Category Archives: Breaking News

As school districts across the country report serious staffing shortages largely due to unprecedented levels of stress, burnout, and low pay, Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Thursday introduced essential legislation to begin to address the major teacher pay crisis in America and ensure that all publicContinue reading “Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to increase teacher pay”

by Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who was former President Donald Trump’s senior legal advisor as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been censured by a Colorado judge for misconduct. The public censure order was signed Wednesday by Presiding Disciplinary Judge Bryon M. Large, who oversees lawyer disciplineContinue reading “Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado for election lies”

A Trump-endorsed Republican pleaded guilty to accepting illegal campaign contributions while she was a congressional candidate in the 2020 North Carolina primary, which she lost to Madison Cawthorn. Lynda Bennett – who was backed by then-President Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows in her bid for Meadows’ former House seat in NorthContinue reading “Trump-backed Republican pleads guilty to taking illegal campaign contribution”

After Walgreens, one of the largest pharmacy chains in the United States, announced that it will not distribute abortion pills in states where Republican officials have threatened legal action, the decision has sparked a fierce backlash, with California Governor Gavin Newsom vowing to cut ties with the company in retaliation. The decision has been metContinue reading “California governor cracks down on drug store dropping abortion pills”

The Biden administration this month will hold the US government’s first sale since 2021 of oil and natural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The news was welcomed by the fossil fuel industry but New Jersey environmentalist Lisa McCormick expressed concern about the failure to encourage energy producers to shift to clean technology. “InContinue reading “McCormick slams Biden administration over offshore drilling lease sales”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a video today explaining two federal district court lawsuits that have the potential to alter the legality of medication abortions nationwide. “This attempt to effectively ban abortion nationwide is just as dire, if not more so, than what we saw last year when the Supreme Court overturned 50 years of precedentContinue reading “Michigan Attorney General offers glimpse of legal assault on medical abortion”

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered military officers to tighten control of the border with Ukraine following a succession of drone attacks that are creating a security challenge for Moscow a year after it launched an unwarranted invasion its neighbor, which was once a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Russian broadcasters hint that Western support for Ukrainian defenseContinue reading “Putin ducking drone attacks, Russians hint invasion may bloom into WWIII”

Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. “AllContinue reading “NASA’s DART successfully altered the orbit of its target asteroid, Dimorphos”

A Pennsylvania man was arrested after an explosive device was found in his luggage at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport. Mark Muffley, 40, was attempting to board an Allegiant flight from Pennsylvania to Orlando Sanford International Airport, when the device was found in a checked bag. He is now in FBI custody, officials said. Transportation Security AdministrationContinue reading “Pennsylvania man arrested for bringing explosives to Lehigh Valley Airport”

New Jersey State Police troopers were involved in a shooting incident early Thursday morning in Paterson. According to reports, a trooper was shot in the leg and hospitalized, but is in stable condition. The incident occurred at around 1 a.m. in the area of 28th Street and 9th Avenue, where police from multiple departments wereContinue reading “New Jersey state trooper shot in leg overnight in Paterson”

Former Vice President Mike Pence said that he disagrees with Republican presidential candidate Nimarata Randhawa Haley’s latest calls for politicians to take mental competency tests, saying that U.S. citizens “can sort that out.” Republicans in particular have repeatedly questioned Biden’s cognitive state, seizing on a series of gaffes to argue that he’s not mentally fitContinue reading “Mike Pence opposes testing mental competence of White House hopefuls”

After a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S. Representatives Chris Deluzio and Ro Khanna introduced the Decreasing Emergency Railroad Accident Instances Locally (DERAIL) Act to broaden the definition by which trains get classified as a “high-hazard flammable train” (HHFT).  The bill will ensure that trains carrying hazardous materials are properlyContinue reading “Lawmakers seek to prevent hazardous materials train wrecks”

The US Energy Department believes that the pandemic most likely was the result of a mishap in a Chinese laboratory, according to a classified intelligence report, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The coronavirus pandemic likely arose from a Chinese laboratory leak, the US Department of Energy now says according to media, although theContinue reading “US agency intelligence report blames China laboratory leak for Covid”

The James Webb Space Telescope, which was developed the US, Canadian and European space agencies and opened its eyes to the sky in July 2022, has delivered on its promise. In particular, scientists hoped that it would be able to peer back in time to view the early history of our universe. The space observatoryContinue reading “James Webb Telescope reveals massive galaxies born soon after the Big Bang”

New York Times bestselling author Marianne Williamson is expected to announce her intention to run for the Democratic nomination for president on March 4, making her the first and possibly the only serious challenger for President Joe Biden. Williamson earned some celebrity during the 2020 presidential race, where some of her common-sense and idealistic remarksContinue reading “Marianne Williamson has a pragmatic approach to problems: ‘Gotta fix that’”

A man who killed Jersey City political operative Michael Galdieri worked on the 2013 campaign for Senator Raymond Lesniak and then-Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, according to documents filed in federal court by the US Attorney’s Office. Lesniak’s political consultant Sean Caddle paid hit men George Bratsenis and Bomani Africa $15,000 to have his business associate Galdieri killed but before he offered theContinue reading “Killers who worked for Lesniak & Cryan may be free before gubernatorial race”

Linden residents are stunned by the horrific discovery of a murder-suicide in the Union County community. Linden Police said a shooting incident that took place in a home located on Chatham Place at approximately 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning left two adults and two juveniles dead. According to authorities, officers who responded reports of a shootingContinue reading “Tragedy shocks Linden as Nieroda family is slain by father with gun”

Former President Jimmy Carter will receive hospice care at his Plains, Georgia, home as his health deteriorates, according to a Saturday announcement from the Carter Center. At 98 years old, Carter is the longest-living former US executive.  The nature of Carter’s current health issues was not announced. Electing hospice care signals a person is nearing the end of life, where care focuses onContinue reading “President Jimmy Carter seeking hospice care”

Officials have been swamped with questions about the recent shoot-downs of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), but a North Carolina congressman provided answers after getting the facts from a top military commander. Rep. Jeff Jackson had the opportunity to be part of a congressional briefing with Gen. VanHerck, the Commander of our North American Aerospace DefenseContinue reading “Congressman conveys commander’s comments”

With risk of nuclear war now at its highest in decades, populations once again need to be educated on long-term climate effects of atomic disturbances, according to a study published by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER). The study reveals a terrible lack of awareness among US and UK populationsContinue reading “People don’t understand what nuclear war would mean”