Beirut Port Area Rocked With Massive Blast, Cause Unknown Via Reuters A large explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, injuring many people as glass shattered and balconies collapsed from the impact, Reuters witnesses said. Lebanon’s state news agency NNA and two security sources said the blast had occurred in the port area where there are warehouses housing explosives. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast or what kind of […]
The CRUSADE Channel Newscast For August 4th 2020 News Anchor Stacey Cohen brings you CRUSADE Channel Newscasts for Tuesday, August 4th, 2020. Includes today’s Saint of the Day and Quote of the Day! The CRUSADE Channel, The Last LIVE! Radio Station Standing begins our LIVE programming with our all original CRUSADE Channel News hosted by 28 year radio ace, Stacey Cohen. Coupled with Mike “The King Dude” Church entertaining you […]
U.S. Judge Extends Count Of Absentee Ballots In New York State Primary Via Reuters: A U.S. judge late on Monday ordered all local boards of election in New York state to count “thousands” of absentee ballots received the day after a congressional primary held last June 23 but previously disqualified because of postmark problems. According to the ruling by Judge Analisa Torres of Federal District Court in Manhattan, the absentee […]
Dr. Deborah Birx Advises People Start Wearing Face Masks at Home Via People: As new coronavirus cases continue to surge in the United States, White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx has advised that it may be time to consider wearing face masks while at home. While the CDC is projecting that new COVID-19 deaths in America could rise by 19,000 in the next 20 days, Birx issued a […]
Trump takes action against Tennessee Valley Authority Via AP News: President Donald Trump said Monday that he had fired the chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority claiming it has betrayed American workers. Trump told reporters at the White House that he was formally removing the authority’s chair of the board and another member of the board and threatened to remove other board members if they keep hiring foreign labor. The […]
Jonathan Isaac Lone NBA Player Stand For National Anthem Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac became the first NBA player to stand for the National Anthem as the league resumed play after a 20-week hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. The television broadcast showed Isaac, who is Black, standing as players and coaches from both teams, as well as referees, took a knee during the playing of the National Anthem. The […]
Boston Marathon Bomber’s Death Sentence Overturned By Court Via AP News: A federal appeals court Friday threw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not adequately screen jurors for potential biases. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether the 27-year-old Tsarnaev should be executed for the attack […]
Sweden Sees COVID-19 Cases Plummet as Rest of Europe Suffers Spike Via Newsweek: Amid fears over a potential second wave of the novel coronavirus across Europe, new infections in Sweden, where full lockdown measures were not implemented, have mostly declined since late June. The number of new cases per 100,000 people in Sweden reported over the last 14 days since July 29 dropped by 54 percent from the figure reported […]
Google and Facebook To Pay For News Content In Australia Via AP News: The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give Google and Facebook three months to negotiate with Australian media businesses fair pay for news content. In releasing a draft of a mandatory code of conduct, the government aims to succeed where other countries have failed in making the global digital giants pay for news siphoned from […]
