Day: April 5, 2023

These women veterans are America’s forgotten soldiers

12:00 pm April 5, 2023

During a night deployment in Northern Afghanistan in 2012, an Army soldier accompanied Special Forces colleagues for a particularly dangerous operation: Moving through the back of a village known by traversing high walls to avoid public streets and the deadly IED’s known to be planted there. Everyone knew the risks. Soldiers who carried out these […]

Nevada lawmakers consider bill to expand voting rights for pretrial detainees in jail

11:13 am April 5, 2023

Lawmakers in Nevada’s Democratic-controlled Assembly heard a bill Tuesday that would expand already-existing voting rights to pretrial detainees in jails, marking the latest effort to make voting easier for pretrial detainees that is playing out in different forms nationwide. The bill would make an electronic absentee ballot system available to pretrial detainees that is currently […]

House GOP plows ahead with its own plan to cut spending after Biden rejects negotiations

11:00 am April 5, 2023

House Republicans will forge ahead with their own plan to cut federal spending over the next several weeks after President Biden again rejected the idea of negotiating cuts with the GOP in the context of a broader deal to raise the debt ceiling. Biden made it clear last week he has no interest in negotiating […]

Nearly 200 churches sue to leave liberal United Methodist body and keep property amid split over sexuality

11:00 am April 5, 2023

Nearly 200 United Methodist churches in Georgia filed a lawsuit last week against their own denomination’s regional body after they were temporarily halted from disaffiliating, marking another escalation in tensions among mainline Protestants over issues of sexuality and church authority. The lawsuit filed by 186 Methodist churches in the UMC North Georgia Conference is the […]

Alvin Bragg’s chief prosecutor brags about giving get-out-of-jail free cards to violent felons, murderer

11:00 am April 5, 2023

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s chief prosecutor, Meg Reiss, bragged about letting violent criminals and felons off the hook – including a murderer – using her restorative justice approach to help them avoid incarceration, Fox News Digital found. “We know incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” Reiss said during a Peace Institute event in May […]