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close Video Nashville City Council member touts 'incredible' police, school responses to shooting Fox News enterprise reporter Lawrence Jones speaks with Nashville City Council members Russ Pulley and Freddie O'Connell about the response to the shooting at The Covenant School and a possible motive The shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee that left three children and three adults dead should be investigated as a hate crime, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley said Tuesday. "We should be clear about what happened in Nashville. Police say the shooting was ‘targeted,’" the Republican lawmaker tweeted. "That makes it a federal hate crime - against Christian children and teachers. Targeting victims on the basis of religious affiliation is a hate crime. It should be investigated as such." "All federal resources necessary should be brought to bear," Hawley added in a follow-up tweet. "And those individuals or groups who have spread a … [Read more...] about Nashville school shooting should be investigated as hate crime, Hawley says

VINALHAVEN, Maine — Visit Robert Indiana’s remote Maine mansion — arch, beautiful and borderline bizarre — and you’ll find a man, and an artist, surrounded, and haunted, by LOVE. The word, that is: images of Mr. Indiana’s 1966 signature work, “LOVE,” its four letters colored and cubed, hang on his walls, sit on his shelves and peek through his windows. It’s emblazoned on posters, depicted in paintings, hewed in marble and sewn in sequins. It’s in English, and in Spanish and Hebrew and Chinese. And it is cast on coffee mugs, splashed across magazine covers and on the sides of a pair of high-top Converses. “Have you seen one of my contributions to American culture?” Mr. Indiana said. “So that all of our athletes can be properly shod?” If you detect a touch of ambivalence — antipathy, even — toward the word from the man who created it, you are not mistaken. Indeed, while “LOVE” made Mr. Indiana famous around the world, success came at a steep price, some say: namely, a lack of … [Read more...] about An Artist’s LOVE-Hate Relationship

Comedian and podcast host Bill Maher lauded Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s crusade against cancel culture during a recent podcast episode. Maher made the comments in Monday’s episode of his “Club Random” podcast, which featured Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington as a guest. “If we’re talking about Elon Musk and Twitter, I happen to like him, I don’t care who fucking knows,” Maher said. “Well, I like him too,” Huffington responded. “Yeah, I’m sure. And there’s two things we disagree on. Going to Mars I think is incredibly stupid and it’s been great comedy fodder for me, and also his idea that we need to increase the population, seems just completely insane,” Maher added. “But on Twitter, I think he is doing a very selfless thing. I think he is doing basically kind of what Edward Snowden did. Because he certainly didn’t need this headache.” Musk acquired Twitter in Oct. 2022 for around $44 billion and subsequently began releasing internal documents, known as the … [Read more...] about ‘He’s An Impulsive Genius’: Maher Lauds Musk For Going After Cancel Culture

NEW DELHI — A massive manhunt in India for a Sikh separatist leader has failed to find its target for more than a week. But authorities’ no-holds-barred search — including the deployment of thousands of paramilitary soldiers, a statewide internet blackout and a high-speed chase — has captured the attention of the nation and the world. Police accuse Amritpal Singh, a 30-year-old self-styled preacher who seeks a sovereign Sikh homeland, of disrupting communal harmony, among other mounting charges. Officials say they are worried he could stir violence in his home state of Punjab, where thousands of people were killed in the 1980s as the Indian government fought an bloody insurgency for an independent Sikh state known as Khalistan. The crackdown has unnerved the public, said Sukanya Singh, a university student in Amritsar, Punjab’s second-biggest city. “There is panic buying because we don’t know how long it will go,” the 20-year-old, whose last name is common among Sikhs … [Read more...] about India can’t find a Sikh separatist leader, but its manhunt has got the world’s attention

On Monday evening, former President Barack Obama tweeted his response to the Nashville Christian school shooting by repeating the left’s false claim that guns are the number one killer of children. On March 23, 2023, Breitbart News reported that actor Billy Porter made the same false claim, screaming that “the leading cause of death in children are guns” during an appearance on ABC’s The View . Porter’s claim, which is now Obama’s claim as well, became a common one among leftists and non-fact-checking moderates in the summer of 2022 after a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was widely reported in late May that year. FOX News ran a story titled “Guns now the leading cause of death for US children, per CDC.” The story noted that CDC figures show firearm-related deaths of people ages 0-19 totaled 4,368 in 2020, while motor vehicle deaths for the same age range totaled 4,036. And during a June 2, 2022, speech, President Joe Biden reacted to the … [Read more...] about Barack Obama Falsely Claims Guns Are Number One Killer of Children

Havana (CNN) Marta Perdomo agonizes day and night for her two sons Jorge and Nadir, jailed in Cuba for taking part nearly two years ago in the largest anti-government protests since the 1959 revolution. A call she says she received in late February from Cuba's internal security service only added to her anxiety. "State security called me and asked me if my sons had passports. That alarmed me because then I thought they should know if my sons have passports," she told CNN. When Perdomo asked why, the answer she said she received back from the agent from the other end of the line was cryptic. Read More "They told me there are 'things on the table,'" Perdomo said. Perdomo's sons are facing lengthy prison sentences but she and other families have taken hope from a recent mass release of prisoners in authoritarian Nicaragua, a close ally of Cuba's. More than two hundred jailed government opponents there were stripped of citizenship and … [Read more...] about Families of Cuban prisoners hopeful as US, Pope push for their release