As this week marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., we look at a new five-part documentary series on Netflix about the attacks and the response from the United States, both at home and abroad. “Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror” features a wide range of interviews with survivors of the attacks, U.S.
Doing a solid for voters who won’t notice you helped them for years.
My husband thinks it’s just boys being boys. I’m not so sure.
Teacher advice on class assignments, food insecurity, and boredom at school.
We could use the one next door, but his family ruins the experience.
“Infotainment” systems are increasingly flashy and distracting—and the auto industry is just getting started.
The lefty case against Jerome Powell almost makes sense. Almost.
The agency is reviewing millions of applications from e-cigarette makers, and must decide by Sept. 9 whether their products are “appropriate for the protection of public health.
Politicians have joined anxious parents and some public health groups in calling on federal regulators to accelerate their process for authorizing shots for the youngest Americans.
This caught me by surprise.
I don’t know who this woman is now.
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
Among those asked to resign or face termination include Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and H.R. McMaster.
In the news today: In scenes reminiscent of the pandemic’s first, once-worst months, overflowing Idaho hospitals are now triggering the rationing of emergency care. The extent of U.S. tax-dodging by the rich continues to be astonishing—and that tax dodging is directly damaging our schools, our health care, and other national priorities.
If the five rabid ideologues on the U.S. Supreme Court who last week sanctioned the Texas law prohibiting women from terminating an unwanted pregnancy after six weeks were capable of shame, this might embarrass them.
Early in August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Minnesota announced the arrest of 30-year-old Anton “Tony” Lazzaro. Lazzaro is charged with multiple counts of sex trafficking with at least six minor victims. A couple of days later, a 19-year-old Minnesota woman, Gisela Castro Medina, was arrested in Florida and named Lazzaro’s co-defendant in the case.
Anotha one (cue the DJ Khaled clip). Yet another COVID-19 denier has been hospitalized with the novel coronavirus. According to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, a Florida council member who promoted conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and mocked disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is hospitalized after contracting the virus.
The last Volusia County meeting attended by Fred Lowry, the COVID-infected council member in question, was August 17.
On Aug. 13, 2021, Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon issued an executive order requiring any employee or worker employed by the executive branch of the state’s government to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The order required state employees to get these vaccinations before Oct. 18. This order includes law enforcement in the state as well as firefighters.
The Biden administration has notified some countries that it plans to propose the conference, one person familiar with the matter said, but has yet to send out formal invitations.
Biden will address the testing situation Thursday afternoon, in what the White House is billing as a major speech laying out the next phase of the federal pandemic response.
Federal authorities also released a virtual map depicting the route they believe the suspect walked while planting the two pipe bombs the night of Jan. 5.
Conservative media is awash in pandemic conspiracy. But it’s mostly local talk radio hosts who are actually getting sick and dying.
Many Twitter users pointed out the Florida governor has politicized the virus by selling products that mock the COVID-19 vaccines.
Russell James Peterson, who wore a “(F**k) your feelings” sweatshirt inside the U.S. Capitol building, “sat in Pelosi’s chair,” his mother posted.
One nominee could be the first Korean American woman to serve on a U.S. appeals court. Another could be the second Black woman to serve on the 9th Circuit.
