(The Center Square) — Nevada’s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security is bracing for federal funding cuts to an urban security grant. The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to cut $1 billion from the Urban Areas Security Initiative, as was leaked by CNN last week. Nevada looks set to lose considerable funds if President Donald Trump approves […]
MIAMI (AP) — A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages. The federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed and that not […]
Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana on Saturday for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar, killing four people. Michael Paul Brown, 45, fled The Owl Bar in the small town of Anaconda in a white pickup truck but ditched it at some point, said Lee Johnson, administrator of the […]
(The Center Square) – A community organizer, a Boeing engineer, and an aerospace contractor are running for Everett City Council District 4, but one might not even qualify. Niko Battle is a community organizer, small business owner, and lifelong advocate for youth empowerment, public safety, and working families. His platform includes filling the 90 vacancies at the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours. The four U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in their SpaceX capsule after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. They will spend at least six months at the orbiting lab, swapping places with colleagues up […]
ROME (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics poured into a vast field on Rome’s outskirts Saturday for the weekend highlight of the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year: an evening vigil, outdoor slumber party and morning Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV that marks his first big encounter with the next generation of Catholics. Leo arrived by […]
(The Center Square) – Gov. Gavin Newsom is blaming President Donald Trump’s deployment of the California National Guard for a 57% decrease in the amount of fentanyl seized at the southern border. The number of pounds of fentanyl dropped by that percentage between May and June during seizure operations by the California National Guard’s Counterdrug Task […]
(The Center Square) — President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness continues to have people talking. The order is called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” It aims to do something about the number of homeless and drug-addicted people living on the streets through efforts such as committing them for mental health treatment. Trump said it is […]
(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ceremonially signed two bills into law coauthored by freshman state Rep. Caroline Fairly, R-Amarillo, designed to expand protections for children and improve education outcomes in public schools. The laws prohibit personal communication devices in classrooms, including cell phones, smart watches, tablets and other devices, putting “parents in […]
The families of the remaining Oct. 7 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza organized an emergency protest in Tel Aviv after footage was released of their emaciated family members. On Saturday, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released undated videos of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, juxtaposed with videos of emaciated Palestinian children. The families […]
