BYU students dressed as angels shield LGBTQ+ classmates from protesters at Pride event

Story at a glance Brigham Young University (BYU) students and community members shielded LGBTQ+ students from protesters while they attended a “Back to School Pride Night” event at a public park in Provo, Utah Saturday evening by sporting three-foot-tall angel wings. Protesters directed anti-LGBTQ+ slurs at those attending Saturday’s Pride celebration and held up signs that condemned a drag

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Is McDonald's really bringing all-day breakfast back?

(NEXSTAR) — Despite how excited a few social media posts may have gotten you for the return of all-day breakfast at McDonald's, don't make your way to the drive-thru just yet. In a written statement to Nexstar, a McDonald's representative said the information being shared online is actually from a 2015 press release, when McDonal

Biden tarnished his democracy speech with partisan rhetoric

President Biden’s effort at a statesmen-like warning of imminent threats to U.S. democracy was well-intentioned. Yet his important appeal was sullied by conflating millions of voters with the GOP politicians and their media/social media perpetual grievance machine and by touting his own political agenda, veering into the partisan lane.                    For starters, when

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Trump tried to pay lawyer with horse, New York Times reporter writes in new book

Former President Donald Trump once tried to pay a lawyer with a horse, New York Times reporter David Enrich revealed in his new book, per The Guardian.  Trump offered the lawyer, who he owed $2 million, the deed to a stallion, Enrich reported in his book, “Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump and the Corruption of Justice,” out next week. The unidentified lawyer, from a law firm that worked for Trump in the 19

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Longtime counselor to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts stepping down

A longtime counselor to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is stepping down from his post, the court announced on Tuesday. Jeffrey Minear will retire as the counselor to Roberts on Sept. 30, a position he was appointed to in 2006, not long after Roberts assumed his role as chief justice. The counselor to a justice works essentially as a chief of staff, working with other court o

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