US MAGAZINE – Country superstar Alan Jackson has been battling Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease for more than a decade, but he didn’t go public with his diagnosis until September 2021.
“I have this neuropathy and neurological disease,” the Country Music Hall of Fame member explained during a Today show interview at the time. “It’s genetic that I inherited from my daddy. … There’s no cure for it, but it’s been affecting me for years. And it’s getting...
Maria "Masha" Alyokhina is a Russian political activist. She is a member of the anti-Putinist original gulag system from the 1950s," says Alyokhina, reached by NPR on tour in the United Kingdom. "But the sense is the same. It is a labor camp."
Aloykhina says while most Americans imagine prison cells with bars, Griner can expect to live in "the zone" — a set of barracks with 80 to 100 women sleeping to a room...
(Headline USA) Amid an ebbing red wave midterm, Republicans notched big wins in Kentucky with Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie both pulling impressive numbers.
Projections called the race early for Paul, who romped to a nearly 23-point win over leftist Democrat Charles Booker and immediately turned his focus on unfinished business in the Senate, promising to subpoena “every last document of Dr. Fauci” and unearthing the truth about whether COVID-19 can be...
(Headline USA) In a red-wave election year in which incumbent Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet faces the possibility of defeat at the hands of centrist GOP candidate Joe O’Dea, Colorado Democrats have devised a shrewd plan to rally their core base of washed-out hippies and homeless drug addicts.
Voters are deciding Tuesday whether theirs will become the second state, after Oregon, to create a legalized system for the use of psychedelic mushrooms.
Ironically, the Oregon policy, implemented...
CINCINNATI.COM – After a year of battling cancer, country music star Toby Keith took the stage at a well-known area restaurant.
On Friday, Nov. 4, Keith surprised patrons with an impromptu performance at Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse in Lexington.
Keith and Ruby performed a duet of the song "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding, which the musician said was a favorite of Ruby's.
Keith also performed his 2003 chart-topper, “I Love This Bar," Lynyrd...
CBS NEWS, London — A man in Britain who was infected with COVID-19 for 411 days was finally cured after receiving the same cocktail of drugs given to former President Donald Trump, doctors in London said.
The 59-year-old, who had a weakened immune system due to an earlier kidney transplant, first tested positive for COVID in December 2020. Even though his symptoms resolved, he continued testing positive intermittently until January 2022.
By that point the patient...
NEW YORK POST – King Charles and Prince William erupted into “torrents of profanity” after hearing comments from Donald Trump about Kate Middleton’s 2012 topless photo scandal, a new biography revealed this week.
Kate, then the Duchess of Cambridge, was infamously photographed that year sunbathing topless on private property in France while vacationing with her husband, Prince William.
The pictures were subsequently published in the French tabloid Closer, eliciting titillation and outcry in equal measure.
Trump tweeted...
Since 2015, the St. Louis-based insurance behemoth Centene, its subsidiaries, its top executives, and their spouses have given more than $26.9 million to state politicians in 33 states, to their political parties, and to nonprofit fundraising groups, according to a KHN analysis of IRS tax filings and data from the nonpartisan, nonprofit group OpenSecrets.