Oh my gosh, it looks so good. It began, as most Christmas wishes do, with a letter. This community has been incredibly supportive of our family over the last four years.Alyssa and Joe Zachman writing not to Santa, but their Maryland neighbors about their 9-year-old daughter Casey wanting to celebrate Christmas on June 28th, the date she was diagnosed with brain cancer four years ago. This week will be incredibly hot and not the best climate for putting up lights, but we aren't sure how much time we have. Wi ...

dangerous drug. We're talking about nitrous oxide. You probably know it as whippets.And this new report out of the New England Journal of Medicine talks about a case involving a 23-year-old who used the drug and ended up with frostbite in his mouth and throat. There's a couple different dangers. One is the cold that happens because of it.And that cold can be down to minus40 degrees Fahrenheit, which can obviously cause a lot of frostbite. But on top of that, you can get some immediate risks. That nitrous ox ...

I have nothing to lose at this point and I am just trying to get them to see that these are people. Hi, I'm Nancy Baker Curtis and I am the mother of Charlie who is a beautiful almost 10-year-old little boy with intellectual and physical disabilities who needs Medicaid in order to get to whole. Charlie and I made the big step of traveling to Washington DC recently so that we could talk with our elected officials about how the big beautiful bill will impact our family personally.I know the video regarding ou ...

We're watching this key vote in the House right now. We were just watching it right before the break. Uh Brendan Buck is back.We had him pull over and come back and talk to us. He's a former adviser to speakers Paul Ryan and John Boehner. So what people can see right now, they can't four votes is a fail. So they can't have four fail four no votes.Correct. So what's happening with the total number of members that that are in the House right now, it's 220 Republicans, 212 Democrats. That means that if four Re ...

You struck her with such force you took her head clean off. The jury trial is often the pinnacle of legal drama on TV, but actual trials are rare. As many as 95% of cases end in a plea bargain, according to the Department of Justice, and trials can be long and expensive with an uncertain outcome.But plea bargains lock in some kind of punishment. There's no slam dunk case with a jury trial. Tara Malik is a former state and federal prosecutor in Idaho.She says death penalty cases are extremely expensive and v ...

Take a look at this. The Italian Coast Guard rescuing a little boy, 5 years old, after a lot of wind dragged his floaty, the thing, his little like raft floaty situation, two miles off the beach. His grandmother also had to be rescued.She dove in to try to help him. Amazingly, joyfully, both of them are doing just fine now. But the Coast Guard is reminding people if it's really windy, don't use those kinds of floats. ...

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The nation got another powerful reminder today that elections matter. In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court just struck down a 176-year-old abortion ban, ensuring the right of all Badger State residents to make decisions about their own bodies. The ruling might not have happened if more than 1.7% million voters didn't break turnout records to elect state supreme court Justice Janet Proteus to the bench in 2023.Okay. Her election it it flipped the court to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 ...

As Republican lawmakers struggle to pass Trump's big unpopular tax bill, the Trump White House has been trying to defend the bill's most indefensible details. And earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance argued that much of what the bill does, like kicking millions of people off Medicaid, cutting taxes for the rich and people that inherit $30 million estates while skyrocketing the federal deficit. All of that is just minutia and immaterial.What really matters, Vance says, is quote, "The ICE money and immi ...

Tonight, this just in, a judge denying Shaun Diddy Combmes bail amid his major victory in court today. The jury acquitting him on the most serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. Inside court, Combmes falling to his knees in prayer. Outside, his family celebrating despite Combmes being found guilty on two lesser counts involving prostitution. The big question tonight, how much longer will he spend behind bars? Plus, are you pleading guilty because you are guilty? Yes. One by one, Brian Cobberge ...