Winter storm warnings posted across the northern U.S.

Winter storm warnings have been posted across the northern part of the country. Thanksgiving holiday weekend travelers from Montana to New York are facing snow, rain, and cold weather. More snow is falling over the Great Lakes region with totals of at least a foot in parts of Michigan and in areas off Lakes Erie and Ontario. The National Weather Service says the forecast conditions do not meet blizzard warning criteria. The south could see heavy storms with some flash flooding possible this weekend in the western Gulf Coast.

Nebraska to be first state implement new Medicaid work requirements

Nebraska will become the first state to implement new work requirements for some people with Medicaid health insurance. Nebraska’s Republican governor announced that the requirement would take effect in the state May 1 and could impact about 30-thousand people who have slightly higher incomes than traditional Medicaid beneficiaries. The law, signed by President Trump earlier this year, mandates that people ages 19 to 64 who have Medicaid coverage work or perform community service at least 80 hours a month or be enrolled in school at least half-time to receive and keep coverage. GC, Wash.

GOP Promises Thorough Oversight Hearings On Trump Executive Moves

Bondi Beach Hero

SYDNEY (AP) – A bystander seen in a widely circulated video disarming a gunman during a deadly shooting rampage at a popular Australian beach is being heralded as a hero who saved lives. Reporter Bernie Bennett explains.

VERBATIM:
Video footage posted to social media shows a passerby dressed in a white T-shirt and dark pants crouching behind a parked car before sneaking up behind a gunman, grabbing him and wrestling away his firearm. The bystander then points the weapon at the gunman, who falls to the ground.

The intervention drew wide praise, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. New South Wales Premier Chris Minns called it the “most unbelievable scene.”

Minns said in a statement, “A man walking up to a gunman who had fired on the community and single-handedly disarming him, that man is a genuine hero.”

Bernie Bennett reporting.

The Satanic Temple is at it again

The Satanic Temple is at it again

VERBATIM:  Members of the New Hampshire chapter have set up a Satanic display outside the statehouse in Concord in response to the Nativity scene that is there to celebrate Christmas.  The display consists of a black wreath around a pentagram.  It is more modest than the one the Temple set up last year in Concord — a full-sized figure of Satan.  It was repeatedly vandalized.  This year’s display also encourages donations to the “Devil’s Pantry” — an emergency food drive.  MH REPOERTING

AM SPORTSCAST – 12-19-2025

AM SPORTSCAST – 12-19-2025