Category: News: US

Singer Trini Lopez Dies

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

Singer and actor Trini Lopez dies at 83 after contracting the coronavirus.

Trini Lopez

In the 1960s Trini Lopez hit the charts with the songs Lemon Tree and If I Had a Hammer, which went to no.1 in 40 countries. Stars such as Buddy Holly and Frank Sinatra mentored the proud Mexicano singer, who was born to immigrant parents in Dallas. They were so poor Lopez had to drop out of high school to work, but his life changed after his father bought him a $12 Gibson acoustic guitar and taught him how to play. Years later in Hollywood, Sinatra signed him to his record label. Trini Lopez died at 83. 

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Trini Lopez also appeared in the several films, including the classic – The Dirty Dozen – and helped develop a line of signature Trini Lopez Gibson guitars. Filmmaker P. David Ebersole just finished shooting a documentary on Lopez called “My Name Is Lopez.”


Smashing Really High Ceilings

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

A black woman – who made US Navy history this month – gets her wings tomorrow.

Lt. JG Maddy Swegle

Lt. JG Maddy Swegle shatters a really high ceiling. She is the US Navy’s first Black female fighter pilot. “I am really honored that I get to wear the wings and get to fly planes and call myself a pilot.” Swegle talking about her achievement in a Navy video. The Navy will pin wings of gold on her tomorrow (July 31) at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas where she’s assigned. The Virginia native says she hopes her accomplishment will inspire other minority women to follow.
Carmen Roberts. Fox News.

The first woman to fly a Navy tactical fighter jet was Rosemary Mariner in 1973.

New Era of Human Spaceflight to Begin

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A date is set to launch astronauts into space from American soil again. Fox’s Carmen Roberts reports. You can watch the launch May 27th at 4:32 PM Eastern time on NASA TV

American Space Launches to Resume

It’s been nearly a decade since the last rocket blasted Americans into space from their home soil, but that long drought may finally be over. NASA and SpaceX announcing they will resume the tradition on May 27.

This is the final test for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Spacecraft before it begins carrying astronauts to the International Space Station on a regular basis.

The new era of human spaceflight beings next month as astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Carmen Roberts Fox News

At Home With Farm Aid – April 11

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

This year’s Farm Aid Concert will be a very different show as the coronavirus crisis forces audiences and musicians to stay home to stay safe.


Live on FarmAid.org
and AXS TV
Saturday, April 11
8pm ET

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Music: “On the road again …”
Unlike this Farm Aid concert when tens of thousands fans packed a theater to hear Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews perform, this year’s concert won’t be on the road. It will be streamed live from the musicians’ homes. They’re staying safe but refusing to forget the family farmers and ranchers who are, more than ever, essential workers. 

At Home with Farm Aid will stream live Saturday night on the Farm Aid website and on AXS TV, so you can… (music) “Keep on rocking in the free world…”