August 29, 2025

Labor Day gas prices expected to fall to lowest level since 2020

Labor Day weekend gas prices are predicted to be the lowest since 2020, according to an analysis on Tuesday by GasBuddy. The average price of gasoline is expected to dip to $3.15 per gallon.  Analysts said these will be the lowest gas prices since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when the price of gas fell […]

August 29, 2025

Contractor for $1.2B Texas detention center lacks experience: Report

President Donald Trump selected the Department of Defense contractor Acquisition Logistics to build what’s anticipated to be the largest migrant detention center in Texas — except details have emerged shining a light on Acquisitions’ ability to run the center. Acquisition Logistics, a Virginia-based small business, has never secured a federal contract worth more than $16.1 million […]

August 29, 2025

New homes are now cheaper than existing ones — here’s why

Traditionally, new construction homes cost more than existing homes. However, those prices inverted in 2024 and have lasted through the first half of 2025. In July 2025, the median price for existing home sales was $422,400, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. Meanwhile, the median sale price for new homes sold in […]

August 29, 2025

Father says son, 8, among the two killed in Annunciation Catholic Church shooting

The family of one of the two children who were killed in the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting on Wednesday said the shooter took away a kid who loved his family, friends and “any sport that he was allowed to play,” according to CBS Minnesota. Law enforcement have not released the identities of the students killed […]

August 29, 2025

Gaza protesters arrested in NYC, allege assault by Egyptian diplomats

Two brothers filming a protest over the war in Gaza outside an Egyptian diplomatic building in Manhattan on Aug. 20 have been arrested and charged with felony assault and strangulation. However, according to video footage by an Egyptian activist that The Associated Press acquired, Egyptian government personnel dragged the two brothers off the street and […]

August 29, 2025

White House taps Jim O’Neill as acting CDC Director after Monarez ousted

Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has been selected by the White House to serve as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decision comes after President Donald Trump removed former CDC Director Susan Monarez following a clash with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert […]

August 29, 2025

20 years later: How Katrina changed the game in US disaster response

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast of Louisiana in the early Monday-morning hours of Aug. 29, 2005, it shattered everything in its path: Homes. Trees. Weather records.  The Category 4 hurricane “clearly overwhelmed” government agencies, according to an initial Government Accountability Office report, and set new precedents for mass-casualty disaster response, forever leaving […]

August 29, 2025

Minneapolis gunman’s hate-filled manifesto, Border Patrol arrests firefighters: Unbiased Updates, Aug. 29, 2025

New details have emerged about the gunman who opened fire inside a Minneapolis Catholic school. Investigators said 23-year-old Robin Westman was “obsessed” with the idea of killing children and idolized some of the country’s most notorious mass murderers. Plus, at the CDC, the confusion continues. The White House has named Jim O’Neill as acting director, […]