President Donald Trump blasted Nike on Twitter Wednesday, saying the company is getting “killed” over an endorsement deal with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick Less than two days after unveiling their latest advertising campaign which salutes the controversial quarterback, famous for his flag protests, Nike lost $3.75 billion in value… Read More
10 passengers fall ill, plane quarantined at JFK airport
A plane has been quarantined at New York’s Kennedy Airport when about 10 passengers became ill aboard a flight from Dubai. The Emirates flight landed around 9:10 a.m. Wednesday. The airline says the passengers were getting medical attention “as a precaution.” Video from news helicopters showed the jet sitting on… Read More
Tropical Storm Gordon turns deadly
Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The National Hurricane Center said early Wednesday that Gordon was weakening on a… Read More
John McCain’s successor will be…
The governor of Arizona announced Tuesday that he will appoint former Sen. Jon Kyl to fill the late Sen. John McCain’s seat in the U.S. Senate saying that Arizonans needed a person to “hit the ground running.” Kyl, a Republican, is currently shepherding Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the… Read More
USA Gymnastics president resigns amid sex abuse scandals
Kerry Perry resigned under pressure as USA Gymnastics president Tuesday, the move coming days after the U.S. Olympic Committee questioned her ability to lead a path forward for an organization rocked by scandal. Perry spent nine months on the job and repeatedly came under scrutiny by athletes who felt she… Read More
[Weather alert] Dangerous storm heads towards U.S.
Tropical Storm Gordon is strengthening and should hit the central U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane late Tuesday before moving over the lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday. Gordon formed into a tropical storm near the Florida Keys early Monday, lashing the southern part of the state with heavy rains and… Read More
President Nancy Pelosi’s 2020 America
It’s Labor Day, but not here in 2018. Let’s fast forward to 2020… just two months before the next presidential election. Voters in America are facing a stark choice. Sponsored: The Area 51 Secret “They” Don’t Want You to Know It’s President Nancy Pelosi against her Republican challenger. Yes, you… Read More
Liberals using NAZI playbook?
by Fr. Mark Hodges, reporter What enabled The Third Reich to rise – and are liberals in America following the same playbook? Historians cite Germany’s grave post-WWI economic depression and disarmament humiliation, but such factors do not explain how Hitler won millions of Germans over to Nazism. How did one… Read More
Official Puerto Rico hurricane death toll raised to nearly 3,000
Puerto Rico’s governor raised the U.S. territory’s official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975 on Tuesday after an independent study found that the number of people who succumbed in the desperate, sweltering aftermath had been severely undercounted. The new estimate of nearly 3,000 dead in the six… Read More
Jurors deciding fate of ex-Texas cop convicted of murder
Jurors are now deciding the fate of a former Texas police officer who was convicted of murder for fatally shooting an unarmed teenager last year in suburban Dallas. Wednesday marks the second day of the sentencing phase in the trial of Roy Oliver, who was convicted Tuesday for the 2017… Read More