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During an appearance on Saturday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “America Right Now,” political commentator and former moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Chuck Todd addressed the public’s apparent decline in trust in the media. Todd attributed it to Big Tech and algorithms. “Well, I think the short answer is yes, and I think, look, we haven’t had reliable political leadership,” he said. “And I think one of the things I like to remind people is one of the reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so low is remember what the media is. It’s a reflection of —…
Left-wing late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel might live in Hollywood, California – roughly 5,000 miles from the UK – but that hasn’t stopped him being tapped to deliver this year’s Alternative Christmas Message across the pond on local outlet Channel 4. The presenter’s ABC talk show was yanked off air in September after he made despicable comments about slain conservative icon and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk. The BBC notes Kimmel was reinstated a week after his removal and will take that experience to frame an argument about the spread of “fascism.” The full quote from his address will…
Following the fatal shooting of one National Guard member and the injury of another in Washington, DC, the George W. Bush Institute is urging against broadly targeting Afghan immigration applicants in response to the actions of a single individual. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked with a CIA-backed partner force in Kandahar and entered the U.S. in 2021 through the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been arraigned and is facing charges in the Thanksgiving-week ambush-style shooting that left 20-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead and critically injured 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe. Following the attack, U.S. immigration…
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday for operations to stop Venezuela’s illicit trafficking of sanctioned oil, claiming that the seizures, not the trafficking, were the true international crime. President Trump announced on December 16 that the United States would declare the Venezuelan socialist regime, led by dictator Nicolás Maduro, a foreign terrorist organization. As a result, Washington would impose a “total and complete blockade” on tankers carrying sanctioned oil into and out of the country. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. government announced its first seizure of an oil tanker believed to be heading to…
Comedian Dave Chappelle has addressed the September murder of the Turning Point USA founder and conservative media personality Charlie Kirk in his new stand-up comedy special, The Unstoppable, saying “that’s a reach” to any comparison between the fate of Kirk and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The performer specifically took umbrage at the move by some to call Kirk, “this generation’s Martin Luther King.” “If you talk for a living and see Charlie Kirk get murdered that way, Imma be honest, n—-: I was shook,” Chappelle said in the Netflix stand-up show. “I mean, Charlie Kirk was the…
Singer Chris Rea, known for a broad range of hits including the iconic Driving Home for Christmas, has died, a spokesperson for his family said Monday. He was 74. The BBC reports as well as his much-loved festive hit, Rea had success in the late 1970s and 1980s with Fool (If You Think It’s Over), Let’s Dance and The Road To Hell “He passed away peacefully in hospital earlier today following a short illness, surrounded by his family,” a statement from his wife and two children, as seen by the BBC, said. File/Chris Rea, English singer-songwriter. Photographed at his studio in…
A massive power outage Saturday darkened 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco, according to the city’s main utility firm, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). Self-driving cars stalled in streets and blocked access points across the metropolis as just part of the stoppage. The autonomous vehicles were reportedly unable to detect down traffic lights, triggering traffic jams across affected areas. The power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon before growing in scope and size,…
Kurdish-led SDF forces skirmished against the troops of the Damascus government in the country’s largest city Deadly clashes have erupted in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo between the troops of the Damascus government and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with the two sides trading blame for the incident. At least two civilians were killed amid the fighting, and several others were wounded, state-run SANA news agency reported, citing the city’s health authorities. The Syrian Interior Ministry pinned the blame for the incident on the SDF, claiming the fighters with the group “committed an act of treachery” against the Damascus-controlled security forces.The…
Holy Family Church, the only Catholic church in Gaza, organized a Christmas celebration on Sunday featuring a child nativity play during a visit by Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa to the war-torn territory. Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest at Holy Family, published photos and videos of the occasion. Christian children in Gaza dressed as Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, and shepherds to welcome the birth of Jesus Christ in a tradition upheld in nearly every Christian region in the world. The child actors were accompanied by a child chorus singing songs of worship to Jesus. Most Christians around the world…
A shoplifting suspect in Canton, Ohio, on Thursday allegedly tried to shoot a police officer at point blank range but his pistol jammed. FOX News reported the suspect was taken into a security room at the local Walmart, and security footage captured him drawing a gun and allegedly trying to shoot an officer. FOX 8 noted the officer had just asked the suspected shoplifter, 21-year Shane Newman, “Do you have anything on you that I need to know about? Why is your hand in your pocket?” The verbal exchange between Newman and the officer continued, with Newman getting antsy when the officer ran…