Fully vaccinated Indian actress and model Shefali Jariwala, who promoted the shots to millions of fans in 2021, passed away at her Mumbai home on June 27 after suffering cardiac arrest. She was 42. Jariwala promoted the [...] The post mRNA Vaccinated Celebrity Shefali Jariwala Dies at 42 From Cardiac Arrest appeared first on The People's Voice.

The Bank of England has announced plans to redesign its banknotes — and Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s most iconic wartime leader, is set to be the next casualty of “woke” identity politics. Banknotes have long [...] The post Bank of England Removing Winston Churchill From UK Banknotes To Be Less ‘Divisive’ appeared first on The People's Voice.

Welcome to the VintageRock.com Podcast. Here, you can listen to audio interviews (new and archival), commentary, music news, reviews, commentary, and more. For our first episode, we are featuring a portion of an interview we did earlier in 2025 with Derek Shulman, who was the lead singer of the 1970s progressive rock band Gentle Giant. During this 25-minute segment, we talk about the recent reissue of the group’s 1976 live album, Playing The Fool. Derek also speaks to the dynamics of the group, why they stopped at the end of the 70s, why they’ll never reunite, and what’s next as far as more Gentle Giant remixes and reissues. Lastly, he touched on his memoir he’s releasing in the fall. Gentle Giant is not a casualty of rock and roll. They are a classic example of a group who broke the barriers and stereotypes associated with prog rock and instead create something uniquely their own. For every Nektar, every Eloy, every Camel, there are a dozen more trying to be like them. No one could emulate Gentle Giant because of the mad skills it requires. Here’s a band of multi-instrumentalists who could swap musical chairs as often as Nascar drivers change gears. If the meek inherit the earth, Gentle Giant inherit the soul. And maybe the time signature. Click below to listen. And thanks for tuning in…

President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam on Wednesday, giving the United States “total access to their markets for trade” while imposing a 20% tariff on Vietnam’s imports into the United States.

BOISE, Idaho – A man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in 2022 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors that spares the former graduate student in criminal justice the death sentence. Bryan Kohberger, 30, previously pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and burglary charges in a gruesome multiple homicide in 2022 that stunned the small college town of Moscow in northwestern Idaho and drew national media attention. The plea agreement, as outlined in court by the judge, calls for Kohberger to be sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison and to waive his rights to appeal or seek reconsideration of the sentence. Relatives of at least two of the victims attended Wednesday’s court hearing, which began at 1 p.m. ET in Boise, the Idaho state capital. According to news media accounts, the families were divided about the plea deal. Kohberger, who has remained in pre-trial custody since his arrest more than two years ago, was due to return to court for formal sentencing on July 23-24. Under questioning from the judge, Kohberger stated that he was pleading guilty as charged to four counts of first-degree homicide and a charge of felony burglary. He also asserted that he was doing so freely, believed it to be in his best interests, was satisfied with his legal counsel, and understood the consequences of his plea. Answering “yes” to a series of questions from the judge, he also admitted to committing each of the crimes. At the time of the killings, Kohberger was pursuing a doctorate degree in criminal justice at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, a short distance from Moscow, where the four victims were undergraduates at the University of Idaho. The murders occurred during the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in an off-campus house shared by five women. Three of the roommates – Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Arizona; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho – were found slain inside the house along with Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington. All suffered multiple stab wounds, according to authorities. The family of Goncalves, in a statement through their attorney, criticized the plea agreement as a mishandled, “secretive deal and a hurried effort to close the case without any input from the victims’ families.” Asked outside the courthouse prior to Wednesday’s hearing whether he believed the four life sentences provided justice in the case, the victim’s father, Steve Goncalves, said, “No, of course not. It’s daycare. Prison is daycare.” (Reporting by Matt McKnight and Eric Cox in Boise, Idaho; Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee were outraged that President Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russia. There are just two problems with that: he didn’t lift sanctions. And the policy they’re slamming began under President Joe Biden. “While both parties in Congress push to tighten sanctions, Trump signals—again—whose side he’s on,” the official account for the Democrats on the House Affairs Committee posted on X Monday. “He won’t hold Russia accountable. Congress must.” The account was referencing a general license renewal from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which allows certain Russian banks to temporarily operate without sanctions. The post did not mention that the license is a continuation of a policy implemented by the Biden administration in December 2024, and renewed again in January 2025 — weeks before Trump took office. A Treasury Department spokesman confirmed to The Daily Wire that the general license is not a sanctions rollback, but an extension of an earlier measure. “The Trump administration has not lifted sanctions; all sanctions remain in effect, and there has been no change to our sanctions policy in regard to Russia,” the spokesperson said. “This general license is a continuation of a general license initially granted in 2024 under the Biden administration.” A Republican spokesman for the committee called the Democrats’ post attacking Trump “verifiably false” in a statement to The Daily Wire. “We are not taking pressure off of Russia, and these licenses were greenlit under Biden,” the spokesperson said. “Democrats are still grasping for anything to lie about President Trump’s record on Russia.” The spokesman added that “Democrats lying about President Trump for a few clicks does nothing to end the bloodshed in Ukraine.” The Democrats’ House Foreign Affairs Committee has not yet deleted the post. But a Democrat spokesman for the committee backtracked in a statement to The Daily Wire, claiming that the Trump administration is “carving out exceptions.” “Unfortunately, the Administration appears more focused on carving out exceptions to existing sanctions than on imposing new ones, despite strong bipartisan support in Congress for a policy of strength,” the spokesman said. They added that Ranking Member Gregory Meeks drafted Section 307 of his Ukraine Support Act “to explicitly block this general license — regardless of which President issued it.” “Ranking Member Meeks’ position is clear and consistent: he supports additional sanctions on Russia to defund Putin’s war machine,” the spokesperson said. The general license was implemented by the outgoing Biden administration to give Trump leverage in negotiating between Russia and Ukraine. A former senior advisor for OFAC under the Biden administration also concluded that the Trump administration did not lift sanctions. “This is not a lifting of any sanctions — it simply extends a general license that was previously in place,” Brad Brooks-Rubin, a former Senior Advisor in the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State,  told the Kyiv Post. The June 27 general license extension temporarily permits 13 major Russian financial institutions involved in civilian nuclear energy transactions to continue operating without sanctions.