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Trump special prosecutor Nathan Wade submitted a letter of resignation to Fulton County district attorney fonnie Willis Friday afternoon he wrote I am offering my resignation in the interest of democracy in dedication to the American public and to move this case forward as quickly as possible Willis accepted his resignation and applauded
Him for his work she wrote I will always remember and will remind everyone that you are brave enough to step forward for and take on the investigation and prosecution Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that either district attorney fonnie Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade must step
Aside from the Georgia RICO case this means Willis can continue to prosecute former president Trump and his codefendants as long as she removes Wade from the team the ruling came following two months of speculations and Court hearings in into Willis’s alleged affair with Wade the judge ruled that there was
Not enough evidence to prove Willis’s relationship with Wade amounted to a conflict of interest but he said the relationship created quote an appearance of impropriety and described it as being the result of bad choices McAfee also criticized how Willis testified in court he wrote quote this finding is by no
Means an indication that the court condones this tremendous lapse in judgment or the unprofessional manner of the District Attorney’s testimony during the evidentiary hearing much of the Court hearings centered around the timeline of Willis and Wade’s relationship and their motivation for the prosecution the judge ruled that there isn’t enough evidence that Willis
Had a personal stake in the prosecution and he said he was unable to determine whether Willis and Wade began dating before or after he was hired as special prosecutor he said there were reasonable questions about whether Willison Wade testified truthfully about the timing of their relationship and attorney for
Trump said his team respects the Court’s decision but believes the judge didn’t go far enough defense attorney Steve sadlo said quote we will use all legal options available as we continue to fight to end this case which should never have been brought in the first place reporting by Allison Lee ND news
In New York City former president Trump’s trial in the so-called hush money case has been pushed back to Mid April this comes after Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg said he would consider a 30-day delay meanwhile Trump today railing against New York prosecutors saying they’re blocking him from accessing information about his
Former attorney Michael Cohen he’s an important witness in this case Trump’s legal team had previously tried and failed to get documents directly from Cohen after Trump’s attorney subpoena Federal prosecutors they complied in part but the court denied Trump access to materials like Cohen’s tax records and book publishing deals Trump’s
Lawyers have said they plan to challenge coin’s credibility in court the former president is facing 34 felony counts related to alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels he has pleaded not guilty to all charges and former vice president Mike Pence today saying he can’t endorsed
Donald Trump for president Pence added his former boss is quote at odds with the conservative agenda given his stance on abortion US national debt and Tik Tock Pence has refrained from making endorsements since he ended his 2024 presidential bid President Biden defending Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after he sharply criticized the
Israeli leadership it comes despite mounting Republican backlash over Schumer’s comments ntid’s White House correspondent Iris to has more President Biden is praising leader Schumer after Schumer made a controversial speech on Thursday saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and yahu has quote lost his way and that Israel should hold new elections to
Replace him here’s where President Biden was saying when meeting with the Irish prime minister at the Oval Office today watch I’m not going to EXA elaborate on a speech he made a good speech and I think he uh expressed a serious concern sh not only by him but by many Americans
The Israeli government has fired back against Schumer’s comments accusing him of trying to undermine a democratically elected government and House Republicans have also called Schumer’s Commons not only highly inappropriate it’s just plain wrong the White House meanwhile is being cautious today in explaining Biden’s comments saying he was referring
To the passion and Schumer speech adding that is up to the Israeli people to decide their leadership watch prime minister n can no longer remain in power that’s going to be for the Israeli people to decide for our part we’re going to keep supporting Israel in their
Fight against Hamas we’re going to keep urging them to reduce civilian casties and we’re going to keep working to get a temporary ceasefire meanwhile last weekend Biden said in an interview that while nyaho has a right to defend Israel against Hamas he thinks and yahu was quote hurting Israel more than helping
That all comes as Biden’s facing increasing pressure from some members of his party to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and asen’s risking losing losing support in November as some voters in the Democratic primaries are voting uncommitted in protest of Biden’s support for Israel and some new tensions despite
President Biden and house Speaker Johnson looking all smiles at a in Patrick Day event today just this morning the White House sent a letter to speaker Johnson accusing him of trying to hurt President Biden politically and urging him to end House Republicans impeachment inquiry into the president
And while the White House says they long investigation has failed to turn up any evidence of wrongdoing house Speaker Johnson responded by saying that they have revealed some alarming evidence adding that the white house does not get to decide how impeachment gets resolved reporting from the White House Aris how ND
News the Hamas terrorist group has offered Israel a new ceasefire deal to release the hostages meanwhile Israel responds to more accusations of firing on people waiting for humanitarian Aid in the Gaza Strip entity Jason Perry has the latest on the war families of the hostages in the Gaza
Strip are not giving up on seeing their loved ones again on Friday many of them met in Tel Aviv with Newfound hope after Hamas put forth a new ceasefire proposal last night that Israel finally received the answer from Hamas and that we understand that a deal is actually reachable there’s something
On the table and something that we’ve been waiting for for a long time we know that this might be the last chance to save the Israeli hostages and to bring them home alive but Israel rejected the proposal saying hamas’s demands were unrealistic Israel said it would send a
Delegation to Qatar for fresh talks on a hostage release deal Secretary of State Anthony blinkin addressed hamas’s new proposal I obviously can’t get into the the details of what that involves but what I can tell you is we’re working uh intensively with uh with Israel with cutter with Egypt to bridge the
Remaining gaps and to try to reach an agreement meanwhile Israel has come under scrutiny again after the Hamas run Health Ministry on Thursday accused Israeli troops of firing on crowds of people waiting for food an incident that allegedly killed 21 people on Friday the IDF denied the accusations and released
This video which Israel says shows a Palestinian gunmen opening fire in the midst of civilians about an hour before the humanitarian Aid Convoy entered the area also on Friday a ship carrying 115 tons of food and water arrived in the Gaza Strip the aid was put on trucks and
According to the IDF it will be delivered to the northern Gaza Strip this family is actually leaving Northern Gaza because of a lack of food hunger is killing us I am moving south because everything is available in the South I am now leaving the north because there is nothing available in
Terms of food and drinks and his wife said there is no milk available for their son he is not satisfied with water there is no milk in the north there is no juice there is nothing a bit of water as you can see it’s also the first Friday
Prayers during Ramadan and in Israel according to the religious Foundation that oversees the AL AA mosque about 880,000 Muslim worshippers attended prayers at the mosque in the old city of Jerusalem on Friday Jason Perry in TD news there seems to be interference at Russia’s polling stations as their three-day elections kick off today
Voters will be casting ballots until Sunday across 11 time zones including annexed regions of Ukraine no surprises are expected since Putin is running for his fifth term virtually unchallenged his political opponents are either in jail or in Exile the most prominent of them Alexi navali died in an Arctic
Penal colony last month in the district where navali used to live a woman set fire to a voting booth in Moscow in a separate case a woman poured green dye into a Ballot Box disrupting voting Russia opened criminal cases against both women they could face up to 5 years
In jail a Russian state owned news agency said two similar die incidents occurred at other polling stations back in the US an update in the Brooklyn Subway shooting yesterday that left one victim in critical condition what appeared to be a straightforward case of self-defense could have a new
Twist authorities are now seeking a woman who could have played a role gunfire erupted during Thursday evening’s Rush Hour panicked Riders rushed off the subway as officers arrived investigators say the woman and a 32-year-old man got on the train and were approached by a 36-year-old man who was acting aggressively the two men
Began fighting when a 36-year-old pulled out a gun the 32-year-old grabbed the weapon and shot the other man the suspected shooter is now in custody and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office had initially said he would wouldn’t be facing charges because he appeared to be acting in self-defense but investigators
Now say the woman with the suspect allegedly stabbed the older man before he pulled out the gun it’s still unclear if the suspect will be charged the shooting came just days after New York’s Governor ordered National Guard troops deployed in the city’s subway system James Crumbley was convicted
Yesterday by a Michigan jury after his teenage son fatally shot four CL classmates at a high school near Detroit atid’s Daniel Monahan has more on the case where crumbly now faces time behind bars for giving his son the gun the manslaughter conviction comes after prosecutors argued crumbly bore responsibility for the killings first
For giving his son the gun and then for ignoring warning signs of violence Crumbley was convicted on four counts of involuntary manslaughter one for each of the Vic victims at Oxford High School in the 2021 shootings count one involuntary manslaughter as to Madison Baldwin guilty of involuntary manslaughter as to Madison Baldwin we
Find the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter the trial was carried out a month after his wife Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty on manslaughter charges both James and Jennifer crumblyy will be sentenced on April 9th manslaughter carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison they are the first US parents to
Be charged in a school shooting committed by their child the crumbly son Ethan was 15 at the time of the shooting involving a semi-automatic handgun he pleaded guilty in 2022 to four counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without Parole in December prosecutors focused on two key
Themes at the trial the parents response to a morbid drawing on Ethan crumb’s math assignment a few hour hours before the shooting and the teen’s access to a 9mm handgun purchased by James crumbly only 4 days earlier Ethan made a drawing of a gun and a wounded man on a math
Assignment and added the phrases the thoughts won’t stop help me my life is useless the crumblies declined to take Ethan home following a brief meeting at the school and didn’t informed the school about the gun they had just bought Ethan pulled the weapon from his backpack and began shooting later that
Same day killing Justin Schilling 17 Madison Baldwin 17 Hana St Juliana 14 and Tate Meyer 16 six more students and a faculty member were wounded no one had checked the backpack though a school administrator had joked about its heaviness Daniel Monahan NTD news welcome back I’m Tiffany Meyer
Ali’s three people were killed and many more injured as a tornado ripped through Indiana and Ohio leveling homes and businesses in its path video of the storm’s aftermath on Friday shows homes destroyed and a path of debris three deaths were reported in Logan County Ohio after the tornado touchdown in a
Rural area in the early evening the tornado damaged homes and businesses as it moved East through the towns of Lake View and Midway where First Responders soon arrived to find injuries and fatalities the storms were part of a night of violent weather that stretched from Northeast Texas to Ohio several
Small towns near Winchester also suffered heavy damage from apparent tornadoes a major storm dumped several inches of snow in Colorado resulting in flight cancellations and the closure of a major highway nd’s Christina Corona has more on the blizzard according to the National Weather Service the storm which began
Wednesday night delivered one of the snowiest months in Denver which got up to about 10 in of snow between 10 and 20 in fell in the metro area and 2 to 4 ft in the Foothills so I think March is when we receive the most snow which is always unexpected because we’re waiting
For spring but then here we are the storm resulted in widespread power outages leaving over 82,000 customers without electricity it also sustained hazardous travel conditions prompting flight cancellations numerous Schools and Government offices were closed through Friday a 90m section of Interstate 70 was closed in the mountains due to numerous reports of
Stranded Vehicles the interstate remained closed to commercial traffic until noon on Friday several ski resorts were forced to close due to the severe weather however many residents in Denver are finding enjoyment in the snowy conditions isn’t it beautiful it it it it covers up all the scummy Parts see
Now you’ve got this beautiful white snow on everything and and when I come out in the morning with something like this I say God it’s gorgeous just gorgeous it really is I love the snow I have no complaints I love the snow and the other thing I don’t like is the shoveling as
The snow diminishes on Friday lingering showers are expected to persist over the mountains rain and snow will continue overnight Saturday for Denver wrapping up Sunday afternoon Christina Corona and TI news a recent report finds that tutor.com is owned by a Hong Kong company with close ties to the Chinese
Communist Regime what does this mean for data security joining us now is Nikki NE founder and president of parents defending education the organization that released the report Nikki Neely thank you so much for joining us great to have you on the show thank you for having me now you are the
Founder and president of parents defending education recently You released a report that found at least 100 school districts Across the Nation give students access to tutor.com which is owned by Prima and has ties to the Chinese regime now what are the concerns here sure I think the the
Concerns here are much like the concerns that we’ve seen over Tik Tock um first and foremost is that America the American public families and largely school districts are not aware that this has been purchased by a chinese-owned company um and as the Daily Caller um just released an investigation the um
Prim very Holdings has very close ties to the Chinese Communist party and so again with Tik Tok we have been told over and over again by their parent company bite dance um that that information is not flowing back and forth whereas whistleblowers in the US
Have said actually maybe it is and so I think one concern is that we don’t really know what’s taking place and another concern is that primary Holdings actually is affiliated with bite dance um it’s kind of the parent company of that and so if one thing is happening
With Tik Tok it almost certainly is happening with tutor.com as well on that note we do know that under Chinese law or under the Chinese Communist party’s law if they ask for data from a company the company has to hand it over given that what are the dangers of these
Foreign owned companies especially when it comes to that data of our children sure I think one concern is that the school districts are collecting a vast amount of information and so if this application is on students iPads students computers what do they have access to um aside from the personal
Information the IP addresses um the just the additional data that schools are collecting on a regular basis parents are concerned about the surveys that are taking place um asking kids about political involvement um a lot of you know DOA the Department of Defense Education Agency uses tutor.com but um
As you as you mentioned earlier um over a 100 school districts across the country are also using this and so information about student achievement as well as student locations and largely you know personal information as well also can be gathered and then sent back given the findings of Tik Tok but also
Now Prima and how widespread it is to what extent do you think we understand the Chinese Communists threat and influence in the states can anything be done I don’t think anybody really has a full understanding what’s been going on I mean we operate on like an electoral schedule maybe every two years four
Years um whereas you know we have seen the Chinese government operate on you know 50-year plans um and so there is a very long standing plan you know the belt and Road initiative where there’s soft power um we released a report last year called Little Bread classrooms exposing how confucious institutes have
A k to2 Corel confucious classrooms where teachers teaching materials curriculum have been sent over and used by American classrooms across the country for you know more than a decade um and so as much as we hear Educators and teachers unions in America talk about teaching true history when we have
American children learning about a China from Chinese teachers from foreign Nationals are they learning about the 3ts do they know about Tiana do they know about Tibet so there’s that’s one aspect of it so what are our children learning are they being given like a whitewashed Rosy picture of of the
People’s Republic of China and what’s taking place there and then also yeah then what information is being gathered about us and will be used against us in the future so I think there’s kind of both an offensive and a defensive play here and I think most Americans are just
They’re not aware of this at all they think all right we’re getting cheap goods and services without thinking is this a hostile power period right now we are seeing in Congress the bill to get Tik Tok to divest from its Chinese parent company bite Dan over similar concerns to this
What should be the next step when it comes to tutor.com and the concerns around Prima sure well with regards to um even the little red classroom study that we um that we released last year we contact the State superintendents in 34 states in DC asking them to investigate whether
Um you know what has been taking place um as we have seen concerns being raised in Congress over the past several months um about malware being put on uh energy servers has similar malware been put on education servers um will those you know can those utilities be shut down or can
Our education system be shut down um sadly we have not heard much back from State superintendents which is a subject of concern and so this is something we’re going to continue to urge both state and federal officials to look into to a get a handle around the scope of
This and B if this is truly an intelligent Gathering operation then to shut it down you know why the the fact that the Tik Tok bill is so narrowly targeted at Tik Tok you know I think maybe we should be looking bigger at um essential companies being owned by Foreign hostile foreign
Countries Nikki Neely thank you so much for your time thank you for having me for more on this story including a dive into the company’s ownership structure and ties to the CCP be sure to join me for China and focus at 9:30 p.m. eastern time violent gangs today looting and
Terrorizing a hospital in Haiti Florida Governor Ronda santz says he expects a surge of Haitian immigrants coming to the US and Florida authorities sees a migrant boat from Haiti that was transporting weapons and drugs here are the details footage on Friday showed the aftermath of gang looting and
Destruction at a hospital in the embattled Haitian capital of port a prince around 80% of people in the nation’s capital reportedly live under the rule of organized crime on Monday the country’s prime minister announced he’ll step down on Tuesday the US state department said members of a Haitian transition Council would be appointed
Within 2 days to restore order in the country but the process is taking longer than expected Secretary of State Anthony blinkin on Friday said most Council seats have already been appointed uh there are a couple that still haven’t so that’s a work in progress but we’ve seen
That that move forward and in related news a dangerous interception off the coast of Florida Governor Ronda santis today announced that state authorities stopped a migrant boat from Haiti he gave details on the items they found on the boat 25 illegal immigrants potential illegal immigrants from Haiti uh in
Their boat in their vessel they had firearms they had drugs they had night vision gear uh and were were uh boating very recklessly which would potentially endanger other folks DeSantis says the individuals were turned over to the coast guard for deportation he added that the incident took place a few weeks
Ago and that more details will be released soon earlier this week DeSantis announced an increase of Personnel in aircraft on the Florida coast he said he expected more Haitians would soon travel by boat to Florida because it’s the quickest way way to the US but on Friday
He said they might actually choose a different route now that Florida has increased border security off its Coast Haitians can get to the United States Easier by flying to Mexico and walking across the border say they’re probably going to go to Mexico and then come in through the Border knowing that Biden uh
Will just let everybody in and finally this Haitian immigrant has pleaded not guilty after being charged with raping a disabled teenage girl in a mass Massachusetts migrant shelter Fox News Now reports that the Immigrant was allowed into the us through a controversial parole program it allows
Up to 30,000 immigrants a month to fly into the country the suspect is set to appear in court next week earlier today we spoke to Josh Hammer about the judge’s ruling on district attorney Fon Willis Hammer is senior editor at large for Newsweek and host of America on
Trial he’s also an attorney and legal scholar Josh Hammer thank you so much for joining us great to have you back on the show always a pleasure thank you now Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that district attorney fonnie Willis can continue to prosecute the 2020 election interference case if special prosecutor
Nathan Wade is removed what does this mean for Trump’s case in Georgia you know it’s really interesting I mean this this whole Saga has been absolutely fascinating for the past roughly two months or so so one of the key arguments that Trump and his codefendant lawyers and fonnie Willis’s
Lawyers one of the key parts that they were disputing was what the legal standard should be to require a district attorney’s recusal and what Trump’s lawyers were arguing was that it would even just be the appearance the appearance of corruption the appearance of a conflict of interest on the
Contrary you had fonny wills and Nathan Wade’s lawyers who said no you you actually need to to demonstrate an actual conflict of interest not a mere appearance based on my reading of the opinion this morning it seems like judge McAfee agreed with Trump’s attorneys he actually said that a mere appearance of
A conflict of interest is sufficient under Georgia law to either justify or outright mandate a district attorney’s recusal from a case however rather than just do the natural thing and then say okay once I established this I’m going to go ahead and recuse you he basically tried to he basically tried to appease
All sides I’m not sure if that’s going to hold up I mean Trump’s going to be able to appeal this thing to the Georgia court of appeals ultimately it probably will go to the Georgia Supreme Court now the silver lining for Trump is twofold one is that it looks like fonny Willis
You know the world saw what she is that evidentiary hearing her Infamous testimony on the witness stand that’s probably going to taint a jury pool so that’s good news for Trump furthermore the timeline here is getting us very very very close at this point to the November election and it’s only going to
Get delayed more as I was saying he’s going to appeal this scene to the Georgia Corp of appeal so long story short um not an ideal day for a trump but it’s actually not the end of the end of the world either legal analyst Jonathan Turley is also weighing in he
Is saying that in some ways it is a result that should please no one other than Donald Trump adding the defense removed the lead special prosecutor while leaving Willis carrying more baggage than Amtrak what do you make of his assessment here yeah I I look fonnie and Nathan
Have a lot of baggage I mean like that is clearly not much of much of an exaggeration from Jonathan turle the factual details are very very shady I mean you had the idea that Nathan Wade is taking her on these big cruise ships and then she’s paying him back in cash
Because she said that her daddy told her to store cash in the household when she was growing up and then you had this this investigator this geolocation kind of cell service fancy investigator that Trump’s lawyers had retained and a couple weeks ago we saw the results of his investigation where he saw that
There were literally thousands and thousands of interactions between Fon and Nathan in the year leading up to the November 2021 commencement of her prosecution in other words they were sleeping at each other’s house before this investigation even launch so it looks really bad I mean it looks very
Very bad for Fon Wells and again I do think that’s going to taint a potential future jurry pool which is probably one one of the many reasons that judge McAfee should have just disqualified her and kicked this thing out of Fulton County Georgia in the first
Place Josh Hammer thank you so much for your time you bet thank you and we have some breaking news former Trump adviser Peter Navaro is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in his case involving contempt of congress Navaro was sentence of 4 months in prison for defying a congressional
Subpoena he’s required to report to a prison in Miami by Tuesday March 19th Navarro’s lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court this afternoon asking the court to keep Navaro out of prison earlier this week a federal appeals court rejected Navarro’s appeal of the prison sentence the Supreme Court issues an
Important ruling on free speech on whether government officials can ban C on their social media a controversial topic ever since former president Trump blocked Critics on Twitter nti’s Virginia Gibson has more the Supreme Court decides if government officials ban citizens from commenting on their social media posts that may not
Necessarily violate the First Amendment the right to free speech the issue garnered national attention in 2021 when then president Trump banned Critics on Twitter now called X the First Amendment stops government actors from blocking Free Speech it doesn’t apply to private citizens private citizens can freely ban whomever they want the court decided
That government officials are also private citizens at the same time they have the right to run private social media accounts and post about their work if the posts aren’t part of their official duties they would not be speaking on behalf of the government and may have the right to ban social media
Users scenarios like this turn on the very fact specific analysis uh which means that we really have to look at every case um separately attorney Nicole brki says it may be unclear whether an official’s post is personal or is made on behalf of the government course may
Have to analyze the content and function of a post to determine this that also should be become a lesson to public officials just to make sure that if they if they post something they clearly have separate profiles one for personal content and one for content the lower
Courts will now use the Supreme Court’s new standard to determine cases it’s still unclear whether the president of the United States has a right to ban social media users Virginia Gibson NTD news the annual house Republican issues conference concluded today at the Green Brier Resort in West Virginia GOP
Leaders expressed hope that the conference fostered enough Unity ahead of a budget battle and a general election our Washington correspondent Luise Martine summarizes the highlights house Republican conference chair Alise stepanic began the three-day Retreat addressing the urgent need for consensus among Republican lawmakers this is an opportunity for house
Republican members to continue our planning and work for our legislative agenda for the house Republican majority especially as we head into a historic November election let remember that since becoming Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has lost the support of his conference on at least five votes the
Speaker made it clear that he was aware of how fractured his conference is and asked his colleagues to measure their policy demands this isn’t a time and a time of divided government and a time of this literally the slimmest margin in US history it’s not the time for for long
Hail Mary passes on every play but it’s three yards in a cloud of dust how’s Republicans are preparing to present the second batch of six appropriation bills in order to get government funded through fiscal year 2024 congresswoman Lisa mlan the house Republican conference secretary believes that they
Can get these past the house floor before the March second deadline and thus avoid a partial government shutdown I think it’s going to be ugly I think it’s going to be messy and there I think there going to be a lot of fights in the trenches it won’t be perfect we won’t
Get as many wins as I would like to get and probably the rest of our conference would like to get but we will get some wins approximately half of the house Republican conference did not attend a three-day Retreat Freedom caucus members for example expressed their opposition to the minibus appropriation process and
Insisted on 12 separate bills to be presented on the house floor House GOP leadership insisted on their football analogies and defended their strategies and people will say I know but you only split it up into two you’re right but that’s progress right every time you you
Get the ball on the football field you don’t score a touchdown but your goal is to get a first down Congress must approve the second batch of six appropriation bills before next Friday in order to avoid a partial government shutdown reporting from White Sulfur Springs West Virginia luo Martinez NTD
News a trump and Biden repeat is in the works take a deep dive into the elections most pressing issues with Steve Lance and myself as ballots are cast across the country for their nominee on March 19th catch all the action and results live at 7:30 p.m. Eastern next
Tuesday welcome back I’m Tiffany Meyer soon you’ll no longer be able to get a ride with Uber or Lyft in Minneapolis the two ride sharing apps will stop operations in the city beginning May 1st this after the city council approved a minimum wage law the council voted to mandate a minimum wage of
$15.57 an hour for right share drivers in the city in doing so the council overrode mayor Jacob fry veto Uber is responding to the new law saying we are disappointed the council chose to ignore the data and kick Uber out putting 10,000 people out of work and leaving
Many strand it Lyft calls the bill deeply flawed and says it hopes to return to Minneapolis as it advocates for a Statewide solution in Minnesota the Minneapolis mayor is imploring local politicians to come up with a solution before May 1st and now for your sports news we’re
Joined by ntid’s Dave Martin Dave plenty of sports news going on let’s start in college sports where 16 female athletes are suing the NCAA after allowing transgender swimmer Leah Thomas to compete at the 2022 national championships what is the basis for their lawsuit yeah their argument is that their Title Nine rights were
Violated win the NCAA let Thomas compete against them now Thomas won the 500 yard freestyle event while beating out three um female Olympic medalist in the process for the title now it should be noted that Thomas uh when this was Will Thomas in the men’s division was ranked
Somewhere in the 500s when uh will Thomas started identifying as female Leah Thomas and started competing in the women’s division that ranking jumped all the way to first I think that’s very relevant here now we actually heard from one of the plaintiffs former ins BL Caitlyn wheeler earlier today regarding
This lawsuit here was her thoughts on it it’s crazy that we’re having to even um file a lawsuit when something um would take a mere second and and apply common sense to to solve and so um the reason for the lawsuit well the ncaa’s most basic job is to protect the
Fairness and safety of competition in Collegiate Sports and it is failing to do that it continues to fail at that simple task and so the NCAA really is actively and openly discriminating against women on the basis of our sex which we all know is indirect violation of title
N now one of the plaintiffs Riley gains has actually testified before on Capitol Hill about not only having to compete against Thomas but also being forced to change in the same locker room does that play into the lawsuit well I mean it’s definitely mentioned in there you know
Like you g like you said gains testified on this before on Capitol Hill she did so in tears it was very sad she said they were not asked their consent they were not forewarned it was a very uncomfortable situation now Caitlyn wheeler was also in that same locker
Room she discussed that with us as well who was her thoughts on that but what we didn’t expect was to be fully undressed putting on our racing suits and turning around and seeing a man standing a mere 10 feet from you changing and exposing himself nothing
Could have prepared me for that it was shocking it was humiliating it was disheartening but really most of all I felt betrayed betrayed by an organization that I had up until that moment truly trusted that they had our best interest at heart now wheeler also noted that this took
Place at the 2022 National Championship so nearly two years ago they’ve purposely gave the NC BL some time to evaluate their policies especially now they have new president Charlie Baker but unfortunately nothing has happened so that’s that is why the um the timing of the lawsuit is as it is well
Switching gears a bit here to a baseball Dodger Superstar shoh Otani recently announced that he got married during the off season though he declined any specifics of than to say that she was a normal Japanese woman what is the latest on this well now we have a name mimo
Tanaka and she’s actually a professional basketball player in Japan so not really not normal now you can see her real quick here walking a little behind Otani coming through the airport in Korea now Otani by the way is probably the most famous person in Japan so this is a huge
Deal there now the Dodgers will open the season with a series in Korea starting next week not only will it be otani’s debut with his new team they also signed a Japanese pitcher Yos noo y Yamamoto to a $325 million contract as there’s Yamamoto right there that really that’s
325 million somehow Cales in comparison to the $700 million Otani got and even though otani’s arm injury will keep him from pitching this season the Dodgers still look like uh the team to beat well Dave as always thanks for joining us thank you Tiff a generation of children who learn
From illuminated screens are now going old school starting this year California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting here’s more there you go cursive is making a comeback in California awesome in an era of computers and tablets the skill has fallen out of fashion but a new state
Law requires students to learn the old school style of handwriting is there any trouble that you’re having with any of them by the time they leave the sixth grade yes I love it it’s this fancier how to write and it’s just like fun fun to learn like new letters during cursive
Eraser our best friend at Orange Thorp Elementary School in Fullerton California students are practicing the flowy penmanship sixth grader Milo Chang says he thinks cursive is stretching his abilities and I really think it helps like my handwriting too just like print because if you’re writing something if you’re doing something harder basically
If you’re doing an easier version of that you’ll probably get better at the easier version too the new law was sponsored by California Assembly member Sharon Quirk Silva a former Elementary School teacher who said she was inspired to introduce the bill after a chance encounter with former Governor Jerry
Brown in 2016 Jerry Brown uh was the governor and invited a group of us to dinner I happened to sit right next to him and he said whatat do you do and I said I’m a teacher uh for elementary and he said right away you need to bring back curs of righty
Ready the bill turned law requires handwriting instruction for grades 1 through six including cursive in the appropriate grade levels generally considered to be the third grade and above California’s common core standards did technically still have cursive writing goals but Quirk Silva said instruction was Patchy the hope of the
Leg leg islation is that by the time students leave sixth grade uh they would be able to read and write it this what do you think letter is that the W orange Thorp Elementary School teacher Pamela Keller says some of her students still need convincing a lot of my students
Will say oh it’s too hard to write incursive and so we tell them well it’s going to make you smarter it’s going to make some connections in your brain it’s going to help you move to the next level and then just do it really light and then they get excited because students
Want to be smarter they want to learn they want to be the the top dog in the class and so I think that’s really exciting for them I’m holding it gently and I’m letting it flow over the paper experts say learning cursive boosts cognitive development reading comprehension and fine motor skills
You’re using different neural networks uh when you’re doing cursive rather than printing lesli zerya says learning cursive provides childhood development benefits as you’re creating the letter you’re thinking about what is the sound that that letter makes and how does it connect to the next letter and what are those two sounds together
Educators also say cursive can unlock a doorway to the Past giving students the ability to examine Generations old family letters or important historic documents we have I told you the constitution in our library it’s written handwritten in cursive so if you can’t read those pieces of History without
Somebody translating it for you I find that to be kind of sad too so I just want my students to have that choice to be able to open up um that world for them and that’s all for today’s news for more coverage visit us at ntd.com or
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