A New Mexico man died last week from the bubonic plague after being hospitalized for the illness. Identifying information about the man’s name, race, or age were not given. He lived in Lincoln County southeast of Albuquerque. “We extend our deepest sympathy to the family of the Lincoln County man who succumbed to plague,” State […]
Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated President Joe Biden‘s handling of classified documents, declared during a congressional hearing Tuesday that he did not “exonerate” the president despite declining to bring charges against him. Hur’s comment came in response to questions from Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, who claimed […]
The White House revised down its estimate for American hostages held by Hamas Tuesday afternoon. The Israeli military announced earlier in the day that Itay Chen, an Israeli American member of the Israel Defense Forces, was killed on Oct. 7 and that Hamas is still holding his body in Gaza. Chen was previously believed by […]
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) will depart Congress at the end of next week, narrowing House Republicans‘ majority even further as a wave of Republican incumbents prepares to leave at the end of this term. Buck announced his early retirement on Tuesday in a post to X, after deciding last November that he would not seek […]
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is holding ground with independent voters against his Republican opponent, Tim Sheehy, in what’s expected to be a close race for Montana’s up-for-grabs Senate seat. The Democratic incumbent gathered support from 44% of independent voters compared to Sheehy’s 34% in the latest survey from Emerson College Polling and the Hill. Overall, […]
A panel of North Carolina superior court judges unanimously sided with Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) to strike down a law looking to strip his authority over appointing election boards in the state. The three-judge panel ruled the law passed by the Republican-led legislature last year was unlawful in that it attempted to override powers given […]
A Seattle-area sheriff has directed her police force not to implement a new City of Burien order on homeless encampments. The order outlaws homeless encampments within 500 feet of places like schools and parks. King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall told deputies not to enforce the order until the constitutionality of the law was sorted. “We […]
Many libraries have been struggling to deal with the rising costs of e-books and audiobooks as the demand at local libraries has seen an uptick in recent years. Connecticut’s West Haven Public Library is one of many grappling with the high cost and demand for e-books. When a new book is released, a hardcover copy […]
It was a press conference President Joe Biden never should have given. On the same day the Justice Department released special counsel Robert Hur’s report concluding that Biden should not be prosecuted for illegally handling classified documents because a jury would find him to be “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden […]
Video platform Rumble has offered to partner with social media platform TikTok ahead of Congress moving forward with legislation that could ban the massively popular application. The legislation in question would require TikTok to divest completely from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or else get banned in the United States. The offer from Rumble, a […]
