The mother of American reporter Austin Tice told a congressional panel on Tuesday that she is convinced her son is still alive, nearly 12 years after he was abducted in Syria at a checkpoint in a contested area west of Damascus. Debra Tice told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that her information about […]
Skin color, which vies with sexuality for distinction as the most tedious subject in America, has once again made headlines. Stephen Jackson, who won the 2002-03 NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs and who happens to be black, illustrated the modern mind’s toxic obsession with race when he denigrated black journalist Gayle King, co-host […]
Women’s basketball is having a moment, thanks to this year’s NCAA tournament and stars like Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. Professionally, however, the WNBA is still years — if not decades — away from being the blockbuster global success that the NBA is. It’s a 12-team league where one of the teams is […]
A senior business editor at National Public Radio believes the organization has lost the plot. Uri Berliner has been with NPR for 25 years. He recently wrote an article for The Free Press in which he explains how in recent years, diversity of thought has been shunned in favor of what many would consider leftist […]
Far-left former ESPN host Jemele Hill can’t stand the fact that Iowa superstar point guard Caitlin Clark’s record-breaking senior season is attracting record audiences to women’s basketball. If you guessed Hill’s indignation was in any way related to Clark’s skin pigmentation, then you’ve been paying attention to sports media. Hill, a social justice warrior posing […]
Alsu Kurmasheva is a Prague-based Russian-American journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir Service. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is funded by the United States government. Alsu has been detained in Kazan, Russia since October 18, 2023, while she visited her mother, who was ill, on the charge of failing to register as a foreign agent. […]
President Biden said Friday he will “never stop working” to bring home Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested in Russia one year ago. Mr. Gershkovich, an American, was arrested on March 29, 2023, on charges of espionage that his employer and U.S. officials consider bogus. Mr. Biden called Friday a “painful […]
Well, I’ll give Jules Hardy this much: She’s now quite a bit more famous outside of her native Britain than she was one week ago. Hardy, if you’re not familiar with her (or them; she identifies as nonbinary and uses a variety of pronouns), was best known as BBC’s go-to gaming presenter, as well as […]
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada judge on Tuesday tentatively set an Aug. 5 trial date for a former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an investigative journalist. But he acknowledged that still more time might be needed to finish searching the slain reporter’s computers for possible evidence in the case. Former Democratic county administrator […]
Top O’ the Briefing Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Eddenfolck would occasionally don a Richard Simmons jumper and do Tai Chi on his roof because he was terrified of becoming his mother. Many thanks for the birthday wishes on Friday. I was a most excellent day, thanks […]
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