Listen to TLR’s Podcast! By Steve Birr GOP Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions argued Congress ultimately needs to change federal pot laws if Americans do not want him to crackdown on states’ rights, leaving uncertainty within the marijuana industry. Sessions, who started his confirmation hearing Tuesday for the post of attorney general, is a staunch opponent of…
By Kevin Daley Pope Francis issued a new edict Saturday effectively countermanding a previous order and reflecting his ongoing struggle with interests entrenched inside the Roman Curia, the Vatican’s sprawling bureaucracy. The document is a motu proprio called “Like a loving mother,” which clarifies language and procedures governing the removal of bishops for negligence in clerical sexual abuse investigations. In…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Trump administration is trying to facilitate the release of a Pakistani doctor who was jailed for helping the CIA locate Osama Bin-Laden, The Wall Street Journal reports. The doctor, Shakil Afridi, started a fake vaccination program to both locate bin Laden and attempt to get his DNA. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Anders Hagstrom Californians voted seven months ago to keep the death penalty and speed the appeals process for executions, but a lawsuit being considered by the California Supreme Court is holding up the entire process. California’s November referendums approved both the death penalty and Proposition 66, which put a…
Guy Bentley Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party Nigel Farage is accusing the European Union of moving towards a Soviet-style government. In a fiery speech delivered in the European Parliament, Farage lamented the ousting of European leaders such as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Greece’s George Papandreou under E.U. pressure in 2011. Referring to the E.U.’s…
By: Laura Meyers A jerk in Ohio is being charged for entering a car after an accident and filming the two injured teenage victims, one of whom later died from his injuries, while calling them “idiots” and making no effort to help them. The two victims, Zachary Goodin and Cameron Friend, both 17, were critically injured, after the driver lost control…
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