ISLAMABAD (AP) — A fire triggered by an exploding air conditioner killed 14 newborns in a hospital nursery in Pakistan’s capital on Wednesday, officials said. One baby of the 15 who were in the nursery at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences was rescued, the hospital said. Television footage showed rescue workers using ladders to reach the […]
Cancer has emerged as an unavoidable issue on the campaign trail in Iowa, where candidates vying for two of the state’s most powerful offices are offering competing prescriptions for confronting the disease sweeping the state. Iowa has the second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses in the country and is one of just three states seeing […]
A judge who presided over the Feeding Our Future case out of Minnesota found that the child nutrition program’s relaxed enrollment provisions, originally introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and touted to her Somali constituents, made its reimbursement system “vulnerable to fraud.” Aimee Bock, the convicted Feeding Our Future ringleader, filed an addendum on Friday […]
The third round of August Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued Wednesday. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or after the 21st of a month will receive this on Aug. 26. The first round went out on Aug. 12 to those born on or before the 10th of […]
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., criticized Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) for accusing him of spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines. Shapiro’s comments came as the governor announced on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles. Both were unvaccinated, Shapiro said. He accused Kennedy and the Trump administration of […]
Republicans could be missing an important lesson from Sen. Darline Graham Nordone’s (R-SC) primary runoff win ahead of a tough midterm election. Maybe voters, including even Republican primary voters, are more interested in the economy and domestic issues than foreign affairs. That this may have proved true in a military-heavy state, in a primary to […]
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed is raising new alarms among Democrats that he could ruin their chance at maintaining the battleground seat as he digs in on certain issues, including refusing to denounce socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and likening circumcision to sex changes for minors. “Wacked out,” “part of the problem,” and “disqualifying […]
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has an explosive vision of the future of the White House ballroom. During a press conference on Tuesday, Krasner said the White House ballroom ordered by President Donald Trump to be constructed would be “blown up.” The Philadelphia district attorney made the remarks during the 24th annual slavery commiseration ceremony […]
Former Oklahoma Budget Secretary Mike Mazzei defeated state Attorney General Gentner Drummond in the GOP primary runoff to determine the Republican nominee for Oklahoma governor on Tuesday. Mazzei pulled out the GOP runoff win with 50.3% of the vote compared to Drummond’s 49.7%, according to the Associated Press on Tuesday evening. Mazzei’s victory notches another […]
Eight members of a Montana family, including four children, were killed after a man opened fire during a family dinner before the home was set on fire and the suspect fatally shot himself. The shooting unfolded Sunday at a home outside Billings, where members of suspected gunman Alan Smith’s family were gathered for a weekly […]
