It's a New Day: 10-13-25 Mississippi Shootings
Details on a deadly weekend after 9 deaths resulting from 5 separate shootings across Mississippi, including shootings near homecomings for Alcorn and Jackson State Universities and 3 high school football games in Leland, Rolling Fork, and Heidelberg.
2hr 24m Oct 13, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-10-25 Moss Point Interim Police Chief Dennis Stevenson
Exclusive interview with the newly appointed interim police chief of the River City, former Mississippi Highway Patrolman and interim Moss Point Police Chief Dennis Stevenson, who details his goals for rebuilding the Moss Point Police Department following the previous chief's resignation.
2hr 26m Oct 13, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-9-25 Moss Point Mayor Billy Knight
Exclusive interview with the mayor of the River City following the chief of police's resignation and letter criticizing the city's leadership, Moss Point mayor Billy Knight weighs in on efforts to grow Moss Point and keep its streets safe by rebuilding their police force in the wake of the mass exodus of officers loyal to the former chief and Meatbawl's Kitchen is featured in the jz94.5 Local B...
2hr 26m Oct 09, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-8-25 River City Police Crisis
Air traffic control shortages worsen in shutdown, Donald John threatens to withhold the pay of some furloughed workers he says "don't deserve to be taken care of" during the government shutdown and Rip implores Moss Point to encourage more youth and residents seek out law enforcement employment opportunities in the River City.
2hr 26m Oct 08, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-7-25 ICE Invasions
Illinois' governor and Portland officials rebuke the deployment of National Guard troops into their cities and a former "worship minister" who sang for Donald John was  arrested and charged with promotion of child pornography after blackmailing his victim.
2hr 30m Oct 08, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-6-25 Sean Combs Sentenced
Reactions to the sentence of 4 years in prison for Sean "Diddy" Combs and a juxtaposition of the outcome of his case with that of disgraced former "spiritual advisor" for Donald John, Robert Morris, who was sentenced to only 6 months after his guilty plea to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.
2hr 27m Oct 08, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-3-25 Shutdown Showdown
Rip delivers the facts on the reasons for the government shutdown and why Congressional Democrats are struggling to properly express them and an exclusive interview with John C. Robinson Brown Condor Association Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum board member Corey Lombard ahead of the museum's 5th anniversary celebration gala.
2hr 26m Oct 06, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-2-25 Rep. Zakiya Summers
The US government enters it's second day of shut down, exclusive interview with Rep. Zakiya Summers on school choice and how MS legislators are attempting to effectively end the state's public school system and the jz94.5 Local Business Spotlight features Gulfport business, Million Prints.
2hr 27m Oct 02, 2025
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It's a New Day: 10-1-25 War Comes Home
Alarm raised over statements at the Quantico Address in which Donald John floated the idea of generals and admirals deploying their troops to several "blue" cities across the country for "training" and the government shuts down after Congress fails to come to terms with a continuing resolution.
2hr 25m Oct 01, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-30-25 Quantico Address
Reactions after Secretary of War host Pete Hegseth and Donald John address nearly 800 generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia ahead of a looming government shutdown and how both gave the officers the option to resign if they did not agree with the statements in the addresses.
2hr 30m Oct 01, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-29-25 Veterans Attacks
Reactions after two mass shootings perpetrated by US military veterans, one at a Mormon church in Michigan and the another at a waterfront bar in South Carolina and remembering the youngest and last Tuskegee Airman Redtail pilot, Lt. Col. George Hardy, after his passing at 100.
2hr 27m Sep 29, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-26-25 James Comey Indictment
 James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations has been indicted by a federal grand jury in an escalation in Donald John’s effort to prosecute his political enemies and more questions swirl around the Secretary of War's calling all generals and admirals to an in person meeting in Virginia after US jets were scrambled following Russian warplanes entering into airspace ...
2hr 25m Sep 26, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-25-25 Extremist Violence
Following the attack that left ICE detainees shot and one dead, Vice President JD Vance labels Dallas ICE Shooter a "left wing extremist" despite the lack of evidence that would point to that conclusion and the jz 94.5 Local Business Spotlight features Elite Care Home Care Services founder Misty Stevenson.
2hr 26m Sep 25, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-24-25 Dallas ICE Shooting
ICE detainees seemingly targeted in Dallas shooting that leaves 3 detainees shot, one fatally, and reactions following Jimmy Kimmel Live's return to abc after his suspension by the network after pressure from FCC chair Brendan Carr over Kimmel's comments on Donald John's reactions to being asked about how he's handling Charlie Kirk's murder.
2hr 27m Sep 24, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-23-25 Donald the John Addresses UN
As late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel prepares to return after his show's suspension following criticism of Donald John's reaction to Charlie Kirk's death, Trump addresses the UN General Assembly in an unhinged rambling speech in which he told world leaders that countries "are going to hell".
2hr 26m Sep 23, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-22-25 Rep. Bennie Thompson
Exclusive interview with Congressman Bennie Thompson on recent Congressional hearings, Democrats' role moving toward mid-term elections, and the escalation of threats of political violence following the assassinations of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and conservative content creator Charlie Kirk.
2hr 25m Sep 22, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-19-25 Delta State Hanging Ruled Suicide
Reactions after Bolivar County's coroner ruled Delta State University Student Trey Reed's death by hanging a suicide and Charlie Kirk's so-called "activism" is called into question as he's remembered by his own words.
2hr 27m Sep 19, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-18-25 The First Amendment of the Constitution
Multiple firings across the country following the murder of Charlie Kirk and family members, students and state residents await more details to emerge following the hanging death of MS Delta State University Student Trey Reed.
2hr 28m Sep 19, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-17-25 FBI Director Testimony before Congress
Former Epstein Files Conspiracy Theorist and current FBI Director Kash Patel confirms  that he hasn't read the entirety of the Epstein Files and states that Epstein did not traffic to anyone other than himself while testifying under oath in a Congressional hearing and more details emerge on the alleged assassin of conservative content creator Charlie Kirk.
2hr 27m Sep 17, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-16-25 Hanging Death at Delta State University
Authorities from multiple state agencies continue to investigate the hanging death of  Delta State University student Trey Reed despite after initially stating no foul play was suspected and another man's death after he was also found hanging from a tree in Vicksburg, MS.
2hr 25m Sep 16, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-15-25 Political Climate Change
Reactions after dozens are fired over the weekend for online reactions the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attempt to direct the narrative and place blame on "the left" continues from Donald John, James David, and Kirk's own widow.
2hr 18m Sep 15, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-12-25 Charlie Kirk Assassin Identified
After initially announcing the capture and release of two persons of interest, the FBI and Utah authorities announce the arrest of Tyler Robinson as the suspect in the killing of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk. Utah Governor Spencer Cox confirmed that a family member of Robinson's reached out to a family friend who contacted the Washington County Sheriff's Office and facilitated Robinson's tu...
2hr 25m Sep 12, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-11-25 Marking 24 Years Since 9/11 Attacks
Marking the 24 years since the 9/11 terror attacks and how the country has changed since them and reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk during a college campus debate tour event at Utah Valley University.
2hr 49m Sep 12, 2025
2hr 49m
It's a New Day: 9-10-25 Drum Beats of War
Revisiting the age limit for military drafting as Russian drones encroach on Polish airspace, sparking warnings of a potential third World War as Poland prepares to ask NATO to activate Article 4. NATO's Article 4 states: "The parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened."
2hr 18m Sep 12, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-9-25 Youth Mental Health Survey
The World Health Organization releases results of a survey of teens showing mental health of adolescents with results showing: Globally, one in seven 10-19-year-olds experiences a mental disorder, accounting for 15% of the global burden of disease in this age group. Depression, anxiety and behavioural disorders are among the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents. Suicide i...
2hr 23m Sep 11, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-5-25 John Ray
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer (other than non-melanoma skin cancer) diagnosed in men in the United States with Black men twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men.  Legendary promoter John Ray speaks on his cancer journey, highlighting his diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, and sounds the alarm for African America...
2hr 29m Sep 05, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-3-25 Epstein Victims Speak Out
A day after meeting with the Congressional House Oversight Committee, victims of Jeffrey Epstein hold a press conference calling out politicians for blocking the full release of the files in the case and Donald John resorts to his "hoax" defense when confronted during a meeting with Poland's president following the press conference.
2hr 25m Sep 03, 2025
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It's a New Day: 9-2-25
A Houston man faces a murder charge in a door-knock prank shooting of 11-year-old boy and leaders from India, China, and Russia meet at Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit after a federal appeals court ruled that most of the president's sweeping global tariffs are unlawful.
2hr 28m Sep 02, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-28-25 The Day before Katrina/Sugar Tribe Spotlight
Rip returns to the day before Hurricane Katrina ahead of it's 20th anniversary to recount survival methods and strategies that helped save lives in 2005 and Ocean Springs bakery Sugar Tribe Sweets and Events is featured in the jz94.5 Local Business Spotlight.
2hr 29m Aug 28, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-27-25 Countdown to Katrina (20 years later)
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Rip revisits the days leading up the history making storm and Hattiesburg's mayor responds to Illinois' governor's reaction to Donald John using National Guard troops from Mississippi to possibly occupy Chicago.
2hr 27m Aug 28, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-26-25 Flag Desecration
Reactions after a 20 year combat veteran is arrested in Washington, D.C. after Donald John signs an executive order making burning a US Flag an arrestable offense with a year behind bars, despite it being protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.
2hr 26m Aug 28, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-21-25 Gerrymandering Texas
Texas' House passes a new, GOP-friendly congressional maps, Donald John bought $100 million in bonds since January, and several states launch lawsuits against the Roblox video game, citing it fosters an unsafe virtual environment for children amid predators using the platform for targeting potential victims.
2hr 25m Aug 22, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-20-25 Political Gamesmanship
Gulfport City Council under scrutiny after irregular handling of a meeting's agenda, America's museums face revisionist censorship from the current regime, and the MS Legislative Black Caucus hears community concerns.
2hr 27m Aug 22, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-19-25 Legislative Black Caucus Meeting
The MS Legislative Black Caucus visits the Gulf Coast for Community Conversations with the Caucus, where state lawmakers come together with community members to discuss important issues and solutions around educations, healthcare, economic opportunity, voting rights, etc.
2hr 22m Aug 20, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-18-25 Anchorage Summit
Reactions after Donald John hosts Putin in Alaska in an effort to end the war in Ukraine despite coming away with nothing other than claiming Putin confirmed election fraud and ballot insecurity, common talking points for Donald John.
2hr 25m Aug 20, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-15-25 Protecting Children Online
Meta's AI is found to have had "sensual" conversations with minors using the platform, leading to a recoding and Donald John prepares to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska to negotiate a solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
2hr 28m Aug 19, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-14-25 Land Wealth
Debate over how the loss of generational land wealth in the Black community could be a leading cause of a growing lack of participation in the electoral process.
2hr 24m Aug 19, 2025
2hr 24m
It's a New Day: 8-13-25 Unhoused in America
Analysis of homelessness in America and debate on possible causes and solutions.
2hr 57m Aug 19, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-12-25 Rep. Kabir Karriem
More reactions to the mobilization of the D.C. National Guard in the nation's capital and an exclusive interview with Representative Kabir Karriem, the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus Chairman ahead of the Community Conversations with the Caucus event.
2hr 27m Aug 13, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-11-25 D.C. Takeover
After being implicated as a Hamas sympathizer by the IDF, Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City, Donald John holds a press conference to outline his crackdown on Washington D.C. following a suggestion to "federalize" the District of Columbia following the attack on former DOGE staffer, "Big Balls", and a man attacks the CDC, killing one police officer.
2hr 28m Aug 12, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-7-25 Plans, Plots, and Attacks
A New Hampshire 5051 Protest is disrupted by Neo-Nazis who attacked protestors, a 39 year-old Texas man planning racist attack had explosives found in home, and 5 soldiers were wounded at Fort Stewart in shooting; accused shooter identified as Army sergeant.
2hr 27m Aug 07, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-6-25 Parenting Language
A 14 year-old Florida boy is charged with his parents' murder, Donald John denies knowing Maxwell was being moved to a minimum security facility in Texas, and foreshadowing of higher drug costs as tariff taxes are promised for pharmaceuticals made over seas.
2hr 26m Aug 06, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-5-25 Gerrymandering
A look at Mississippi's most dangerous and safest cities, Texas governor orders police to find and arrest Democrats who fled over redistricting attempts to gain 5 more seats in support of Donald John and authorities find IEDs in Tennessee home after suspect threatened officials, NOT charged with terrorism.
2hr 31m Aug 06, 2025
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It's a New Day: 8-4-25 Nuclear Saber Rattling
Reactions after Donald John moved nuclear submarines to respond to "provacative statements" from Russia's Security Council's Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev reminds Trump of Russia's Doomsday nuclear strike capabilities and moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security federal prison camp in Texas following her discussions with the Deputy Attorney General.
2hr 31m Aug 06, 2025
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It's a New Day: 7-31-25 No Church in the Wild
Continuing the conversation and critique of a certain demographic's lack of participation in participation in government and questions if a decline in attendance of places of worship, across the board, also plays into the phenomenon following a Gallup survey showing a decline in attendance in most U.S. religious groups.
2hr 27m Jul 31, 2025
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It's a New Day: 7-30-25 Middle-Aged Electorate
Following an NAACP town hall, Rip questions why there is a lack of participation from a certain segment and how it correlates to reduced rates in advancing in education, home ownership, and marriages.
2hr 27m Jul 31, 2025
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It's a New Day: 7-28-25 Deflection Tour
A man could face terrorism charges after committing a mass-stabbing in a Michigan Walmart, Bibb County, Alabama authorities expose a sex-trafficking ring involving at least 10 victims and Donald John's golf trip to the UK is overshadowed by the looming Epstein Files scandal.
2hr 27m Jul 28, 2025
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It's a New Day: 7-24-25 Brutality and Protocol
The Wall Street Journal reveals that Donald John was briefed by Attorney General Pam Bondi in May of 2025 that he was named in the Epstein Files, despite his denials, and further discussion of police brutality by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office deputy who struck William McNeil Jr. during a traffic stop and debate over when police protocols become brutality.
2hr 27m Jul 24, 2025
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It's a New Day: 7-23-25 Surviving Donnie
The House of Representatives in the US Congress ends session early to avoid a vote to release Epstein Files in the latest instance of a blatant cover-up attempt by Republicans led by House Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson and tips and success stories from the past to help with an extremely uncertain future.
2hr 27m Jul 23, 2025
2hr 27m
It's a New Day: 7-21-25 Party Politics
A look back at every Mississippi legislator who switched parties from Democrat to Republican since Kirk Fordice (1992) and in a continuing effort to distract and deflect from the Epstein Files, Donald John calls for the Washington Commanders to revert back to their old "Redskins" moniker and threatens to hold up their new stadium deal.
2hr 26m Jul 23, 2025
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