Month: February 2023

NTD Evening News (Feb. 27): DeSantis Signs Bill Ending Disney’s ‘Corporate Kingdom’; Lab Leak Likely Origin of Pandemic: DOE

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Feb. 27 signed a bill that takes control of a special tax district surrounding Walt Disney World that for half a century allowed Walt Disney Company to operate with a high degree of autonomy. DeSantis says Disney World will now be treated just the same as Sea World. A lab…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (Feb. 27): DeSantis Signs Bill Ending Disney’s ‘Corporate Kingdom’; Lab Leak Likely Origin of Pandemic: DOE

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Feb. 27 signed a bill that takes control of a special tax district surrounding Walt Disney World that for half a century allowed Walt Disney Company to operate with a high degree of autonomy. DeSantis says Disney World will now be treated just the same as Sea World. A lab…


Supreme Court Not Receptive to Biden DOJ’s Arguments About Reach of Identity Theft Law

The Supreme Court seemed unreceptive to the Biden administration’s arguments on Feb. 27 that a Texas man convicted of Medicaid fraud should also be convicted of aggravated identity theft arising out of the same transaction because a form he filed contained a patient’s name. Several justices expressed concern that the government wants to interpret the…


Former Biden Aide to Provide House Investigators With Details in Classified Documents Case

Kathy Chung, a former assistant to President Joe Biden, has agreed to comply with part of a House Oversight Committee request for information on the classified documents found at Biden’s old office space at the Penn Biden Center in November. Chung previously served as Biden’s executive assistant and, according to CNN, was one of the…


SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket Carrying Starlink Satellites

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket at 6:00 p.m. ET on Feb. 27 to transport 21 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. …


‘Most Hated Student’: White Student Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Historically-Black College

A white student from Howard University’s law school has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the institution, claiming it created a “hostile educational environment” which allegedly caused him to suffer from depression. Howard University is a federally chartered, historically black, private research university based in Washington D.C. Michael Newman, the student, had joined the law…


Five Months On, Victims of Hurricane Ian Are Still Living in Limbo

MATLACHA, Fla.—Jeff Funchion sits in a wicker loveseat in the slim shade of a travel trailer with a fan pushing air and carpets unrolled before him on a crushed-shell driveway with a 50-foot long cement pad at the end. He’s waiting for a buyer this Sunday afternoon, hoping someone will come along and purchase his…


After Teen Athlete Loses Both Legs, Outside Judge to Consider Removing Missouri Prosecutor

An outside judge has been appointed in Missouri to consider whether an elected prosecutor should be removed from office. John Torbitzky, an appeals court judge for the eastern district of Missouri, will preside over the removal hearing that is to be set for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner. Officials on Feb. 27 were still…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Keys of the Kingdom’: A Christian Miracle in Imperial China

G | 2 h 17 min | Drama | 1944 Young, handsome Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck) hopes to marry his childhood sweetheart in his native Scotland. But fate and faith have him pick priesthood. Then the early 20th-century Catholic Church sends him on a mission to the tumultuous province of Pai-tan, China. He arrives to…


Trump Attorney: Trump Investigation in Georgia ‘Compromised’

Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump in a special purpose investigation in Fulton County, Georgia, say the investigation process has been compromised due to public remarks made by a member of the grand jury. “We’ve lost 100 percent confidence in this process. We feel this process has been compromised,” Trump attorney Drew Findling said in…