PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Republican mayoral candidate David Oh went into Tuesday’s general election race with several things in his favor. The party in power, the Democrats, had squandered all of the goodwill and faith that voters gave it in the past few years as crime hit historic rates, homelessness and open-air drug markets overtook several neighborhoods, and the city’s school system degraded further into ineptitude.
Data from the FBI demonstrates that only 4.4 percent of active shooters are stopped by a “good guy” with a gun, yet we’ve let the idea that “more guns mean less crime” take hold of our country.
It is "not difficult" to obtain the sensitive, personal information of American military service members, and brokers are selling such data on the open market, creating a risk to U.S. national security, a new report from Duke University says. Researchers at the university's Sanford School of Public Policy easily bought the sensitive information of American...
Voters are heading to the polls Tuesday in multiple states across the country for a closely watched off-year election that observers note could serve as a bellwether for next year's congressional and White House races. Here are the times when polls close on Election Day for states holding major elections Tuesday. All times are listed...
In September, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed increasing by as much as 70 percent the salary threshold that determines which workers are eligible for overtime pay. The intent of this proposal is laudable, and a regulation that disability service providers would love to fully support. But the magnitude of this increase, without a federal...
Commercializing the production of synthetic dietary fats could relieve pressure on a global agricultural sector that is struggling to decarbonize, a new study has found. The widespread manufacture of farm-free food could yield numerous environmental and societal benefits — enabling people to “eat our way” out of a burgeoning climate crisis, according to the study...
The Senate GOP's campaign arm is clashing with former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) over his bid for an open Senate seat in Michigan. Meijer, who lost his House seat last cycle to a Trump-backed challenger over his vote to impeach the former president, announced he was running for retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) seat. The...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will review a chemical used in tire production in response to a petition from three Native American tribes that cited its history of killing salmon. California’s Yurok Tribe and Washington state’s Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and Puyallup Tribe petitioned the agency this summer to consider prohibiting the use of 6PPD, a...