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(NEW YORK) — A storm is sweeping across the U.S. threatening Americans’ Thanksgiving plans as they hit the roads and head to airports during one of the busiest holiday travel weeks of the year. After dumping rain and snow on the West Coast over the weekend, the cross-country storm is headed for the East Coast […]
(WASHINGTON) — The life of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 96, will be celebrated next week with memorial events and a funeral service in her home state of Georgia. The public will be able to pay their respects when the family motorcade carries her remains to Georgia Southwestern […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection have seized 354 pounds of methamphetamine from a pick-up truck crossing the border into the United States from Mexico. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Paso Del Norte international crossing between the U.S. state of New Mexico and Mexico made […]
(WASHINGTON) — A federal appellate panel narrowly ruled on Monday that a key provision in the Voting Rights Act (VRA) does not allow people outside the federal government to sue over alleged electoral discrimination based on race. The 2-1 opinion, if it stands, would sharply limit the ability for private citizens to challenge state voting […]
(NEW YORK) — A severe weather system is forecast to sweep across the United States as Americans gather for Thanksgiving during one of the busiest holiday travel weeks of the year. After dumping rain and snow on the West Coast over the weekend, a cross-country storm is headed for the East Coast where it’s expected […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BEAVERCREEK, Ohio) — Four people were injured and transported to a hospital Monday night after a man walked into a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio, and began shooting, police said. Authorities said the incident happened around 8:35 p.m. ET in Beavercreek, which is located in Greene County, Ohio, not far from Dayton. The […]
(WASHINGTON) — A Washington, D.C., appeals court pressed prosecutors with the special counsel’s office and attorneys for Donald Trump over the viability of a limited gag order in Trump’s federal election interference case at a hearing Monday. The limited gag order, issued by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan but currently paused on appeal, prohibits Trump […]
(NEW YORK) — Extreme wildfires that have been burning through the California landscape over recent decades are disrupting wildlife habitats within the state, new research shows. In the past two decades, forest fires in the U.S. have become progressively more intense, frequent and widespread, according to climate scientists and wildfire experts. The fires that have […]
(WASHINGTON) — Six members of Congress — five Democrats and one Republican — visited Parkland, Florida, on Monday to tour the site of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting. Seventeen students and staff were killed in the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre. The school’s 1200 building has since sat untouched like a time capsule, […]
(NEW YORK) — Robyn Roberts, a 63-year-old grandmother of 33 and great-grandmother of 12, solidified the idea of education as a lifelong pursuit this weekend by receiving a diploma from Southern New Hampshire University. “I have finished something I started that is absolutely amazing, and I feel amazing,” Roberts said in an interview with the […]
