Employees evacuated after fire & possible explosion at manufacturing plant
An explosion tore through a manufacturing plant in Burlington Township, New Jersey, on Thursday night, trapping a dozen workers inside a burning building before they were safely evacuated, authorities said. The blast at American Custom Drying on Elbow Lane sent heavy fire racing through the second and third floors just before 9:30 p.m., according to…
The way Earth’s surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew
The image above shows Thingvellir national park, where two tectonic plates meet in Iceland. (Photo: Tina Zupancic) By Ben Mather, Adriana Dutkiewicz, Dietmar Müller, & Sabin Zahirovic Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing “icehouse” periods and warm “greenhouse” states. Scientists have long linked these climate changes to fluctuations in atmospheric carbon…
Trump’s fiscal pledge buried under $64 trillion debt as Republican deficits soar
President Donald Trump promised in his 2024 campaign to eliminate the national debt within eight years. “We’ll have it all paid off,” he told supporters in New Hampshire. “It won’t be hard.” On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office released figures showing the national debt on track to reach $64 trillion within a decade, propelled by…
Legal experts say local law enforcement can arrest & charge federal agents
by Andy Mannix, Melissa Sanchez, and Nicole Foy | ProPublica Minutes after a federal agent shot and killed a Mexican immigrant in a Chicago suburb last September, a group of police officers stood on the sidewalk trying to figure out the answer to a question of protocol: Who would investigate the shooting? “Wouldn’t it be…
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