Month: April 2025

April 21, 2025 Travis Kriens

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details about an imminent attack on Houthis in Yemen in March in a second group chat using the messaging app Signal that included [Read More…]

DWU Softball Sweeps Waldorf

Mitchell, S.D. – Dakota Wesleyan opened their double header against the Waldorf University Warriors with a 14-4 win in game 1. Followed by a 12-0 win in game 2. The Tigers combined their solid hitting with [Read More…]

Dakota Wesleyan Drops Both at Briar Cliff

April 21, 2025 Travis Kriens

Sioux City, Iowa – Dakota Wesleyan baseball traveled to Sioux City, Iowa to face Briar Cliff in a double header. The Tigers fell both times to Briar Cilff. Game 1: Dakota Wesleyan 3, Briar Cliff 7 [Read More…]

Supreme Court hears challenge to Obamacare no-cost preventive health benefits

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Preventive care health benefits provided at no cost to tens of millions of Americans since 2010 under a popular provision of the Affordable Care Act are in the balance Monday [Read More…]

In brief: ‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ season 2 trailer and more

We now have the premiere date for season 8 of Jersey Shore Family Vacation. MTV has announced that the reality show will return for its next season on May 29. This time around, the gang [Read More…]

‘Sinners’ knocks ‘A Minecraft Movie’ out of the top spot at the box office

Warner Bros. Pictures Vampires beat video games at the box office this weekend. Sinners, the Michael B. Jordan vampire thriller from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, knocked A Minecraft Movie out of the top spot this weekend, [Read More…]

Ag News

Farmers no longer required to submit ownership data to feds

April 21, 2025 nedvedmedia

A Trump administration rule has exempted most businesses from part of the Corporate Transparency Act. The U.S. Treasury Department previously wanted U.S. companies and individuals, including farmers, to report beneficial ownership information to their Financial [Read More…]

Electing a new pope: What happens next?

Arturo Mari – Vatican Pool/ Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — The process by which a new pope is elected has undergone numerous changes in the nearly two millennia that the Catholic Church has existed, with [Read More…]

Popes through the ages: some facts you might not know

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Who was the very first pope? How many popes have there been? Has anyone ever refused the office? For an institution that has existed for nearly 2,000 years, most [Read More…]

Pope Francis, everyman leader of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 88

April 20, 2025 Travis Kriens

Franco Origlia/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at [Read More…]

Mitchell Man Injured in Rollover After Police Chase in Brookings

A police chase in Brookings, ended in a rollover early Sunday morning, injuring 24-year-old Brandon Kendall of Mitchell. The incident began when a Brookings police officer attempted to stop Kendall’s vehicle for speeding. Kendall, who [Read More…]

Inside the ACLU’s race to stop Venezuelans’ deportation to Salvadoran prison

ABC News The American Civil Liberties Union’s lead attorney described to ABC News the rapid pace of legal action that led to the extraordinary ruling from the Supreme Court early Saturday morning that blocks the [Read More…]

Homan: Trump administration ‘did the right thing’ deporting Abrego Garcia

ABC News Trump administration border czar Tom Homan criticized Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador to visit deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, accusing the Democrat of traveling “on the taxpayer dime to meet with [Read More…]

Jeffries: Trump’s economic policy is ‘his greatest weakness’

ABC News House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called out President Donald Trump for not addressing Americans’ economic needs. “Well, this week, we’ll be having a cost of living week of action, and we have [Read More…]

Van Hollen: ‘I am not defending the man, I am defending the rights of this man to due process’

ABC News Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday that his recent trip to El Salvador was not about defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident deported despite a court order, but about defending the [Read More…]

‘Margarita-gate’: Sen. Chris Van Hollen slams efforts to stage optics of meeting with Abrego Garcia

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., set out to El Salvador this week to find Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of an erroneous deportation, and get answers about [Read More…]

Pope Francis makes surprise appearance at St. Peter’s Basilica

Franco Origlia/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis made a short and unannounced visit Saturday to St. Peter’s Basilica to pray before this evening’s Easter vigil and greet some of the faithful present. The 88-year-old [Read More…]

Naval Academy cancels speech by podcaster amid cultural turmoil

csfotoimages/Getty Images/STOCK (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The Navy said it canceled a speaking engagement at its academy in Annapolis, Maryland, with popular podcaster and author Ryan Holiday because it wanted to steer clear of what it [Read More…]

Putin declares temporary ‘Easter truce’ in Ukraine