Day: April 7, 2023

Brother of Russia detainee Paul Whelan calls on Biden administration to get him, imprisoned WSJ reporter home

8:00 am April 7, 2023

David Whelan, the twin brother of former U.S. Marine-turned Russian prisoner Paul Whelan, sees history repeating itself with the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, as both men were slapped with vague espionage charges. “The arrest of an American in a foreign country on charges like this should be of concern to all Americans. […]

Riley Gaines ‘ambushed and physically hit’ after Saving Women’s Sports speech at San Francisco State

7:57 am April 7, 2023

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was barricaded in a room at San Francisco State University Thursday night after she was physically assaulted following a speech to students about saving women’s sports at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus. Louis Barker, Riley’s husband, said he had brief conversations with her while […]

New Mexico police responding to domestic violence call visit wrong address, fatally shoot resident inside

7:07 am April 7, 2023

The New Mexico State Police released additional information Thursday on a deadly shooting that happened the day prior in Farmington after officers mistakenly responded to the wrong home and shot one of its occupants to death. In a Thursday statement, the NMSP said an officer with the Farmington Police Department fatally shot the victim, identified […]

I’m a Christian and I’m suing my state because it refused to let me adopt children

6:00 am April 7, 2023

“Those are my children.” The message was simple, and there was no mistaking it was from God. I had been listening to a radio broadcast while driving my kids to school one morning and heard the story of a man who adopted a child from foster care. I had to stop for a minute; I […]

Meet the American who made Easter sweeter, legendary chocolate bunny salesman Robert Lincoln Strohecker

6:00 am April 7, 2023

First-generation German-American Robert Strohecker dreamed bigger and sweeter than any candy salesman before him. He’s known in confectioner’s lore as the “Father of the Chocolate Easter Bunny.” The source of Strohecker’s legend is a massive 5-foot-tall (or perhaps even taller) solid chocolate rabbit he displayed outside Pennsylvania retailers in 1890 to popularize smaller versions of […]