Much ink has been spilled in Washington about whether President Biden should frame his public messaging around the threat that President Trump poses to our democracy or around the “kitchen table” economic issues that Americans...
Minnesota state senator Nicole Mitchell was charged with first-degree burglary Tuesday morning, one day after being arrested at a home in Detroit Lakes, Minn. The Democratic lawmaker, 49, is being charged after the victim, identified...
(DETROIT) — The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical...
At least since the 1800s, colleges and universities in the United States have emphasized their civic missions. American college students weren’t just supposed to get better at exams and recitations, they were supposed to develop...
Israel’s war in Gaza has roiled college campuses across America, as students have set up encampments and rallied against Israel’s Military campaign in Gaza, sparking free speech debates and creating sharp divisions with members...
Like many people, I knew nothing about the heat crisis in U.S. prisons for most of my life. I first learned of the crisis in early 2016, when I started teaching at a maximum security prison in South Texas. I taught creative writing...
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials announced Monday, as the state sets targets for cutting planet-warming emissions on natural lands.The...
As the death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises, encampments led by pro-Palestinian students on American college campuses are spreading. Despite disciplinary measures and police involvement, the demonstrations show no signs of...
Public Health officials are warning about the dangers of counterfeit botox products, which have been circulating and causing individuals to fall ill in several U.S. states. As of Friday, April 18, 22 people across California, Colorado,...
(FLINT, Mich.) — Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities. He also plans to expand his New...
One day after Columbia University called on law enforcement to arrest more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters, students continued to occupy part of the campus lawn.Dozens of police stood outside the university gates on Friday. Inside,...
A man who set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place has died, according to police. The man who set himself on...
For those who believe getting high on 4/20 is a spiritual experience, there’s a church for you. This year, a San Francisco Bay Area church is teaming up with a local merchants’ association and non-profit organizations to offer...
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on...
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.Several students involved in the...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating a day after outages impacted 911 call service in at least four states. Outages affected citizens’ ability to call 911 statewide in South Dakota as well as in parts...
(CHEYENNE, Wyo.) — Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the...
Jennifer TripPett’s child care center in Bridgeport, West Virginia has 20% of its classrooms sitting empty. This isn’t for a lack of demand, TripPett told the 19th News. Parents are desperate for child care, but TripPett can’t...
At America’s wealthiest colleges, the SAT is back with a vengeance, and it’s easy enough to see who will suffer: socioeconomically disadvantaged students of color.Over the past few weeks, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, and Harvard have...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would like to say that it doesn’t matter who wins the U.S. election in November because his country will be fine with a second Joe Biden or Donald Trump term. But he can’t.“I think it...
