Friday while speaking to an LGBT advocacy group. “Donald Trump is a bully,” she said at the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality in Action event. “He is dangerous to the LGBTQ community, to our families, to our country, and we cannot let him win. […]
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) claimed the newest abortion ban in Arizona was exactly what Republican leaders wanted in their efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade. Hobbs appeared on ABC’s The View on Friday to discuss her opinion on her state making abortion illegal even in the case of rape and incest. The only exception is […]
Democrats are somehow routinely shocked when their partisan power grabs are met with GOP retaliation despite the Democratic Party coming out on the worse end of these exchanges several times in the past decade. The GOP retaliation now is taking the form of Ohio and Alabama threatening to exclude President Joe Biden from the ballot […]
Private research organization EcoHealth Alliance voluntarily released private emails on Friday confirming that the top aide to then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci used his personal Gmail account to conduct business regarding the origins of COVID-19. The publication of the emails comes following a letter sent from the House Select Subcommittee […]
