Day: August 30, 2023

Ousted Pakistani PM Imran Khan to remain in prison for 2 more weeks despite getting bail

12:14 pm August 30, 2023

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will remain in a high-security prison for at least another two weeks despite being granted bail the previous day, as an anti-terrorism court extended his detention Wednesday in a case involving the revealing of an official secret document, a defense lawyer said. The anti-terrorism court announced the decision after […]

Ramaswamy confronts MSNBC host on climate change: ‘Hard fact’ fossil fuels prevent ‘climate related deaths’

12:00 pm August 30, 2023

During a recent appearance on MSNBC, 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy pushed back on MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell’s claim that climate change has resulted in the deaths of two million people in the last fifty years. Ramaswamy argued the evidence shows technology powered by fossil fuels has reduced the amount of climate-related deaths by […]

Pro-lifers should back a federal 15-week abortion ban

12:00 pm August 30, 2023

Tepid applause. That’s how a crowd of 800-plus Catholics responded to Vice President Mike Pence at my organization’s recent conference. He had just called for a federal 15-week ban on abortion, which didn’t sit well with the decidedly pro-life crowd, nor does it mesh with what the rest of the pro-life movement wants. Yet I can’t […]

Hurricane Idalia makes landfall over Florida’s Big Bend as Category 3 storm, tens of thousands without power

11:48 am August 30, 2023

Hurricane Idalia has made landfall over Florida’s Gulf Coast as a “catastrophic” Category 3 storm that has already left tens of thousands of residents without power, officials said Wednesday morning. Idalia is producing storm surges of up to 16 feet in some areas, damaging winds howling up to 125 miles per hour, and historic freshwater […]

Montana men surprise momma bear with cub, encounter ends with accidental shooting

11:47 am August 30, 2023

Two Montana men killed a mama grizzly bear in self-defense over the weekend, after officials say it charged them. The men from Whitefish were scouting for hunting season in the woods near the Smokey Range Trailhead in the Flathead National Forest on Saturday when they encountered the full-grown grizzly and her cub, Montana Fish, Wildlife […]