Month: June 2022

R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison in Sex Case

NEW YORK—R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer’s conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex. The sentence was imposed nine months after Kelly, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex crimes, in a…


R. Kelly Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

NEW YORK—R. Kelly was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, following the multiplatinum R&B singer’s conviction for exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls into his orbit for sex. The sentence was imposed nine months after Kelly, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex crimes, in a…


Alleged Truck Driver Posed as Victim After Texas Illegal Immigrant Deaths

SAN ANTONIO/MEXICO CITY—The alleged driver of a truck carrying dozens of migrants who died in the suffocating heat in Texas this week initially tried to pass himself off as a victim to escape authorities before he was arrested, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Wednesday. The death toll in the incident rose to 53 as…


California ‘Low-Income’ Apartments Cost Over $1 Million to Build

Commentary The California housing lunacy just gets worse and worse. Not long ago I commented on a Los Angeles audit revealing that the city was building housing for homeless at a cost of up to $837,000 per single unit. Now, a Los Angeles Times study of state records reveals that the state is subsidizing low-income…


Officials Identify 4 People Who Died in Amtrak Derailment

MENDON, Mo.—Authorities on Wednesday identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week in rural Missouri, saying two were from Kansas and two were from Missouri. The truck driver, 54-year-old Billy Barton II, of Brookfield, Missouri, died in Monday’s collision, the Chariton County coroner said. Two…


Banned in San Francisco Over Abortion Advocacy, Nancy Pelosi Receives Communion in Papal Mass in Rome

Over a month after being denied communion in her home city of San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has received communion on Wednesday at a Mass with Pope Francis in Rome. The California Democrat, who is visiting Rome on a family vacation, was spotted during the official livestream of Pope Francis’ Mass for the Solemnity…


Cannabis Users 22 Percent More Likely to Need Emergency Care and Hospitalization: New Study

Emergency care and hospitalizations are 22 percent higher among Canadians who use cannabis compared with those who don’t, a new study has found. The study, led by researchers at Unity Health Toronto, a Catholic hospital network, found that recreational cannabis use is linked to a heightened risk of emergency care and hospital admission for any…


Abortion Rights Supporter Squeaks Through Colorado Congressional Primary to Face Pro-Life Boebert

Champagne corks flew skyward on the night of June 28 in Aspen, Colorado, as friends and supporters surrounded former city councilman Adam Frisch and cheered. The Colorado Secretary of State website showed him ahead by only about 1,000 votes. But mathematically talented friends crunched numbers, and confidently predicted him the irrefutable winner of the Democrat…


FDA Issues Two Warning Letters to E-cigarette Businesses for Unauthorized Sales

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted warning letters on June 28 to two e-cigarette businesses, VAPORIZIT LLC and Elk River Vapor Shop, for selling e-cigarette products not previously on the market. According to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, new tobacco products, including vapes, need a pre-market authorization order to be sold in…


Bill Gates-Linked $13.5 Million Farmland Purchase Triggers Pushback in North Dakota

The sale of over 2,000 acres of North Dakota farmland to an entity linked to Bill Gates, the fourth-richest man in the world and America’s largest private owner of farmland, has attracted scrutiny from the state’s top prosecutor. Red River Trust, a Texas-based entity with ties to Gates, in November purchased 13 parcels of land…