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Community Foundation Awards $25,000 Grant to 103.7 The Beat for Youth Media and Community Expansion

Community Foundation Awards $25,000 Grant to 103.7 The Beat for Youth Media and Community Expansion Muskegon, MI — October 19, 2025 — The Community Foundation for Muskegon County has awarded a $25,000 grant to WUVS-LP 103.7 The Beat to support the station’s ongoing Community Expansion and Youth Media Initiative. This vital funding comes at a critical time for the community radio station, which lost over 50% of its annual funding in July when Congress voted to defund the Corporation for […]

todayOctober 19, 2025 1

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Trump calls Charlamagne Tha God ‘racist sleazebag’ and ‘Low IQ’ after Fox News interview

President Donald Trump threw several personal insults at radio personality Charlamagne Tha God following the “The Breakfast Club” star’s recent interview on Fox News’s “My View with Lara Trump.” In a fiery Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump called Charlamagne, real name Lenard McKelvey, a “racist sleazebag” after the Black radio veteran told reporters the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, that he believed Trump was doing a “terrible job” since returning to the White House. “I don’t want to say that […]

todayAugust 3, 2025

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Fox News host compares reclaiming ‘Nazi’ to Black people reclaiming the ‘N-word’

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld doesn’t care about being called a Nazi. In fact, he plans on incorporating it into his daily vocabulary. During a segment on “The Five,” Gutfeld dismissed criticism likening Trump-era politics and GOP rhetoric to Nazi behavior. Rather than engage with the substance of those comparisons, he leaned into them. “This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis,” he said. “Nazi this, Nazi that. I’m beginning to think they don’t […]

todayJuly 17, 2025

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Trump says he’s a ‘believer’ in polio vaccine, and other news conference takeaways

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals and expressed doubts that his daughter-in-law might be Florida’s next senator. Trump held forth for over an hour, the first time he took questions from reporters since winning the election. The event harkens back to his long-winding news conferences from his first term and is […]

todayDecember 17, 2024

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Breaking news: Donald Trump is a white supremacist

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.   White supremacy (n):  1. “the belief [that the] white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.” Example: Adolph Hitler 2. “the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races.” Example: the New York Times On March 29, […]

todayOctober 23, 2024

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Kamala Harris will sit down with Bret Baier for her first Fox News interview

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday in Pennsylvania as she steps up her travel and conversations with media outlets in the closing stretch of the presidential campaign. It will be her first sit down with the network, and her first interview with a news outlet outside of her ideological comfort zone since becoming the Democratic nominee. Harris has previously granted interviews to CNN and CBS’ “60 Minutes,” as well as […]

todayOctober 14, 2024

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CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign’s third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents. The 90-minute debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday in a Manhattan studio that once hosted the children’s program “Captain Kangaroo,” will be moderated by the outgoing “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face […]

todayOctober 1, 2024

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TheGrio presents TV simulcast of ABC News Harris-Trump presidential debate

As the nation awaits Tuesday’s first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, viewers can watch the historic showdown on theGrio cable television network. TheGrio, owned by Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, will air a special television simulcast of ABC News’ highly anticipated “Race for the White House” presidential debate on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The event will take place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. It will be moderated by ABC’s World […]

todaySeptember 10, 2024

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1, but the Pentagon kept the news quiet

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday due to complications following a minor elective medical procedure, his press secretary said, in the Defense Department’s first acknowledgement that Austin had been admitted five days earlier to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Friday that it was not clear when Austin would be released from the hospital, but said the secretary was “recovering well.” The Pentagon’s failure to disclose Austin’s hospitalization is […]

todayJanuary 6, 2024