Every state in the country has weather advisories this weekend as a major storm moves across the U.S., with the Midwest bracing for an incoming blizzard and dangerously cold temperatures, and the South preparing for tornadoes and power outages. Blizzard and winter storm warnings have been issued across parts of the West and much of...
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) blasted the NFL on Friday, demanding the league end its experiment of placing playoff games on streaming services only, instead of national broadcast television. The wild-card match-up between the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins on Saturday will be broadcast on NBC’s streaming service Peacock and nowhere else. It will be...
Despite the fact that greenhouse gas emissions are defined as the greatest threat to human health this century, the social cost of the healthcare industry’s emissions has somehow escaped the interest of the Department of Health and Human Services
Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. homeowners have a mortgage rate below 6 percent, according to a new report from the real estate company Redfin. Some 88.5 percent have a mortgage rate below 6 percent, down from a high of 92.8 percent of homeowners in in the second quarter of 2022, the report found. More than...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he is sticking by a top-line spending deal that he struck with congressional Democrats and the White House this month amid calls from hard-line conservatives to scrap the plan and come up with an alternative. “After weeks of hard-fought negotiations, we achieved a strong top-line agreement that allows our appropriations...
A deadly winter storm has halted flights in the major travel hub of Chicago, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center. The command center said that due to weather, “there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving” at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. It said the program “is...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) went after former President Trump on Friday, demanding in a letter that he return about $7.8 million Trump’s companies received from foreign governments while he was in office. House Oversight and Accountability Committee Democrats first made the allegation in a report last week, claiming Trump’s companies accepted money from foreign entities...
Forecasters are warning that “life-threatening” blizzard conditions are heading toward Iowa this weekend ahead of the caucuses on Monday. A blizzard warning has been issued over much of Iowa for Friday into Saturday, with several areas under a winter storm warning, as well, the National Weather Service (NWS) advised. NWS predicts that 3-5 inches of...
The Environmental Protection Agency lost track of 99.9% of the funds that it sent in awards, an amount worth billions of dollars, according to an inspector general audit.