If a hiker gets lost in the wilderness, should she bear the costs of her own rescue? The recent ordeal of a woman lost in a Maui forest for seventeen days brings this issue once again to public attention. State-funded rescue operations were called off after three days of effort because of the expense, but fortunately, this…
By Saagar Enjeti U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s closing memo to President Barack Obama painted a rosy picture of the U.S. role in the world since Obama took office in 2008. Kerry claimed Obama made the best of a bad situation, citing Obama’s inheritance of wars not his own in Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Rob Shimshock A college student in California who stole a “Make America Great Again” hat off of another student’s head faces up to a year in jail, according to a Tuesday report. University of California, Riverside student Edith Macias is facing a misdemeanor charge of grand theft after stealing fellow…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield UPDATE: 4:00PM EST 6/30/2017 NYPD is confirming that shooter is now deceased. Multiple outlets are reporting that police are on scene at Bronx Lebanon Hospital following what is being called an active shooter incident. There are reports of ‘multiple injuries’ and the NYPD, with the assistance of ATF,…
Attorney General William Barr announced on Thursday that he had directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt an addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol effectively reinstating the Federal Death Penalty. “Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,”…
Steve Birr With pipeline projects mired in environmental battles and oil prices trapped below $50 a barrel, Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday it is halting its oil sands project in Canada. Shell stopped development at its Carmon Creek facility in Alberta, a project that would produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The loss will…
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