(The Center Square) – Seven weeks after flash floods ripped through Hunt and Ingram in Kerr County, recovery and rebuilding efforts are ongoing. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott returned to the area Saturday as he has repeatedly done since July 4. This time, it was to hand out checks directly to survivors through money raised by […]
An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip has killed more than a dozen individuals, including at least four journalists with international media. Two missiles hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, with video of the second impact, which struck emergency personnel responding to the first missile, caught on a livestream. “Today, […]
A posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, a prominent victim of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf publishers and available for purchase this fall. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, compiled the manuscript of her book titled Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting […]
C-SPAN is adding a new televised book club that will feature the nation’s top authors and policymakers interviewed at Washington’s iconic libraries, the latest programming update from CEO Sam Feist. “America’s Book Club” will be taped before live audiences at venues such as the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Archives. […]
(The Center Square) – As they often have throughout the summer, motorists in North Carolina are paying about 30 cents less than the nation on average for gasoline. Summer’s unofficial closing of Labor Day weekend arrives this week, with many families already in the state’s tourism meccas. The state average for a gallon of unleaded […]
France is making the stern step of summoning the American ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, after he alleged the country emboldened extremists by recognizing a Palestinian state. Summoning an ambassador is a noted form of displeasure, which France is using after calling Kushner’s allegations “unacceptable.” Kushner, who is Jewish, is the father of President Donald […]
President Donald Trump will crack down on so-called “cashless bail” and flag burning in three executive orders on Monday. One of the cashless bail executive orders will cover Washington, D.C., while the other will cover the country more broadly, the White House told the Washington Examiner on Monday. A White House official confirmed that under […]
(The Center Square) – Two nonprofits run by an attorney with long-time Democratic connections have been filing ethics complaints against lawyers who represented Trump officials or issues, seeking to get them disbarred or disciplined. But an investigation by The Center Square found nearly all of the attorneys the groups targeted received no public discipline years […]
(The Center Square) – Residents of the north end of Ocracoke Island remain unable to use N.C. 12 because of Hurricane Erin’s close pass to the North Carolina Outer Banks on Thursday. Sunday afternoon, the state Department of Transportation said overwash Saturday night unraveled the dune repairs of earlier in the day. “The roadway is […]
Immigration enforcement took Kilmar Abrego Garcia into federal custody in Maryland on Monday following his release from criminal custody last week. Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said when Abrego Garcia left a jail in Tennessee on Friday, he was given notice to check in on Monday morning. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said there was “no need” […]
