Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Without a doubt, the scheduled January 17 execution of 76-year-old Clarence Ray Allen is a controversial topic. His crime unthinkable — the ordered execution of four — and his medical condition (legally blind, diabetes and in …
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Pope John Paul II (search) was one of the most influential and beloved figures of the last 100 years. It’s only natural then that news organizations go to wall-to-wall with coverage of the Pope’s funeral. Stop Grrring the coverage. If you don’t want to watch, there are plenty of other …
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday sent a letter to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul asking that the Democrat ban “Students for Justice in Palestine,” a pro-Palestinian group whom they allege has “spewed hate and endorsed violence, from NY college campuses.” The letter, signed by more than three dozen …
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A woman covered in blood showed up outside a home in Washington state over the weekend and claimed to have been held against her will for multiple days inside a nearby house, where responding police later found a man dead inside, authorities said. The injured 27-year-old woman told officers that …
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Undergraduates at Texas Christian University (TCU) will have to fork over more money to attend the private college than their peers at Havard University, following recent news of a tuition hike at the Fort Worth institution. TCU announced a 7.9% increase in undergraduate tuition beginning in the 2024-25 school year. …
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Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., and fellow Pennsylvania Republican representatives Dan Meuser, Mike Kelly, John Joyce, M.D., Lloyd Smucker, and Brian Fitzpatrick signed a scathing open letter Thursday calling on University of Pennsylvania’s board to relieve President Elizabeth Magill of her duties. Magill was one of multiple university …
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The European Union said Monday that it has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its war against Ukraine, targeting the lucrative diamonds industry, more than 140 officials and organizations, and closing loopholes that Moscow has used to bypass previous punitive measures. It’s the 12th round of sanctions and restrictions that …
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A haircut sparked international online backlash after Eve Gilles was crowned Miss France on Saturday. The 20-year-old from Nord-pas-de-Calais sported a pixie cut hairstyle as she was crowned, making her the first contestant in the pageant’s 103-year history to not have long hair. Social media users called out Gilles’ win, …
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A Shih Tzu was rescued from a dumpster in Florida last week after workers at a Family Dollar store found a trash bag “with something moving inside,” authorities said Tuesday. The “heinous” incident happened on Dec. 14 in Lehigh Acres, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said. “Stuffed inside the bag, …
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A Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine on Wednesday lost her appeal against election officials’ refusal to accept her nomination for the country’s presidential race that President Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win. Former regional legislator Yekaterina Duntsova has promoted her vision of a “humane” Russia “that’s …
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