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Reactions to Elon Musk gaining access to USAID and the US Treasury's data despite not being an elected or Congressionally confirmed official.

Donald John backs down after reaching an agreement with Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, delaying imposing the intended 25% tariffs on Mexico by a month and reactions after Elon Musk's DOGE gains access to US Treasury information and indicates he's in the process of "shutting down" USAID.

Details on the events leading up to the American Airlines plane and Army helicopter crash over Washington D.C.'s Potomac River and a pardoned January 6er is sentenced to 10 years in a deadly DWI crash. 

Exclusive interview with the producer of the documentary "The Sanctuary By The Sea: The Gulfside Assembly Story", Leonard Smith III and Cheryl Thompson, the executive director of Gulfside Assembly. Gulfside Assembly, established in the era of segregation, served as a sanctuary for African Americans, fostering spiritual growth, community engagement, and civil rights dialogues. Despite facing natura...

Exclusive interview with Dr. De Lacy Davis, weighing in on Whitlock's Lead Day Arrest. Davis is a 20-year veteran sergeant who retired from service in East Orange, New Jersey on June 1, 2006. He joined the East Orange Police Department in 1986. Davis has been an instructor at the Essex County Police Academy where he taught community policing, basic law enforcement & the use of firearms. Davis...

Examining the continuing executive orders, one of which targets transgender troops and "radical gender ideology", noting that physical and mental health conditions make them "incompatible" with military service, a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas amid the US opting out of the World Health Organization and a halting of research, and a freeze in all federal aid funding. 

Following Donald John's order halting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the Air Force suspended course instruction on a documentary about the first Black airmen in the U.S. military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II. The newly confirmed Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, reversed the decision onl...

A closer look at a bill introduced in Mississippi that would pay bounty hunters and tipsters $1,000 for turning in illegal immigrants to ICE and questioning what could radicalize a Black boy into becoming a Neo-Nazi after 17-year-old Solomon Henderson opened fire inside Antioch High School's cafeteria, killing one student and injuring another before turning the gun on himself

A closer look at the potential effects of the recent sweeping executive orders being signed in Week 1, including the 1960s era bill meant to curb hiring discrimination and eliminating "birthright citizenship".

More reactions to the videos depicting the brutality of Gulfport Police officers during the Leap Day 2024 arrest of New Day associate producer, Whitlock, and executive orders pardoning January 6 insurrectionists and dismantling DEI.

Bodycam footage documents It's a New Day's own Whitlock being subject to police brutality in a Leap Day 2024 arrest predicated by an equipment violation (one headlight).

Debating what could help curb gun violence among young males as numerous violent crimes at the start of 2025 punctuate the need for more options to help citizens find lasting solutions.

Questions from an email highlight the relevancy of MLK Day and Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, advice to would-be elected officials as more candidates declare for municipal elections, and the confirmation hearings for Trump Cabinet appointments continue. 

Reviewing Jack Smith’s 174 page report on efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to head the Pentagon, faces grilling in first Senate confirmation hearing.

Exclusive interview with educator, author, and documentarian Thelma Straight on her documentary "Road Scholars": In 2009, twelve at-risk Black adolescent boys hit the road armed only with an audio tape recorder to interview older African American men from all walks of life in the hopes that their own lives might change. Leading the way was Thelma Straight, a teacher who received an oral history gr...

Updates on California's wildfires and debate on if a conflict resolution lifeline (talk/text) would be helpful in resolving "beef" before escalations into violence following a week of numerous cases involving young people engaging in gunplay. 

Exclusive interview with D'Monterrio Gibson, the former FedEx driver shot at by father and son, Gregory and Brandon Case, following the dismissal of the case following a mistrial declared after an investigator was cited for failing to produce crucial evidence and discovery and more recently fired from the Brookhaven Police Department.

Discussing the concepts of "Alpha" and "Masculine" men after motivational speaker Lisa Nichols' account of her husband's breakdown of the terms and the world braces as Donald John doubles and triples down on possible military intervention in the proposed US acquisitions of Greenland and the Panama Canal. 

Revisiting D'Monterrio Gibson's interview recounting his experience after a Lincoln County judge dismissed all charges against the two white men who prosecutors accused of shooting at Gibson, a Black FedEx driver, while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., in January 2022. The charges against Gregory Case and his son Brandon Case included attempted murder, conspiracy and shooting into a...

Recounting the hours of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection as Congress prepares to certify the 2024 election and outlining the disparity in reporting practices when it comes to terror attacks, most recently in  the New Years attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

New details as authorities uncover the histories of Matthew Livelsberger, the active duty Special Forces who is said to have killed himself before the Tesla Cybertruck he had rented exploded in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, and Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Army veteran who used a Ford F-150 Lightning and firearms in his attack on the French Quarter in New Orleans. 

Information on both New Years Day attackers, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring 35 more, and Matthew Alan Livelsberger, who rented a Tesla Cybertruck and used it in an explosion outside Las Vegas' Trump International Hotel.

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Russel L. Honore' calls Elon Musk a national security risk and remembering the peanut farmer president, Jimmy Carter, who made lasting impacts as the 39th US President and with his post office humanitarian efforts.

Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of school shooting terrorist Ethan Crumbley, requests release from prison while her attorney appeals her sentence to the Michigan Court of Appeals. Jennifer and James Crumbley were the first parents to be charged and convicted in connection with a school shooting following their son's 2021 shooting that killed 4 students and injured 7 others..