A powerful atmospheric river is set to soak large parts of California through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, raising serious concerns about flooding, mudslides and dangerous travel conditions. Forecasters warn the storm could deliver months’ worth of rain in just a few days, hitting at the worst possible time for holiday travel. A rare storm, […]

A powerful explosion on Tuesday afternoon killed two people and injured at least twenty others, tearing through part of a nursing home and prompting a major rescue effort. The explosion ripped through the Bristol Health and Rehab Center in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, about twenty miles northeast of the city. Police said all residents have now been accounted […]

In the winter of 1955, Air Force Col. Harry Shoup was working in the combat operations center of the Continental Air Defense Command, fulfilling the mission set out by President Harry Truman a year earlier: track North America’s skies as an early warning against Soviet nuclear strikes. This made Shoup a central piece of the […]

President Donald Trump warns it would be “smart” for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step aside as the U.S. tightens an oil tanker blockade that’s now choking the South American country’s exports. Plus, the Supreme Court blocks Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, keeping a lower-court ruling in place and drawing new limits […]

Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Morton Sher was killed in action Aug. 20, 1943, when he crashed during a combat mission over Hunan, China, in World War II. Sher’s remains were finally accounted for this summer and returned home.

Avian influenza has been detected for the first time in a herd of dairy cattle in Wisconsin — the 18th state to report the disease in cows since 2024. The Wisconsin cases are likely linked to a 2023 bird flu outbreak in the Texas Panhandle. The newly affected herd is located northeast of the state […]

As controversy continues over a decision by the top editor of CBS News to spike a “60 Minutes” story critical of the Trump administration shortly before air time, the piece is now available on a Canadian streaming service. The story, “Inside CECOT,” focused on immigrants sent to the notorious Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. […]

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to allow the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and the surrounding areas, handing a defeat to President Donald Trump. At Trump’s direction, troops have been used in several states to assist with his crackdown on illegal immigration. The White House had filed an emergency request with the Supreme […]

No one ever said farming would be easy. But no one could have foreseen how difficult 2025 would be. “Farming is an inherently risky business,” Mike Lavender, policy director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, told Straight Arrow News. “You are dealing with a ton of variables, from the weather to pests to markets, whether […]