Iowa guard Caitlin Clark has won the John R. Wooden women's basketball player of the year award for the second consecutive season. Clark averaged 31.6 points,
Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.
Despite seeing Shohei Ohtani leave this winter and years spent watching the playoffs from home, the MLB living legend remains as fiercely committed as ever.
With any disappointment surrounding Sunday’s draw with Manchester United now in the past, Liverpool turn their attention back to Europe today and with it the chance to take another step towards silverware in the Europa League. Their opponents at the quarter-final stage are Serie A’s Atalanta, an opponent who many consider not to be at their absolute best this season but who remain in contention for the European places as the 2023-24 season nears its end. They also topped their Europa League...
The Arizona Supreme Court ruling that restores an 1864 law banning abortion at any stage has Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from the archaic law. The result is some textbook examples of hypocrisy and Republicans screaming in frustration over the results of getting exactly what they insisted that they wanted. The best example of what happens when a dog succeeds in catching the car may be found in a statement from Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake. Lake now says she “opposes”...
Wisconsin Republican candidate for Senate Eric Hovde doesn't trust the votes of nursing home residents. Handwaving away the validity of the votes cast by people who live in nursing homes, Wisconsin Republican Candidate for Senate Eric Hovde has declared the residents too old. — Read the rest
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. Can Republicans keep building their support among working-class voters? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it. Earlier today, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released its recommendations for the fiscal 2025 budget. Among its particulars was a real working-class winner: raising the retirement age… Source
Ella Caillouet knows exactly what she wants to be in her future professional life. The 17-year-old Caillouet draws on personal experience and a desire to positively impact the lives of others as the reasons why she wants to take that path. With the answers to what and why firmly locked in and an array of other achievements, Caillouet made a compelling entry into this year’s Rotary Club of Abbeville’s “What I Want to Be and Why” contest. The committee agreed, naming the Erath High senior as the...
Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC's "The View" that some Republicans would like to "bring slavery back" during the panel discussion of the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling reinstating an 1864 abortion ban. | Clips
Iowa squeaked past UConn in an amazing Final Four matchup in the NCAA women's basketball tournament. The reactions online were heated,
NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — President Biden has gone full throttle — he’s thrown Israel under the bus like no president ever before. Biden has repeatedly disparaged Bibi Netanyahu. Now he is demanding a halt in fighting with no pre-conditions, and he wants Israel to abort plans to invade Rafah. Sheesh. As Mike Johnson said, […]
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas was expected to be testifying about his agency's 2025 budget Wednesday just as House Republicans advanced impeachment articles against him to the Senate. Instead, Republicans held off, choosing to wait until next week while they attempt to make the case for a full Senate trial of the first U.S. Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years. It has been two months since Mayorkas, a California native and the highest-ranking Latino in...