Countdown to 250th anniversary begins in the US with planners hoping it can unify a divided country
It’s three years until the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, but festivities are already starting. The anniversary push will formally launch July 4 with an event during a Major League Baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago […]
Read MoreSmoke and haze from Canadian wildfires leave Detroit with some of the worst US air quality
DETROIT (AP) – The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada’s wildfires settled over most of the Great Lakes region and unhealthy haze spread southward, as far […]
Read MoreThousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government
REPRESA, California (AP) – The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates’ tassels and stoles. As the graduation march played, the 85 men appeared to hoots and cheers from their families. They marched to the stage – […]
Read MoreJudge considering blocking parts of North Carolina abortion law won’t halt broader 12-week ban
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – A federal judge said Wednesday that she won’t temporarily block most of a newly revised abortion law from taking effect this weekend in North Carolina, including a near-ban on the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy. […]
Read MoreGymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist […]
Read MoreIs it a ‘richcession’? Or a ‘rolling recession’? Or maybe no recession at all?
WASHINGTON (AP) – The warnings have been sounded for more than a year: A recession is going to hit the United States. If not this quarter, then by next quarter. Or the quarter after that. Or maybe next year. So […]
Read MoreOnce wrongly imprisoned for notorious rape, member of ‘Central Park Five’ is running for office
NEW YORK – Outside a Harlem subway station, Yusef Salaam, a candidate for New York City Council, hurriedly greeted voters streaming out along Malcolm X Boulevard. For some, no introductions were necessary. They knew his face, his name and his […]
Read MoreBREAKING NEWS – Supreme Court rules state courts can play role in policing federal elections
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law. The justices by a 6-3 vote rejected the […]
Read MoreMalaria cases in Texas and Florida are the first US spread since 2003, CDC says
NEW YORK (AP) – The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months – the first time there’s been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and […]
Read MoreWhen wealthy adventurers take huge risks, who should pay for rescue attempts?
When millionaire Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart. And that prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping […]
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