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Mireya Acierto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Universities across the country have transformed at the command of anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) legislation. At the University of Texas-Austin, the legislation led to resource cancellations, office closures, and staff firings — pushing some students to create alternatives to their school’s defunct diversity programs. Texas Gov. […]
Nina Raingold/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One person is dead and nearly two dozen others were rescued Thursday after being stuck underground due to an equipment failure in a Colorado gold mine, officials said. The individuals were part of a tour group and became stuck near the bottom of Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump visited Aurora, Colorado, for a campaign rally on Friday where he continued to push misleading narratives about the city’s migrant population. “My message today is very simple,” Trump told the crowd. “No person who has inflicted the violence and terror that Kamala Harris has inflicted on […]
Punta Gorda, Florida. Via Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Florida struggles to recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Milton, and the lingering effects from Helene two weeks earlier, the long-term health consequences could be devastating, studies suggest. A recent study published in the journal Nature examining nearly 500 tropical cyclones from 1930 […]
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department filed suit against Virginia on Friday over a statewide program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls in the lead-up to the 2024 election if DMV records don’t indicate United States citizenship. The Department said it filed the lawsuit based on a federal law that prohibits purges […]
amphotora/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A United States Army soldier has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he allegedly attempted to assist ISIS in conducting a deadly ambush on U.S. troops, according to the Department of Justice. Cole Bridges, a 24-year old man from Stow, Ohio, has been sentenced to 168 months in prison […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris released a report with details about her health and medical history on Saturday, as the Harris team tries to place former President Donald Trump’s health and advanced age under new scrutiny. Harris “remains in excellent health,” her physician, Dr. Joshua Simmons, said in a letter on […]
David McNew/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dangerous, record-breaking heat is ongoing in the West, with the temperature in Phoenix reaching the triple digits every day for the last three weeks. Phoenix climbed over a scorching 110 degrees on 80 days in 2024 — shattering the record set last year with 55 days of temperatures over […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While the presidential race may be getting the spotlight this election season, key regulations, laws and policies are on the ballot in several states. And those ballot measures could have huge ramifications for the rest of the country. Forty-one states have a combined 147 ballot measures in the 2024 election. […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY) — At least one person has been killed and 12 others have been injured in a shooting that took place at a party at an event center in Oklahoma City, police have confirmed. Oklahoma City Police said that it appears there was a disturbance which led to “multiple shots being […]
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