HOUSTON — Jorge Gonzalez woke up shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday when the phone rang. His next door neighbor asked his wife, from the other end of the line: Did you hear the gunshots? Gonzalez, a longtime resident of Houston’s predominantly Latino Magnolia Park, sprang up from bed. He wove through the 88-year-old bungalow he […]
Despite significantly lower Affordable Care Act enrollment this year as a result of high premiums, insurers want to raise prices again. They already increased by double digits for millions of Americans in 2026, and come 2027, insurers want to do it again. A new analysis of preliminary filings with state regulators by the Peterson-KFF Health […]
Before the U.S. team lost in the World Cup round of 16 earlier this week, Americans could scroll through social media and find dozens of videos of fans celebrating, hanging out and showing their American pride together. It was a brief era, it seemed, when Americans, instead of attacking each other and saying hateful things […]
The White House amplified a story that claimed unauthorized immigrants caused housing prices to rise by 30%. But the paper didn’t say that. An article from the New York Post caught Vice President JD Vance’s attention as it attributed the rising costs of housing and rent to the surge of unauthorized immigrants between 2021 and […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday that it provisionally lifted its ban on the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). The ban was lifted not because Russia stopped attacking Ukraine, but because it stopped interfering with sports that fall under the Ukrainian Olympic Committee’s jurisdiction. “The decision was taken following a thorough analysis by the IOC’s […]
Graham Platner denied a second allegation of sexual assault in as many days following a Washington Post article that quoted an ex-girlfriend who accused the now 41-year-old Democratic Senate nominee in Maine of having removed protection without her consent during several sexual encounters in Washington, D.C., between 2013 and 2015. The report comes a day […]
In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse. A new Guardian/Harris Poll released Tuesday found that 95% of Americans believe the country is suffering from an affordability crisis and that 57% believe the overall economy is […]
Chinese government officials and the country’s top artificial intelligence companies are considering following America’s lead and pulling their top AI models from foreign nations. Closing that spigot would be a major disruption for some U.S.-based companies that have turned to them in the face of sky-high American AI costs. The talks, first reported by Reuters […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Newspaper editor Charlie Kratovil will have to wait at least a little longer before he learns whether he can fully report on a school gun incident after a judge declined on Tuesday to lift a court order censoring him. Judge Thomas Daniel McCloskey of Middlesex County, New Jersey, said he will […]
A Republican lawmaker said he plans to file impeachment articles against a judge who reversed changes to an immigrant verification program, classifying her action as “rogue.” U.S. Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., said he will file impeachment articles on Thursday after news of Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s ruling became ensnared with a different judge’s competing ruling about […]
