Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, who had publicly urged Mexico’s leaders to take a tougher stance on cartels, was gunned down on Saturday during a Day of the Dead ceremony in Uruapan, Michoacán, state officials said. He was shot seven times; one suspected attacker was killed, and two others were detained. The assassination is just the […]

Just before Halloween, the world got a bit of a scare when President Donald Trump announced the U.S. military would immediately resume testing its nuclear weapons. The announcement ended what had been a 33-year pause on testing. Reporters asked the president for clarification while he was aboard Air Force One. When asked if he was […]

Sedgwick County Police arrested former news anchor Angelynn “Angie” Mock, 47, on suspicion of first-degree murder after police discovered Mock’s mother unresponsive in bed with multiple stab wounds. Emergency services transported Anita Avers, 80, to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 8:26 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 31. Police in Wichita, Kansas, discovered […]

President Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back nearly a century in the U.S. Overall, the number of Americans enrolled in the program has consistently gone up each decade, with some fluctuations at times. The beginning of […]

Fox News is experiencing backlash after publishing a story featuring what appeared to be real SNAP beneficiaries, but the videos were generated by artificial intelligence. The article, posted Friday, was originally titled “SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown.”  It included videos of women discussing food assistance benefits, but viewers quickly noticed signs […]

Millions of voters have already cast their ballots and millions more head to the polls Tuesday in off-year elections that will decide critical ballot questions, the governors of two states and the mayor of the nation’s largest city. The elections impact the lives of nearly 41.2 million Americans, and possibly others, as candidates based their […]

If U.S. air travel became unsafe due to the government shutdown, then the Trump administration would close the U.S. aviation system, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Monday. He said flights could be stopped nationwide to protect public safety. Duffy’s comments come at a time when the busiest travel day of the year is […]

Ahead of elections across the country on Tuesday, some are voicing concerns over federal election observers being deployed from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Concern over workers from one political party or the other is nothing new. What’s an election monitor? “Usually, election monitors are independent individuals or from independent organizations who spend time in […]

A group of four moderate, bipartisan lawmakers unveiled a plan to temporarily keep subsidies of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which help people pay for health insurance on the government marketplace. Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., released a “statement of principles,” which is […]