Month: March 2023
Navajo Nation fight over Colorado River water rights hits Supreme Court
xRyan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the nation’s largest Native American reservation – spanning 16 million-acres across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – one in three households lacks running water, according to the Navajo Nation. [Read More…]
Texas abortion law means woman has to continue pregnancy despite fatal anomaly
A 28-week ultrasound of the baby’s head shows normal brain structures that should have formed and then separated in the midline are not there. — Courtesy Kylie Overdorf (NEW YORK) — Kylie Beaton was looking [Read More…]
‘Shazam: Fury of the Gods’ tops box office with disappointing $30.5 million
Warner Bros. Shazam: Fury of the Gods topped the North American box office with an estimated $30.5 million, but the DC Comics sequel failed to match its predecessor’s 53.5-million-dollar opening gross four years ago. Overseas, Fury of [Read More…]
5 minors killed in crash after car veers off highway in New York: Officials
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (SCARSDALE, N.Y.) — Five minors have been killed in a crash after a vehicle veered off a highway in Westchester, New York, according to officials. The victims, four boys and a girl, ranged [Read More…]
Mike Pence says voters are ready to move past Trump for a ‘fresh start’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In an exclusive ABC News interview, former Vice President Mike Pence expressed dissatisfaction with the possible arrest of former President Donald Trump and expanded on pointed remarks regarding his former boss and [Read More…]
Warren reacts to Trump’s call for protests over possible arrest: ‘No one is above the law’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday pushed back on former President Donald Trump over his call to protest his potential arrest related to paying the adult film star Stormy Daniels. “Violence is never [Read More…]
What is gender dysphoria and what does transgender youth care consist of?
CARME PARRAMON/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Across the country, Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that restricts transgender health care for minors. At least eight states have passed laws or policies restricting this care, and 23 [Read More…]
COVID-19: A look back on where the US succeeded and where we didn’t
Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On the third anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, public health experts can point to clear instances where the United States succeeded in beating back [Read More…]
China’s Xi to meet with Putin in Moscow Monday in show of support
Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow on Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a significant moment, punching a hole in the international isolation that’s [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin arrives in Mariupol
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
Pence indicates he won’t challenge all aspects of special counsel’s subpoena, as more details emerge
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence indicated that he is not challenging all aspects of the subpoena issued last month by special counsel Jack Smith in his probe of the failed attempt [Read More…]
Trump claims he will be arrested Tuesday, calls for protests
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump claimed in a post on his social media platform that he will be arrested on Tuesday related to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into hush money [Read More…]
Input costs are down, but may not stay that way
The chief economist the Farmers Business Network says relief from record high input costs may be short lived. Kevin McNew tells Brownfield fertilizer, chemical and fuel prices have all declined to start 2023. “We’re probably [Read More…]
Assemblyman flying small plane makes emergency landing
Steven Ferdman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York state assemblyman landed a small plane on a Long Island beach after the aircraft experienced engine failure. Assemblyman Clyde Vanel said he landed the airplane at the [Read More…]
Three children dead after fire breaks out in Baltimore rowhome
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images/STOCK (BALTIMORE) — Three children are dead after a fire broke out at a rowhome in Baltimore early Saturday, authorities said. The fire was reported shortly after 2:30 a.m. and appeared to start [Read More…]
Abortion pills now banned in Wyoming after governor signs bill into law
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill banning medication abortions into law, making it the first state to target the abortion pill. A second bill he will allow to go [Read More…]
Family, FBI seeking info after US citizen kidnapped from home in Mexico
KABC (LOS ANGELES) — A California family is desperate for news after their mother was kidnapped outside her home in Mexico more than five weeks ago and has not been seen or heard from since. Maria [Read More…]
Trump claims he will be arrested on Tuesday amid hush money payments investigation
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) –Former President Donald Trump claimed in a post on his social media platform that he will be arrested on Tuesday related to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into hush money [Read More…]
Less staff, longer delays and fewer options: Rural America confronts a health care crisis
Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — More than 40,000 graduating medical students learned Friday where they will spend the next three to seven years of their medical training. With the United States grappling with a simultaneous [Read More…]
‘Uncharted territory’: How would a TikTok ban in the US work?
Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Awkward dads and their eager children may not dance together on TikTok for much longer — at least not in the U.S. The prospect of a nationwide TikTok ban has [Read More…]