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Chicago's outgoing mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has decided to give us one last gem before she leaves the public spotlight (hopefully, for good). After the violence in Chicago over the weekend, a reporter asked Lightfoot to comment on the riots that took place in the city. Here's the thing, a vast majority of the young people that came downtown came downtown because it was great weather and an opportunity to enjoy the city. That's absolutely entirely appropriate. There are a few that came with different intentions and they have and they will be dealt with. But I'm not going to use...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday panned Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) proposal to extend the nation’s debt ceiling until May of 2024 as a “terrible idea,” making it clear to everyone in Washington that Democrats don’t want to debate the issue again before the next election. McCarthy formally unveiled his proposal to lift the debt ceiling for one year in exchange for a cap on non-defense discretionary spending and other reforms in a speech Monday to the New York Stock Exchange.

-Ralph Yarl was shot through a glass door by a white homeowner in his 80s after mistakenly approaching the wrong address -He had been going to collect his two younger twin brothers from a house less than a block away in Kansas City, Missouri -Police have not brought any charges in the incident, and released the suspected gunman after 24 hours A homeowner accused of shooting a black teenager in Missouri after the 16-year-old mistakenly rang his doorbell is understood to be an elderly white man in his 80s… … Ralph was known among his peers for his intellect and...

Researchers at NOIRLab have released a version of the first image ever captured of a black hole that has been sharpened by using artificial intelligence. Photo courtesy of NOIRLab/Press Release April 13 (UPI) -- Researchers at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab have applied AI technology to the first image ever captured of a black hole to present a clearer image of how gas spirals into supermassive black holes. When gas approaches a black hole, it swirls quickly and superheats because of friction, which in turn releases radiation that can be detected by radio telescopes. The team published a paper in...

The White House has released a statement insisting that Joe Biden will veto the bill backed by former college swimmer Riley Gaines to protect women’s and girl’s sports. On Monday, the White House noted that Biden would not sign the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act if it makes it to the president’s desk. (H.R. 734) Saying, “The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 734,” the statement makes a series of claims that simply are not true.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will hold a press conference on Monday, April 17, “to announce arrests and charges in a significant national security matter.” ...

Germany began shutting down its three remaining nuclear power reactors on Saturday as part of a long-planned shift to renewable energy. The international community was keeping a tight eye on the shutdown of the reactors Emsland, Neckarwestheim II, and Isar II, which was agreed to more than a decade ago... ***snip*** The country was caught in a bind as it tries to enact the 2011 resolution by former Chancellor Angela Merkel to make a nuclear exit by the end of 2022, but was starting to reconsider in the face of threats to the stability of the energy supply.Europe’s largest electricity...

"Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." "Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death." Luke, Chapter 23 1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse...

Now car crashes are racist. We KNEW it. That one time when a white guy swiped the front of this editor’s car (who also happens to be white) it was OBVIOUS how freakin’ racist car crashes are. Totally. Pete Buttigieg is what you get when a president picks members of his cabinet based on their identity and not their experience or qualifications. This dude couldn’t even fix the potholes in his own city. Watch:https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1647621178251440129

My questions: 1--Can you direct deposit checks? 2--Is there regulation "D" applied? 3--How do you get cash? 4--Can you pay bills from there? Apple Card Savings Account, a new integration for the Wallet app first announced back in October, is now available with an impressive 4.15% annual percentage rate. Head below for all the details you need to know. In a press release on Monday, Apple announced that Apple Card Savings Account is now available via the Wallet app. It offers a high-yield APY of 4.15%, which is “more than 10 times the national average. There are no fees, no...

Former President Trump is urging Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corp., to embrace his false allegations of voter fraud if the media mogul is to give testimony during a jury trial in the defamation lawsuit facing Fox News this week. “Fox News is in big trouble if they do not expose the truth on cheating in the 2020 election,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social early Monday morning. “They should do what’s right for America. When Rupert Murdoch says that there was no cheating in light of the massive proof that was there, it is ridiculous and...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will move a resolution this week to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the Judiciary Committee to keep President Biden’s judicial nominees moving to the floor. Schumer said he hopes Republicans will support the resolution to fill Feinstein’s seat on the committee while the 89-year-old California senator recovers from a bout of shingles.

While ignoring a cornucopia of crises in his two-plus years as Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg has found a supposed crisis that he will address, and it sounds a lot like his previously trotted-out theory that bridges are a tool of racism. Speaking with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Buttigieg declared "we've got a crisis when it comes to roadway fatalities in America" before making his usual pivot to frame the problem as one of race. "We lose about 40,000 people every year," Buttigieg told Sharpton, adding roadway fatalities are "a level that's comparable to gun violence" for emphasis. "And we...

A Trump-aligned super PAC released a new attack ad on Ron DeSantis, which mocks him for eating pudding with his fingers and hammers him on his record of voting to cut Social Security, Medicare, and increasing the retirement age to 70.

Mercer University’s Baba Agbaje, a 21-year-old student athlete on the Mercer Bears soccer team, passed away last week after suffering a heart attack during a game, according to the coroner for Macon-Bibb County in Georgia. WGXA confirmed cardiac arrest as the cause of death Monday, citing coroner Leon Jones, but WXIA-TV, reporting the following day, no “official cause of death has yet been determined, as an autopsy has not yet been performed.” What appears not to be in doubt, however, is how much Agbaje was loved by those who knew him.

Lu Jianwang, 61, of the Bronx, and Chen Jinping, 59, of Manhattan, were both arrested on Monday morning at their addresses in New York. They have been charged with conspiring to act as agents for the Chinese government, and are expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors say Jianwang tried to persuade a Chinese fugitive to return home, and continually 'harassed and threatened' the individual in 2018. In 2022 China's government asked Jianwang to locate a pro-democracy Chinese activist living in California. The pair admitted to the FBI that they deleted their communications with a Chinese government official...

Three electric utility companies in California proposed a fixed-rate billing plan under which high-income households would pay more than low-income households. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill last summer requiring energy utilities to impose a “rate component” in their power bills to collect revenues to fund the state’s energy infrastructure. According to the Los Angeles Times, the law requires “a fixed monthly charge based on household income.” Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas and Electric recently introduced a proposal intended to reduce fees for most households by imposing higher costs on wealthier families,...

Classified documents allegedly leaked by a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman indicated that 14 U.S. Special Forces troops were operating in Ukraine, something that came as a surprise to some members of Congress. But over the weekend, two Republican congressmen downplayed the information: "We -- without getting into classified -- at the classified level, it has been publicly stated by John Kirby and it's been reported that there are essentially 70 or so NATO forces, special operators, 14 American, to provide oversight on the military aid that's going into Ukraine to ensure fidelity that it goes to the right place," Rep....

Hurts' average annual value of $51 million is more than any other player in league history Jalen Hurts has parlayed his breakout season into a history-making contract. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has agreed to a five-year contract extension worth $255 million, according to CBS Sports Lead NFL Insider Jonathan Jones. The deal, which reportedly includes $179.304 million in guarantees and a no trade clause, makes Hurts the highest-paid player in NFL history in terms of average annual value. Hurts was heading into the final year of his rookie contract. A second-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, Hurts helped the...

Video has emerged of a Cargolux plane in a dramatic aborted landing at Findel Airport on Saturday evening. The cargo plane was scheduled to arrive in Luxembourg from Dubai at around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. But the aircraft bounced on landing, hitting the runway with its left engine. Cargolux 747 damaged during a landing incident at Luxembourg Airport. The aircraft went around and landed safely moments later. 📹 kyanspotting pic.twitter.com/aIVTdghLnz — Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) April 16, 2023 The pilot was forced to abort the landing and make an additional loop over Luxembourg. The aircraft finally did manage...