The average person familiar with the tragic story of 7-year-old Athena Strand might feel that the family has a right to be angry and even hate the man who authorities say kidnapped and murdered her. However, at least one member of the girl's family is doing his very best to...

https://saferead.org/NAT?1

Arizona Republican Kari Lake is promising a strong legal challenge to the outcome of her race with Secretary of State Katie Hobbs for the state's governor's office. Hobbs certified her own win over Lake on Monday by approximately 17,000 votes, with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and...

https://saferead.org/NAU?1

On Dec. 6, 2017, then-President Donald Trump did something that his three immediate predecessors never could: He officially recognized Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and moved the U.S. Embassy there. At the time of the announcement, Trump said the move was in the best interests of the "pursuit...

https://saferead.org/NAW?1

Not content with the tens of millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the government-sponsored COVID-19 lockdowns, the Biden administration decided more Americans needed to lose their jobs for showing healthy skepticism with the COVID-19 vaccines. Biden's sweeping and draconian vaccine mandates saw hundreds of thousands of additional Americans...

https://saferead.org/NAY?1

The FBI held weekly meetings with former Twitter integrity head Yoel Roth before the 2020 election, warning of "hack-and-leak" schemes by "state actors" involving Hunter Biden, according to the New York Post, As a result, the social media giant quickly squelched the story when news of Hunter Biden's laptop broke...

https://saferead.org/NAZ?1

A Senate Democrat known for her bipartisan approach to legislating appears to have snubbed President Joe Biden. Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema declined to travel on Air Force One with the president to her home state on Tuesday. Biden visited Phoenix to tour a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. computer chip plant,...

https://saferead.org/NBA?1

Joe Biden is taking flak from members of the mainstream media for excluding some of them from the White House press corps Christmas party -- some say as punishment for bad coverage. The Biden White House is being accused of being "petty" for excluding a number of journalists from the...

https://saferead.org/NBC?1

With Twitter under new ownership, it looks like progressives and Democrats could be finally receiving a taste of their own medicine. The official Biden White House Twitter account was slapped with an embarrassing "fact check" style platform disclaimer following a Monday tweet. The White House bragged about reduced unemployment claims...

https://saferead.org/NBD?1

There are two kinds of people during Halloween. There are the people who choose the cookie-cutter get-ups available at the big box stores, dressing up as the classics and the most popular modern characters, but then there are some people who really go all out and make their own unique,...

https://saferead.org/NBE?1

The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud by a New York jury on Tuesday. As a result, it appears that the Donald Trump-owned company could be forced to pay a fine of roughly $1.6 million. According to The Associated Press, the fine is small considering the company's size....

https://saferead.org/NBG?1

A major liberal city is making yet another move that will put even more strain on an already weakened local police force. On Monday, KIRO-TV reported that the Seattle city council approved a budget plan that eliminates 80 vacant police officer positions. This is an attempt at addressing the massive...

https://saferead.org/NBH?1

One powerful Twitter employee implicated in the Hunter Biden censorship scandal has a history of official misconduct. James Baker is a former FBI general counsel who was deeply involved in various investigations probing supposed connections between former President Donald Trump and Russia, according to the New York Post. The investigations...

https://saferead.org/NBJ?1

It was the battle of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, that got the United States officially into World War II. Japan attacked the U.S. naval base with 353 aircraft launched from four heavy aircraft carriers. 3,581 Americans were either killed or wounded, and numerous military aircraft, ships and facilities...

https://saferead.org/NBK?1

You've heard it before but hear it again now: The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. Even better? Lots of good guys with guns. According to WTXF-TV, that's a strategy that one Philadelphia gas station owner is sticking with...

https://saferead.org/NBL?1

Tech behemoth Meta has threatened to remove all news from its platforms if Congress passes legislation it does not like. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which was introduced by Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, would require tech companies to pay outlets whose news is posted on their platforms....

https://saferead.org/NBN?1

Journalist Bari Weiss -- who along with Matt Taibbi, has been tapped by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to publicly release the "Twitter Files" -- was shocked to learn the person in charge of the process at within the company: Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker. He's not to be confused with...

https://saferead.org/NBO?1

Three Chicago teens reportedly learned to their sorrow on Monday that there is no age limit on the Second Amendment. A 56-year-old man -- defined as a senior citizen by Illinois law -- was inside his vehicle at about 6 a.m. along the 4700 block of West Arthington Avenue, according...

https://saferead.org/NBQ?1

Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), a legal scholar who profoundly influenced early America and the Founding Fathers with his commentaries, once wrote the following: "Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation [Scripture], depend all human laws; that is to say, no human law should be...

https://saferead.org/NBS?1

Arizona has been going through many troubles lately. From a long-running illegal immigration crisis stemming from the Biden administration's open borders disaster to its ongoing controversies surrounding the Nov. 8 election, the Grand Canyon State is seeing its share of problems. As if things were not bad enough already, on...

https://saferead.org/NBU?1

For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.

https://saferead.org/NBX?1

Actress Anne Heche was not driving while impaired by illegal drugs on the day she crashed her car into a Los Angeles-area home, starting a fire that led to her death. Heche, 53, was driving erratically on Aug. 5, striking an apartment building with her small vehicle before driving into...

https://saferead.org/NBY?1