(The Center Square) – A conservative advocacy group is pressuring Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) over her handling of a major digital asset bill, arguing that she slowed progress on a measure backed by the White House and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The Bull Moose Project released a football-themed AI video and statement criticizing Lummis, a Wyoming […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 11 people dead, police said. The victims included three children aged 3, 12 and 16. Another 14 people were wounded and taken to the hospital, according to a […]
(The Center Square) – Thanks to $2.5 million in state funding, southern Los Angeles may get a new Black cultural district, according to one of L.A.’s state senators. Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) secured the funding earlier this year after the Legislature approved the money for the establishment of the Black cultural district, according to […]
(The Center Square) – A renewed push to double H-1B visas is touted as a talent win, but critics warn it could reshape the tech market by driving down wages and edging out U.S. grads. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) reintroduced the HIRE Act to double the H-1B visa cap from 65,000 to 130,000. “To build […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the vocal opposition of critics. The state-sanctioned hunt began Saturday, after drawing more than 160,000 applications for a far more limited number of hunting permits, […]
Conservative pundit Tim Pool said on Saturday that a gunman in a vehicle opened fire on his guarded property Friday night. No one was injured in the incident. “My immediate thoughts is someone was trying to scare us,” he wrote on X. “But we have a security gate and armed guards and its possible this […]
(The Center Square) – A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman says Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker eroded public trust and is trying to reinvent public health. The governor thanked Democratic state lawmakers last week when he signed legislation to empower the Illinois Department of Health to circumvent the federal government and issue its […]
Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles toward Ukraine overnight into Saturday, temporarily cutting off power to a nuclear power plant in one of several regions that were attacked. The latest Russian attack targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as the war-torn nation meets with the United States to secure peace and end the nearly four-year-old […]
Netflix’s deal to acquire Warner Bros., one of Hollywood’s oldest movie studios, poses seismic shifts to the entertainment industry and the future of moviegoing. As one of the remaining “big five” studios, the 102-year-old Warner Bros. is an essential part of movie theater business. The studio currently boasts three of the top five earning films domestically, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi amid ongoing controversy over her relationship with profile subject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was the Washington correspondent for New York magazine. A joint statement Friday from the magazine and Nuzzi said that they “have mutually agreed, in the best interest […]
