Day: January 18, 2024

Snoop Dogg’s daughter, 24, suffers ‘severe’ stroke

8:18 pm January 18, 2024

Snoop Dogg’s 24-year-old daughter suffered a “severe” stroke Thursday morning. “I had a severe stroke this a.m. I started breaking down crying when they told me,” Cori Broadus wrote on her Instagram story this morning. “Like I’m only 24, what did I do in my past to deserve all of this,” she added in a […]

NCAA president finally answers questions about Riley Gaines’ campaign vs transgenders in women’s sports

8:12 pm January 18, 2024

Former NCAA women’s swimmer Riley Gaines was not at the House sub-committee hearing on NIL Thursday in Washington D.C., but her argument against transgender women competing in women’s sports was. And NCAA president Charlie Baker couldn’t hide from the questions by Republican Congresswoman Debbie Lesko of Arizona about Gaines’ continuing campaign and her two unanswered […]

Extreme cold hampers North Dakota oil production; 60 spills reported in past week

7:58 pm January 18, 2024

Bitter cold weather is causing a rash of spills in the oil fields of North Dakota as well as a slowdown in production, regulators say. North Dakota has seen multiple days of frigid weather with windchills at times reaching as low as minus 70 degrees in its Bakken oil fields. Regulators say that strains workers […]

Dean Phillips vows to be ‘first AI president’ in campaign speech on his artificial intelligence platform

7:58 pm January 18, 2024

Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., pledged to be the “first AI president” in a campaign speech in New Hampshire on Thursday. Phillips was campaigning alongside former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang ahead of the Granite State’s first-in-the-nation primary on Jan. 23. The moderate Minnesotan is a long shot to lead the Democratic presidential ticket, but his […]

US ambassador to Russia visits imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

7:16 pm January 18, 2024

Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter being detained in a Russian prison, appeared resilient during a visit with U.S. officials on Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said. Gershkovich is being held at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow after he was first detained in late March 2023 while reporting in Yekaterinburg, the fourth-largest city in […]