Former Vice President Mike Pence still won’t say whether he’s running for president next year, and he won’t speak ill of his ex-boss, former President Donald Trump, CBS News reports. But in an interview with CBS News in Michigan, he also twice declined to commit to supporting Trump if he is the Republican presidential nominee. Instead, Pence said he believes voters in 2024 will choose “wisely again,” as they did in 2016. But said he thinks “different times call for different leadership.”

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green says he’d like to put an end to Black History Month as he feels that black people are getting short shrift because Feb. is the shortest month of the year, Breitbart reports.
Green issued his complaints saying the U.S. should “get rid of” the celebration this week.
“Black History Month, at some point, can we get rid of it? … Why do we gotta keep getting the shortest month to celebrate our history” Green exclaimed.

What is Joe talking about?

 
During an event in the East Room of the White House marking Black History Month, President Joe Biden raised more than a few eyebrows with what many commentators are calling racially charged language.
“It’s important to say from the White House for the entire country to hear: history matters,” Biden said at the reception. “History matters and black history matters. I can’t just choose to learn what we want to know. We learn what we should know. We have to learn everything, the good, the bad, the truth, and who we are as a nation.”
“I may be a White boy, but I’m not stupid,” Biden added, drawing laughter from the audience.

Florida Governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis shredded the federal government over during a recent appearance for continuing to throw money at Ukraine without a clear end game in mind.

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A 4-foot long alligator was found in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake Sunday morning, weak and far from its typical habitat, in an area popular with kids and other visitors. Park workers removed the huge alligator around 8:30 a.m. and transported it to a local animal care hospital, Joseph Puleo, vice president of District Council 27, told the New York Post. Meghan Lalor, a rep for the Parks Department, said the reptile is native to warm, tropical climates and was “lethargic and possibly cold-shocked” from the New York waters. Lalor told the Post the creature was probably an abandoned pet whose owner thought to release it in public waters, although she warned it’s dangerous to release an animal into a new environment.

The focus in Turkey is shifting from rescue operations to reconstruction in the aftermath of last week’s catastrophic earthquake, as authorities carry out damage assessments in the worst-affected areas. More than 41,000 people have died across southern Turkey and northwestern Syria.
A woman in her 40s was rescued in Turkey on Wednesday after surviving 222 hours in the rubble, Turkish broadcaster TRT World reported. But hopes of finding more survivors continue to fade. The health needs of survivors in Turkey and Syria are vast, officials from the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

A US military jet shot down an unidentified airborne object over Canada’s Yukon Territory today — as President Biden’s administration continued to remain mum about the mysterious intruder brought down in Alaska the previous day, the NY Post.