Day: June 12, 2024

Dems claim GOP ‘conspiracy theories crumbled’ after Hunter Biden guilty verdict

6:15 pm June 12, 2024

Congressional Democrats criticized their Republican counterparts over alleged hypocrisy after they were not satisfied when President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty of federal firearms charges on Tuesday. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., remarked that “my Republican friends have gone on and on about how Democrats have weaponized the [Department of Justice], but their conspiracy […]

AOC and Raskin call out ‘outlandish’ ethics rules at ‘rogue’ Supreme Court, propose strict gift restrictions

6:11 pm June 12, 2024

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attacked the current ethics standards at the Supreme Court amid media scrutiny of Justices Thomas and Alito, among others, for receiving gifts during their service. “It’s the highest court in the land with the lowest ethical standards,” Raskin told MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes in an interview […]

Joey Chestnut’s absence from Nathan’s hot dog eating contest won’t stop event, MLE president says

5:55 pm June 12, 2024

Major League Eating (MLE) president Richard Shea insisted on Wednesday the show would go on with or without Joey Chestnut in attendance for the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest on the Fourth of July. Chestnut, the 16-time champion in the Coney Island spectacle, will not be competing in the event over an issue with contract […]

Nicole Brown Simspon’s murder 30 years later: Where are OJ’s children now?

5:37 pm June 12, 2024

When Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered alongside her friend Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994, her two children were 8 and 5 years old. After neighbors found the bodies at Brown’s Brentwood, California, townhome, police woke the sleeping children and escorted them out the back door to spare them the grisly sight. Their father, former […]

Port of Baltimore fully reopened after $100M cleanup of collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge

5:37 pm June 12, 2024

Authorities anticipate commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore will soon return to normal levels since the channel fully reopened earlier this week for the first time since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. “They are back open for business, ready to bring in the largest container ships that call there,” U.S. Coast Guard […]