This Week In History May 5, Shepard is first American in space. On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7 ... 05/4/2024 - 8:06 am | View Link
Beydoun to pay for $4,500 coffeemaker, but legislative grant spending oversight questioned The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has never in its history clawed back a legislative grant or withheld additional funding due to misspending. 05/3/2024 - 4:55 pm | View Link
DEI’s Demise: University of North Florida Closes Divisive Department The University of North Florida closed its diversity, equity, and inclusion office per state law, reassigning staff instead of firing them. 05/3/2024 - 3:47 pm | View Link
Justice Department Strengthens Efforts, Builds Partnerships to Address the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons In recognition of MMIP Awareness Day, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced stepped up efforts to tackle the MMIP and human trafficking crisis in ... 05/3/2024 - 11:05 am | View Link
Torch run ignites Special Olympics Montana journey to Summer Games In a display of support, officers and athletes gathered at Opportunity Bank to pass the torch from Great Falls to Wolf Creek to mark the journey towards the Summer Games held in Billings from May ... 05/3/2024 - 10:21 am | View Link
Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.
Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.
"The big issue in '68, it turned out, was not Vietnam - it was law and order," says historian James Traub. And for Biden, "The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden's right." And his "narrow path" is to "take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concernsin a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators."
Despite Biden and Trump now saying they will debate, neither party has contacted the Commission on Presidential Debates, says co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf, and likely won't until after their Conventions. After September 6, the last day any state determines who qualifies for the ballot, "we'll then know who meets the requirement of being on enough ballots to conceivably get 270 electoral votes."
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more