Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, rock and roll original behind "Palisades Park," dead at 89
Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, the high-energy rock and roll pioneer who scored 29 charting hits and set an all-time record on American Bandstand, died July 17 at a California hospice after a brief battle with cancer. Cannon, born Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. in Lynn, Massachusetts, on December 4, 1936, spent seven decades making the kind […]
Kentucky governor claims two agencies called to tell him McConnell had died
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he received two separate phone calls from unnamed agencies informing him that Sen. Mitch McConnell had "passed", a claim that captures just how far the information vacuum around the 84-year-old senator's hospitalization has spread since he was rushed from his Washington home on June 14. Beshear, a Democrat, made the […]
House floor reopens after GOP holdouts win concessions on SAVE America Act
The House of Representatives voted 215, 211 on Tuesday to reopen its floor after a two-week shutdown, ending a standoff between Republican leadership and a handful of conservative holdouts who demanded that election integrity legislation be welded onto every spending bill that leaves the chamber. The rule vote attached the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, […]
Pelosi aide shuts down questions about husband's hit-and-run case: 'That's enough'
Nancy Pelosi refused to answer repeated questions about her husband Paul Pelosi's hit-and-run case before an unnamed staffer stepped in and ended the exchange. The House Speaker Emeritus stayed silent as Fox News Digital pressed her on the matter, nearly two weeks after California authorities recommended a misdemeanor charge against the 86-year-old. "Ok, that's enough. […]