Independent / Andrea
Blanco and Emily AtkinsonAuthorities Corner Texas
Shooting Gunman The gunman, identified as 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, shot his neighbors with an AR-15 style rifle after they asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they had children trying to sleep. |
ABC News / Farnoush AmiriWhite House Correspondents' Association Dinner Takes New Tone The White House Correspondents' Association dinner took a more solemn tone this year as President Joe Biden acknowledged the several American journalists under
siege in authoritarian countries around the world. |
USA Today / Sarah
Elbenshbishi Your kids may finally have to put their phone down
after a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to set age restrictions on social media for children younger than 13 and for those between the ages of 13 and 17. |
CNN /
SmerconishThomas Friedman on 2024:
"This is Code Red" New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman discusses his latest piece "Why Kamala Harris Matters in 2024" with CNN host Michael Smerconish, saying the situation “is code red.” |
NPR / Ryan
LucasSmart Gun With
Fingerprint and Facial Recognition Now for Sale Colorado start-up called Biofire says it has developed the first biometric smart gun for market. This month, the company began taking pre-orders for the firearm, which uses facial recognition and fingerprint verification. |
The Hill / Brooke
MigdonAnheuser-Busch Under
Pressure to Reaffirm Trans Support The Human Rights Campaign is calling on Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud Light, to publicly reaffirm its support for the transgender community following weeks of right-wing pushback over partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. |
Vanity Fair / Brian
StelterStelter: Carlson and
Lemon Down, But Not Out Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon operated on different channels that sometimes seemed like different realities. But each television host became a recurring character on the other man’s show. |
The Atlantic / McKay
CoppinsThe Krysten Cinema Theory
of American Politics Kyrsten Sinema knows what everybody says about her. She pretends not to read the press coverage—“I don’t really care,” but she knows. She knows what her colleagues call her behind her back (“egomaniac,” “traitor”). |
Yahoo! News / Vanessa
Etienne Doctor Ties Throat Cancer
Epidemic to Oral Sex Oral sex may be the biggest factor in the rise of throat cancer in the United States, as Dr. Hisham Mehanna said that there has been a "rapid increase,” calling it an "epidemic" in both the U.S. and U.K. |
Reuters First Republic Auction
Underway U.S. regulators are trying to clinch a sale of First Republic Bank (FRC.N) over the weekend, with roughly half a dozen banks bidding, sources said on Saturday, in what is likely to be the third major U.S. bank to fail in two months. |
Watch Interview with Ian Anderson |
ESPN / Brooke
PryorTakeaways from the 2023
NFL Draft Two things were certain heading into the 2023 NFL draft: Bryce Young would be drafted No. 1 by the Carolina Panthers, and everything else would be chaos. Now that the draft is over and the AFC South is at the dawn of a new era. |
Hollywood
Reporter Michael J. Fox: "I'm Not
Going to Be 80" Michael J. Fox continues to share candid details about his decades-long battle with Parkinson’s disease in an interview set to air Sunday. Preview clips show the star describing the challenges that he has faced. |
Fox News / Ryan
MorikRFK Jr. Takes Position on
Trans Athlete Participation Twenty-one states have banned transgender females from participating in girls and women's sports, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants that number to rise, saying on CNN he opposes biological males participating in female sports. |
KTLA 5 / Michael
BartiromoBig Reveal: What's in the
Big Mac Sauce This week, McDonald’s began offering its Big Mac sauce (aka “special sauce”) in prepackaged dipping cups, providing an option for customers who want a little extra sauce to put on their food, as suggested by a fan. |
SK Pop / Jess
DoshiFreak Accident Takes
Student Life During Phys Ed Brayden Bahme, a Cheney High School student, is dead in what appears to be a "tragic incident". He passed away in a hospital after he was injured when he fell over in a running drill and impaled his eye. |
Axios / Dave
LawlerUS Military Spending More
Than Next 10 Combined Countries around the world spent a combined $2.24 trillion on their militaries last year, a 3.7% increase on last year's previous record high when adjusted for inflation, according to an annual report from the SIPRI. |
BBC / Paul Adams and
Charley AdamsRescue Efforts Starting
to End in Sudan An operation to evacuate people from Sudan has been "extremely successful", a government minister has said, as the UK ended its evacuation operation and a 72-hour ceasefire broke down on Saturday. |
Associated Press / Danica
KirkaDetails Revealed About
King Charles III Coronation King Charles III, keen to show that he can be a unifying figure for everyone in the United Kingdom, will be crowned in a ceremony that will for the first time include the active participation of faiths other than the Church of England. |
NBC News / Dennis
RomeroSoldiers Who Died in
Helicopter Crash Identified The names of three soldiers killed in a mid-air collision between two military helicopters over Alaska were released by the U.S. Army on Saturday as the battalion mourns the loss “of three of our best.” |
Nintendo Life / Liam
DoolanMario Bros Movie Crosses
$1 Million Globally The Super Mario Bros. Movie was expected to reach $1 billion in global box office sales and it seems it will achieve this milestone by the end of the weekend, making it the first movie of 2023 to reach this figure. |
For the
Left Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Says He Opposes Biological Males Competing in Women's Sports Twenty-one states have banned transgender females from participating in girls and women's sports, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants that number to rise."I am against people participating in women's sports who are biologically male," the Democratic presidential
candidate said. |
For the
RightDIY Trans Care Evades
Barriers in Missouri, Other States Do-it-yourself hormone therapy has become an increasingly common way for trans residents of restrictive states. Some doctors say self-medicating trans health care is dangerous, but some see no other option. |
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