One police officer is dead and another is critically hurt after a suspect opened fire in a Chicago hospital Saturday morning, according to officials. Chicago police superintendent Larry Snelling said during an afternoon press conference confirming the officer’s death that the shooter is in custody. “The second officer right now is fighting for his life […]
President Donald Trump and other White House officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night while cameras rolled in the ballroom following a “shooting incident.” The president later called the situation “shocking” when talking with reporters at the White House. The reporters at the briefing were the same ones at the […]
Tick season is starting earlier than usual across much of the United States, with doctors and public health officials warning that early signs point to a potentially rough year for tick-borne diseases. Weekly emergency room visits for tick bites are already the highest for this time of year since 2017 in nearly every U.S. region, […]
While some local governments spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars fighting proposed immigrant detention facilities in their neighborhoods, one state is now taking on the legal task for one of its towns. On Friday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs […]
When Sarah Kaestner looks back on her childhood in the 1980s, the word autism still carries an echo of fear. “It was always kind of a scary word growing up,” she said. “You heard it and thought: something is not right.” So, when Kaestner’s son, Trip, was diagnosed with autism in 2022 at age 3, […]
If there’s a level of taxation that would finally get sports bettors to walk away from gambling, states apparently have yet to hit it. That’s the conclusion from a report by Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office, which analyzed betting activity in 34 states and failed to find any correlation between tax rates and the frequency of […]
Spring weather is approaching, drawing more people outside to enjoy the warmer temperatures and use alternative means of transportation. One form that’s exploded in popularity is the e-bike, but that has come at a cost, one doctor says, that is too much to wager. Dr. Lindsay Clukies, a pediatric emergency medicine specialist at Washington University […]
On April 26, 1986, what should have been a routine safety test of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in modern-day Ukraine became a world-altering disaster. The fallout was not limited to radiation; Chernobyl and other disasters caused U.S. utility companies to hit the brakes on nuclear development, but today, there are signs […]
President Donald Trump has canceled a planned trip by U.S. envoys to Pakistan, where they were expected to discuss the conflict involving Iran. In a post on Truth Social Saturday, Trump said there has been “too much time wasted on traveling, too much work” and accused Iran of having “tremendous infighting and confusion within their […]
The Army says it is adding an annual, combat-focused fitness test for soldiers in front-line specialties, creating a tougher, gender-neutral standard on top of the service’s existing baseline fitness examination. The new Combat Field Test will apply to soldiers in specialties such as infantry, armor, Special Forces and explosive ordnance disposal, as well as to […]
