Apple Podcasts restores 'Glenn Beck Program' after outcry over unexplained ban

Glenn Beck gives an update: All episodes of 'The Glenn Beck Program' have been restored to Apple Podcasts
"I want to thank everyone (on the left, right and everyone in between) who spoke up today. I wish I had better answers from Apple on what happened, but you gave me hope that the issue of censorship is still bigger than politics."

Apple Podcasts deplatforms 'The Glenn Beck Program'
"I have a feeling these 'issues' with @Apple and others will keep happening the more we're over the target," wrote Beck.

Senators and others rally behind Glenn Beck after Apple Podcasts removes his show
"Need some answers from Appple ASAP. This looks an awful lot like a major American corporation engaging in election interference," JD Vance wrote.

Deseret News: Glenn Beck says his show was removed from Apple Podcasts, Sen. Mike Lee responds
"It looks like I may have to go elsewhere to listen to podcasts. If @Apple is going to remove @glennbeck’s program from its podcast offerings, a whole lot of us are going to say 'we found an issue with @Apple,'" Mike Lee noted.

Variety: Apple Says Removal of Glenn Beck Podcast Was Related to a Trademark Dispute That Has Since Been Resolved
Reached for comment, an Apple spokesman told Variety that “The Glenn Beck Program” was removed from Apple Podcasts because of a trademark dispute involving Beck’s podcast and that the issue has since been resolved.

Daily Wire: Blaze Media Founder Glenn Beck Says Apple Removed His Podcast From iTunes Without Warning
Daily Wire Co-Founder Jeremy Boreing wrote, “This must be a mistake. Glenn is one of the best men in the business and perhaps the greatest living broadcaster. Make this right.”

Glenn Beck's Audience Raises Nearly Half a Million Dollars for Maui Wildfire Victims
The audience has passed a major milestone, reaching $475K in donations, even as the Mercury One charity website was facing cyber-attacks. We also have quotes from Mercury One partners who are on the ground and explain how the donations are already helping people.

Mercury One: How to Help Hawaii Wildfire Victims
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Maui chief doesn’t regret not activating sirens during wildfire: ‘We would not have saved those people’
Chief Herman Andaya said that the blaring sirens are typically reserved for tsunami warnings and that Hawaiians are trained to seek higher ground when they are set off, which would have been toward the fast-moving inferno that killed 110 people.

Report: State official refused to release water to fight Lahaina fire until too late
The website "Civil Beat" covers Hawaiian politics and is funded by lefty billionaire Pierre Omidyar, so keep that in mind as you read this explosive allegation.

Attempts to blame Maui fires on climate change challenged by downed power lines, possible neglect
Power lines, coupled with land management mistakes by county officials and alleged neglect by electricity companies, not "climate change", have been raised as the primary reason for the tragic events.

'Fire and Fury' book sparks conspiracy theories for being published 2 days after Maui fires began
The book, which comes in at a whopping 44 pages, is currently listed as a "bestseller" in the Natural Disasters section of Amazon and is available on Kindle and in paperback editions.

Washington DC ‘selectively enforced’ ordinance against pro-life group while ignoring BLM protesters: Federal appeals court
A lawsuit filed by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of pro-life groups Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America was revived by a federal appeals court this week in a unanimous 3-0 opinion after a lower court judge previously dismissed the case in late 2021.

Federal Appeals Court Makes Decision On The Mailing Of Abortion Pills
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that chemical abortion drug mifepristone should not be distributed through the mail or prescribed via telemedicine in a ruling that cannot take effect until the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the decision.

Luxury San Francisco store may close after 166 years due to ‘litany of destructive’ policies making the city ‘unlivable’
Gump's took out a full-page ad to bash the city’s leadership — warning that rampant homelessness and drug abuse could force it to shut up shop after 166 years.

Two more home insurers exit California amid wildfire risks and state rules
State Farm, currently the largest home insurance provider in California, made headlines earlier this summer after it announced it would stop insuring new homes in the state, citing historic increases in construction costs and “rapidly growing” catastrophe risks.

Minnesota Dept Of Natural Resources Concerned With Bringing More Non-White Visitors To State Parks
According to the study, visitors were more likely to be white, high income, and highly educated. They expressed a desire to “decolonize signage” and input more Indigenous history and voices in park programming and expressed concerns over microaggressions and the lack of diversity during their visit.

Homeowner arrested after trying to evict squatters from his own property
After dialing 911 to report the intrusion, Arko was astonished to find himself being arrested and taken into police custody. “They told the police that I was a home invader and that it was their home. And so I ended up being arrested and detained,” Arko said.

Doctor kidnapped in Brooklyn 'forced' to pay for a $6,000 spending spree that included strip club trip
Michael Bautista claimed he was taken hostage by a Bronx man going by the name “Tony G’s,” who threatened to shoot him if he tried “anything funny.”

Biden’s Hawaii response follows familiar pattern: Ignore, deny, then claim he’s done a great job
It’s all too easy — and often gross — to use natural disasters to attack incumbent political opponents. No official boasts dominion over earth, wind, fire, or water. Yet in President Biden’s response to the devastating wildfires in Maui, we can see the re-emergence of a familiar habit.

Locals lash out against Biden’s visit to Maui after deadly wildfires: ‘I don’t want him here’
Hawaiian residents are saying they don’t want Joe Biden to visit them on Monday as the president continues to face backlash this week for appearing aloof following the state’s largest natural disaster.

Fresh off a vacation, Biden heads to Lake Tahoe for a week
The world-renowned vacation destination and natural treasure will, for the next week, also be President Biden's back yard.

Russia Hoaxer Hillary Clinton Should Be Indicted For Election ‘Conspiracy,’ Not Invited To Cheer Trump’s Charges On TV
Someone who actually threatened the republic, by using illegal tactics to try to thwart the 2016 election, was Hillary Clinton.

Congress probing whether Democrats improperly using nonprofits, foreign money to win elections
Rep. Claudia Tenney says Ways and Means panel to investigate whether tax law broken or foreign money being used to funnel cash into elections.

GOP Rep Aiming More Fire At Christian Tweet Than Trump Indictment Shows Why Republicans Keep Losing
Freshman Rep. Max Miller from Ohio went on Twitter to decry a call for "faith in Jesus Christ alone" as "bigoted."

'Tan mom' plans to run for US Senate in Florida
Patricia Krentcil, who went viral in 2012 for taking her 5-year-old daughter into a New Jersey tanning salon, plans to challenge Senator Rick Scott in the Republican primary.

Biden takes a victory lap one year after signing Inflation Reduction Act
“When the Inflation Reduction Act was passed a year ago today, inflation was at 8.3%,” Biden said. “It’s now down to 3.2%, and it’s going to go lower.” Yet tying the drop in inflation to a bill that funded investments in green energy and health care subsidies is a tenuous case.

One Year Later, President Biden's 'Inflation Reduction Act' Is a Total Flop
The typical U.S. family spent $709 more on monthly expenses last month, July 2023, than it did in July two years ago.

Mortgage rates could soon hit 8%
Rates have not hit such levels since 2000.

Yellen boasts ‘most Americans’ happy with personal finances, but polling shows otherwise
Out of touch? The vast majority of Americans report feeling discontent with the overall economy, but Yellen paints a different picture.

Don’t count out more rate hikes due to strong jobs market, former Fed governor Kroszner suggests
Kroszner, who’s now a University of Chicago economics professor, believes rates are staying high into well next year.

More Than 150K New Cases Filed With US Immigration Courts In July Alone
July’s total is also three times the approximately 45,000 migrants the Biden administration said it would allow into the U.S. per month through the CBP One app.

New York governor rips into NYC mayor over his handling of illegal aliens
"Let's be very clear — you cannot involuntarily take people from the city and send them all over the state of New York ... Putting someone in a hotel on a dark, lonely road in upstate New York and telling them they're supposed to survive is not compassion."

Maine forced to house illegal aliens in hotels for the next year at cost of $1.9 million
Small communities not far from the Maine-Canada border have been inundated with illegal aliens who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and ended up in northern New England homeless and unable to work.

Biden administration tells 9/11 families that attack mastermind, 4 others could be spared death penalty
Some relatives of the 2,977 people killed in the terror attacks expressed outrage over the possibility of plea deals being made.

Russia got richer even as the war in Ukraine raged on last year, while the West shed trillions of dollars of wealth
Russia added $600 billion of total wealth, the Swiss bank found in its annual Global Wealth Report, published Tuesday.

Moscow Rewrites History Textbooks — Preparing Next Generation for War
Putin’s regime is filling young minds with victimhood, lies, and malice so that upon graduation, they will eagerly take their turn on the battlefield.

Oliver Anthony and the sorry state of Rolling Stone
The once-great magazine’s coverage of the viral country star is embarrassing.

Alec Baldwin may still face charges in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting after new report alleges he pulled trigger
“Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger ... the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver,” a forensic firearms examiner wrote.

Sam Asghari Allegedly ‘Threatening’ To Release ‘Embarrassing’ Info About Britney Spears Unless Prenup Renegotiated
Page Six reported that Asghari is “attempting to negotiate concessions beyond his prenup and threatening to go public with extraordinarily embarrassing information about Britney unless he gets paid.”

The 10 Worst Action Movies of All Time, According to Reddit
"Gods of Egypt," "Righteous Kill," "Terminator 3," "The Predator (2018)," "Taken 3," "xXx: State of the Union," "Ultraviolet," "Thunder Force," "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever," and coming in at number one ... the 2006 Steven Seagal spectacular, "Attack Force."

Why every American should be alarmed by the Marion County newspaper raid
The small town’s police department raided the offices of the Marion County Record, the local family-owned newspaper. It seized the paper’s computers. The chief ripped a reporter’s cell phone out of her hand. Cops even rummaged through the family’s home, snapping pictures of their bank-account information.

Israel's intellectually dishonest Left must return to sanity
To my leftist brethren, I say: Please stop being intellectually dishonest. Stop talking about an “end to democracy” when you are the ones trying to overturn the results of the last election.

Soros Firm Lost Up To $105 Million On Now-Bankrupt Green Energy Firm Boosted By Biden
Soros owned nearly 8 million shares in Proterra stock, now valued at just 8 cents a share.

Tropical storm Hilary is forecast to hit LA on Sunday
Would be the first storm to make landfall in California since 1939.

Target says ‘negative reaction’ to ‘Pride’ merch contributed to first quarterly sales decline in years
The retailer’s earnings report revealed that its second-quarter comparable sales dropped 5.4%. Digital sales declined 10.5% over the same period, the report stated.

'State-sanctioned kidnapping': Watchdog sues Washington state to block minor shelter law
The group argues that state legislation creates a "dangerous incentive for minors who disagree with their parents on 'gender-affirming care' to run away to a shelter or host home."

Mother says she lost her job, was called 'anti-trans' after opposing sexual ideology in schools
Elon Musk responded to story online, asking Compass if it fired the California mother for speaking out.

Medical school professor says children can be 'gender hybrids'
A professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine reportedly said children can identify as "gender hybrid" and compared them to the minotaur, a mythological creature.

North Carolina lawmakers override Democrat governor's vetoes on three transgender bills
The ban of child sex changes makes it the 22nd state to pass a such a law and the 19th this year.

‘Comedy Unleashed’ Event Canceled Over One Comedian’s Views On Gender
An upcoming comedy festival in Scotland has been canceled because one of the scheduled performers has said that men can’t become women.

Biden Admin Guidance On Race-Based College Admissions Raises Legal Questions, Experts Say
“It is disappointing but not surprising that the Biden Education Department’s first move after a Supreme Court decision unequivocally prohibiting the use of race in college admissions is to issue so-called ‘guidance’ encouraging schools to use race in the admissions process.”

WaPo: ChatGPT leans liberal, research shows
The results showed a “significant and systematic political bias toward the Democrats in the U.S., Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the U.K.,” the researchers wrote, referring to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s leftist president.

When Hackers Descended to Test AI, They Found Flaws Aplenty
The hackers had the blessing of the White House and leading AI companies, which want to learn about vulnerabilities before those with nefarious intentions do.

AI helps stroke patient walk again
After first experiencing an uncomfortable "tingling feeling," she said that within a few minutes she was walking unaided for the first time in six months. "I've never felt since my stroke as elated as I feel this moment."

Musk's X seeks job applicants to stop disinformation, promote 'credible' election stories
X is seeking job applicants for two positions on its threat disruption team who are "passionate about protecting users from global disinformation" and "helping people find credible information online" in the context of elections.

Pilot dies in bathroom of Boeing 787 — forcing emergency landing after Miami takeoff
A pilot collapsed and died in the bathroom during a commercial flight from Miami to Chile — prompting an emergency landing in Panama on Sunday night.

'Blind Side' author opens up about Michael Oher's claims
“They showered him with resources and love. That he’s suspicious of them is breathtaking. The state of mind one has to be in to do that — I feel sad for him.”