Day: January 4, 2024

Utah state senator opposed to COVID mandates, trans surgeries for kids announces bid for Congress

9:00 pm January 4, 2024

FIRST ON FOX – Republican Utah state Sen. Mike Kennedy is launching a bid for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District to replace GOP incumbent John Curtis, who is running to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate. Utah’s 3rd District covers part of Salt Lake City and includes the cities of Orem and Provo. The seat […]

January 4 is National Trivia Day. Here are 5 ways you can test your knowledge on the occasion

8:58 pm January 4, 2024

What occasion has been celebrated on January 4 since 1980? The answer would be National Trivia Day. Those who excel at their local pubs’ trivia nights often know a slew of completely random facts. ‘JEOPARDY!’ CONTESTANT ACCUSED OF BEING ‘DISRESPECTFUL,’ OTHERS ‘PATHETIC’ IN WILD MOMENTS OF 2023 The origins of trivia on a large scale […]

Blaine Luetkemeyer becomes latest House Republican to announce retirement

8:56 pm January 4, 2024

A Missouri Republican has become the latest House GOP lawmaker to announce his retirement. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., announced Thursday he will not be seeking re-election in 2024. “It has been [an] honor to serve the great people of the Third Congressional District and State of Missouri these past several years,” Luetkemeyer said in a […]

Trevor Bauer ‘more than open’ to signing with Mets after 2021 offseason fiasco

8:04 pm January 4, 2024

Trevor Bauer was very close to joining the New York Mets three years ago. Right before inking a three-year deal worth north of $100 million, the Mets, fresh off Steve Cohen’s acquisition, had long been near the top of the 2020 NL Cy Young Award winner’s list. Bauer even posted a YouTube video in that […]

Large Minneapolis homeless encampment set to close due to ‘blight,’ ‘hindrance of development’

8:00 pm January 4, 2024

A massive homeless encampment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is set to close Thursday after a U.S. judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order that would have barred the city from shutting it down. U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud rejected the plea of two residents Wednesday who wanted to block plans by the city to clear […]