Stitt withdraws Zumwalt nomination to be tourism secretary The nomination of Shelly Zumwalt, embattled director of the state's Tourism Department, to be Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt's Cabinet secretary for tourism, wildlife and heritage, has been withdrawn ... 04/29/2024 - 2:15 pm | View Link
Chinese tourism to S.F. still lags pre-pandemic levels. Here’s why travel may not recover soon Inside a Chinatown travel agency Tuesday afternoon, owner Shirley Cen wanted Mayor London Breed to explain how she was going to bring Chinese tourists back to San Francisco. “The pandas are coming ... 04/27/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades region of Washington SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out. 04/25/2024 - 11:52 am | View Link
Tourism deputy rings up N.B. government's largest 2023 expense account Luxury-hotel stays during an unpublicized trip to London and Paris and a personal move from Quispamsis to Fredericton helped deputy tourism minister Yennah Hurley, the former adviser to Premier Blaine ... 04/21/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Indigenous tourism official applauds federal government’s budget support There are varying views from Indigenous leaders about the federal budget unveiled on April 16. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak was among those who was critical of the ... 04/19/2024 - 4:55 am | View Link
Former Speaker of the House and all around badass had no time for Katy Tur's bullshit today. She joined her for a polite in studio interview at MSNBC and with the skill and bluntness that only Nancy Pelosi possesses, she put Tur in her place with on sentence.
PELOSI: So there's nothing in his performance, if that's the word we'll use, what he has done, that would indicate that he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued or did anything to support a democracy.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has doubled down on her defense of murdering her 14-month-old puppy, Cricket, who, she said in her new book, she "hated." Noem didn't try to rehome Cricket to someone with a soul. She said she "hated that dog" and shot her dead by the gravel pit.
CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan is working on a special investigation into the pervasiveness and perversity of Christian Nationalism and the misinformation it brings with it.
In his latest segment, he shows an encounter he had with a woman named Julian Lightfoot, who was adamant that our Constitutional rights were God given rights because God is in the Constitution.
“Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot,” CNN reports.
“The previously unreported warrants gave prosecutors access to new Chesebro emails and his private direct messages on Twitter.”
“As he awaits his turn to take the witness stand, Michael Cohen has discussed Donald Trump, the ongoing trial, and the testimony already underway during nightly livestreams on TikTok which appear to be earning him financial benefit through viewers’ donations,” ABC News reports.
“And while the undertaking doesn’t appear to run afoul of any court order, experts say it hurts the already-blemished credibility of an essential witness in the case.”
“Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the European Union for the first time in five years with a clear message: Beijing offers much more of an economic opportunity for the bloc than the U. S. wants to admit,” Bloomberg reports.
“The Chinese leader will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary on May 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing.