Connor Grant
MRCTV Staff
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On Sunday, hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis on the eve of jury selection for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s second-degree murder trial, during which the city will endure international media coverage.
Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police offer, was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in June of 2020 after he was filmed…
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Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) is taking measures to protect his constituents from social media censorship, a practice he says is "un-American and un-Texan."
During a press conference on Friday, Abbott announced he'll be signing a bill that would prohibit big tech companies from banning or de-platforming Texans based on their political or religious viewpoints.
“We see that the First Amendment…
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Big tech is continuing to blacklist Donald Trump - even blocking content of the former president posted by users who are not associated with him.
Video of Trump’s recent Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) speech was taken down by YouTube on Thursday after the video platform said it violated their “misinformation” guidelines. The video, posted by Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN…
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Senate Democrats plan to force their massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill through the Senate this week, despite GOP claims that the bill is full of pork-barrel spending that has nothing to do with combating coronavirus in America.
According to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate will pass the bill this week "no matter how long it takes," even as Democrats wait for …
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On Wednesday, House lawmakers voted along party lines 219-213 in favor of passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act named after George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died while Minneapolis police knelt on his neck. Floyd’s death sparked worldwide protests and countless riots in many cities throughout the U.S.
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the police reform bill would…
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The Washington Football Team - formerly known as the Washington Redskins - are trading their cheerleaders for a "more inclusive" co-ed dance team.
Washington Football Team (WFT) senior advisor Petra Pope told USA Today the new team will highlight both male and female members with a "skillset of being super athletic."
"We want to be more inclusive, so we are going to invite a coed entity (to…
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According to Noticias Telemundo Investiga, a 35 year-old woman from Honduras, Miriam Izaguirre, and her son turned themselves in to authorities after crossing the border, they were quickly released in Texas a few hours later, where she received a rapid COVID-19 test that came back positive.
While waiting for a bus in Brownsville, TX, Izaguirre told Noticias Telemundo Investiga, "Right now we…
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The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a U.S. Government watchdog agency, released a report last week explaining that the U.S. wasted more than $2.4 billion on “capital assets” for war-torn Afghanistan “that were unused or abandoned, had not been used for their intended purposes, had deteriorated, or were destroyed.”
The report reviewed $7.8 billion that the U.S.…
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Communities across the country are concerned about the growing number of K-12 students who are now "unaccounted for" amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
The students are "unaccounted" for in the sense that they are no longer attending online or in-person classes and have essentially fallen off the grid.
A recent study by Bellwether Education Partners estimates that approximately three million of the…
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A straw poll conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found that former President Donald Trump is the most popular potential 2024 presidential nominee among conservatives. Trump won the poll with 55% of the vote, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis followed with 21%, and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem received 4% of the vote.
In an alternative poll in which Trump was…