Michael Steele: Last News

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was heard chastising students at the University of South Florida, before giving a speech on Wednesday March 2. The 43-year-old Republican made his aversion to face masks, used to protect against the COVID-19 virus, known as he approached the podium. He reprimanded the students who were standing behind him for wearing face masks, and asked them to take them off.

Essex Boys' killer Jack Whomes has been freed from prison after being cleared for release by the Parole Board.

The last man called by one of three gangsters murdered in the 1995 “Essex Boys” killings was never questioned by police, it has emerged.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA man who was convicted of the famous 'Essex Boys' murders back in 1998 has been told he is to be released from prison – after decades of insisting he was innocent.Jack Whomes, 59, was given three life sentences and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years in jail in 1998.Alongside his friend Michael Steele, now 76, he was found guilty at trial of shooting Tony Tucker, 38, Pat Tate, 37 and Craig Rolfe, 26, whose bodies were found in a Range Rover on a farm track in Rettendon, Essex, in 1995.Whomes who gave evidence via video link earlier this month, has been cleared for release following a Parole Board hearing.A summary of the decision

Michael Steele, who became the first Black chairman of the Republican National Committee a decade ago, has endorsed Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. “I am an American, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” Steele wrote in an NBC News op-ed published early Tuesday.