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The Ivy League is cancelling its fall sports, including college football, becoming the first major sports league to suspend ...

Mary Kay Letourneau, who received national infamy after being convicted of raping her student and then later marrying him, has died at age 58, her attorney confirmed to KING 5 news. Letourneau died of stage 4 cancer, said her attorney David Gerke, who represented her on the case. In 1996, Letourneau, a sixth-grade teacher at Shorewood Elementary in Burien, was caught having sexual relations with Vili Fualaau, who was her student. Fualaau was 12-years-old at the time. The two got married in 2005 just after Letourneau was released from a seven-year prison sentence for having sex with a minor. Fualaau...

New Jersey is holding its primary today, in which the default is to vote by mail. Anyone voting in person must fill out a provisional ballot. And the provisional ballot requires your drivers license number. So voting in person now requires Voter ID, you fill out a lengthy form, and vote with a paper ballot. Normal voting in person does not exist. I've heard for years that Voter ID is a republican plot which suppresses minority Voters. But now it's required if you want to vote in person. I'm hearing numerous reports of people voting in person and telling the...

Voted today in Delaware Presidential Primary for President Trump. I was shocked , shocked that Delaware joined the 20th century in voting protocol. Yes, the 20th century. Voter ID, sign in and a paper ballot backup. What will they think of next? Schools that teach instead of indoctrination?

NEWBERG, OR (KPTV) - Two drivers in separate stolen vehicles were arrested following a crash in Newberg over the weekend. On Sunday morning, officers responded to a report of a suspect that had just stolen a person's Toyota Land Cruiser. The stolen vehicle was located minutes later as it went through town, according to police. The suspect attempted to elude police through downtown Newberg, then crashed into an occupied Buick Regal near East Franklin and College Street. The driver in the Toyota, identified as Randy Lee Cooper, 27, of Portland, was arrested for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, attempting...

A friend of mine is running for a state House seat in Iowa. He's a great guy and a real conservative and has already won his primary. https://www.facebook.com/joncoenforiahouse

The Chiefs have their guy for the long haul. Superstar quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes has agreed to terms on a 10-year extension that will keep him in Kansas City through the 2031 season, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Monday afternoon. Schefter later reported the deal is worth more than $400 million.

Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao says Ghislaine Maxwell was rubbing elbows with Silicon Valley's elites in 2011 — and Pao believes people suspected Maxwell's ties to child trafficking at the time and didn't care. Maxwell was arrested last week and is awaiting trial for four criminal charges related to procuring and transporting minors for illegal sex acts. Prosecutors say Maxwell participated in a sex trafficking operation alongside her partner Jeffrey Epstein. Pao, a former partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, said Maxwell was at the firm's holiday party in 2011, more than two years after Epstein was first convicted...

In four brilliant minutes of his classic TV show "Dragnet," Jack Webb summed up in 1967 what it means to be a police officer in 2020. https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-06-17-detective-joe-friday-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-cop/

Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam is reportedly set to cooperate with the FBI after her arrest; reaction and analysis on ‘The Five.’

This celebration should be inspiring. Will it be broadcast?

So I was at my gym this morning in central Maryland. I'm chatting with this guy who asks me if I was on last night's conference call with the alumni from the local (and very expensive) private school (I am a public school person). I live in an affluent suburb that used to vote 3 to 1 Republican, but now is more like 50-50 as the younger, affluent whites trend towards socialism. Anyway, this guy (and others on the call) was irate because the handful of black alumni from this school were on the call, calling for the headmaster's resignation,...

These could very well have been the most widespread simultaneous riots EVER in US history ... but the media coverage has simply not conveyed the scale of what occurred." ependent journalist Michael Tracey has been traveling the country over the past few weeks to try and capture the wholesale destruction caused by the Black Lives Matter riots which he suspects the media is refusing to cover because they don't want to be perceived as "discrediting the movement." "[Chicago Police] officer mentioned to me being shocked at how little media coverage the riots in these neighborhoods received -- an opinion locals...

I've a friend that keeps lobbing things like our president fired the entire pandemic response team, but I've nowhere to search that shows anything. Does anyone have info to refute this claim?

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds a Briefing

I've been on FR for many years but I don't post a lot. After listening to Mark Levin last night I had to post this. He is so on target on some many points it's amazing. https://youtu.be/eJOTRRTYpQ0

The barely clothed busker, real name Robert Burck, found a chilly reception when he arrived around 2 p.m. at City Hall Park, where hundreds of demonstrators have vowed to dig in unless the next budget includes a $1 billion funding cut to the NYPD. “Very nice meeting you!” Burck called to the throngs while strumming his guitar and walking off down Chambers Street. “Get the ---- up outta here!” yelled one less-than-amused protester who followed him to make sure he got the hell out of Dodge. “We’re gonna make sure y’all leave!” “You supported Donald Trump,” another demonstrator could be...

Dick Van Dyke just paid tribute to Reiner ... calling him his idol. The legendary actor said Reiner had a "deeper understanding of the human condition" in a warm tribute. Carl Reiner, one of the most prolific entertainers in the history of show business has died ... TMZ has learned. We're told Reiner died Monday night at his Beverly Hills home. We're told his family was with him when he passed. Reiner was a producer. He was also a director. He was also an actor. He was also a Grammy winner. He won 9 Emmys in over 7 decades. He...

PITTSBURGH — A man was hurt after a shooting in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh police said. Police were called to the Frankstown Avenue just before midnight. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition. A Channel 11 News crew saw shell casings and evidence markers next to an SUV.

A few days ago, Sammy spoke in the recent conversation with Rolling Stones Magazine and revealed his thoughts about encounter of the coronavirus and the music industry. He stated that he would risk his own life to bring back the music industry. Here is what Sammy Hagar said earlier: “I’ll be comfortable playing a show before there’s a vaccine, if it’s declining and seems to be going away. I’m going to make a radical statement here. This is hard to say without stirring somebody up, but truthfully, I’d rather personally get sick and even die, if that’s what it takes....