Louisiana State

The Hill

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) said in a press conference Monday that parents who are unhappy with the Ten Commandments getting posted in public school classrooms should tell their child “not to look at them.” Landry announced the state was moving to dismiss the legal challenge that has been brought by civil rights advocacy groups…

Louisiana governor says kids can just not ‘look’ at Ten Commandments, files to dismiss challenge

WashingtonExaminer

Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) knocked concerns over Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments law as the state moves to dismiss a legal challenge against the controversial measure.  During a press conference Monday, Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Louisiana would seek to deny a challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups […]

Louisiana governor questions ‘whole big fuss’ over controversial Ten Commandments law

Louisiana's top officials are going to bat for the state's new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms. At a news conference on Monday, Attorney General Liz Murrill said she's asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the ACLU, which she says was filed prematurely.

Landry, Murrill Defend Law Requiring 10 Commandments In Classrooms

Reuters

(Reuters) - It is a foundational democratic tenet taught in every basic U.S. history course: the Constitution bars the government from endorsing an official religion or favoring one over others.

How US public schools became a new religious battleground

The New Republic

Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t like where the contempt resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland is going, and is trying to get the MAGA representative behind the effort, Anna Paulina Luna, to back down. Johnson reportedly told Luna in the Republican conference Tuesday to back off of introducing a resolution this week, but she’s refusing.Earlier, Luna told the conference that she would introduce the contempt resolution on the House floor Wednesday, with an amendment that it wouldn’t be to arrest Garland but to fire him. Johnson said he is also concerned about the attorney general, but the House’s lawsuit to enforce...

Mike Johnson Privately Begs MAGA Rep. to Quit Merrick Garland Scheme

Minnesota State

Steve Martin has finally weighed in on all the online speculation about whether he will play newly minted vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on “Saturday Night Live.”

Steve Martin says he declined to play Tim Walz on ‘SNL’ because he’s ‘not an impressionist’

South Carolina State

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Town Talks

When it comes to deciding who to marry, many people choose to spend the rest of their lives with a high school sweetheart, college classmate, or someone they met at work. Others decide to tie the knot with someone who they have known their whole lives — and maybe even met at a family reunion.

Can you marry your first cousin in North Carolina? What state law says

Sangamon County, IL

The deputy sheriff who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her Illinois home last month said he believed that when the Black woman who called 911 for help unexpectedly said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” that she intended deadly harm, according to the deputy’s field report released Monday.

Deputy who shot Sonya Massey thought her rebuke ‘in the name of Jesus’ indicated intent to kill him

Nicknaming President Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe” doesn’t seem to be looking so good for Donald Trump now that he’s the old man in the race.A Morning Consult poll published Monday revealed that voters are suddenly viewing Trump as the decrepit candidate after Biden dropped his campaign. Americans are apparently far more likely to describe Vice President Kamala Harris as healthy, mentally fit, and a strong leader than the 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee.According to the poll, 71 percent of respondents agreed that Harris was “in good health,” while 52 percent said the same about Trump—6 percent fewer than believed the same...

Trump Just Got an Embarrassing Wake-Up Call From a Stunning New Poll

Chicago, IL

Mediaite

The co-chair of this year's National Association of Black Journalists convention has stepped down following the news that Donald Trump will attend.
The post National Association of Black Journalists Co-Chair Steps Down After Trump Announces Q&A at Convention first appeared on Mediaite.

National Association of Black Journalists Co-Chair Steps Down After Trump Announces Q&A at Convention

Indiana State

Law & Crime

Richard and Patricia Heitz allegedly kept child in camper without electricity for days before abandoning him at a mental facility and refusing to let him back home. 
The post Adopted 13-year-old kept in camper without electricity, forced to use ‘grocery style bags’ as toilet: Police first appeared on Law & Crime.

Adopted 13-year-old kept in camper without electricity, forced to use 'grocery style bags' as toilet: Police

California State

Inmate on death row for 33 years must either be released or retried over prosecutorial misconduct

California inmate on death row for 33 years must either be released or retried due to prosecutorial misconduct

Usha Vance tried to walk back her husband’s comments about “childless cat ladies,” but couldn’t quite explain away his misogynistic rhetoric. In a taped interview that aired on Fox & Friends Monday, Vance spun her own toned-down interpretation of J.D. Vance calling Democrats “a bunch of childless cat ladies” who “want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” She said that, unlike everyone else, she’d actually paid attention to the “context” of his quote. “The reality is, he made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive, and it had...

J.D. Vance’s Wife Miserably Fails at Defending “Childless Cat Ladies”

Kentucky State

HuffPost

Gov. Andy Beshear said he wanted to "set the record straight" after his remarks about the soft drink and Trump's vice presidential pick.

After Mocking JD Vance, Kentucky Gov. Issues An Apology... To Diet Mountain Dew

Former Bush campaign manager Karl Rove joined Fox News on Friday and predicted Vice President Kamala Harris will soon have a solid lead over Donald Trump in the polls. “So let’s talk about where the race is, because in some battleground states, the polls seem to have been narrowing. Let’s put it up here Arizona. Trump still leads, though one poll has got Harris up by two. Same thing in Nevada. Wisconsin, Trump holds a very narrowly missed Michigan. Trump is ahead, but Harris is up 11 in one new poll, which I think might be an outlier. Trump continues to lead in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. He’s still got the advantage, Karl, but she’s gaining momentum, there’s no question,” began anchor John Roberts.

Karl Rove on Fox News Predicts Kamala Harris’s ‘Momentum’ Will Soon Give Her a Solid Lead Over Trump

Herbie J Pilato

Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

'Beverly Hillbillies" Actor Buddy Ebsen Was "Bitter" about not playing the Tin Man in 'Wizard of Oz'

Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

North Carolina State

As many as 1 million people are estimated to have lived or worked at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune between August 1953 and December 1987, when the drinking water was heavily polluted with cancer-causing industrial solvents like trichloroethylene, or TCE, and tetrachloroethylene, or PCE.

More than 385,000 Camp Lejeune contamination claims have been filed. So far, the US government has offered to pay 114 of them

Washington, DC

Finurah

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has successfully sold her Washington, D.C., home. Listed in April for $2.5 million, the property was snapped up for […]

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Scores Big, Sells DC Home for $725K Profit

CNN’s Alayna Treene fact-checks JD Vance’s claims about Tim Walz’s military service.

Fact-checking Vance’s claims on Walz’s military service

NewsBreak

Louisiana unveils Ten Commandments posters for public schools featuring ‘Hamilton,’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mike Johnson

Louisiana officials unveiled several posters of the Ten Commandments on Monday that could soon be placed in state classrooms featuring some familiar...

Louisiana unveils Ten Commandments posters for public schools featuring ‘Hamilton,’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mike Johnson

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