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Quest for Gold – Paris 2024 – Episode 50: USA Judo’s John Jayne is banking on his Tokyo experience for his first Olympic competition in Paris
This week on Quest for Gold:-Team USA athletes have their swag and are headed to Paris-Team USA Men’s Basketball has two more exhibitions before the Olympics-The USWNT will try to find more scoring opportunities at the Summer Games-An organization says the IOC isn’t following its own rules on Russian athletes-And we speak with John Jayne […]
Paris Olympic competition nears total gender parity
The IOC set a goal of a 50-50 split among the more than 11,000 men and women, including backups, registered to compete from July 26 to Aug. 11. However, the latest numbers from the IOC suggest organizers might fall just short of that target.
City Club of Chicago: From Legislation to Action – The Impact of Gun Safety Laws in Illinois
July 18, 2024 From Legislation to Action: The Impact of Gun Safety Laws in Illinois – Moderated by G-PAC’s President & CEO Kathleen Sances – Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Senate President Don Harmon, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly City Club event description: Since 2017, Illinois has ushered in five significant gun safety laws, thanks […]
Republicans grow bullish on flipping Virginia
Republicans are increasingly looking to Virginia as a state that is in play ahead of November, signaling yet another potential shift in the electoral map toward former President Trump. A number of polls out this week show Trump and President Biden within 2 to 5 points of each other in the state, which has not gone […]
Raskin and Comer urge Secret Service director appearance in rare joint statement
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) issued a rare joint statement Friday urging Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear “without delay” for a hearing Monday to discuss the weekend’s assassination attempt of former President Trump. The statement from the top Republican and Democrat on the […]
Ukraine-Russia War update: Does Vladimir Putin have an air defense system near his home?
Journalist and editor of ‘Ukrainian Freedom News’ Joseph Lindsley joins Bob Sirott from Ukraine to deliver the latest news on the Ukraine-Russia War, including the possible reason for Vladimir Putin’s air defense system near his home and Ukraine’s permissions and restrictions when using Western weapons. You can find more updates on Joseph’s website, ukrainianfreedomnews.com. To donate […]
Allen Weisselberg, ex-Trump Organization CFO, released from Rikers
The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization was released from Rikers Island on Friday, according to New York City corrections records. Allen Weisselberg, Trump’s longtime financial gatekeeper, was sentenced in April to five months of incarceration after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury stemming from former President Trump’s civil fraud trial, in […]
Several airlines face global ground stop and services disrupted worldwide in wake of major Microsoft Outage
(WJET/WFXP) — Several airlines and multiple services worldwide saw major disruptions in the wake of a major Microsoft and Crowdstrike outage. Around 7 a.m., Microsoft 365 said they had released a fix for the update that had caused the disruptions. All the flights that were affected by the outage have since returned to normal service. […]
Biden campaign reiterates president will be nominee in post-RNC memo
The Biden campaign reiterated in a new memo following the Republican National Convention that the president will be the Democratic nominee, even as the party remains embroiled in disagreement about the path forward. The memo also targeted Project 2025, which Donald Trump has disavowed.
Clip of Ole Miss student making racist gestures at Black woman played at RNC sparks backlash
A video played at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday evening included a clip of a white University of Mississippi student making monkey gestures at a Black woman on campus earlier this year.
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