After more than half a century, Alice Cooper has reunited in the studio with the core lineup of his original band for the first time since 1973. Their long-awaited collaboration has resulted in The Revenge of Alice Cooper, scheduled for release on July 25 via earMUSIC. According to Cooper, the process of making the record felt surprisingly natural—like picking up right where they left off after Muscle of Love. “It was like this was the next album we were meant to make. It just clicked,” Cooper said from his home in Phoenix. Producer Bob Ezrin, who has worked with Cooper The post Alice Cooper Original Band Reunites For First Album in 51 Years appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Tonight (April 21st-22nd) is the Lyrid meteor shower that produces anywhere between 10 and 100 shooting stars per hour. They’re also one of the best for Americans since the point in the sky they seem to originate from is located far in the north of the night sky in the constellation Lyra. Those in the […] The post Tonight Is Peak Lyrid Meteor Shower, and You Don’t Have to Wake Up Early to See it appeared first on Good News Network.

President Donald Trump plans to ask Congress to rescind the funds it appropriated for public broadcasting, which is a good start in defunding NPR and PBS. The legislative branch must do that and then move to dissolve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Rescission deals with the immediate. It applies instant pain to the public broadcasters because Congress would claw back money that it has already decided to appropriate. In this particular case, the administration is preparing to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion, according to published reports. That would be around two years’ worth of appropriations, affecting fiscal years 2026 and 2027, as Congress “forward-funds” the Corporation for Public Broadcasting two years in advance. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting automatically got $535 million—the same as it got last year—in the last continuing resolution that Congress passed in March. The rescission package will also include $8.3 billion in cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development. Once the administration submits the request, which it hasn’t done yet, Congress has 45 days to approve or reject the request. Sources have said the administration feels it has the votes to pass the package. The New York Post reported Monday that Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought drafted a memo outlining the cuts. Vought explained that public broadcasters will lose their funding because of their “lengthy history of anti-conservative bias.” I haven’t seen the memo, but I have been reliably told that the report and Vought’s description of public media’s leftist bias are accurate.  As I testified to the House’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on March 26, NPR and PBS have refused to observe the simple code of decency that dictates that when taxpayers of all persuasions are coerced to pay for you, you owe them impartiality. “NPR, PBS, and the other state broadcasters have, however, simply refused to abide by this simple code,” I told Congress. “They have been coddled by allies in Congress into feeling immune to it. They have shown scorn for conservative views on a consistent basis and have done so safely in the knowledge that their friends in Congress, of both parties, will save their bacon year in and year out. And indeed, this has so far always been the case since they were created.” I and 20 other Republicans also sent Trump a joint letter requesting the rescission package. Other signatories came from high-profile conservative organizations, such as the Media Research Center, which organized the effort, the Claremont Institute, the American Principles Project, the Heartland Institute, and the Conservative Partnership Institute. In it, we told the president that we had heard that a rescission package was coming and urged him “to include the complete defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its affiliates, PBS and NPR.” “NPR’s and PBS’s demonstrable, documented bias further erodes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s credibility. NPR’s audience overwhelmingly identifies as liberal, reinforcing the reality that public broadcasting is not a neutral service but a taxpayer-funded ideological platform. Americans should not be forced to finance a network that caters to one side of the political spectrum,” we added. A copy of the letter was also sent to Vought. What makes us think that there is a chance this time that NPR and PBS can be defunded, given that every Republican president since Lyndon B. Johnson created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting tried and failed? Things are different now for many reasons, one being that Trump and Elon Musk are busy dismantling the permanent bureaucracy, and NPR and PBS, as state broadcasters, are the emitters of the views of this Acela Corridor. Both men also believe PBS and NPR do not deserve one more penny of taxpayer money. But ultimately, two things may have sealed the public broadcasters’ fate, and they have to do with NPR. The first was an essay by an NPR whistleblower, Uri Berliner, which was published in the Free Press on April 4, 2024. Berliner, a 25-year NPR veteran, exposed the rot inside the organization. Berliner revealed that NPR’s audience has become completely lopsided, at only 11% Republican; that at the NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., there are 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans; and that in every story, from the Russia collusion hoax to Hunter Biden’s laptop to the origins of COVID-19, NPR took the far-left side and ignored the conservative perspective. Then, there was the appointment of Katherine Maher as NPR CEO and president just about a year ago. As people dug through her social media posts, they found out she was so woke that wags such as Chris Rufo riffed that she was produced by artificial intelligence. Maher sees the First Amendment as “the No. 1 challenge” to censoring news she disagrees with (“disinformation” is how she would refer to it). She also said, “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.” As for Trump, Maher has called him a “deranged, racist sociopath.” Maher could be the reason why this time is different, and the rescission may just open the floodgates. Originally published by Washington Examiner. The post Defunding NPR and PBS Through Rescissions is a Good Start appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A witness to an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) captured on camera aboard a US warship off Southern California is now speaking about his encounter with a craft that emerged from the ocean. The video, recorded by Navy sailors, made headlines, and one witness, Senior Chief Operations Specialist Alexandro Wiggins, has ties to Las Vegas. The incident mirrors the famed 2004 “Tic Tac” UAP case, first investigated by a secret Las Vegas-based Pentagon program. This new encounter occurred in February 2023 near the same waters, documented by the USS Jackson crew. During a recent Congressional UAP hearing, retired Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet encouraged witnesses to come forward. Wiggins, a 23-year Navy veteran, shared his account after learning the video had circulated. He connected with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who first released the footage on the podcast Weaponized. Wiggins grew up in Las Vegas, attending Cheyenne High School. “I grew up in Las Vegas… watching 8 News Now Chief Investigative Reporter George Knapp’s reporting since my hair was as dark as Wiggins’s,” he said. His father worked security at Area 51. In 2023, Wiggins served as a radar specialist on the USS Jackson. He and others spotted unidentified objects on their screens. “To my surprise… was a light I noticed on the horizon, it looked as if it were surfacing out of the water and going up,” Wiggins recalled. Using the ship’s SAFIRE thermal sensor, they detected two tic-tac-shaped objects with no visible exhaust or propulsion. “We only saw the one, and then we see the second one… when we zoom out, we realize, holy crap, there’s two more out here, a total of four.” The objects then moved northeast at incredible speed—Wiggins called it “two steps behind instantaneous.” Former Defense analyst Marik von Rennenkampff found no air traffic records explaining the objects. Wiggins clarified he isn’t a whistleblower but a witness. No formal report was filed since the objects showed no hostility. However, skepticism remains toward the Pentagon’s UAP office, AARO. Wiggins previously served on the USS Omaha, which encountered dozens of UAPs in 2019. Radar and thermal images showed large circular objects, with one disappearing into the sea. “I am skeptical myself as to what I saw that day,” Wiggins admitted. “Maybe one day I’ll know… and it’ll be normalized like… the stealth fighter or Area 51. At some point, it’ll be public, but then I’ll be old.” The post USS Jackson Radar Specialist: ‘UAP Emerged from the Ocean’ appeared first on Anomalien.com.

On April 8, Kevin O’Leary, commonly known as Mr. Wonderful, appeared on CNN to give his two cents on President Trump's newly announced 104% tariffs on Chinese imports. O’Leary was critical but not in the way most pundits are critical. On the contrary, O’Leary argued the tariffs weren’t even close to sufficient. “104% tariffs in China are not enough. I'm advocating 400%. I do business in China. They don't play by the rules; they've been in the WTO for decades; they have never abided by any of the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades. They cheat; they steal; they steal IP. I can't litigate in their courts; they take product — technology, they steal it; they manufacture it and sell it back here,” he said. When CNN host Laura Coates pushed back, O’Leary doubled down. “I want Xi on an airplane to Washington to level the playing field. This is not about tariffs any more,” he said, noting that people can dislike Trump all they want but that standing up to China is simply the right thing to do. Mark Levin says O’Leary’s “tough talking” is fine but that Trump’s tariff plan is already brilliant. “What Trump is doing is he's ratcheting, and that's the right way to approach it,” he says, noting that the plan will cause some discomfort for Americans in the short term but ultimately will create fairer trade practices. However, his tariff plan is much bigger than just trade. “I think Trump is looking at — if not defeating the communist Chinese, severely damaging their economy and hence militarily, the way Reagan did the Soviet Union through economics,” says Levin. “The truth is as big as the communist Chinese economy is, it's not as big as ours. It's two-thirds or so the size of the American economy. They cannot beat us economically, at least right now,” he explains. These tariff plans are aimed at ensuring that it stays that way. To hear more of Levin’s analysis, watch the clip above. Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.