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In 1832 president Andrew Jackson deemed it of very high importance that the people of Quallah Battoo knew who America was. The result was one of the US Navy’s least known military escapades, when sailors and marines fought Sumatran pirates. Because, don’t all good stories involve pirates? Marines and Sailors Versus Pirates: The Quallah Battoo Expedition | 16:11 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered 151,217 views | October 25, 2024

BATON ROUGE - The former head of Impact Charter School, her family members and an independent contractor were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday in connection with the embezzlement of school funds. The school's previous CEO Chakesha Scott, her husband Eric Scott, their daughter Courtney Scott and contractor Sam Green were named in a criminal indictment filed in the Middle District of Louisiana. The four are accused of conspiring with one another to use school funds for personal use and creating false documents to make the payments appear as business expenses, a scheme that allegedly spanned from 2018...

Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) is considering running for a full-term in the United States Senate, as she was sworn in this week to finish the term of her late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, until January.

A receipt checker at a Florida Sam’s Club has been accused of letting a man walk out with stolen televisions and other high-end merchandise nearly 50 times — in a con pilfering $58,000 in goods. Brenda Jacqueline Gayle Archer, 57, manned the door of the wholesale store in Sunrise, Fla., and would rubber-stamp the receipts of Troy Sidney Lawrence, 36, after he bought low-priced items and used the receipt to walk out with high-ticket items, NBC Miami reported, citing arrest records. Archer, of Lauderhill, and Lawrence, of Sunrise, were arrested Tuesday for the “recurring scheme in which the same male...

July 17 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on ​Friday ruled that New ‌Jersey's assault-weapons law barring the possession of ​AR-15 semi-automatic ​rifles and large capacity magazines ⁠containing more ​than 10 rounds of ​ammunition is unconstitutional. The ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd ​U.S. Circuit Court ​of Appeals marked the first ‌time ⁠a federal appeals court had ruled that a state's ​assault ​weapons ⁠ban violated the U.S. Constitution's ​Second Amendment by ​burdening ⁠the right to keep and bear ⁠arms ​for self-defense.

Cassidy Winkler was working as a flight attendant on private jets when inspiration struck.It was the offseason for the professional hockey players she helped ferry around, and things at her job were slow. Eager for a diversion and missing the Pilates she had come to love as a college student, she went searching for studios near her home in Madison, Wis., but couldn’t find any.“That’s when I came up with the idea,” she said.She started researching how to start her own boutique Pilates business, including what kind of training instructors would need. By early 2025 — and with assistance from...

A trans and intersex activist vying to replace disgraced Maine Senate wannabe Graham Platner as the Democratic candidate has gone viral for their absurd answer about their qualifications in a debate Thursday. Asked by a moderator what qualifies them for the top office, longshot hopeful Ashley Webb responded with a bizarre rambling string of loopy reasons. “I ran for office several times. Didn’t win, but I did run,” Webb chuckled. “And then I’m a songwriter, and then I write my own books, and then I suppose my transparency,” Webb said. “I wouldn’t lie to the people, and I wouldn’t deceive...

Gov. Roy Cooper leads Michael Whatley by four percentage points in a new poll from Public Policy Polling, which shows a race that remains competitive as voters begin to tune into the campaign. While national attention has increasingly turned to high-profile Senate races in Maine and Texas, the newly released poll suggests that Whatley, the former RNC and NC GOP chairman, still has an opportunity to contest a race that forecasters say favors Cooper. The PPP poll, released on Monday, surveyed 759 North Carolina voters earlier this month and found Cooper leading the race by 48% to 44%, with a...

Things just keep getting worse for the Democratic Party, and at this rate, they may need a new metaphor because "keeps getting worse" barely covers it anymore. We already told you the polls are tightening heading into the midterms in November, which was bad enough on its own. Now it turns out the party's situation is so much worse than we already know, and the people running the show apparently don’t want you to know just how bad it really is n a bizarre move, the Democratic National Committee required its senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private...

Denmark will ban burkas in schools and universities as part of a plan to tackle what it calls 'parallel societies'. The garment worn by some Muslim women is already banned in public places in the Scandinavian country, but the move would now expand the order into classrooms across Denmark. In Denmark, the term 'parallel societies' refers to residential areas where more than half of inhabitants are from an immigrant background. The ban on full-face coverings was introduced in Denmark in 2018, with those found to break the rule forced to pay a £1,300 fine. Despite Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's move...

U.S. home prices surged to an all-time high in June according to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) report released last Thursday. The report found that the median existing home price in June reached $440,660, an increase of 1.8 percent year-over-year and a new high according to the NAR’s chief economist Lawrence Yun. Housing sales declined to 2.4 percent month-over-month in June and 2.8 percent, seasonally adjusted, since June 2025. The NAR’s Housing Affordability Index is up 6.8 points since June 2025 at 102.3, signaling that home prices are more affordable relative to the median family income. Yet the index...

This is "Ashley." Ashley thinks he can do a better job than the Nazi-tattoo guy at representing Maine in the United States Senate. MODERATOR: "What qualifications do you have to serve in the U.S. Senate?" Maine Democrat Ashley Webb: "I'm a songwriter and I write my own books." MODERATOR: David Costello said he's for Medicare for All. Is everybody? KLEBEN: Yes. DICKERSON: It's incredible. WEBB: I'm actually on Medicare. MODERATOR: Oh...ok.

More voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey released Friday found. The survey’s findings come as democratic socialist candidates win Democratic primaries across the country following the November election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The shift has become a lightning rod for Republicans, who are aggressively branding Democrats as communists. The results indicate that even with a number of self-described democratic socialists on the ballot, Democrats will have the upper hand heading into November’s...

When Graham Platner dropped out of Maine's Senate race, Democrats figured they'd dodged a bullet. All they had to do was find a competent replacement to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), and the seat was theirs for the taking. That was the narrative, anyway. Then their candidates took the stage Thursday night for the first primary debate, and the bullet found them anyway. The debate, hosted by News Center Maine on July 16, featured four candidates in the first hour: former State Senate President Troy Jackson, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, former congressional aide Jordan Wood, and Dr. Nirav...

Washington moves to deprive Tehran of much needed revenue, raising pressure on a suffering population DUBAI—President Trump is betting that reimposing the blockade on Iran and revoking its right to sell oil will throttle the regime’s economy and convince it to release its hold on the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran is betting it can hold out. The danger is, in the short term at least, that the renewed economic pressure hurts ordinary Iranians and leaves a destructive stalemate in the waterway. U.S. Central Command announced strikes on Iranian targets for a sixth straight day on Thursday. The collapse of the...

President Donald Trump is pressing ahead with a sweeping effort to reshape the nation’s election system, relying on executive actions, agency shakeups and pressure on Congress after courts blocked some of his earlier initiatives. Critics, particularly Democrats, have described the strategy as “death by a thousand cuts,” arguing that the administration is gradually reshaping election policy hrough multiple fronts instead of one sweeping overhaul. Last week, Trump gutted the little-known Election Assistance Commission, a move that drew concern from election officials who warned it could weaken cybersecurity support for state and local election offices. The commission overhaul is only one...

This past spring, Blue America suffered yet another critical blow without much in the way of comment: Standard Oil of New Jersey fled the state for Texas.AdvertisementOf course, it’s not called Standard Oil anymore. Following several takeovers and mergers, it’s now known as ExxonMobil. But it’s still the same company founded nearly a century and a half ago as the jewel in the crown of John D. Rockefeller’s industrial empire. And now it’s gone.On March 10 of this year, the company’s board voted unanimously to make the move. The decision was put to a shareholder vote on May 27. No...

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Eric Metaxas’s bestselling book Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. Since then, it has remained on the New York Times bestselling list and is currently ranked number two in nonfiction behind Maggie Haberman’s TDS offering, Regime Change.One would have thought a book published during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence would be stocked and displayed prominently at Barnes & Noble. Instead, during his frequent appearances on Steve Bannon’s War Room program, the author testifies that the nation’s leading storefront bookseller doesn’t typically have copies on...

President Trump spoke to the nation last night about serious problems with American elections. You could watch the speech live on Fox News, Newsmax, C-SPAN, and PBS. ABC, NBC, and CNN refused to air the speech on their live broadcasts, while CBS and MSNBC managed to air just a little bit before abandoning it to spout their own opinions (including what they laughably call “fact checks”). That’s the state of America today. It was a good speech but ended (I thought) weakly. Had the networks (some of which still have a free gig on the public airways) run the speech,...

Iran has told its citizens to turn off their air conditioning during peak hours as the country's power grid came under strain amid US strikes. Tehran's energy ministry said that the power restrictions were necessary 'to help ensure a stable electricity supply in the southern provinces, which are currently facing extreme heat and attacks on electricity supply facilities.' Temperatures in the capital were expected to hit triple digits Friday, with highs of 102F on Saturday and Sunday.