Day: February 20, 2024

Florida student and teacher bond over matching scars from their open-heart surgeries: ‘Tough cookies’

9:15 am February 20, 2024

A 6-year-old girl and her kindergarten teacher have something very special in common: matching scars from their open-heart surgeries. Kennedy Vogt is a student at Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Florida, where her teacher, Carlene Honor, also underwent heart surgery. The school intentionally paired them up — creating a bond of “heart twins” that […]

Florida bill would establish tougher penalties for children caught carrying guns

9:01 am February 20, 2024

A new bill in Florida would create stricter penalties for children caught carrying guns, and the state House is expected to hear arguments over the proposal this week. House Bill 1181, or the Juvenile Justice Bill, would make a minor’s first illegal possession of a gun a first-degree felony instead of a first-degree misdemeanor, and […]

Embattled Rep Cori Bush faces campaign cash crunch; trails Dem primary challenger in money on hand

9:00 am February 20, 2024

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who is facing a Justice Department investigation over her campaign’s security spending, which includes payments to her husband, has a campaign cash crunch and is trailing her Democrat primary challenger in terms of money on hand. Bush’s campaign has struggled to retain cash six months after the Aug. 6 Democrat primary. In fact, […]

Media deem Trump the nominee, despite Haley tying him to Putin

8:02 am February 20, 2024

Nikki Haley is campaigning hard, making the television rounds and ramping up her rhetoric against Donald Trump. She is fighting on her home turf – South Carolina, the state that knows her best – and yet the media are acting in many ways as if the campaign is over. That’s largely because the state’s former […]

Trans swimmer breaking women’s collegiate record is ‘taking away opportunities’ from biological females

8:00 am February 20, 2024

Conservative radio host Jason Rants said Title IX means nothing after a transgender college athlete that obliterated the women’s record this past weekend during the New Jersey Athletic Conference. “Now tell me again the strides women have made when society applauds a man for pushing us off our own podium,” guest-host Sandra Smith said on […]