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Latinos continue to lag behind when it comes to civic engagement, including voting, a new study reveals. Two professors from University of California, Berkeley and San Jose State University said the results of their study needs an immediate response. The researchers said the apathy is not because Latinos are at home and sitting on their hands -- there are several factors that limit them from getting involved. "In this particular election, there's a lot of apathy," San Jose State University researcher Dr. Vicky Gomez said. The headline of too many Latinos sitting on the political sideline is something many community...

After stepping down from her role as chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel will join NBC News as a political analyst. In addition to providing commentary for NBC, McDaniel will also appear on MSNBC for coverage during the 2024 election season.

Skylar Meade escaped from corrections officers after an accomplice ambushed them while they were transporting Meade back from a Boise hospital.Authorities are investigating whether the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush. The escaped prisoner, Skylar Meade, and the accomplice, a recently released inmate named Nicholas Umphenour — both members of the Aryan Knights gang — were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursday afternoon. Their...

Karl Marx would be proud: Bernie Sanders has urged taking another step toward the philosopher’s envisioned utopia by proposing to mandate a four-day work week. In communist society, Marx wrote, workers would be liberated to “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, raise cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd, or critic.” Needles to say that’s not how communism turned out. Yet the belief that work is basically a capitalist imposition that is unnatural and bad for people still holds sway on the left, and Sanders is,...

The jazz visionary’s 1965 magnum opus revealed a highly original musical mind.Blue Note’s co-founder Alfred Lion had a penchant for pianists who sounded different. In 1947, he signed Thelonious Monk, famed for his blend of dissonance and swing, and in the late 50s, recorded Herbie Nichols, another non-pareil pianist/composer. Given his track record, it was no surprise that Lion was drawn to Andrew Hill, who arrived in New York in the early 60s. A musical lone wolf stylistically beholden to no one, Hill carved out a musical niche not aligned with the hard bop, soul jazz, and free jazz movements...

Ayleen Charlotte was scammed out of $140,000 after falling for a man who became known as the "Tinder Swindler", and she told Newsweek the signs she looks for now to steer clear of fraudsters. Shimon Hayut, otherwise known as Simon Leviev, scammed millions of dollars from women whom he met through Tinder. Several believed he was in love with them, and many are still feeling the sting of their debts today. (snip) While her story went viral, Charlotte's experience is not unique. The FTC found consumers lost a total of $1.3 billion to scammers posing online as romantic interests, either...

Ukraine's armed forces are facing a serious shortage of ammunition for air defense systems to protect cities, and Russian air attacks will cause increasing losses, The Washington Post reports, citing Western officials on March 15. Ammunition for some missile defense systems could be almost exhausted by the end of March, according to two Western officials who met with Ukrainian counterparts at a security conference last month. Currently, Ukraine tries to shoot down four out of every five missiles fired at its cities. However, soon it will only be possible to try to down only one out of five, one official...

The Women's Cancer Fund raised $18.3 million by vowing to help patients, telling donors that their money would help pay the living expenses of women going through treatment for the disease. But a new lawsuit from the FTC and 10 states allege that the bulk of the money instead went to pay the charity's president and for-profit fundraisers. The lawsuit, filed on March 11 in federal court, alleges that the Women's Cancer Fund raised the money from 2017 to 2022 by making deceptive and misleading claims. In reality, the bulk of the donations went to the $775,139 salary of the...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police announced charges Thursday in connection with a triple homicide in West Chatham last month. CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling and Kim Foxx said at a press conference Thursday morning that a 16-year-old boy was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder as an adult in the incident. Three people were killed, including a 14-year-old boy, and a 16-year-old was seriously wounded in the shooting inside a home in the West Chatham neighborhood Feb. 25, Chicago police said. Amere Deese, 14, was shot in the back inside the house in the 8000-block of South Vincennes Avenue....

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TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa woman, Tonya Lockett, was arrested and booked into Tulsa County jail on Friday after going to a man's home and threatening him with a sword and hammer. According to a police report, police responded to a call from man in reference to a woman threatening him with a hammer and machete. When police arrived at the scene, they saw Lockett in the front yard with a katana in her hand. When Lockett saw the officer, she tossed the katana into a red wagon, approached him and was put in handcuffs. The officer spoke with...

Hollywood stars Liam Neeson and Glenn Close have performed dramatic readings of the Trump indictments for an MSNBC podcast devoted to celebrating the ongoing political and legal persecution of the 45th president and presumed GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential election. Set against an ominous musical soundtrack, Liam Neeson kicks off the podcast by reciting passages from the January 6 federal indictment in a special bonus episode of MSNBC’s “Prosecuting Trump.”

Randy Bick is no longer missing two days after estranged wife Kathy Griffin hired a private investigator to track his location so she could serve him with divorce papers. Although it is unclear exactly when he came back into contact with Griffin or the court, the comedienne was able to file the paperwork on Thursday, March 21, and Bick responded to them on Friday, March 22. Article continues below advertisement Kathy Griffin filed for divorce from the marketing executive on Friday, December 29. According to the divorce documents, the marketing executive is requesting spousal support and for his legal fees...

President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline at the southern border has released almost 900,000 foreign nationals into the United States since its inception in January 2023 — outpacing the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, and North Dakota. On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released figures for February, showing Biden’s parole pipeline is continuing to successfully import tens of thousands of foreign nationals via the U.S.-Mexico border every month.

— While sexual harassment rates are decreasing, more trainees are recognizing it, study findsRates of sexual harassment and gender harassment during intern year have decreased, while recognition of these behaviors among interns has increased, according to a cohort study of more than 4,000 trainees. A survey during the last month of internship showed that sexual harassment incidence decreased from 62.8% in 2017 to 54.6% in 2023 (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.90-0.94), and gender harassment incidence decreased from 61% to 51.7% (OR 0.91, 95% CI 0.89-0.93), reported Elena Frank, PhD, of the Michigan Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan in...

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has stated that the recent terrorist attack in Moscow Oblast is a deliberate provocation by Putin’s regime and had been anticipated by the international community. Source: Andrii Yusov, representative of DIU, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda Quote: "This is the deliberate provocation by Putin’s special services that the international community warned us about. The Kremlin tyrant started his career like this, and he wants to end it the same way: committing crimes against his citizens."

A government report in Canada forecasted a deep civic breakdown in the once-stable society that now suffers from unprecedented levels of elite-imposed migration. The secret and heavily redacted report was prepared by the country’s version of the FBI — the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The partial copy was extracted from the agency by an academic lawyer and was published in Canada’s National Post newspaper.

Maryland Democrat Senate frontrunner Rep. David Trone has apologized for using a racial slur during a House meeting, claiming he simply misspoke. Trone, a member of Congress since 2019, was talking about tax policies with Office of Budget and Management Director Shalanda Young — a black woman — when he uttered the word: “+-&_$$$.” The term has been used insultingly towards black people for over 100 years, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary. “So this Republican $#@-:&&, that, you know, it’s the tax rate that’s stopping business investment, it’s just completely faulty by people who have never run a business,”...

[Catholic Caucus] Joe Hosts a HereticPresident Biden hosted a cadre of heretics at his St. Patrick's Day party, including Fr. James Martin.Joe Biden is a heretic who eats and drinks his own spiritual death every time he unworthily takes Communion, which is all the time. So, it is unsurprising Old Joe hosted another well-known heretic, Fr. James Martin, S.J., at the White House last Sunday for St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, and here was Old Joe allowing them to slither into the White House. Joe Biden is a heretic who eats and drinks his...