Category: NEWS
MLB suspends Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer for two seasons
Major League Baseball announced it has suspended Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for two years, for violation of the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy, which Bauer has consistently denied.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/sport/trevor-bauer-dodgers-suspension-spt/index.html
Opinion: What Biden and nearly everyone else is getting wrong on student debt
In a recent news conference, President Joe Biden restated his commitment to offer some relief for student loan borrowers, promising a decision within the next few weeks. He emphasized that he would stick to the compromise position he worked out in the 2020 campaign: some relief, but not the $50,000 per student that Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/opinions/student-debt-biden-hemmer/index.html
2 Santa Ana high school students shot, one fatally; police search for gunman
The suspect shot two high school students, fatally wounding one
A century after his death, the first Black US Army colonel is promoted to brigadier general
Charles Young, the first Black US Army colonel whose groundbreaking military career was hampered a century ago by the racism of the era, was posthumously promoted on Friday to brigadier general.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/politics/charles-young-brigadier-general-us-army/index.html
Florida AG Moody releases internal DHS document she says contradicts Mayorkas testimony on border crisis
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Friday released an internal Department of Homeland Security document that she says contradicts DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas’ testimony to House lawmakers.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-ag-internal-dhs-document-contradicts-mayorkas-testimony
3 Florida prison guards charged with murdering handcuffed inmate
Three Florida prison guards were arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the fatal Valentine’s Day beating of a handcuffed 60-year-old inmate who had thrown urine at one of the correctional officers.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/florida-prison-guards-charged-with-murdering-handcuffed-inmate/
California couple may have burned baby son with torch lighter before murdering him: cops
Ricardo Mendez and Antanita Miller from Barstow, California, have been charged with murder, child abuse and torture in the death of their 1-year-old son, Jamari Mendez.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/couple-burned-baby-son-with-lighter-before-killing-him-cops/
Opinion: When will the GOP learn from Trump’s mistakes?
Winning political campaigns do two things.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/29/opinions/trump-gop-mistakes-rusty-hills/index.html
Tweets from ‘disinformation czar’ reveal history of dubious claims on COVID, Hunter Biden and Russia
Disinformation Governance Board head Nina Jankowicz has repeatedly pushed claims that critics have slammed as controversial, bizarre and false.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/disinformation-czar-tweets-covid-hunter-biden-nina-jankowicz
ISIS ‘Beatles’ member Alexanda Kotey learns his fate for role in brutal beheadings of US hostages
Alexanda Kotey, 38, showed no emotion as the verdict was handed down during the emotionally-charged hearing at Alexandria District Court in Virginia as members of his victims’ families watched on.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/isis-beatles-member-alexanda-kotey-jailed-for-life-in-us/