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A 17-year-old Iowa girl has been arrested after trying to hire a hitman online.

Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.

 television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God's judgment on America for everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.The money poured in as he solicited donations, his influence soared, and when he moved directly into politics by seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 1988, he brought a huge following with him.Robertson pioneered a now-common strategy of courting Iowa's network of evangelical Christian churches, and finished in second place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush.His masterstroke was insisting that three million followers across the U.S.

Pat Robertson, who built a broadcasting empire and led an influential coalition to make religion an integral aspect of politics on the right, has died. He was 93.

Cultural Currents Institute, Google searches for questions such as “Am I gay?” “Am I lesbian?” “Am I trans?” and “how to come out,” as well as searches for “nonbinary” have jumped by 1,300 percent since 2004.The analysis suggests that more politically conservative states are the “most closeted,” with Utah, Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Hampshire leading the list of top states where Google users have searched “Am I gay?” For “Am I lesbian?” the top states were: Utah, Connecticut, Kentucky, Washington, and Colorado.For “Am I trans?” the top states were: Utah, Kentucky, Colorado, Michigan, and Washington.For the term “how to come out,” the states with the most searches were: Oklahoma, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky.“The regional differences highlighted below are significant, offering a geographical landscape of self-questioning and discovery across America,” Cultural Currents’ analysis reads.“Utah, a state with traditionally conservative social values, surprisingly tops three out of five search term categories.

Life is all about balance — and Shawn Johnson knows that better than anyone!

Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis once again called out Disney over Memorial Day weekend, and, come Tuesday morning, the hosts of “Morning Joe” were cracking up at the Florida governor’s assumption that invoking his feud with the company would help him in a state like Iowa.During an interview with “Fox and Friends”, DeSantis argued that Iowans should vote for him over twice-impeached-once-indicted former president Trump, because Trump has “taken the side of Disney” and “I think a multi-billion-dollar company that sexualizes children is not consistent with the values of Florida, or the values of a place like Iowa.”After playing that clip on Tuesday morning, the “Morning Joe” hosts and panelists were stunned before anything else.“Ron DeSantis decides that he’s gonna launch his campaign by talking about how the Magic Kingdom sexualizes children,” Scarborough marveled. “This is something that, again, we’ve all grown up with Disney.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised to “destroy leftism in America” and leave woke ideology behind in his Memorial Day appearance on “Fox and Friends.”When asked why he chose to declare candidacy for the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election now instead of waiting for former president Donald Trump to serve a second term and then run, the governor replied that everyone knows if he is nominated, he will beat Biden and then serve two terms.“I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology on the dustbin of history. At the end of the day, I’ve shown in Florida an ability to win huge swaths of voters that Republicans typically can’t win — while also delivering the boldest agenda anywhere in the country,” DeSantis said.

suggested inviting both the Tigers and their rivals the Iowa Hawkeyes to the White House. LSU star Angel Reese initially objected to the comment, calling it “a joke,” and indicated she might not attend.

CNN has lined up it third Republican presidential town hall. The latest, with former Vice President Mike Pence and Dana Bash as moderator, will air at 9 pm ET June 7, from Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa.

a few days before on Sunday, June 4.Pence served as vice president under Donald Trump from 2017-2021. Like Trump he’ll face a friendly audience of mostly Iowa Republicans who have pledged to pre-register and participate in the Republican caucuses.

“Mr. DeSantis has already made a few early visits to campaign states in a sort of choreographed attempt to be likable,” Wagner said.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a live CNN presidential town hall next month in Iowa, the network said Wednesday. The announcement comes just weeks after the network held a town hall with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, moderated by Kaitlan Collins, in New Hampshire.

“The Watcher” is set in New Jersey — and as it turns out, residents there are intently watching “The Watcher.”The product review site PerfectRec has revealed which Netflix series every state is obsessed with, based on May data from Google Trends and IMDb rating information.California’s pick was “Cobra Kai,” while Hawaii tuned into “Emily In Paris,” despite critics calling the meme-able series “boring.”Fittingly, people in North Carolina frequently watched “Outer Banks,” while those in Iowa streamed “Love is Blind.”“Stranger Things” was tops in Utah. In fact, the Duffer Brothers thriller was the most-streamed series in 2022.Netflix, citing Nielsen ratings, said the drama was the most-watched English TV show within its first four weeks of release, with its latest season scoring 1.35 billion hours of view time in the first 28 days.The series, which premiered in 2016, is slated to end with Season 5.Production plans are unclear amid the Hollywood writers strike.Fans are disappointed that their favorite band of monster-fighting teens will be no more, but actor David Harbour, who plays Eleven’s doting father figure, Jim Hopper, said it’s time for a curtain call.“I think it’s a great show, even if I wasn’t in it,” the 48-year-old actor said in February.

ruled in favor of two Iowans –Aiden Vasquez, a transgender man, and Mika Covington, a transgender woman, both Medicaid recipients — who sued after being denied coverage for gender-affirming surgery.In that ruling, Kelly had found that the state’s ban on Medicaid coverage violated a 2007 law amending the Iowa Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination against people based on gender identity.He also ruled that a subsequent law amending the Iowa Civil Rights Act to prohibit Medicaid dollars from being used to pay for gender-affirming treatments — approved on a party-line vote by Republicans and signed into effect by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in 2019 — was also unconstitutional.The state appealed Kelly’s decision, but shortly afterward, the state Department of Health and Human Services agreed to pay Vasquez and Covington’s surgical expenses. “Choices have consequences, and in this case, the appellant’s choices prompt us to dismiss its direct appeal as moot,” Iowa Supreme Court Justice Thomas Waterman wrote on behalf of the court, citing DHS’s actions. Waterman noted that while the state had asked for a ruling on whether the 2019 Medicaid coverage ban was unconstitutional, the court was declining to rule on the validity of that decision at this time, writing: “We save the constitutional issues for another day, presumably with a better-developed record.”Although the court dismissed the appeal based on DHS’s prior actions, Waterman wrote, on the court’s behalf, that the state had failed to provide evidence or statistics to justify their assertion prohibitions on coverage for gender-affirming care were a cost-saving measure.Waterman also noted that the U.S.

told the magazine that she works out a lot. “I embrace my body and who I am and every mark on my body. I probably feel the sexiest in a bathing suit,” she said.In one of the images, Reese, who led the Lady Tigers to their first championship in school history with a 102-85 victory over Iowa, points to her finger in a nod to her ring taunt that sparked a debate about female athletes and sportsmanship.

Calyn Thompson, the morning anchor at NBC affiliate WHO 13 in Des Moines, Iowa, revealed to viewers she is battling breast cancer, a diagnosis she received after covering a story about staying up on regular mammograms.Thompson, overwhelmed with emotions, made the announcement Wednesday morning on “Today in Iowa” and said she was diagnosed with the disease last November.“Six months ago, I did an interview during breast cancer awareness month reminding you to stay up to date on your mammograms, little did I know that interview would foreshadow the beginning of my own journey,” Thompson said with her colleagues, co-anchor Justin Surrency and meteorologist Megan Salois, by her side.As tears streaming down her face, the 28-year-old told viewers if something feels off or not right to get screened. She said she was glad to get the chemotherapy behind her and expressed things are looking good.“My medical team is confident it is treatable and curable, and I am completely confident in my medical team,” Thompson said.

Today in Iowa anchor Calyn Thompson from NBC affiliate WHO 13 News told viewers on Wednesday that she is undergoing treatments for breast cancer.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu Originals has acquired “We Live Here: The Midwest” from documentary filmmakers David Miller and Melinda Maerker.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis returned to Indio, California, over the weekend to attend the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. The bona fide country music fans were spotted in the desert for another year of music, sunshine and good times. An eyewitness tells ET, «Ashton and Mila stood towards the front at Stagecoach on Saturday when Nelly performed.

NBC News poll about the potential rematch of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, saying that “there are only 6% of Americans that would like to see both Trump and Biden run.”“The point is this: There’s large majorities that don’t want either gentleman to run,” he said, flashing a graphic showing that 60% of Republicans don’t want Trump to run and 70% of Democrats don’t want to see Biden run again.“It’s not because of his policies, it’s simply because of questions about his physical ability to do it and his current age,” he told Willie Geist of “Sunday Today.” “But the thing that is most striking in our poll is how much Republicans are rallying around Donald Trump. When you look at this poll, on one hand, if you’re Ron DeSantis, you can say, ‘Well, hey, so I’m trailing by double digits — Barack Obama trailed Hillary Clinton by double digits the entire calendar year of 2007.’ Right? He didn’t overtake her nationally until he won Iowa.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Julia Roberts, Connie Britton, Sterling K. Brown, Julianna Margulies, Selma Blair, Shonda Rhimes, Andy Cohen, and many other public figures are coming together to support the #LetAmericaRead campaign amid the book bans in some states in America.

Maggie Rogers is hitting the road on tour, and she has a plan to make it easier for fans to get tickets.

was confirmed by the American Society of Cinematographers. Along with “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” for which he received his only Academy Award nomination in 1976, and the game-changing summer movie blockbuster, he also lensed films such as “The Conversation,” “Grease,” “Child’s Play,” “Anaconda,” “Frailty” and the first three “Rocky” sequels. Along with an Oscar nomination an BAFTA award both for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Butler won Primetime Emmys for “Raid on Entebbe” in 1977 and “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1984.

fired after only 2 weeks — compared Trump to Logan Roy, the fictional media titan portrayed by Brian Cox in HBO’s “Succession.” And to be clear, he thought this comparison was a compliment.The oddball bit of TV analysis came just after Scaramucci described Trump as a “family guy” — which, OK — and things only got weirder from here.“This is a family guy whether you like Mr. Trump or not. He’s sort of the Logan Roy of American Politics, you have this love/hate relationship with his Family,” Scaramucci said.At this point a dumbfounded Ruhle interrupted to clarify some things about “Succession.”“Oh come on a minute.

Defending the crown! Louisiana State University athlete Angel Reese pushed back after Dr. Jill Biden suggested the NCAA basketball champions shouldn’t be the only team to receive an invitation to the White House.

Sunday’s NCAA Women’s Basketball championship matchup between Iowa and LSU was historic in more ways than one. Not only did LSU’s 102-85 victory secure its first national basketball title in school history, but the game also drew the largest audience on record for a women’s college basketball game.

. Women's basketball has all the drama now. On Sunday, April 2, Louisiana State University beat the University of Iowa in the NCAA women's basketball final. The tense game included a little back-and-forth between opposing players Angel Reese, an LSU forward, and Caitlin Clark, an Iowa forward.

Kamilla Cardoso is a fierce Latina succeding in college basketball. The Brazilian is a talented center and the women’s Final Four starts tonight in Dallas Texas, at 7 pm ET, with Virginia Tech vs.

faces more than 30 business fraud charges related to his role in a series of hush money payments made to the porn star during the 2016 election.“Once she heard, Stormy Daniels was like, ‘Oh, so this is what it feels like to be satisfied,'” Fallon joked.The host also presented what he said was Trump’s reaction, in the form of a video.It’s the first time a former president has ever been formally charged with a crime. The indictment remains under seal, so the details are not yet public.Fallon also noted that the machinations around Trump’s arrest could impact another potential 2024 presidential candidate, whose rivalry with the former president has been heating up in recent weeks.“If Trump refuses to surrender,” Fallon quipped, “Florida governor Ron DeSantis would have to approve a request to send him to New York.”Then, imagining how DeSantis would respond in such a situation, Fallon said, “DeSantis is like, ‘Oh, it’s approved.