California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday announced a $60 million agreement to welcome salmon and sturgeon back to the Yuba River for the first time more than a century. Together with state, federal and local officials, the governor unveiled a landmark agreement that will reopen miles of habitat to multiple fish species. The plans...
The majority of Twitter users in the U.S. said they have taken a break from the social media platform this year, according to a Pew Research poll released Wednesday. Sixty percent of Americans who have used Twitter in the past 12 months said they took a break from the site for a period of several...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is warning that China is trying to replace the dollar with the yuan as the world’s most traded currency and has evaded U.S. sanctions on Russia by setting up transfer trade system independent of Western banks. Rubio, in an op-ed for The Telegraph,...
Outgoing Twitter CEO Elon Musk defended comments he made about billionaire George Soros on the platform earlier this week that drew charges of anti-semitism from critics, saying “calm down people.” Musk tweeted on Monday that Soros, a Democratic megadonor who is frequently a target of criticism from the right, “reminds me of Magneto,” referring to...
The Springfield Armory National Historic Site has recovered 24 Marksmanship Medals from the 19th century. The return of the artifacts has done little to explain why they were stolen from a local community college campus decades ago.
While access to safe and legal abortion has been a contentious issue for decades, the medical and economic literature have concluded that the benefits far outweigh the costs.
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. plateaued for most of 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), showing just a slight increase after significant spikes in years prior. CDC researchers documented 105,452 reported overdose deaths last year — and estimate that figure could be 109,680 — which is...
Prices have cooled in the once red-hot housing market, but competition is heating up between two generations in seemingly perpetual conflict. Millennials entering their prime homebuying years and baby boomers — many of whom are nearing retirement age — are vying for the same homes. A look ahead: Fed hikes and default fears: Here’s what...
The man who is accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students has been indicted on murder charges in connection with their deaths, allowing a preliminary hearing to be skipped and the court process to advance. Bryan Kohberger was arrested in December and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and a felony charge...
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered over 211,000 migrant encounters in April, the month before the controversial Title 42 public health order ended.