Twitter Adds Context to Post About DirecTV Dropping Newsmax
Twitter has added what it claims is a user-generated context description to at least one tweet concerning DirecTV’s decision to drop Newsmax from its service. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., tweeted Wednesday afternoon that “It would be unacceptable to de-platform Newsmax, a …
27 January 2023
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Former MP Jared O’Mara owed thousands to drug dealer, court hears
Read More A former Labour MP accused of expenses fraud was thousands of pounds in debt to a drug dealer and regularly took up to five grams of cocaine a day, a court has heard. Jared O’Mara also once drank a litre of vodka before a television interview with BBC Look North and believed “a […]
Troops may be called into Northern Ireland if firefighters strike
Read More Hundreds of troops could return to Northern Ireland as cover for striking firefighters, the Guardian can disclose. The head of the region’s fire service has said the army will be formally requested to provide cover unless unions agree to do so for “high risk calls”. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has refused to […]
Israeli forces kill nine Palestinians during West Bank raid
Read More Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians during a raid in the north of the occupied West Bank in the deadliest single day in the territory in years, prompting Palestinian leaders to cut security ties with Israel and leaving international mediators scrambling to prevent the violence from escalating. A 61-year-old woman and a male […]
Former Memphis Cops Arrested on Murder Charges in Traffic-Stop Death
Five former Memphis police officers have been taken into custody on second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died three days after a traffic stop, county jail records showed on Thursday.
Nearly 200 GOP lawmakers blast Biden’s EPA for targeting farmers, ranchers: ‘Egregious federal overreach’
Post Content FIRST ON FOX: Nearly 200 House Republicans penned a letter to the Biden administration Thursday, demanding that it rescinds a regulation that could threaten the livelihoods of thousands of U.S. farmers and ranchers. The letter — led by Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and cosigned by 193 fellowRepublicans including House Majority […]
Embattled Rep. George Santos goes to karaoke amid looming ethics probe, considered singing ‘I Will Survive’
Post Content Will the real George Santos please stand up? Embattled Republican Rep. George Santos of New York went to a karaoke bar on Wednesday night and considered singing “I Will Survive” amid his looming ethics probe. Santos, who claimed in an interview that he faced an assassination attempt, was spotted at Hill Country Barbecue […]
Democrats Schiff and Swalwell fundraising off getting booted from Intel Committee amid McCarthy feud
Post Content Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, fundraising and campaigning on their spat with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who removed them from the House Intelligence Committee this week. After the two California Democrats were ousted from the committee Tuesday, Schiff threatened McCarthy, stating that he would not stand down while urging the […]
Sparks fly as DNC blasts New Hampshire Dems in verbal brawl over party’s presidential primary calendar
Post Content A key Democratic National Committee panel is giving Georgia and New Hampshire more time to make changes that would allow them to be part of a group of five states kicking off the party’s revamped presidential primary calendar. But top committee members blasted Granite State Democrats for the relentless opposition to the new […]