GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Rockets, moon shots, spend it on the have nots. Money, we make it. Before we see it, you take it. LET’S GO TO PRESS.
It’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and if you’re interested in paying him homage by serving your community, here are a few suggestions.
Today we honor a man who challenged us to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/pzRQ7Dv15m
— Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (@repcleaver) January 18, 2016
It’s Day 17 of Oregon’s standoff with the armed Yahoo Militia who have taken over a federal building in Burns—and it’s your reminder that if these guys were black? You think they’d still be alive? Also, a pair of Oregon brothers are starting a fund raising campaign to raise money for groups that the Bundys hate. An idiot “patriot” talk show host from Florida will be visiting the area to give lectures on the constitution HAHAAHAHAHAAAAAA! And while conservationists did a nice job of disrupting the occupiers’ interviews with reporters, the so-called “patriots” are crying foul because child protective services are checking in on the children they abandoned. BOO-HOO-HOO!
During tonight’s game on TNT, the network will debut Blazer Damian Lillard’s new rap video, “Bigger Than Us.”
In last night’s Democratic debate, top runners Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had a heated conversation about health care.
Hillary Clinton is in South Carolina today to court black voters who have been showing their increasing support for Bernie Sanders.
While they probably won’t do it, British lawmakers will discuss whether they can ban the Muslim-hating Donald Trump from their country.
In news that probably won’t surprise you, a new report from Oxfam shows that “the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population.”
The US successfully swapped seven Iranians for five American prisoners over the weekend—but the deal almost never happened at all.
Some of tennis’ top pros are under investigation for possible graft—especially after star Novak Djokovic said that he was once offered $200,000 to throw a match.
Apple admits there’s a bug in their 6s and 6s Plus iPhone that can display a higher battery charge than it actually has.
Coming under fire, the documentarians who made Making a Murderer admit they excluded evidence from their series—but insist the evidence wasn’t important to the case.
Now let’s explore the wonderful world of WEATHER: Partly cloudy today with rain returning tonight and tomorrow.
And finally, I never realized that getting hit by a bus was “a thing”—but according to this supercut of people being hit by a bus… IT REALLY IS!
