Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages, flash flooding and canceled holiday plans from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning just days before Christmas. So far, at least […]
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Meet the world’s most dangerous road
A drive down Bolivia’s infamous “Death Road” takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold. Running from the high-altitude Andean city of La Paz to the subtropical Yungas valleys and the Amazonian lowlands beyond, the 64km Yungas Road involves a sharp 3,500m descent. Parts […]
Gas Prices Surging Across The Country
The White House on Friday moved to quell concerns of gasoline prices on Memorial Day Weekend surging above $3 per gallon for the first time in seven years. Regular gasoline averaged $3.04 per gallon nationally on Friday, according to AAA. Prices, which are the highest for Memorial Day Weekend since 2014, were $1.08 more expensive […]
Hannity Says Judge That Blocked Travel Ban Is Obama’s Drug Buddy
Fox News’ Sean Hannity didn’t say Thursday that former President Barack Obama definitely did drugs with the Hawaii judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s travel ban. But Hannity wasn’t ruling it out either. “By the way, this judge who issued the travel ban ruling is an Obama law school classmate,” Hannity said on his radio […]
Iraq Removed From Trump’s Travel Ban List
President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary U.S. travel ban, U.S. officials say, citing the latest draft in circulation. Trump is expected to sign the executive order in the coming days. Four officials told The Associated Press that the decision followed pressure from […]
Trump’s Trips Have Cost Tax Payers 10 Million In First Month
Budget watchdogs are criticizing the cost of President Trump’s visits to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Trump has been at his so-called “Winter White House” the past three weekends. That’s 11 of his first 33 days in office. The travel has an estimated price tag of $10 million. Between Secret Service […]
Federal Judge In Seattle Blocks Trump’s Travel Ban
U.S. District Senior Judge James Robart of Seattle on Friday issued a nationwide restraining order blocking the travel ban put in place by President Trump last week. Trump’s ban, created through an executive order, sought to block people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. In issuing his decision, Robart was siding with […]
Family Of Soldier KIA Boo’d While Exiting American Airlines Flight
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — The father of a California soldier recently killed in Afghanistan says he felt disrespected and hurt by passengers who booed him and his family when they were on a flight to meet his son’s remains. Stewart Perry, his wife and daughter were on an American Airlines flight Monday from Sacramento to […]
Great Barrier Reef declared dead
The Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead by scientists at 25 million years old — bringing an end to the colorful life of the world’s largest single structure of living organisms. The incredible Coral Sea wilderness, which stretches for roughly 1,400 miles over an area of roughly 133,00 square miles, has finally succumbed to […]
This couple retired at 31 to travel the world
The American (and Canadian) dream hasn’t really changed in the past 50 years. You go to college, find a job, get married, buy a house, have a couple of kids and retire at 65. It’s pretty straightforward, but what would happen if that model were flipped upside down? If you skipped a few steps and […]
London Demystify The Guts of Personal Technology
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Infographic: How Do Juveniles End Up in the Adult Prison System?
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