Craig Silverman had clearly worn out his welcome on KNUS, a conservative talk-radio station in Denver. Midway through his three-hour show Saturday, after a segment criticizing President Donald Trump, the station suddenly cut away to a news report, and the station’s operations manager walked into the studio and told Silverman, “You’re done.”
For a while, Kentucky seemed headed for a lengthy partisan battle over its election for governor. Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, had finished about 5,000 votes behind his Democratic challenger, Attorney General Andy Beshear, and refused to concede; he began talking about voting irregularities, and demanded a recanvass of the county tallies.
In the security camera footage, eight members of the League of the South, a white supremacist group based in Alabama, gathered around the Emmett Till memorial, the Mississippi flag and the southern nationalist flag waving in the wind.
Joshua and Hannah Bowman were driving through northeast Arizona on a cross-country road trip a few years ago, after deciding to move to California from Massachusetts. They had left Four Corners, safely taking U.S. Route 160 as evening rolled in, when something strange started happening on their phones.
On one end of the phone, prosecutors say, was a man discussing plans to kill a sheriff’s deputy in Granville County, North Carolina. On the other end was the sheriff.
It’s not hard to see why Mackinac Island, Michigan, is called the jewel of the Great Lakes. Vacationers love it for the natural beauty and the quaint atmosphere, preserved from a simpler time.