Day: May 3, 2025

Trump Signs Executive Order Aiming to End Taxpayer Funding of NPR, PBS

The Center Square
Donald Trump

President Donald Trump signed an executive order terminating government funding of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

As NPR and PBS have become “woke,” according to the administration, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, through which the outlets receive taxpayer funding, must abide by principles of impartiality, Trump directed the corporation and all agencies in the executive branch to stop funding the organizations to “the maximum extent allowed by law.”

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Brother of Tennessee Lawmaker Seen in Viral Outburst Leads Anti-Elon Musk, xAI Fight in Memphis

Tom Pappert
KeShaun Pearson

The environmental activist organizing opposition to the plan by Elon Musk and xAI to build the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee is KeShawn Pearson, the brother of State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), who recently drew national attention after lunging at a colleague on the floor of the State House.

KeShawn and Justin Pearson were both present at a protest against the facility held on Wednesday outside the Shelby County Health Department, reported News Channel 3. Though the outlet noted their presence, and that KeShawn Pearson is the president of Memphis Community Against Pollution, it did not report that the men are brothers.

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Commentary: The Abortion Pill Is Poison, Not Medicine

Daily Caller News Foundation
mifepristone

The abortion pill is not medicine. It is a dangerous drug designed to end the life of an innocent human child, and as new evidence shows, it’s gravely harming the women it claims to help.

A new, unprecedented study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center has uncovered what the abortion industry does not want you to know: over 10 percent of women who take the abortion pill experience serious, sometimes life-threatening complications. That’s more than one in ten women suffering from sepsis, hemorrhage, emergency surgery, or hospitalization alone, often without medical supervision.

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Man Indicted with Felonies After Setting Cybertruck on Fire at Arizona Tesla Dealership in Act of ‘Domestic Terrorism’

Rachel Alexander
Tesla fire

A federal grand jury indicted Ian William Moses, 35, on Wednesday for allegedly setting a new Cybertruck on fire outside a Tesla dealership located in Mesa. Mesa Police arrested him on his bike shortly after he was seen on video a little before 2 a.m. placing fire logs around the vehicle, pouring gasoline on them, then igniting the logs. He was charged with five counts of Malicious Damage to Property in Interstate Commerce. 

“If you engage in domestic terrorism, this Department of Justice will find you, follow the facts, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi in the DOJ’s press release. “No negotiating.”

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Music Spotlight: Rebecca Lynn Howard

Bethany Bowman
Rebecca Lynn Howard

Country music singer and songwriter Rebecca Lynn Howard grew up in Salyersville, Kentucky, a stone’s throw from Loretta Lynn’s beloved Butcher Holler. Like so many I’ve interviewed, she got her start singing in church and “for the lack of anything else to do.”

“There wasn’t a lot going on there. All my family was musically inclined. They either sang or played guitar, banjo, mandolin, or piano. Everyone gravitated toward music because what else was there to do?”

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