LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87. Gossett’s first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. […]
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians have expressed pride and gratitude toward their men’s national soccer team for qualifying for the European Championship, a rare bit of good news and a welcome distraction from the war with Russia. Though celebrations after Ukraine’s 2-1 win over Iceland were muted as Russian missiles kept raining down on the country, […]
BOSTON — The last coal-fired power plant in New England, which had been the focus of a lawsuit and protests, is set to close in a victory for environmentalists. Granite Shore Power said Wednesday it reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to close the Merrimack Station in New Hampshire by June 2028. As […]
After nine long years of prosecution against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the staunch Republican managed to avoid any jail time for securities fraud charges. Instead, he will have to perform 100 hours of community service, among other requirements laid out in a pretrial agreement, The Texas Tribune reported. This includes 15 hours of legal […]
Whoopi Goldberg, one of the co-hosts of “The View,” interrupted the “Hot Topics” segment of the show to address an audience member who was apparently recording it. “Sir, I have to, I have to stop you with the camera,” she said as she left her seat and walked across the set in the direction of […]
In the battle of “Deadline Don” vs. the doomsayers, former President Donald Trump came out on top Monday. Hours before his $454 million bond was due, an appeals court staved off a doomsday deadline imposed by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. In February, James won a civil fraud judgment against the former president […]
State polls are more important than national polls. There, too, Biden is losing. In the battleground states, Trump is up 3.6%. He is at 48.4% and Biden is at 44.8%. That is the real kicker. It is so alarming to the Democrats that they have realized that a third-party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. […]
When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it’s OK to win an election by cheating. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give […]
While the anger was a bit misplaced, one can easily understand why liberals were furious that the now-deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t step down before the 2014 midterm elections. After all, the writing was on the wall. In the sixth year of Barack Obama in the White House, Americans had gotten fed […]
Bernie Moreno won the caustic GOP Senate primary in Ohio – putting him on a crash course with Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in the November election and giving former President Donald Trump some bragging rights. The race was the first test of Mr. Trump’s political clout in this election cycle and was called a little […]
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