LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Two things happened for sure today in New Jersey. 1) Two counties of people had heart attacks, and 2) Someone lost their job. On Tuesday, a nuclear power plant warning was sent out in New Jersey by mistake. The two counties Cumberland and Salem were the recipients of the accidental drill…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman The family of deceased Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich is calling on local police to publicize details of the murder investigation, according to the Daily Mail. ‘The family has full confidence in the Metropolitan Police Department’s ability to proceed with this investigation,” said Brad Bauman, a spokesperson for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A rogue drone embedded with a camera crashed into the stands Sunday at Petco Park, the home venue for the San Diego Padres, during the middle of a baseball game. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCV38rSiQnk Fans gazed at the flying device as it zipped around the arena, even getting very…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall There are few TV moments that show just how far America has come on race relations — and this scene from the Bachelorette may be one of them. The scene from Monday night’s episode featured a group of black and white guys awkwardly trying to freestyle rap…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr Race has reached the forefront of the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial. Defense attorneys sharply accused the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office of engaging in the “systematic exclusion of African Americans” from the jury on Tuesday, reports The Washington Post. Prosecutors vigorously disputed this charge. With only one black person…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti U.K. authorities believe the manufacturer of the bomb Salman Abedi used to kill 22 and maim over 50 is still at large, the Manchester Evening News reports. UK police believe Abedi was merely a “mule” who ferried the bomb to the Ariana Grande concert before detonating himself and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Following the horrific terror attack that was enacted upon the young fans of singer Ariana Grande at the Manchester Arena in the UK, everyone was left speechless, and in mourning, including the music starlet. Grande, in the aftermath of the incident tweeted out that she was “broken,” “so sorry,”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke The San Francisco public defender’s office launched a new unit Tuesday dedicated to representing illegal immigrants faced with deportation and focused on providing local tax money for cases heard in the city’s federal immigration courts. The special immigration division, one of only three such programs in the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The terrorist suspected of blowing himself up at Manchester Arena Monday had ties to al-Qaida and was trained abroad, according to an NBC report. Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British citizen of Libyan descent, traveled to Libya within the last year, a U.S. intelligence official told NBC. He had…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his philanthropist wife Priscilla visited military officers studying at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island Monday in part of a larger tour around the country. “We discussed the impact of technology and rapid information sharing on military strategy, and how…