Day: January 4, 2024

Death of convicted murderer in Michigan reignites investigation into cold cases

1:08 pm January 4, 2024

Authorities in western Michigan are looking into missing persons cases and unsolved homicides after interviewing a convicted murderer and long-haul truck driver with terminal cancer who died last week in a prison hospital. Kent County sheriff’s detectives questioned Garry Artman on three occasions before his death Thursday at a state Corrections health facility in Jackson, […]

United Nations moves to stop Alabama from carrying out America’s first nitrogen gas execution

1:07 pm January 4, 2024

The United Nations Human Rights Council is pushing to stop Alabama from following through with America’s first nitrogen gas execution later in January. Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to be executed on January 25, but U.N. experts argue there has been no evidence to suggest that nitrogen gas would not “result in a painful and […]

Georgia Republican senator joins race for congressional seat opened by Rep. Drew Ferguson’s retirement

1:03 pm January 4, 2024

A Georgia state senator is joining the race for an open congressional seat. Mike Dugan, a Carrollton Republican, filed papers with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday to start raising campaign contributions for the 3rd Congressional District. The seat is opening up because four-term incumbent Drew Ferguson announced in December that he would not seek […]

Al Sharpton group to protest billionaire Harvard alum Bill Ackman for Gay’s resignation, opposition to DEI

12:14 pm January 4, 2024

MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton‘s organization, the National Action Network (NAN), is expected to picket outside Bill Ackman’s office on Thursday in protest of his involvement in former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation. Ackman, a former Harvard alum and billionaire hedge fund manager, has frequently criticized Gay, especially since her controversial congressional testimony on antisemitism […]

GOP Senate groups throws weight behind Trump in Colorado ballot dispute

12:04 pm January 4, 2024

A Republican Senate group weighed in to support former President Trump in his effort to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove his name from the state’s primary ballot on Wednesday. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, chaired by Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., argued that the court overstepped its authority in its December ruling. Trump […]