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Twitter has removed the “US state-affiliated media” label from National Public Radio’s official account and has instead replaced it with “Government Funded Media.” The change was made after the social media site was widely criticized for giving NPR the designation. Defenders of NPR — who were angry over comparisons to other state-run outlets such as Russia Today and China’s Xinhua News Agency — noted last week that while the station does take some funding from the government, it has full editorial independence. ... Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted last Wednesday that NPR met the site’s definition of “state-affiliated media” as...

Florida Congressman Byron Donalds and Cory Mills' recent endorsement of President Trump is further evidence of the erosion of the political prospects of Governor Ron DeSantis.Florida Congressman Byron Donalds' surprise endorsement of President Donald Trump, followed by the endorsement of newly elected Congressman Cory Mills, is further evidence of the erosion of the political prospects of Governor Ron DeSantis, who, to the surprise of some, has turned on the man who is solely and completely responsible for his elevation from the position of obscure and relatively unknown congressman to the governorship of the Sunshine State.Perhaps 2018 is too long ago...

Shocking video captures the moment a burglar used a hammer to smash the display window of a Manhattan auction house – before he and an accomplice ripped off more than $200,000 worth of Hermès bags from inside, authorities said. The clip, released early Wednesday, shows a white Acura sedan pulling up in front of Heritage Auctions on Park Avenue near East 57th Street in Midtown around 3:50 a.m. March 7. Three men get out – two of whom are toting hammers.

As Townhall reported last week, National Public Radio was labeled as "state-affiliated media" by Twitter, a classification that was later changed to "government-funded media." We noted that NPR, in addition to corporate and individual donors, emphasizes the importance of its taxpayer-derived revenue via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, meaning Twitter's label is accurate. Well, this week, NPR took action that suggests again it is little more than a partisan war room for Democrats that is uninterested in communicating news and accurate information to Americans. In a story posted Wednesday morning, NPR announced that it "will no longer post fresh content...

South Carolina Republicans still favor Donald Trump to be their nominee in 2024 by a margin of 21 percent – with two politicians from the Palmetto State coming in third and fourth place behind the former president and Florida's governor Ron Desantis. Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, once governor of South Carolina and former Ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, earned 18 percent in the latest Winthrop University poll taken among the state's GOP primary voters. Meanwhile, current South Carolina Senator Tim Scott's announcement Wednesday that he's taking the next step toward a bid for president coincided with the release...

As many as 50 British special forces operators are currently deployed in Ukraine, allegedly leaked US intelligence documents suggest. Britain has the largest contingent of special forces on Ukrainian soil, alongside more than a dozen operators each from fellow NATO states Latvia, France and the US, according to a document dated March 23. The Ministry of Defence warned against taking allegations contained in the reported leak of classified information at 'face value', posting on Twitter: 'The widely reported leak of alleged classified US information has demonstrated a serious level of inaccuracy.' Some of the classified documents, which were leaked online...

The West’s sweeping sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine are shaping up to be the West’s most monumental miscalculation in modern history. The sanctions have not brought the Russian economy to its knees, as was widely predicted. Instead, it’s the Western economies that are reeling, their economic growth all but stopped. Many of them are simultaneously suffering from both high inflation and energy shortages.Russia, meanwhile, is not only surviving but thriving, acquiring more potency and prestige throughout Asia, Africa and South America than at any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union.According to the IMF, the Russian...

The abortion issue is causing problems for Republican politicians across the country. Republicans have an abortion problem, and there is only one Party leader who can fix it: Donald Trump. Let me explain. Like the proverbial dog chasing the bus, the GOP spent years campaigning on the promise to appoint Supreme Court justices who would repeal Roe v. Wade but when finally successful, had no idea how to navigate the resulting political landscape. Democrats have used the reversal of Roe and Republicans’ subsequent anti-abortion initiatives to paint the party as extreme, thereby winning over women and younger voters. The overturning...

Major League Baseball (MLB) are hitting more home runs thanks to global warming and climate change, a new study claims. Published on Friday, the study "Global warming, home runs, and the future of America’s pastime" focuses on data that reportedly shows "higher temperatures substantially increase home runs." Dartmouth College researchers who published the study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society claim they can attribute at least 500 home runs from 2010 to 2019 to "historical" warming. Home runs in baseball—fair balls hit out of the field of play—have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay," the study's...

Ultra-violet light has revealed a hidden fragment of a Syriac Christian New Testament translation dating back 1,750 years, according to a study published by the Journal Of New Testament Studies. Grigory Kessel, a medievalist from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was able to decipher a lost fragment of the Gospels that had been written in Syriac text 1,750 years ago. Because parchment was scarce in the Middle East at the time, manuscripts were often erased and reused. By using UV light on a 6th century manuscript, Kessel was able to uncover one of the earliest translations of the New Testament...

Corruption in US vassal state Ukraine is “rampant”, charges Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his latest Substack article. At least $400 M have been embezzled buying Diesel fuel from Russia, with which the Ukraine is allegedly at war. Hersh charges a “total breakdown” of leadership and trust in the US government as “the US army is getting ready to go to war.” The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been “using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel” including fuel from Russia, which it – and the USA – are ostensibly at war...

HULL, I.A. (Dakota News Now) - Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) announced Wednesday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be the guest of honor at Feenstra’s third annual picnic in May. The event is set for Saturday, May 13, in Sioux Center, Iowa. ”I’m excited to announce that Governor Ron DeSantis will headline my Feenstra Family Picnic this year in Sioux Center,” said Rep. Feenstra. “While liberal states shut down their economies, forced businesses to close, and kept our kids out of the classroom, Governor DeSantis championed freedom and common sense. Florida — like Iowa — are clear examples of what...

Two teachers challenging the constitutionality of compelled antiracism training have been ordered to pay nearly $313,000 in their Missouri school district's legal fees, under a ruling their lawyers called "overtly hostile" and "meant to scare off future lawsuits by parents and teachers." The Southeastern Legal Foundation is appealing U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool's summary judgment in favor of Springfield Public Schools and the six-figure award against their clients Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley, according to an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals notice Friday. The public interest litigation firm "has never faced attorney fees sanctions for challenging unconstitutional government action...

Goldman Sachs is distributing a pamphlet to employees that was drafted by the investment bank’s internal LGBT group and encourages staff to use recently developed gender-neutral pronouns, including “Ze” and “Zir.” The employee guide, distributed by the firm’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender network, directs employees to “proactively share [their] pronouns to foster an environment of respect and awareness.” The hand out provides examples of “the most common” gender-neutral pronouns but leaves open the possibility that some employees may ask to be referred to by pronouns that are not included on the list or may ask that their coworkers refrain...

Conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on Tuesday slammed Republican megadonor Ken Griffin’s “indefensibly stupid” $300,000,000 gift to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “The fact that Griffin is presumably ‘fiscally conservative but socially liberal’ provides some vague way of reconciling this with his support for Ron DeSantis, but really if you’re any kind of Republican in 2023 this sort of giving is indefensibly stupid,” Douthat tweeted. Griffin, a hedge fund manager worth $35 billion, donated over $70 million to Republicans in the 2022 midterm cycle, making him the party’s second-largest donor of the cycle, according to watchdog group...

A college student in Minnesota has been arrested after prosecutors say they found evidence that he was "planning a mass casualty event." On April 5, custodians at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, discovered empty boxes which once contained ammunition and high-capacity magazines in a garbage can outside one of the dorms. The custodians alerted authorities, who reportedly traced the packages to a dorm resident, 20-year-old sophomore Waylon Kurts, a member of the St. Olaf track team. In Kurts' dorm room, investigators allegedly discovered a trove of weapons and tactical gear, including knives, a protective vest, propane, fireworks, information about...

The board of directors for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has resigned due to the "politicization" of a 2016 donation that was allegedly orchestrated by the Chinese government. In a statement posted on the foundation's website, President and CEO Pascale Fournier and the board jointly announced their decision to step aside, citing the pressure they faced in recent weeks. The statement explained that "the circumstances created by the politicization of the foundation had made it impossible to continue with the status quo," leading to the resignations. Three directors will remain with the foundation on an interim basis to ensure its...

The order is expected to last through Tuesday night. RICHMOND, Indiana (WXIX) - An evacuation order is in effect for eastern Indiana residents who live within a half-mile of a roaring industrial fire, according to Wayne County EMA. The fire is in an industrial facility on NW F Street in Richmond, about 30 miles west of Dayton. [View on map] The evacuation order came down just before 4 p.m. It remains active as of this writing. An emergency shelter is set up for displaced residents. Residents outside the evacuation zone and those downwind of the fire are urged to shelter...

VIDEOAt around 7 AM on April 11 during a commercial break Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show, read a DM on Twitter sent to him by Eric Trump. As you can see, it was quite an emotional moment for him as well as an acknowledgement of the importance of that radio show. And if Eric is listening in to the Steve Kane Radio Show, I am sure Dad is also listening.

Communist China is “ready to fight.” The U.S. adversary declared its readiness for war after it finished three days of large-scale military exercises around Taiwan on Monday, ABC News reported. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said that it tracked 91 Chinese fighter jets off its coast during the last day of its exercises after dozens of warplanes crossed the maritime median line of the Taiwan Strait on Sunday. Chinese state media said the warplanes were loaded with live ammunition. During the exercises, China conducted simulated attacks on “key targets” in Taiwan, and the communist country’s state-affiliated media showed an animated video created...