Amber Alert: Missing 5-year-old Cary found, mother located: Police

BENSON, NC (WNCN) – A missing 5-year-old Cary boy has been found after an Amber Alert was issued Wednesday, according to police. Cary Police said, “Amani Jada Bruce has been located safely. The North Carolina Highway Patrol located Amani Bruce and her mother Crystal Walston safely in Benson, NC.” An AMBER Alert was issued at 20:38 for Amani. Amani is 3 feet, 8 inches tall and 65 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a pink and purple nightgown with a unicorn on the front. Man on motorcycle dies after crash in Winston-Salem at…

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Connor Brown’s mother reacts when Jack Woodley’s killers are jailed Connor Brown’s mother has spoken out after Jack Woodley’s killers were convicted saying ‘no sentence is enough’. Connor, 18, was fatally stabbed in an alleyway near Gatsby’s pub in Sunderland in 2019 after stepping in to help others, with his family setting up the Connor Brown Trust to raise awareness of knife crime. But sadly, this would not be the last young life lost to knife crime in our region. Connor Brown’s mother has spoken out following the conviction of Jack Woodley’s killers In Houghton-le-Spring last year, Jack Woodley lost…

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Welcome news on gas prices for Biden and his fellow Democrats

Finstad led Ettinger by four points with 99 percent of the votes cast Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. Donald Trump won the district by about 10 points in 2020. In Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District, which held a special election in June, the shift was even more pronounced. While Trump won the district by about 15 percentage points in 2020, Republican congressional candidate Mike Flood beat his Democratic opponent, Patty Pansing Brooks, by about six points. Both elections took place after the Supreme Court overturned Roe, which established a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. Democrats have been working to…

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The pro-Trump backlash to the FBI search is fueling concerns about political violence

(the hill) — The FBI’s surprise search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence this week has inspired a sharp backlash on the right, fueling concern among experts about the increased risk of political violence. The response among Trump supporters has ranged from sharp criticism of the Justice Department’s tactics to incendiary rhetoric, with Trump himself comparing the search of his home to the Nixon-era burglary of the compound of Watergate. Some of Trump’s most ardent supporters described this week’s legal development as a reflection of a country in the midst of civil war, and in isolated cases, some far-right…

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Yellen orders IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of Americans earning less than $400,000

The letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig comes amid attacks from Republicans that the $80 billion the Inflation Relief Act would give the IRS over the next 10 years would result in more Americans middle class and small businesses were audited. The Biden administration has repeatedly said the IRS would focus on increased tax enforcement activity and large, super-wealthy corporations and not target households making less than $400,000 a year. “Specifically, I direct that no additional resources, including new staff or hired auditors, be used to increase the proportion of small businesses or households below the $400,000 threshold that are…

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Democrats want Trump to be political focus, ‘not state of country’: Bill Bennett

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fox News contributor Bill Bennett claimed Democrats want to focus on former President Trump instead of inflation and the state of America at the All-Star “Special Report” panel. FBI TRUMP RAID: AGENTS SET UP MAR-A-LAGO DOCUMENTS IN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE BENNETT: Terrible thing. Unprecedented to raid the home of a former president, not just the compound, but his home. I doubt that he has ever thought about the history of the United States. And no sense of burden of why it happened, why they did it. No sense of explanation. “Well, it’s an…

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Breaking News – Development Update: Wednesday 27th July

[07/27/22 – 11:51 PM]Development Update: Wednesday July 27thBy The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) — The latest development news, taken from recent reports: Want to keep track of all the different projects in development? Click here to visit our signature “Devwatch” section. There, visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio, and even stage of development (sorted by pilot, cast, script, etc.). Updated every day! AMERICAN AUTO (NBC) – Executive producer Eric Ledgin has signed an exclusive global deal with Universal Television, home of the series. (Deadline.com) GREY’S ANATOMY (ABC) – Harry Shum, Jr. is the latest…

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters, like these two, are more likely to be polarized by TV news than online echo chambers. AP Photo/Allen G. Breed

Social media? No. Blame cable news for idiot politics.

The last two election cycles have seen one burst of attention paid in “echo chambers” or communities where a narrow set of viewpoints makes people less likely to challenge their own views. Much of this concern has focused on the rise of social media, which it does radically transformed the information ecosystem. However, when scientists investigated the echo chambers of social media, they found surprisingly little evidence of them on a large scale, or at least towards a scale large enough to warrant growing concerns. And yet, selective exposure to the news increases polarization. This suggested that these studies lost…

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