Tag: US Features

Aaron Babbitt Is on a Mission to Get Justice for Wife Ashli: ‘She Will Be Remembered’

It might have been the death threats. Perhaps it was the fake sympathy cards sent to his office, containing photos of his wife lying in a pool of her own blood. Maybe it was the news media that called his wife a terrorist and an insurrectionist who “stormed the Capitol” and was shot dead in…


New Year Marks the Rise and Fall of ‘Miracle Foods’

On Jan. 1, 2013, countless Americans flocked to Google. With the aftertaste of New Year’s Eve dips and desserts still in their mouths, they ambled to their computers with new resolutions. A four-letter word flashed from their fingers to keyboard to Google’s search algorithm: kale. That January marked the high-water mark of the leafy green…


Informed Consent and Citizens’ Rights in the Age of COVID

“People need to be able to ask questions,” says Dr. Aaron Kheriaty. “That’s central to what it means to live in a free society.” In back-to-back episodes of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discussed the pandemic, informed consent, and citizens’ rights with Kheriaty, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California Irvine’s School…


Fun Facts About New Year’s Eve in Times Square

NEW YORK—It’s been a New York City tradition since 1907: thousands of New Yorkers and tourists pack themselves into Times Square in Manhattan on New Year’s Eve, stand in the cold for hours with no bathrooms, and wait for a huge ball to drop at the stroke of midnight. The city said it would limit…


Aging WW II Vets Share Stories With Next Generation

“Soldiering in Patton’s army was tough,” remembers 97-year-old Ernie Rabineau. “We called him ‘Old Blood and Guts.’ We needed people like that because Germany was a strong, powerful, and tough enemy.” Widowed for the past seven years, Ernie lives alone in a comfortable three-bedroom ranch-style home on a country road near Attica, Michigan. Ernie is…


Documentary Drops Inconvenient Truths on the Jan. 6 Narrative

“If she was your friend, you needed no other friend.” That’s how Aaron Babbitt describes his wife, Ashli Babbitt, 35, the U.S. Air Force veteran shot and killed outside the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. What started as a patriotic day with a speech by President Donald Trump ended…


Dumbing Down Education Key to Dismantling America: Alex Newman

Critical race theory together with gender ideology and the manmade global warming hypothesis that’s now being taught to young children, all have the goal of dismantling the United States as a free society, said Alex Newman, investigative journalist and Epoch Times contributor. There is a global effort coming from the United Nations and from China…


Holmes Jury Heads Into Fifth Day of Deliberations

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes faces the fifth day of deliberations Tuesday. Holmes is facing 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in fact it was prone to wild errors. The eight men…


Resort’s Plan B Gives Florida Families Rare Snow-Day ‘Wintertainment’

KISSIMMEE, Florida—Around Christmas each year, families from cold climates flock to the theme park capital of the globe, home to Walt Disney World, Universal, SeaWorld and many other attractions. While they’re escaping snow, Florida families with young children often pack up and drive 12 hours or more, hoping to catch a glimpse of the white…


Restaurant Chain Broken Into 5 Times in 2021, Police Give Safety Tips

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The left door of a restaurant is boarded up, contrasting the still-intact glass door beside it. A light green paper taped on the plywood reads: “We were burgled last [night]. No cash here! 11/24” Local Bay Area restaurant chain Noodle Talk has had its three stores broken into five times this year. Two…