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Jan 29, 2025 | 
sltrib.com | Brendan Ballou
On Jan. 6, 2021, Jalise and Mark Middleton, a married couple from Texas, trespassed onto the Capitol grounds and joined thousands of rioters gathered at the building's West Front. The assembled mob was assaulting a thin line of officers, and pepper spray wafted through the air. Rather than retreating in the face of violence, the couple pushed up against the makeshift barrier the police had established, hit officers and tried to drag one into the crowd.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Brendan Ballou
On Jan. 6, 2021, Jalise and Mark Middleton, a married couple from Texas, trespassed onto the Capitol grounds and joined thousands of rioters gathered at the building's West Front. The assembled mob was assaulting a thin line of officers, and pepper spray wafted through the air. Rather than retreating in the face of violence, the couple pushed up against the makeshift barrier the police had established, hit officers and tried to drag one into the crowd.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Shelley Fraser Mickle |Bob Kustra |Susan Eisenhower |Brendan Ballou
During Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, his daughter, Alice Roosevelt, captivated the world with her antics and beauty. “I can do one of two things,” he famously said. “I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”Alice was known for carrying a gun, a copy of the Constitution, and a little snake in her purse. When her father said she couldn’t smoke under his roof, she smoked on the White House roof.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Brendan Ballou |George Prentice
Kristin Kane is a U.S. diplomat of the highest degree. For the U.S. State Department, she has served Foreign Tours across the globe. Brasilia, Dakar, Lisbon and Paris is just a short list of her multiple assignments. And while her diplomatic arsenal plays out where you might expect – regarding the planet’s hotspots – sometimes it’s about engaging in the back seat of an Uber in Boise.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Brendan Ballou
Idaho’s longest serving death row inmate’s latest appeal to stay his execution was denied on Friday, days before he is set to be executed. Creech was sentenced to death in 1995 for murdering a fellow inmate while he was serving time for a 1974 double murder in Valley County. His legal defense team had asked a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco to delay his execution while they appealed his sentence. On Friday, they were denied.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Brendan Ballou |George Prentice
Disinformation (noun): false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. While accurate, Meriam-Webster may want to update its definition, in that the “influence” or “obscure” may not reflect the urgency of the risk. “Disinformation online is a major aspect of most extremist ... domestic terrorism organizations,” said Elizabeth Ramsey, associate professor and librarian at Boise State University.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Juliana Kim |Brendan Ballou
Updated February 26, 2024 at 10:14 AM ET
Aaron Bushnell, 25, who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday afternoon, has died in the hospital.
According to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, Bushnell was an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and based in San Antonio, Texas.
On Sunday, the U.S. Secret Service said it was responding to reports of an individual experiencing a possible medical or mental health emergency.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Michael Levitt |Brendan Ballou
Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia.
"I really don't care for those windmills," the 71-year-old says. "I guess I wasn't brought up with that kind of society. Like 50 of 'em together? Who likes all that?"
It's not just the visual contrast that Wagoner finds bothersome. She is from one of many families in Keyser — and throughout West Virginia — that relied on the coal industry for generations.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Eric Deggans |Brendan Ballou
Anyone who thought comic Shane Gillis would emerge confident and defiant, hosting Saturday Night Live nearly five years after he was fired from the cast amid a backlash over racist and transphobic jokes, had to be a little disappointed with his monologue last night.
Gillis didn't spend much time joking about the controversy or the rise in his comedy career that led him to return to the show. "Don't look that up," he cracked seconds after walking onstage to greet the audience.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Carrie Johnson |Brendan Ballou
The Supreme Court hears a pair of cases Monday that could help define the future of the Internet.
Legal experts say they're the most important First Amendment cases in a generation. The question is whether states like Florida and Texas can force big social media platforms to carry content the platforms find hateful or objectionable.
