Democrats in 2022 enjoyed campaigning against the Republicans’ “national abortion ban,” which seemed to work. It sounded very absolute, and most Americans’ views on abortion are not absolute.
North Korea launched two ballistic missiles Thursday to protest military drills by South Korea and the United States, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. North Korea launched the pair of short-range missiles toward the sea Thursday, South Korea said. The missiles traveled about 480 miles from North Korea’s capital region before landing in...
The original Americans have a millennium’s worth of knowledge to offer on heat and drought mitigation practices, as well as lessons on overall sustainability.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced a proposed new rule that would aim to speed development of renewable energy on public lands. The proposed rule would cut fees for solar and wind development on public lands by 80 percent, according to an announcement by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Bureau also updated its...
A 2022 endline study estimating the prevalence of Dominican minors trafficked for sex showed that children represented only 2.2 percent of people observed in commercial sexual exploitation — an incredible 86 percent reduction in prevalence.
A viral TikTok has some people taking a closer look at their pantry after a video pointed out something fishy about the nutrition labels on Walmart's generic food items.
The Department of the Interior announced on Thursday that it would be launching a formal process to develop long-term operational guidelines for the dwindling Colorado River. Once finalized, the new strategies will replace the 2007 Colorado River Interim Guidelines for Lower Basin Shortages and the Coordinated Operations for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, which are slated to...
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for holding up some 200 Pentagon nominees over a Defense Department abortion policy, calling the lawmaker "shameful" and accusing him of endangering national security. Jean-Pierre said the senator's blockade on the nominees was hurting military families and risking "our military readiness by depriving our...
A longtime town maintenance worker was struck by lightning on a practice soccer field next to a middle school in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, officials said Wednesday.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) argued Wednesday that United Airlines’s opposition to the expansion of Reagan National Airport (DCA) in the Washington, D.C., area is an effort to limit competition. “.@UnitedAirlines_ is lobbying against competition—for blatantly anticompetitive reasons,” the senator wrote on his personal Twitter account. He shared a post from the coalition Capital Access Alliance...