Texas floods are infamous in the collective memory of Americans, and the reasons are more far-reaching than this week’s deadly example. The Hill Country of Central Texas has earned the name Flash Flood Alley due to the prevalence of fast-moving water that can turn deadly during intense downpours. At least two people died in communities […]
Louisiana’s Concordia Parish School District has been under court order to desegregate its schools since 1965. In the district’s Ferriday High School, 92% of students are Black. Just twelve minutes’ drive away is Vidalia High School, where 62% of students are white. In the predominantly Black schools, court documents revealed considerably more deficiencies in the […]
It’s common for businesses that dabble in adult entertainment, alcohol and cannabis to be forbidden from locating no closer than 1,000 feet from schools, churches or other places deemed sensitive areas. South Carolina decided tattoo parlors should join in on that restriction and is now getting sued over it. Two South Carolina residents and a […]
President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. will continue through Jan. 20, 2029, “or until terminated by the President,” a Pentagon official confirmed to Straight Arrow in an email Friday. Trump first sent the National Guard to D.C. under an executive order in which he declared a “crime emergency” in the […]
Wildfires in Ontario have spewed a thick blanket of smoke across parts of Camnada and the U.S. from Minnesota to northern Virginia. Milwaukee reported its worst air quality in history, and two Toronto hospitals recorded an 80% uptick in emergency room visits. Millions of Canadians and Americans even thousands of miles from the flames may […]
Wall Street firms will soon have the ability to see the president’s social media posts before most. Some of those announcements move major markets. Truth Social now plans to sell those firms early access to those market-moving posts, according to Trump Media and Technology Group. That first-look access raises several questions about the legality and […]
From people being forced to sell their family home or face it being taken by the state, to others being told to “consider selling” by a mayor facing complaints, stories about the impact of AI data centers aren’t hard to come by. They’re known to strain existing infrastructure and water supplies and create nuisance noise — […]
In the battle against extreme and hateful content, TikTok stands out as the most likely to take down top offenders, according to a report published this week by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. The organization found last month that white supremacist accounts were increasingly spreading on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. This week, the […]
Jediah Smith has worked on his parents’ South Dakota farm for nearly his entire life. The 23-year-old’s job description includes everything from fixing equipment to tending the seemingly endless rows of corn and soybeans sprouting from the rich dark soil on the state’s eastern edge. “I’ve been doing that ever since I can remember,” he […]
A longtime White House teleprompter operator has been placed on unpaid administrative leave after investigators alleged he used advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to place profitable bets on what the president would say. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant who has worked with Trump since the 2016 campaign, is accused of wagering on whether […]
