EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — For the past week, they’ve played the national anthem one time a night at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials.
On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw.
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President Joe Biden again ordered airstrikes in Syria on Sunday, the second time he has done so in his young presidency.
The Pentagon announced Sunday in a statement Biden had ordered airstrikes against two targets in Syria and one site in Iraq after militias used the facilities to launch drone strikes against United States forces in the region.
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College and pro football legend Herschel Walker is teasing that he is “getting ready” to run “with the big dogs” in Georgia, a sign that the famous Georgian and well-known Trump supporter could be getting ready to run for Senate in the Peach State.
Walker delivered that message in a 21-second video posted to Twitter on Thursday.
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Despite a self-made “policy” not to weigh in on “day-to-day scrum” in Washington, D.C., former President Barack Obama said Monday that Congress should work to pass federal election takeover legislation, claiming “democracy long-term” could be at risk.
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Sunday tried to connect former President Donald Trump and his campaign to the January 6 Riot, citing “concerning” Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports showing the Trump campaign “at some point” giving money to the people listed on the National Park Service permit for the Save America rally, which she claims “led to the attack on the Capitol.”
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Anthony Mackie, the star of Disney’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, says taking on the role of Captain America was humbling but difficult because America prevents black men from succeeding.
“I’ve worked so long in this business, and I’ve done so many things that I felt were not appreciated or overlooked or things that were not considered to be worthy of promotion — and this is like my first promotion,” Mackie told Variety.
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On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that “the real question on this Critical Race Theory is why we’re so afraid of race. Why is it the third rail?” When we’re better as a country when we talk about race.
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CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria said Sunday on CNN that President Joe Biden’s G7 press conference was “boring” but preferred by the world when compared to former President Donald Trump’s “circus freak show.”
Zakaria said, “This was a huge reset, I mean, to begin with, and I hate to admit this, Biden’s press conference was in comparison to his predecessor, a little boring. You know, his predecessor, Donald Trump’s press conferences, particularly after meetings like the G7, were a freak show. They were a circus. You didn’t know whether he was about to blow up the alliance, you didn’t know whether he was about to announce that the United States was withdrawing, was going to impose new sanctions on his closest allies in the world.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the Black Lives Matter movement at his press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday to deflect questions from journalists about human rights abuses in his country.
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Democrat Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), a candidate for U.S. Senate in the state of Florida, is slamming her state’s GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republicans like her opponent Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for a move to cut off federal unemployment insurance benefits that have for months paid people more to stay home than to work.
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