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*video on link* But a top executive of the Iditarod says sponsors come and go and the future of the race is not threatened. Several big-name national sponsors have walked away from the annual Alaska sled dog race in recent years, while other local sponsors and a handful of national companies remain as partners.

Police are revealing new insight into their investigation into the death of a Georgia father who died on a business trip to Baton Rouge. Nathan Millard lived in Walton County. He vanished in February after traveling to Louisiana for a business trip. ... snip ... Investigators found no signs of foul play after discovering Millard’s body wrapped in plastic and rolled up in a rug around 6 miles from where he was last seen, according to police. Investigators elaborated, saying there were no gunshot wounds or signs of blunt force trauma

The Justice Department issued a scathing critique Wednesday on the Louisville Metro Police Department after a nearly two-year review it launched into the force following the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. The review, looking at whether the Louisville Metro Police Department used excessive force, found that officers use unreasonable tactics including unjustified neck restraints, police dogs and tasers. The report also found that the police department executes search warrants without knocking and announcing. “For years, LMPD has practiced an aggressive style of policing that it deploys selectively, especially against Black people, but also against vulnerable people throughout the city,”...

The outspoken critic of the CDC and FDA explains what went wrong—and what went right—with COVID policy.Today's guest is Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. The author of two books on how bad medical policy persists long after it has been recognized as ineffective or even deadly (Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People With Cancer and Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives), Prasad has become a lightning rod during the COVID pandemic because he is outspoken both in his support for vaccines and his...

Mississippi's Capitol Police Department, created to protect state buildings, has become Jackson's de facto second police department. During the past year, Capitol Police has doubled in size to almost 120 officers and expanded its reach into an 8.7-square-mile zone of Jackson called the "Capitol Complex Improvement Zone." This is where the former capitol security force now sets up traffic checkpoints, combats street crime and even investigates homicides. Jackson, however, still has its city-run police force, the Jackson Police Department. The expansion of Capitol Police is the response of the Republican, majority-white state legislature to Jackson's stubborn crime problem. The homicide...

French bishops’ group proposes change to Catechism’s teaching on homosexualityMarch 08, 2023» Continue to this story on La Croix CWN Editor's Note: A group of French bishops has “proposed to the Pope a reformulation of the paragraphs of the Catechism of the Catholic Church concerning homosexuality,” La Croix reported. Archbishop Hervé Giraud of Sens-Auxerre said that “the process of reconsidering homosexuality in the French Roman Catholic Church has been ongoing since the ad limina visit to Rome in 2021,” according to a report by Christian Network Europe, an online news portal. “Since then, several bishops have been working on revising...

Previously unseen footage shines a spotlight on Attorney General Garland’s duty to disclose evidence in possession of the government.Attorney General Garland, in the wake of the disclosures of footage from government cameras showing the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, being guided through the Capitol by uniformed police on January 6, 2021, has an obligation to bring, if he hasn’t done so already, the evidence to the attention of Chansley’s lawyers and the court. That is the opinion of one of America’s leading defense lawyers, Harvey Silverglate of Boston. Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was on the House select committee that probed the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, weighed in on and welcomed potential House Republican plans to investigate Jan. 6 for themselves now that they control the lower chamber. “If @HouseGOP wants new Jan 6 hearings, bring it on. Let’s replay every witness & all the evidence from last year,” Cheney said on Twitter. “But this time, those members who sought pardons and/or hid from subpoenas should sit on the dais so they can be confronted on live TV with the unassailable evidence,” the...

he 2023 Iditarod kicks off Saturday with a ceremonial start in Anchorage followed by an official race start in Willow. From there, 33 mushers and dozens of sled dogs will make the 1,000-mile dash to Nome. It’s the smallest group of teams in the Iditarod’s history, but it’s a pretty competitive one. Here’s what to know about this year’s race: When will the Iditarod start? The race begins with a parade-like, 11-mile ceremonial start in Anchorage on Saturday, March 4. Mushers and their sled dogs will gather downtown early that morning to get ready. Starting at 10 a.m., they’ll take...

A judge in Tennessee has blocked the release of some 20 hours of additional video and audio recordings of the beating death of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers in January. Those recordings, along with other reports and personnel files related to an administrative investigation by Memphis city officials, had been slated to be released Wednesday. But a judge intervened to delay the planned release of the recordings and documents after a request by a defense attorney for one of the five former officers charged in Nichols' death. The records will be held until prosecutors and defense lawyers have been...

A black couple has settled a lawsuit with a property appraiser who undervalued their California home by almost half a million dollars. Paul Austin and Tenisha Tate-Austin’s four-bedroom residence in swanky Sausalito, near San Francisco, was valued at $998,000 by Janette Miller, co-owner of Miller and Perotti Real Estate Appraisers. That figure was $455,000 lower than an appraisal done for a prior mortgage refinance in 2019. Feeling that their home was worth much more money, the Austins asked one of their white pals to pose as the owner of their residence. They had the home reappraised — and it was...

WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Jessie Holmes. an Alabama native living in the Alaska community of Brushkana, was the first musher to leave across a frozen lake about 70 miles north of Anchorage. Holmes works as a carpenter and appears on the reality television show “Life Below Zero.” Other mushers left in two-minute intervals. They will travel nearly a thousand miles over the unforgiving Alaska winterscape, climbing over two mountain ranges, mushing on frozen rivers and streams and across the treacherous Bering...

t was 11 degrees when Nicolas Petit and his team of 12 dogs roared into the checkpoint at Nikolai a little before 7 a.m. Tuesday, the sky beginning to stain with a slow orange sunrise over the south fork of the upper Kuskokwim River. Then, he did something unusual this early in the race: he declared he’d be taking his mandatory 24-hour rest, just 263 miles into the nearly 1,000-mile race route. Wiley mushers will sometimes “declare” they are taking their 24 at a checkpoint to start the clock, then change their minds and head up the trail to take...

"Dr. Deborah Birx confirmed was in fact gain-of-function, contrary to statements by Dr. Fauci.” We have a good idea from today’s Covid hearings why Dr. Anthony Fauci cashed in his Big Pharma royalties and road off into the sunset before the Republicans took over the House. The House's Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held hearings today that eviscerated Fauci’s numerous lies on SARS-CoV-2 origins. Subcommittee Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) led off the hearings with a sober fact-sheet that laid the nation’s former top Covid doc’s numerous lies to waste. (Read and/or watch the video above.) “The truth is we...

In case you missed it, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — colloquially known in liberal circles as Ron DeFascist — is on a mission to ban books from school libraries. Totally innocuous books that are totally fine for young kids to read, especially at school. What a monster! Why does he hate books? And education? And children? We’re being facetious, of course. Ron DeSantis doesn’t hate books. Or education. Or children. What he does have a problem with is young kids being exposed to sexually explicit material with schools’ blessing and no regard for parents’ wishes or children’s welfare. His office...

While the official Party Line from the federal government is that the covid vaccines are safe and effective, recent studies have cast doubt on that assertion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called these studies misinformation or, at best, "anecdotal." However, an examination of Medicare's enormous database for its elderly patients shows that (1) the "warp speed" vaccines are making it more likely that the elderly will die prematurely, not less likely; (2) the risk of death remains elevated for an unknown period of time after you get the shot; and (3) the CDC lied to the...

Charges for aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of Hungarians during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II are being prepared by Hungarian prosecutors against 92-year-old Hungarian-American businessman George Soros. According to a source at the prosecutor’s office in Budapest, Hungary, Soros is expected to be charged with “knowingly and willfully” aiding and abetting the murder of Jewish Hungarians in Budapest from September 1942 to January 1943. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been working to bring historical crimes committed by Hungarian Nazi collaborators to justice, and it is believed that Soros has been using...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language....Johan Bollaert, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies... has investigated written language used in public inscriptions in Norway from the 1100s to the 1500s. Last autumn, he defended his doctoral thesis "Visuality and Literacy in the Medieval Epigraphy of Norway."The assumption that runes represent a more oral tradition is based on the idea that runic inscriptions are contextually bound and are...

Around 40 landowners are suing tribal leaders with the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to reopen four roads that have been blocked by barricades for a month. The landowners filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. They're asking the court to require the roads be immediately reopened and that they remain open for public use. "(T)he Defendants took the law into their own hands and illegally barricaded public roadways, despite the fact that they must be 'open and available to public use' under federal law," the complaint states....

(Last Updated On: March 1, 2023) NATIONAL PEANUT CLUSTER DAY March 8th is National Peanut Cluster Day! Melted chocolate mixed with peanuts makes a perfect combination for sweet and salty deliciousness! #PeanutClusterDay Two things had to happen for peanut clusters to even exist. First, a method had to be invented for the cocoa bean to be processed and transformed into what we know as chocolate. That process wasn’t widely used until about the late 1890s and just about the same time the second extraordinary thing happened; agriculture found a way to grow the peanut and bring it to the public...