An Ohio music conductor is using deep brain stimulation to combat his Parkinson’s disease. Rand Laycock, 70, the director and conductor of a symphony orchestra, was diagnosed just before his 60th birthday, according to a press release from Cleveland Clinic. “My doctor at the time told me [a Parkinson’s diagnosis] wasn’t a death sentence, and…
As President Donald Trump called for the reopening of Alcatraz in a Sunday evening Truth Social post, many Americans were reminded of the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco, California. “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump wrote. “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of…
Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to amend the name of the body of water, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday. Sheinbaum said at a press briefing…
Legal experts are handing Karen Read’s defense team the win for Friday’s heated cross-examination of Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik – who returned for his second day on the stand as prosecutors look to convince the jury that Read fatally struck her boyfriend, Boston cop John O’Keefe, and left him to die in a…
Texas lawmakers are charging ahead with what they call the nation’s strongest legislative effort yet to block hostile foreign powers from purchasing land in the Lone Star State. Championed by Republican state Rep. Cole Hefner and state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, Senate Bill 17 (SB17) is designed to stop governments and entities tied to countries like…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday sent a memo to West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy, saying that all future admissions will be based solely on merit. “The Department owes it to our nation, our Service Members, and our young Americans applying to the MSAs to ensure admissions to…
Army Sgt. Brian Lieberman, 22, said he was “just doing his job” when he saved the life of a 14-year-old girl in the middle of a shooting at his apartment complex. But the United States Army believes Lieberman is an American hero, meriting the Soldier’s Medal. Lieberman, an Army medic, is assigned to the 1st…
A public school district is in the process of transferring from Nevada’s high school sports conference to California’s so it can avoid Nevada’s new policy that keeps biological males out of high school girls’ competitions and locker rooms. The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District (TTUSD) in Truckee, California, is leaving the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association…
SHATTERED GLASS: State trooper points to possible weapon in John O’Keefe death – and it’s not Karen Read’s car COLD CASE CRACKED: California 1977 cold-case murder suspect identified as 69-year-old former Army private living in Ohio TRIGGERED: Realtor shot dead by Mercedes suspect with criminal history FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X SPEAK…
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday that she hopes the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff to lead the Catholic Church, will be vocal about opposing mass deportations. An account under then-Cardinal Robert Prevost’s name previously shared posts on social media that were critical of some of the Trump…
