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ilbusca/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Republican-led Georgia State Election Board on Friday passed a major rule change just a few weeks before the November election requiring the hand-counting of all ballots, prompting fears from both sides of the aisle of potential long delays in the reporting of election results. The rule, passed 3-2 with the […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (SELMA, Texas) — A man initially interviewed as a witness at the scene of a murder has now been arrested over a year later in the apparent road rage slaying, authorities in Texas announced. Jacob Daniel Serna, 29, was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Joseph Banales, according to police in […]
RobinOlimb/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Republicans in North Carolina and nationally are assessing the potential fallout for former President Donald Trump from a bombshell report alleging that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the party’s gubernatorial nominee, posted disturbing and inflammatory statements on a forum of a pornographic website. CNN reported Thursday that Robinson, behind an anonymous […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House unanimously on Friday approved a bill that would require the Secret Service to apply equal standards of protection to major presidential candidates and sitting presidents, a move that comes in the wake of two assassination attempts on former President Trump. The final tally was 405-0 in favor of […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Earth’s temperature continues to rise, lives could be at stake. A new study found deaths related to extreme temperatures may triple by the middle of the century, hitting minority communities the hardest. University of Pennsylvania researchers looked at the relationship between average temperatures and number of deaths across […]
Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While body mass index (BMI) has long been a go-to measure of a person’s health, used by doctors and health insurers alike, a new approach is taking hold. Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining prominence as a way of predicting one’s health risk by taking into account more […]
EyeWolf/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday said former President Donald Trump and others are “wrong” to question the Postal Service’s ability to deliver ballots ahead of the presidential election. Asked by a reporter, at a virtual preview of the 2024 election, to respond specifically to Trump’s claim that the Postal Service […]
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’s southern village of Kfar Kila on September 20, 2024. — Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As scores of rockets flew from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Friday, officials with the U.S. and other international leaders urged Hezbollah and Israel to seek […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans on Friday to give her first abortion speech in Atlanta, where she will address the deaths of two Georgia women who, according to a senior campaign official, highlight the “dangerous consequences” of what Harris calls “Trump Abortion Bans.” Reproductive rights have been one of the […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (FORT BLISS, Texas) — Travis King, the U.S. Army private who ran across the border from South Korea to North Korea last year will plead guilty on Friday at a general court martial hearing being held at Fort Bliss, Texas. “He faces 14 charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice but will […]
