Hour 1 of The Dawn Stensland Show:
- Local News Headlines/News Rundown
- Jay Wright announced he will be retiring as Villanova men’s basketball coach. Wright won two national championships and made four Final Four appearances over the course of 21 seasons at the university.
- Due to complicated maritime laws, several Ukrainian sailors have been stuck at sea for several weeks. On Wednesday they were finally able to come-ashore and walk the streets of Philadelphia.
- A South Jersey postal worker has been accused of manufacturing more than 400 fake vaccination cards.
- According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk now has commitments for $46.5 billion in financing to acquire Twitter.
- A viral TikTok trend is encouraging teens to fire Orbeez soft gels from airsoft guns at innocent bystanders. Several teens in the Philadelphia-area face charges for participating in the “Orbeez Challenge.”
- Aaron Maté—investigative journalist for RealClearInvestigations—joins the show to discuss his latest report, “Al Qaeda is on Our Side: How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks in Syria.” Maté documents top officials in the Obama Administration desperately trying to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime—going as far as to align themselves with factions of Al Qaeda. With many of the same U.S. officials now holding prominent positions within the Biden Administration, will those controversial tactics in Syria continue?
