The long-awaited international bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, Canada, could open soon after a U.S. Senate candidate revealed federal transportation officials reached a deal on vehicle traffic. The bridge has been a point of contention with delayed openings and President Donald Trump’s dissatisfaction with the revenue deal. Mike Rogers, a Republican candidate for Michigan’s […]
After several rounds of U.S. military strikes, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran was “OVER!” in a post on Truth Social Friday morning. In the same post, however, Trump said the U.S. had agreed to Iran’s request to continue talks to end the war, which began Feb. 28. […]
Earlier this year, researchers in Connecticut and Toronto reported that eye problems may be a more common long COVID symptom than previously recognized. In a study of nearly 600 adults, 57% reported developing new eye symptoms — including blurred or lost vision, dry eyes or flashes of light — after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The scientists also […]
Nearly two out of three people believe climate change is driving up their utility bills, according to a recent survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. According to a new study, they’re not wrong. Climate change is stressing urban water systems nationwide, driving up household costs for millions of Americans – and it’s […]
The attorney for three men who were with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when he was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer said Friday that the agency’s version of the events are “simply false.” ICE agents fatally shot Salgado Araujo on Tuesday morning during a traffic stop while he was on his way […]
An ominous stack of papers is followed by a gray hallway leading to a barred window. Thirty seconds later, a dingy room with warning signs on the walls and a hospital bed covered by a tattered sheet comes into view. This is how a new short-form video generator chose to illustrate a news story about […]
One of the people credited with finding Graham Platner and recruiting him to run for Senate in Maine, Daniel Moraff, was asked at least three times to do more thorough research into the first-time candidate. The appeals for more vetting, which have not been previously reported, were described to Straight Arrow by two people with […]
On a Wednesday evening in the summer of 2018, Stacy Skiavo and her roommates hiked up to the Shenley Bridge above Flagstaff Hill, overlooking Pittsburgh’s quintessential smokestacks and Carnegie Mellon University’s campus. They passed around a Sharpie and scribbled their initials onto a padlock before fastening the brass symbol of their friendship onto the bridge’s […]
Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony charge accusing him of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Meanwhile, his attorneys argued the government is trying to hold him responsible for problems that had already surfaced in the project’s $16 million renovation. Hearn appeared in D.C. Superior Court after a […]
Mexico’s president is pushing for a criminal investigation after the Department of Homeland Security said the man fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Tuesday was not the intended target. ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday morning during a traffic stop. The wrong target The agency says agents stopped […]
