NEWS

Listener’s Opinion – Another listener shares his opinion regarding the 2024 election Presidential candidates. Listener states that we are the most powerful country in the world yet we have “two old candidates running for President.”

Unbiased headline news for Wednesday May 8, 2024 – The Biden administration has put a hold on the delivery of ammunition to Israel, according to statements from three U.S. officials. This move comes as the administration is trying to pressure Israel not to conduct a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza without having a credible strategy to protect the million civilians taking refuge there. Israel began what its officials described as a “precise” operation in Rafah on Tuesday. — Illegal border crossings along the U.S. southern border have decreased by over 40% this year after reaching record highs in December. U.S. Border Patrol recorded roughly 129,000 unlawful crossings in April, according to preliminary government data obtained by CBS News. This marks the second straight monthly decline, bucking typical patterns where migration usually ramps up in the spring months. — The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, a Russian national alleged to be the leader of the Russia-based LockBit ransomware gang. In a news release, the Treasury announced Khoroshev’s indictment and an up to $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest and/or conviction for “conspiring and participating in organized transnational crime.” — Bernard Junior Polite, 26, faces homicide charges after his cousin was found fatally shot, according to the Allegheny County Police. Polite was arrested Sunday after allegedly attempting to shoot pastor Glenn Germany during a sermon at the Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock, near Pittsburgh. Footage from a livestream showed Polite being tackled by a deacon after his handgun jammed. — The sixth and final body of the victims killed in the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse has been recovered, authorities said. José Mynor López, 37, of Baltimore, was located Tuesday by salvage teams, authorities stated. López was among six construction workers who died in the incident, and his family has been notified of his death. — An explosion at a mobile home in Princeton, Minnesota early Tuesday morning resulted in two fatalities, officials said. The blast, which several 911 callers reported hearing from miles away just after 4 a.m., killed Katherine A. Kreger, 61, and her husband Royce E. Kreger Jr., 60, according to the Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s deputy. A dog also perished in the explosion that could be heard 20 miles away, the sheriff’s office said. — A 53-year-old Georgia woman who fell from the stands at a graduation event at Ohio State University last weekend has been identified as Larissa Brady, the county coroner announced. An investigation continues into how Brady fell the 136 feet from the stadium to the pavement below, where she was pronounced dead at the scene outside Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Sunday, according to the university. — Boy Scouts of America is rebranding itself as Scouting America to reflect an commitment to welcoming youth of all backgrounds, BSA officials stated in a news release. “Though our name will be new, our mission remains unchanged,” said Roger Krone, president and CEO of Scouting America. “We are committed to teaching young people to be prepared for life.” He said the renaming is an “evolutionary change” ensuring everyone feels included in Scouting America.

Gen Z responds to Boomer’s comments that all young adults need to be drafted in Military. She brings up that Baby Boomers had it all handed to them and benefited from low home prices, employment, low prices and more.

Unbiased headline news for Tuesday May 7, 2024 – Parts of Gaza are currently caught in the grip of a “full-blown famine” and the unrelenting situation could escalate even further amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, a prominent United Nations official sounded the alarm. World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain, during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” highlighted the dire circumstances in northern Gaza. “Whenever conflicts like this erupt, with emotions running high and the inevitable carnage of war, famine inevitably takes hold,” McCain stated. — A U.S. Army sergeant stationed in Korea finds himself detained in Russia, accused of stealing from a woman, according to two Pentagon officials. Staff Sergeant Gordon D. Black was apprehended on May 2nd in Vladivostok. The circumstances surrounding his presence there remain unclear, but he was in the process of transitioning from his duty station in Korea to Fort Cavazos (Fort Hood) in the U.S. His visit to Russia was not part of any official travel. — Russia has announced its intention to conduct tactical nuclear drills in response to what it claims were “provocative statements and threats” from Western officials regarding the Ukrainian war. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the nuclear exercises would be conducted to “maintain the readiness of personnel and equipment” and to ensure the “territorial integrity and sovereignty” of Russia. The drills would practice the use of “non-strategic nuclear weapons.” — The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, traveled to Iran on Monday, where his agency faces increasing challenges in monitoring the Islamic Republic’s rapidly progressing nuclear program. Grossi has already warned that Tehran has enough uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels to produce “several” nuclear bombs if it chooses to do so. He has acknowledged the agency’s inability to guarantee that none of Iran’s centrifuges have been diverted for clandestine enrichment activities. — A 10-month-old girl who was abducted in Clovis, New Mexico, has been found on Monday, according to the FBI Albuquerque Division. A suspect is also in custody, officials confirmed. The baby, Eleia Maria Torres, was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure, the Clovis Police Department stated in a press release. An Amber Alert for the infant was issued on Friday. Her mother, along with two other women, were found dead at Ned Houk Memorial Park, a recreational area north of Clovis, with apparent gunshot wounds, police said. — While sitting along the side of an interstate highway outside of Oklahoma City, authorities say that Joseph Beck voluntarily confessed to killing 19-year-old Jennifer Kyli Molloy in 2016. Beck offered the confession to a state trooper, who had performed a welfare check on Thursday after a passerby reported seeing a man by himself near an exit off I-40, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The trooper then took Beck to the Edmond Police Department, which had initially investigated Molloy’s killing. — A dentist accused of killing his wife by putting poison in her protein shakes allegedly asked a fellow jail inmate to plant letters to make it appear as if his wife was suicidal, police claim. James Craig purportedly asked the inmate to place the letters in Craig’s garage and truck at his home, Aurora police detective Bobbi Olson testified at a court hearing regarding the new allegation against Craig, KMGH-TV reported. The inmate believed the letters were written by Craig but intended to seem as though they were from his wife. — The timeline for replenishing Social Security has been extended. The federal retirement program announced on Monday that it may not need to cut benefits until 2035. The new projection, from the Social Security Board of Trustees’ annual report, amounts to “good news” for the program’s 70 million beneficiaries, said Martin O’Malley, Commissioner of Social Security, in a statement. Even so, he urged Congress to take steps to shore up the program.

Unbiased headline news for Monday May 6, 2024 – Israel ordered the expulsion of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network’s local offices on Sunday, escalating tensions in an ongoing feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The extraordinary directive, which mandates confiscating broadcast gear, prohibiting the channel’s report dissemination, and blocking its websites, is believed to be unprecedented for Israel in shuttering a foreign news outlet operating within its borders. — Hamas militants assaulted Israel’s primary humanitarian aid crossing into the Gaza Strip, dealing a blow to the fragile ceasefire efforts currently underway. The attack on Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing resulted in three Israeli soldiers killed and several others wounded, with three sustaining critical injuries, according to a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces. The incident prompted officials to temporarily close the terminal. — As Ukraine commemorated its third Easter amid ongoing conflict, Russia unleashed a barrage of drones concentrated in the nation’s eastern regions, injuring more than a dozen civilians, while claiming its troops seized control of a targeted village. Ukraine’s air force stated that Russia had launched 24 Shahed drones overnight, of which 23 were successfully intercepted. Six individuals, including a child, sustained injuries in a drone strike in the eastern Kharkiv region, according to regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov. An additional fourteen people were wounded in an airstrike on the Kharkiv regional capital later that Sunday afternoon. — Mere months shy of a quarter-century at the helm of Russia, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday swore an oath on the constitution, commencing another six-year presidential term wielding extraordinary authority. Since assuming the acting presidency on the final day of 1999, Putin has molded Russia into a monolithic entity — crushing political opposition, driving independent journalists out of the country, and promoting an escalating devotion to prudish “traditional values” that marginalizes segments of society. — The New York Police Department has faced criticism for its messaging surrounding student protests sweeping college campuses nationwide, as top brass share politically biased posts online. On Thursday, the NYPD released a joint press release via email with Mayor Eric Adams, outlining that 29% of the 112 individuals arrested at Columbia University and 60% of the 170 people arrested at City College of New York on April 30 were unaffiliated with those institutions. — A 14-year-old girl tragically lost her life, and five other teenagers sustained injuries when gunfire erupted Saturday night outside a house party in Buffalo, New York. “This is a tragic day in the city of Buffalo. Six young people shot between the ages of 14 to 16 years old,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown stated on his weekly radio show. “A 14-year-old girl is dead, a 15-year-old boy is in stable but critical condition. Fortunately, the other four children that were wounded will be OK,” the Mayor added. — One individual was killed, and 23 others sustained injuries when a bus crashed early Sunday morning on Interstate 95 in northern Maryland, according to police reports. The bus, carrying 24 passengers, lost control and collided with a guardrail on I-95 in Harford County around 6 a.m., the Maryland State Police stated. One passenger perished at the crash site, while the driver and 22 other passengers were transported to a hospital with injuries. — Boeing has officially locked out its unionized firefighters in Washington after the firefighter’s union failed to reach an agreement with the company following two-and-a-half months of negotiations, primarily centered around pay disputes. This marks the first instance in over four decades that a group of firefighters has been locked out in the U.S. Boeing added, “We have now locked out members of the bargaining unit and fully implemented our contingency plan with highly qualified firefighters performing the work of IAFF members.”

Op-Ed – A caller called in regarding his anger regarding how kids are spoiled in this country and they all need to go into the military.