12-year-old Molly descended into a downward spiral when she discovered her parents were getting divorced. Her mother didn’t worry too much about Molly’s behavior until she went missing one day. Molly stared at her parents in shock. Tears blurred her vision of them sitting on opposite ends of the sofa, yet an inexplicable urge to laugh filled her chest. This had to be a joke, after all. Her parents couldn’t be getting divorced! “Your father will be moving out tomorrow while you’re at school,” Mom continued.”Where am I going to live?” Molly looked at Dad. His face was lined with…
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The director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation defended prayers as a coping mechanism for a school shooting in Nashville on Monday. Police say 28-year-old Audrey Hale shot and killed six people – three nine-year-olds and three adults in their 60s – at Covenant School in Nashville. Hale was reportedly a former student at the private Christian institution. She was shot and killed by police. The shooter’s motives are unknown at this time During a press conference, David Rausch, who heads the TBI, called for prayers in the wake of the shooting because “that’s the way we do that in…
A discussion on Fox News’s top-rated show, The Five, regarding the Monday elementary school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee turned tense on Monday as co-host Greg Gutfeld became frustrated with the conversation. “I agree with Greg about the reporting issue. I guess we are part of the problem right now that we’re doing that,” said Jessica Tarlov, referencing Gutfeld’s earlier argument that it was too early to discuss the event as all the facts are not out yet.“When you say, ‘I don’t know if the shooter had a mental problem,’ she did,” Tarlov added, addressing a comment earlier in the segment…
Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who tweeted he was “utterly heartbroken” over Monday’s deadly school shooting that took place in his district, is being called out for sending a 2021 Christmas photo showing his children holding firearms.The founder of the anti-gun violence group Moms Demand Action tweeted the photo Monday afternoon. “THIS is last year’s Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican who represents the district that Covenant School is in in Nashville,” Shannon Watts posted. The photo shows Ogles, his wife, and two of three children holding rifles in front of a Christmas tree.Watts told MSNBC’s Joy…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took former President Donald Trump, his one-time close ally, to task during a recent interview with Piers Morgan over his Thanksgiving weekend dinner with antisemitic rapper Kanye West and avowed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. “How did you feel about Donald Trump having dinner with Kanye West and the white supremacist Nick Fuentes?” Morgan asked Netanyahu. “I thought it was horrible,” Netanyahu quickly replied. “Two people who spew a lot of antisemitism,” Morgan added, finishing his question in the interview airing on Fox Nation Monday.“I thought it was horrible and I said so. I think it’s a…
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laid out his game plan for defeating former President Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary.Christie, who lost to Trump in the 2016 GOP primary before endorsing him, spoke at St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire on Monday. Trump declared his candidacy in November. So far, he has drawn Nikki Haley – his former ambassador to the United Nations – as an opponent. It is widely believed several other Republicans will challenge the former president, including Christie, perhaps. “You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to…
Former President Donald Trump tried to explain why he shared an article featuring a split-screen image of him holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Last week, Trump claimed Bragg was going to indict him over a hush money payment he allegedly made to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels the month before the 2016 election. Bragg is reportedly mulling charges that Trump falsified business records to hide the payment. Trump denies all of this and has not yet been indicted. On Monday, the former president sat down with Sean Hannity for his first interview on Fox…
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) took to the House floor Monday in response to the Nashville school shooting, saying he was furious at Republican “cowards” who “don’t give a damn” about children and won’t back gun control legislation. The freshman congressman slammed his Republican colleagues in a terse but fiery speech:I rise today because I am furious, angry that three kids died today in Nashville, Tennessee. Angry that hundreds of parents had to cry their eyes out today not knowing if their child would come home from school, and angry that we have to live day after day when we turn…
On a much-touted Hannity interview Monday night, Donald Trump said Ron DeSantis begged for help to win Florida’s gubernatorial race “with tears in his eyes” and that if it weren’t for him, DeSantis would be working in a “pizza parlor.” The comment came when Fox’s Sean Hannity asked, “The question I get asked the most about you is, ‘Ron DeSantis – what happened? I thought they were friends.’”Trump responded by insinuating DeSantis wasn’t “loyal” after receiving his endorsement in the 2018 Florida governor’s race. Trump said DeSantis, who was a congressman at the time, was “so behind” in the primary…
Former President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity he has “the right to take stuff” such as government documents as the former president. Trump addressed the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in August where agents found troves of government documents, some of which were classified. The material in question was supposed to be turned over to the National Archives when Trump left office. The former president took President Joe Biden to task for being embroiled in his own classified documents scandal. Material from Biden’s days as vice president and as a senator has been found at…