An engaged police force is an effective police force. This is why police departments across the country often run features on their social media accounts such as “Mug Shot Monday” or “Wanted Wednesday.” The thinking is, the more members of a community engage with police online, the more likely they are to trust and respect […]
Congress is on track to authorize an additional 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas to keep the Afghan SIV program afloat after concerns that around 8,000 available visas would run out in September 2024. The stay of execution has offered some sense of relief to many of the more than 147,000 Afghans awaiting processing. With the time […]
Podcast host Joe Rogan poked fun at The View on a recent episode of his show, comparing the hosts to a “rabies-infested henhouse.” Rogan was discussing The View with author Coleman Hughes, who said he was antagonized during a segment to promote his new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revealed a tentative time frame to reopen the Port of Baltimore by the end of April following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. USACE said that after collaborating with local, state, and federal partners to clear the port, a “limited access channel 280 feet wide and 35 feet deep” […]
The Small Business Administration said it received 500 loan applications after Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last week. The funds could be distributed in two weeks to support small businesses that are out of operation as the Port of Baltimore remains closed. Baltimore is home to about 50,000 small businesses, employing 500,000 people. “The […]
The New York state Senate approved lawmakers’ repeal of a century-old law that makes adultery in the state a crime on Wednesday. Initially passed in 1907, the goal of the law was to drive down the divorce rate. At the time, adultery was the only acceptable reason to grant a divorce in the state of […]
On NATO’s 75th anniversary, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) praised Democrats for their work on the alliance after former President Donald Trump “weakened” it. “After being deeply weakened by the former President, we’ve rebuilt this critical alliance, but its continued strength relies on us keeping our word and renewing aid to Ukraine,” Warner stated. Under the […]
Israel‘s civilians need not take dramatic new precautions against the prospect of a major retaliatory attack from Iran, according to a senior Israel Defense Forces official. “There is no need to buy generators, store food and withdraw money from ATMs,” IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari wrote on social media. “As we have done until […]
Border Patrol agents on the southern border saw an unusual reprieve in the number of migrants crossing from Mexico in March compared to prior years, a trend that bucks the springtime surge that follows pent-up demand from a winter slowdown in travel. Border authorities apprehended 137,000 migrants at the 2,000-mile southern border in March, according […]
The avian flu spread to an Ohio dairy farm for the first time. Ohio had never reported a case of the flu, which is typically hosted by birds, in any of its livestock operations, according to the state’s Department of Agriculture. On Thursday, it confirmed that infected cows from Texas arrived in the state on […]
