Southwestern New Mexico is poised to become a center of economic vitality, according to Christie Ann Harvey, but it might not reach its full potential without better internet service.
A Pennsylvania state court on Tuesday rejected the latest Republican effort to throw out the presidential battleground state's broad mail-in voting law that has become a GOP target following former President Donald Trump's baseless claims about election fraud.
Three years later, COVID-era eviction moratoria are still in effect in Oakland, San Francisco, and Berkeley. The Associated Press released a report on Monday indicating this may be among the craziest examples in recent memory of government cruelty in the name of "social justice."
Starbucks is planning to roll out “clearer” guidelines for stores on its decoration policies amid a clash with the company’s union over Pride-themed displays this month. Sara Trilling, the executive vice president and president of Starbucks North America, emphasized in a memo to all U.S. partners on Monday that it has not made any changes...
Smoke from wildfires in Canada pushed the air quality in the Chicago area to unhealthy levels on Tuesday. A huge swath of the Midwest — including parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin — was coated in smoke, as more than 450 fires continue burning in Canada. As of Tuesday afternoon, the air...
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed a $1 million suit this month against a cleaning firm after one of its janitors turned off a laboratory freezer, ruining years of research that “had the potential to be groundbreaking,” according to the suit. The janitor, the suit says, was annoyed by an alarm from the freezer and turned...
Three liberal and three conservative justices on Tuesday came together to reject a bid that would have given state legislatures broad authority over congressional maps and federal elections. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, joined by the court’s three liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as conservative...
The Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut at least 1,000 employees in North America, largely from its engineering department. A company spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the company began informing some salaried employees that their jobs will be cut in the following weeks. The spokesperson also told the media outlet...