By limiting signs of recovery to epidemiological and economic trends, decision-makers risk dismissing the nation’s mass trauma and severely tattered social fabric.
Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.) said Friday that a member of his staff was attacked by an armed gunman outside his home, located blocks from the U.S. Capitol building. In a statement, Finstad said the staffer experienced minor physical injuries and will be able to make a full recovery. The incident took place after the annual...
T.J. Ducklo, a former White House aide and the national press secretary for President Biden's 2020 campaign, will join Biden's reelection campaign as a senior communications adviser. Ducklo will be based in Delaware and officially join in mid-July, the campaign confirmed to The Tennessee Lookout. Ducklo is the chief communications officer for Nashville Mayor John Cooper...
UPS Teamsters voted overwhelmingly to authorize their union to call a strike if no deal is reached by the current contract’s expiration date of Aug. 1, the union announced Friday. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union which represents more than 340,000 UPS workers, said 97 percent of participants voted in favor of authorizing a...
Most homeowners across the county have a mortgage rate well below the current average for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, according to a new report. Close to 90 percent of owners have a mortgage rate below 6 percent, the report from real estate brokerage Redfin showed. And nearly one-quarter have mortgage rates below 3 percent. ...
Access to the internet is no longer a luxury, but a necessity in the digital age. While some Americans are sailing in the fast lane with access to affordable, lightening quick data, others are stuck in the slow lane. As our federal investments try to speed things up for our rural and more remote communities,...
Memphis Grizzlies player Ja Morant will be suspended for the first 25 games of the season as a penalty for flashing a gun on social media for a second time, the NBA said Friday.
The Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and unlawfully discriminated against Black and Native American people, according to a Justice Department report released Friday following the agency's two-year investigation in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The police department and the city of Minneapolis engaged in conduct that violated the First and Fourth amendments,...
Republican presidential candidate Gov. Doug Burgum (N.D.) dodged a question on whether, if elected, he would issue a hypothetical pardon to President Trump. “You’re asking me a hypothetical question about something from two years from now, when we don’t even know if this is going to go forward or if there’s even going to be...