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In Canada Pastor Artur Pawlowski found guilty of violating a the province of Alberta...The case brought against Pastor Pawlowski stems from his speaking to Freedom Convoy protesters in Coutts, Alberta last year during the blockades opposing COVID lockdowns and mandates in Canada... In Oregon Democrat Secretary of State Shemia Fagan resigning effective next Monday... In Brazil the debate over new internet legislation called a "fake news" bill but also called a censorship bill... Tonight in Ukraine explosions reported in multiple regions... A Russian freight train derailing near the border with Ukraine following an explosion... Iranian media says there was an...

A disastrous marketing deal with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has left Anheuser-Busch reeling — to the extent they’re giving away free cases of Bud Light. The beer producer is giving away the drinks to distributors in a bid to reverse sharply declining sales, according to the Wall Street Journal. Consumers have quickly cooled on the producer’s Bud Light beer in the wake of the partnership — in which Mulvaney promoted himself with personalized cans of the beverage last month. The beer’s consumer base — many of them with conservative and traditional sympathies — began an impromptu boycott of the brand,...

Debate of a controversial bill in Texas to ban young transgender people from accessing surgery, puberty blockers and hormone therapy was blocked Tuesday amid angry protest, with police and activists scuffling outside the House chamber. Protesters inside the chamber, seated in the gallery, began a noisy chant as the SB14 was being discussed - unfurling banners, clapping and catcalling. The Sergeant at Arms was asked to remove the agitators, who chanted 'trans rights are human rights' as they were dragged out of the chamber. Police and protesters then scuffled outside the chamber: footage shared on social media showed protesters being...

Just a few days ago Brandon was trying to speak again and just couldnt do it. Kept stumbling and saying 'scuse me...it was just painful to watch. I didnt bookmark it and now I need it. Lesson learned. Can someone please put up the link...it was on twitter. Thank you.

Officials had been searching for Francisco Oropesa, 38, since Friday night when he allegedly shot his neighbors in Cleveland, Texas, after one asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard. A person believed to be the man accused of killing five of his neighbors with an AR-15 rifle in their Texas home was apprehended by law enforcement agents Tuesday, an official said. A person believed to be Francisco Oropesa, 38, was arrested in the city of Cut and Shoot, Texas, San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said. Authorities are awaiting fingerprints to confirm the person arrested is Oropesa,...

The Kremlin has issued a list of guidelines for Russia’s state media outlets on how to cover Ukraine's impending counteroffensive, the independent news outlet Meduza revealed on Tuesday. The guidelines, which recommended emphasizing the fact that Ukraine is being armed by NATO while discouraging any suggestion that Kyiv is underprepared, appear aimed at giving Moscow the chance to spin any outcome of the expected counter-attack positively. "If Ukraine, with the help of weapons from the U.S. and Europe, is successful and occupies some territories, the [Russian] loss will be understandable: the entire West has concentrated huge efforts on the front,...

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Staffers at Fox News Channel are wondering just how low the ratings will go in a post-Tucker Carlson world. The latest Nielsen television ratings, released Monday, show that more than half of Carlson’s audience has turned off the channel. On Friday night a mere 1.1 million viewers tuned in to Carlson’s old time slot. By comparison, Carlson average roughly 3 million viewers in his final week. A Rasmussen Reports poll shows Carlson was actually more popular than Fox News. Of likely U.S. voters surveyed, 59% surveyed said they had a favorable view of Carlson compared with 52% for Fox. More...

Like many teenagers in the 1990s, my television was usually tuned to ESPN. SportsCenter highlights while I ate breakfast before school. NFL season highlight videos between two-a-day football practices. Baseball and basketball games on at night during homework. The “S” in ESPN clearly stood for “sports” back then, focusing on the achievements of the athletes and stories that inspire us. Now, based on the juvenile trash that I occasionally see when eating at a sports bar or when I catch a provocative news headline, the “S” stands for s–t. I stopped watching ages ago, because I have better things to...

The drunk driver who killed a newlywed bride and severely injured the groom just hours after their wedding was dressed as a Bud Light bottle at a Halloween party. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, posted a photo of herself in 2018 while dressed as “Bud Lightyear” — a play on the classic “Toy Story” character — in tight shorts, crop top and Bud Light boxes wrapped around her legs and ankles. “To infinity and beerond,” the caption reads, in reference to Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase, “To infinity and beyond." The post is one of several on Komoroski’s Instagram that make references to...

A drunk driver who mowed down and killed a bride hours after her wedding has been pictured dressed as a bottle of Bud Light, as it's claimed she is now on suicide watch in jail. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, was snapped in the outfit in November 2018 - when she was underage. She had Bud Light logos strapped to her wrists and legs and the word 'year' scrawled on her T-Shirt. The outfit appears to have been a boozy Halloween pun on Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear, with Komoroski also wearing a makeshift pair of wings, similar to those seen...

One of the greatest frustrations I have is looking at prices at the meat counter. We’ve all seen the extremely high beef prices and wonder why pork hasn’t made a run on demand relative to value compared to beef. I was recently talking to a producer and his thought was if we have consumption of 50 pounds of pork per-capita at a retail value of $4 per pound, each individual in the U.S. could buy all their pork for $200 today. This is a real value relative to beef and a great buy for families trying to offset inflated food...

About 7 in 10 millennials in the U.S. are living paycheck to paycheck, with many struggling to pay off their bills every month, a new survey shows. The main reasons for millennials' financial distress is heavy debt and the financial pressure of having to look after dependent family members, according to the survey from personal finance site Pymnts and LendingClub, an online lender. By comparison, about half of baby boomers live paycheck to paycheck, compared to 64% of Gen Xers and 66% of Gen Z. Across all age groups, 60% of U.S. adults live paycheck to paycheck, down from 64%...

Dallas historian Donald Payton says gentrification like that in Gilbert-Emory is common nationwide. It’s a story, he said, about the fight to endure and protect in the face of development in traditionally Black communities. A historically Black neighborhood in Dallas is watching itself vanish as gentrification continues to sweep in. Gloria Johnson’s residence is in West Dallas’ Gilbert-Emory neighborhood, one of the city’s most sought-after areas. According to The Dallas Morning News, the community received its name for Cecil and Helen Emory and Nathan and Margaret Gilbert, two Black families who ran grocery stores that provided food for the locals...

You may just be one tick bite away from never being able to eat a ham sandwich again. The lone star tick is making its way into Massachusetts from the southeastern part of the United States. People will find them on Nantucket and the coast. The tick's bite can cause some people to develop an unexpected food allergy. "The reason we are seeing more coastal areas is because there is a substantial difference when it comes to temperature in coastal regions than inlands," explained Dr. Goudarz Molaei, Chief Scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. "In some municipalities it has...

For the first time since March 2020, Tufts Medical Center has no COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital. Same for Boston Medical Center! And for those who've longed to be free from COVID-era rules and mandates, the moment of liberation is at hand: On May 11, state and federal public health emergencies will expire, ending almost all of the rules which were put in place to slow COVID. "We are no longer in an emergency," says Dr. Shira Doron, chief of Infection Control for Tufts Medical Center. She says that means it's OK to ease vaccine rules for travelers and...

Tufts Medical Center has no COVID inpatients for the first time in more than three years. "As of 6:45am this morning, we have 0 COVID-19 inpatients for the first time since March 21, 2020," hospital spokesman Jeremy Lechan told WBZ-TV in an email Tuesday. Massachusetts General Hospital had eight COVID positive patients Tuesday and Brigham and Women's Hospital had 9. Boston Medical Center said it had zero COVID inpatients last Thursday. The state and federal COVID-19 public health emergency will end next week on May 11.

At a recent Shanghai auto expo, the world's largest battery maker unveiled a battery it claimed could power electric aircraft or propel electric vehicles (EVs) beyond 1,000 kilometres on a single charge. Chinese Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), which makes one-third of the world's EV batteries, shared few details about the technology but said it would start mass production later this year. It was the latest in a series of big announcements for the industry, which is booming with the global shift to electrification. Battery design has been likened to a gold rush, as researchers push the boundaries of materials chemistry...

Britain's King Charles, who has spent a lifetime campaigning for sustainability and against a throwaway economy, will wear clothing previously worn by his predecessors, including his mother and grandfather, for his coronation next week. Charles, 74, will be crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey on May 6, during a grand ceremony at which he will wear or be handed regalia charged with religious and historical symbolism. Many of those items, such as the crowns and sceptres, date back centuries, but Charles will also be re-using some garments that have appeared at coronations since 1821 "in the interests of sustainability and efficiency",...