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Evil plans. God laughs. And He may be doing it again using former President Donald J. Trump’s social media platform Truth Social... SEC approved a lucrative merger between Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth ... The timing of this merger couldn’t be better. It will provide him with fresh funds to cover his mounting legal bills as well as meet a looming deadline demanding he cough up $454 million to pay a penalty he was smacked with in a civil fraud case in New York. The deadline is Monday. Seems that God might be laughing Trump...

Terrence reads the riot act on Tyson Chicken and foods.

Rapper Joyner Lucas joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber for a Beat “Fallback” installment to discuss his song “I’m not racist” and new album “Not Now I’m Busy."

Obama has reportedly had at least two meetings with Joe Biden over the last year to discuss the election. One has to wonder if Obama is concerned about old Joe’s chances in 2024. Why else would he take time away from his life of leisure to meet with Joe? He has probably seen the internal polling. FOX News reports: Obama met privately with Biden and worried Trump may win the 2024 election: Report Former President Barack Obama privately met with President Biden on at least two occasions and expressed concern that he could lose the 2024 election, according to a...

March 22, 2024 | Sundance | 269 CommentsFollowing Ken Buck (U-CO), Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher (U-WI) announces he is leaving congress.This exit drops the GOP majority in the House to one seat, following a path that seemingly continues to put the Democrats in control prior to the 2024 election. This should be the GOPe insurance policy against President Trump’s successful election outcome. There are trillions at stake.Gallagher’s exit date is as subtle as a brick through a window:[Source]I said last year to watch out for April 19th, Patriot’s Day. {SEE HERE}December 2023 – (Via Politico) – […] during a flight...

<p>PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children.</p>

RNS) — A Hindu advocate has called for an official apology from General Mills after learning Yoplait brand yogurts contain gelatin sourced from beef. Rajan Zed, the president of the Universal Society of Hindus, released a statement on March 19, which included a call for the resignation of General Mills CEO Jeffrey L. Harmening. Zed said he was told by a friend that the popular yogurt product contained gelatin, but he did not know from where. He wrote a query to the consumer care department of General Mills and received a response, he said, after several tries: “The source of...

On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) signed a bill into law that bans homeless encampments in the state of Florida.

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.”