Day: January 15, 2024

Why Iowa packs a media punch, even though it’s small and unrepresentative

10:01 pm January 15, 2024

The Iowa Caucuses would be a blip in the campaign ocean without the media. It’s a small, rural, unrepresentative state that would matter little if it didn’t host the first contest–and if the winner wasn’t the recipient of a blizzard of laudatory press coverage (sorry) touting a surge of momentum. BIDEN CAMP RIPS TRUMP COVERAGE […]

Former Biden aide Symone Sanders shreds ‘Bidenomics’ message, tells campaign to ‘let it go’

10:00 pm January 15, 2024

MSNBC host and former 2020 Biden campaign aide Symone Sanders-Townsend said voters were not going to “get” the president’s “Bidenomics” message and suggested they “let it go.” “They are not going to get ‘Bidenomics.’ Let it go. How about you just make sure they know what you’re going to do and what you did? … […]

American filmmaker arrested and jailed for spreading pro-Russia propaganda dies in Ukrainian prison

9:13 pm January 15, 2024

A pro-Putin Chilean-American filmmaker who was imprisoned in Ukraine over allegations of spreading Russian propaganda has died in jail. Gonzalo Lira, a 55-year-old YouTuber and film director who was born in Burbank, California, and spent part of his childhood in the Los Angeles area, died in a Ukrainian jail on Friday, the State Department confirmed […]

Turkish airstrikes wipe out key energy infrastructure in Syria’s Kurdish northeast

9:07 pm January 15, 2024

Turkey has carried out a wave of air strikes on electricity and oil infrastructure in Syria’s Kurdish-held northeast that has put several power stations out of service, local sources and Syrian state media said on Monday. Hogir Najar, a media official at the Kurdish-run autonomous administration, told Reuters that at least 40 sites had been […]

Virginia man accused of stabbing dog while owner walked it; dog euthanized due to injuries: police

9:05 pm January 15, 2024

A northern Virginia man was arrested on Monday after he allegedly stabbed a dog, which ultimately had to be euthanized because of the injuries, according to police. The Falls Church Police Department said 25-year-old Reyan Hassan Ibrahim of Broadlands, Virginia, was arrested by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Police Department after he was pulled […]