LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Anders Hagstrom Ohio is looking to overhaul its criminal code for the first time since 1974, and the changes would release more than 3,000 inmates over the next year, according to Monday reports. Ohio’s Criminal Justice Re-codification committee deliberated on the changes for two years. The resulting criminal code,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Gabrielle Okun The man likely to become the next prime minister of the Czech Republic doesn’t like the idea of converting the country’s currency to the Euro. Andrej Babis, successful businessman and head of the ANO party, does not want to make the change, which would mean some surrender of national sovereignty…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr The Huffington Post expounded on the “dangers” of a pro-life woman that President Donald Trump appointed as the chief of staff to the assistant secretary for health at Health and Human Services (HHS) in a Tuesday story. Because Valerie Huber is an advocate for abstinence education who served as the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley At this early juncture of his tenure, Justice Neil Gorsuch has placed his bold, conservative bona fides in plain view, evincing an important shift in the center of gravity among the Court’s five conservatives. It is difficult to get the full measure of a justice in the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Google and Facebook combined earn roughly 50 percent of all global advertisement revenue, according to Axios. The two tech giants dwarf all other corporations in the industry with Google and Facebook respectively making $80.8 billion and $36.3 billion in 2017. Besides three other tech conglomerates based in China, the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced Tuesday it will add “woke” and “post-truth” to its lexicon of words. The two terms are politically-charged, with the former used by Black Lives Matter and the latter often used to describe America under President Donald Trump. “Post-truth” was OED’s word of the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Russian surface-to-air missile batteries are tracking U.S. warplanes in Syria after the country’s ministry of defense pledged to target U.S. aircraft, Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Corcoran confirmed to Military.com. Russia’s threat to track and target U.S. aircraft in Syria came after a June 18 shoot-down of a Syrian regime…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen California will list the main ingredient in the weed-killing pesticide Roundup as a chemical that causes cancer, a state office announced Monday. It will be the first time a state has officially listed the chemical as carcinogenic. California will add glyphosate, the main ingredient in agro-chemical giant Monsanto’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Mexican authorities announced Monday that they have discovered the remains of a reporter who has been missing since May, marking the seventh journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2017 alone. Officials in the violence-plagued state of Michoacán said they located the body of Salvador Adame, the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe The FBI issued a statement Wednesday refusing to confirm or deny the existence of records reflecting payments made between the FBI and Christopher Steele, the British spy who compiled the unverified opposition research dossier on then candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. The FBI’s statement was issued in response to…