Just over 20 percent of Americans indicated that violence may be necessary to secure political objectives in 2024, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Roughly equivalent portions of Democratic and Independent respondents said that they see violence as an option, with 28 percent of Republicans agreeing violence may be a political strategy. Previous reports...
Tourism to Yellowstone National Park produces 1.03 megatons — more than 1.03 billion kilograms, or 2.3 billion pounds — of carbon dioxide emissions each year, a new study has found. Almost 90 percent of these emissions can be linked to transportation to and from the destination, according to the study, published on Wednesday in PLOS Climate....
Following higher than expected inflation and labor market readings in January and February on the tailwinds of a booming U.S. economy, Federal Reserve officials are suggesting they may keep interest rates higher for longer. “It is too soon to say whether the recent readings represent more than just a bump,” Fed chair Jerome Powell said...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) hauled in more than $12 million in the first quarter of fundraising in the Ohio Senate race, his campaign announced Wednesday. Brown is running against businessman Bernie Moreno (R) in November as he vies for a fourth term in the Senate. “While Sherrod’s opponent makes it clear he’s only...
The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide, an area of mountaintops, foothills and valleys in the center of the state. The administration said it would bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands for 20 years as part of an effort...
President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined together Wednesday to highlight the administration's efforts to lower health care costs along with the senator's recent wins in pressuring drug companies to lower the prices of some commonly used inhalers. Gathered at the White House with health care advocates and experts, Sanders lamented that despite working...
The gathering of population statistics may be viewed by many residents as a mundane domestic administrative task, but the patterns it reveals provides concrete data about racial hierarchies and exclusion. Without it, systemic racism is rendered invisible.
Almost 50,000 Wisconsin Democratic voters opted against voting for President Biden Tuesday night in a state decided by a razor-thin margin in the previous election.