Supply glut is worsening at the Port of Los Angeles despite Joe Biden’s attempts to ensure 24/7 operations at the port. According to new reports, around 169 cargo ships are anchored off the coast of Los Angeles and are trying to unload. This is up from 100 ships two weeks ago. This comes as the […]
“Teacher of the Year” in Florida was arrested Friday for allegedly striking a minor in the face – causing a nosebleed – after the student posted a message on Instagram questioning the educator’s selection for the top honor. Caroline Melanie Lee, the 60-year-old teacher at Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School, has denied striking the student, The Florida Times-Union reported, […]
WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Joe Biden’s job performance, while half give him low marks for competence and uniting the country, according to results from the latest national NBC News poll. What’s more, the survey finds that 7 in 10 adults, including almost half of Democrats, believe the nation is headed […]
Though fewer Americans are dying from Covid-19, another fatal scourge is on the rise: death by automobile. There were an estimated 20,160 traffic deaths in the first six months of 2021, the highest total for that period since 2006 and 18.4 percent higher than the first half of last year, according to the latest National Highway Traffic Safety […]
A massive caravan of thousands of migrants has rejected an offer of humanitarian visas for some of the travelers, and is continuing with its journey to the United States border. The Mexican National Institute of Migration said in a statement that it offered humanitarian visas to women and children in the caravan, but said it was rejected […]
Many Americans who gaze skywards this Halloween weekend could be in for a treat. It’s possible the northern lights will be visible over Washington state, the far Northeast and the Upper Midwest thanks to a solar flare and “coronal mass ejection,” officials said Friday. A G3 — or strong — “geomagnetic storm watch” was issued […]
A former U.S. soldier said he’s brought at least 30 at-risk people, including Christians, from Afghanistan across the closed Pakistan border and was lashed by the Taliban for his efforts. The Afghan native went to Pakistan about a month ago and illegally crossed into Afghanistan to rescue his family. Relatives hid around Kabul after the Taliban took […]
Pope Francis described President Biden as a “good Catholic” during their meeting on Friday, according to Biden, and also said that he should keep receiving communion. Biden told reporters that the issue of abortion rights, which Biden supports and which has led to calls for the Catholic Church to not offer him communion, did not come up in […]
Endangered California condors can have “’virgin births,” according to a study released Thursday. Researchers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said genetic testing confirmed that two male chicks hatched in 2001 and 2009 from unfertilized eggs were related to their mothers. Neither was related to a male. The study was published Thursday in the […]
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) was charged on Thursday with a misdemeanor sex crime in Albany, according to a court spokesman. The state court system’s public information office told The Hill that a redacted complaint will be released soon by a court in Albany. “A Misdemeanor Complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo has been filed in […]
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday expanded the list of “sensitive locations” where immigration officers cannot make arrests. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other immigration officials have long been barred from seeking to make arrests at schools and hospitals. But Mayorkas’s memo extends the concept to a broader category of […]
The U.S. has issued its first passport with an “X” gender marker, which denotes that someone is neither exclusively male nor female, the State Department said Wednesday. It marks a milestone for nonbinary and intersex Americans, who are estimated to make up 1.2 million and 4 million people, respectively, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and interACT, […]
