Day: April 21, 2023

Lions release two players following gambling suspensions, stick with first-round draft pick

6:00 pm April 21, 2023

The Detriot Lions have released wide receiver Quintez Cephus and safety C.J. Moore after both players were suspended, alongside three others, by the NFL for violating the league’s gambling policy. Lions Executive Vice President and General Manager Brad Holmes announced Friday that Cephus, a fifth-round draft pick in the 2020 NFL draft, and Moore, a […]

Veterans Affairs medical facilities to continue to provide taxpayer funded abortions after close Senate vote

6:00 pm April 21, 2023

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) medical facilities will continue to provide abortions on taxpayers’ dime after a vote to overturn the rule failed on Wednesday. The resolution put forth by Republican Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville in February to stop the VA from providing taxpayer-funded abortions at its medical facilities failed to advance for a […]

Colorado school bus driver faces charges after video shows him slamming on brakes, jolting students

5:59 pm April 21, 2023

A Colorado school bus driver has been fired and is now facing dozens of counts of child abuse after being caught on video slamming the brakes, sending elementary students tumbling into the seats in front of them. The incident involving the Castle Rock Elementary School students happened in the Denver area on March 1 as […]

Portland squatters took over abandoned bar. It just went up in flames

5:16 pm April 21, 2023

Dozens of Portland firefighters battled a blaze at a former tavern that neighbors say had been taken over by squatters for more than a year. “It was clearly a time bomb waiting to go off, and our concerns fell through the cracks,” Dusty McCord, who lives near the former Farmer’s Barn Tavern, told The Oregonian. […]

Nikki Haley slams reporter for asking about her outfit at daughter’s wedding

5:16 pm April 21, 2023

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Hailey aired out a reporter’s email seeking comment on the “slight backlash” over an outfit she wore to her daughter’s wedding, saying such instances are why “people don’t trust the media.” On April 16, Haley posted a photo of herself at her daughter’s wedding donned in what appeared to be an off-white […]