During a 2016 fundraiser, Hillary Clinton infamously claimed that “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into… the basket of deplorables.” Yet, a year into his second term, their supposedly equally repugnant leader is endlessly attacked as progressives invent a hopefully winning blue-wave issue for the upcoming midterm elections. And...

https://saferead.org/CBVI?1

A federal judge Tuesday refused to block filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone by mail across the U.S. -- at least for now -- in a setback to Louisiana's effort to stifle groups that send it into states where abortion is restricted. U.S. District Judge David Joseph, who sits...

https://saferead.org/CBVJ?1

Recent press reports and opinion poll results declare the U.S. economy is in worse shape than it was in 2021 through 2024. This impression prevails despite very high gross domestic product growth and falling inflation in the second and third quarters of last year, in the wake of slower growth...

https://saferead.org/CBVK?1

Oklahoma-based Continental Resources made news this week by announcing it will increase its drilling and production capital budget in response to the new higher oil price environment that has evolved in response to the Iran Conflict. “Continental is increasing our capital budget, which will increase production,” Lawler said in a...

https://saferead.org/CBVL?1

Predictable as death, taxes, yesterday’s news, and hoping Trump fails, Democrats can’t resist criticizing the military campaign in Iran. Yet when objectively viewing the threatening malignancy of that failed state, all but blind-faith progressives could fail to recognize the justifiably epic motivations for Operation Epic Fury. The first such motivation...

https://saferead.org/CBVM?1

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell has withdrawn his campaign for California governor amid a rapidly developing scandal involving a flurry of sexual assault allegations, widespread staff resignations, and sharp denouncements from fellow Democrats. The announcement came Sunday straight from Swalwell himself. Swalwell admitted to "mistakes in judgement" he's made in the...

https://saferead.org/CBVN?1

Iran reportedly failed to locate all the naval mines it deployed in the Strait of Hormuz, preventing it from quickly reopening the critical shipping lane. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh said in an interview with ITV that the Iranian regime has laid naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz....

https://saferead.org/CBVO?1

Three elderly people in New York City's Grand Central Terminal were victimized during a severe slashing attack on Saturday morning that ended with the assailant being shot dead by police. New York Police Department officers encountered Anthony Griffin, 44, brandishing a machete, according to a report from CBS News. Griffin...

https://saferead.org/CBVP?1

Despite being diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, former Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse has not given up on living, telling the host of a New York Times podcast Thursday that he intends to face the unknown awaiting him with hope and clarity. The 54-year-old married father of three announced...

https://saferead.org/CBVQ?1

A coffee chain with locations across California's Bay Area announced that it will remove "pride" flags from all of its locations, sparking activist backlash toward the company. Philz Coffee CEO Mahesh Sadarangani confirmed in a statement to KRON-TV that the flag would be removed from all stores, some of which...

https://saferead.org/CBVR?1

President Donald Trump warned China on Sunday it would face a tariff among other “staggering” consequences if it provided weapons to Iran. Trump announced a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in a Sunday morning Truth Social post, saying ships that paid an Iranian toll in either Chinese yuan...

https://saferead.org/CBVS?1

Sound can't travel through space. But on the Orion spacecraft, which carried Artemis II astronauts around the moon, at least one Christian song was playing inside the capsule. Christian singer-songwriter TobyMac revealed on Facebook that "Good Morning," a song he wrote with the late singer Mandisa, woke up the astronauts...

https://saferead.org/CBVT?1

What a difference a few years makes. Back in 2024, the White House -- along with other Democrats -- seemed to place more emphasis on the fact that Easter Sunday fell on Transgender Day of Visibility. Sure, this was just a coincidence, President Joe Biden said. However, people couldn't help...

https://saferead.org/CBVU?1

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Friday that he supports calls from Melania Trump for Congress to hold public proceedings involving individuals who accuse disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein of wrongdoing. In a public statement Thursday, the first lady denied any connection to Epstein and urged lawmakers to let survivors...

https://saferead.org/CBVV?1

The war in Iran has led to rising prices not only for fuel, but for countless products downstream of fuel. That includes luggage on business trips and vacations for millions of people in the coming months. Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines raised their checked bag fees by $10 this...

https://saferead.org/CBVW?1

After Iran refused to allow ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy would be blockading the critical passage starting on Monday. “The United States to Blockade Ships Entering or Exiting Iranian Ports on April 13 at 10:00 A.M. ET. Thank you for...

https://saferead.org/CBVX?1

America’s NATO allies are steering clear of the blockade President Donald Trump is imposing on Iran. As noted by U.S. Central Command in a post on X, the blockade that takes effect Monday only targets ships coming to or going from Iran. Other ships are free to go about their...

https://saferead.org/CBVY?1

Democrat Texas state Rep. James Talarico faced backlash Friday over a resurfaced 2019 interview in which he defended a bill requiring schools to maintain at least four mental health professionals for every one police officer on campus. Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and former middle school teacher, defeated Democratic Texas Representative...

https://saferead.org/CBVZ?1

President Donald Trump on Sunday published an AI-generated image to Truth Social so "blasphemous" it triggered an outpouring of condemnation from his own side of the political aisle. The AI-generated image seemingly depicted Trump as the savior Jesus Christ as he hovered over and blessed a man with his hand....

https://saferead.org/CBWA?1

Republicans in the Tennessee House walked out of an invocation last month after the guest minister denounced "white Christian nationalism" and President Donald Trump during his prayer. The highly politicized invocation -- delivered by Michael Eric Dyson, who serves as an ethics professor at Vanderbilt University -- occurred because of...

https://saferead.org/CBWB?1

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman did not give a straight answer when directly asked why people should trust him to spearhead artificial intelligence (AI) development during a Monday interview. Axios co-founder Mike Allen posed the question to Altman amid OpenAI’s Monday release of a blueprint for how the government should handle...

https://saferead.org/CBWC?1