Debbie Szymanski, a 60-year-old Missouri woman on vacation in Panama City Beach, has become the seventh drowning victim from Florida‘s deadly rip currents in four days. Szymanski entered the water Sunday morning before being found unresponsive in the waves by her family members around 11:30 a.m. They tried dragging her to shore as EMS and […]
The roughly $190 billion the federal government pumped into schools in response to COVID-19 ultimately did little to aid academic recovery, according to two new studies. The billions of dollars represent the single largest injection of money into the U.S. education system, but two separate studies released Wednesday concluded that students experienced only a modest […]
House Republicans advanced two amendments to halt the government from using federal funding to pay Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s salary, tucking the measures into one of their annual must-pass spending bills. Lawmakers approved two separate proposals that target Mayorkas’s salary, including one amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) that would prohibit the use […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s murderous regime, offering the incendiary comparison during his State of the State address to Californians. Widely regarded as one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars, Newsom weighed the resemblance between Trump’s GOP and Hitler’s fascist party during a speech […]
Friday is expected to be the busiest-ever day of airline travel in U.S. history as a record number of people board flights ahead of the Fourth of July holiday next week. “TSA anticipates the peak travel day will be Friday, June 28, when the agency expects to screen more than 3 million individuals,” the Transportation […]
Pollster Nate Silver projected that former President Donald Trump has a 65.7% chance of winning the presidency in November. He gives President Joe Biden a 33.7% chance with a narrow 0.5% chance of either candidate failing to reach 270 electoral votes. Silver also gives Biden a 51% chance to win the popular vote with third-party […]
Illegal immigration at the southern border with Mexico has dropped dramatically since President Joe Biden took executive action earlier this month to stop migrants from seeking asylum. The Biden administration took a victory lap Wednesday as it announced a 40% drop in illegal immigrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border following its early June ban on asylum-seekers. “Across the entire […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) targeted former President Donald Trump with a “Trump [loves] Xi” sign at a Wednesday hearing. “The tyrants of the world are targeting Joe Biden and promoting Donald Trump, who has fawningly described President Xi as ‘a brilliant man,’ who has called Vladimir Putin a ‘genius,’ who has said he ‘fell in […]
Millions of dollars the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council set aside for crime prevention measures last year have gone untouched. A year ago, the city created a violence prevention and intervention program, but much of the money dedicated to it has gone untouched, according to documents reviewed by local outlet KMBC News. At the same […]
Jodi D. went from living her best life to hocking her grandmother’s engagement ring to feed her online sports betting addiction. It took less than three months. The 42-year-old graphic T-shirt designer left Richmond, Virginia, in 2022 and headed north, with dreams of making it big in the Big Apple. She found a job in Williamsburg, […]
