Josh McKoon, the chair of the Georgia Republican Party, boasted at the state convention in late May that he had “very good news.” Georgia Republicans had just orchestrated a takeover…
The past and the future of electricity in America are perhaps most visible in a Minnesota town surrounded by potato farms and cornfields. Towering over Becker, a community of a…
An oarfish, also known as a ‘doomsday’ fish, was found by paddle-boarders on the California coastline on 10 August. The name comes from the belief that the fish are harbingers…
The hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second instalment of the Indiana Jones film franchise has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction. The brown felt…
A woman who fatally shot her neighbour through her front door in June 2023 has been convicted of manslaughter by a Florida jury. Susan Lorincz, 60, who is white, shot…
During the turbulent summer of 2020, President Donald J. Trump raged at his military and legal advisers, calling them “losers” for objecting to his idea of using federal troops to…
Yves here. This post describes a failure of US regulation and a hazard to public safety. It also confirms the consequences of subsidizing gas and fuel prices with no thought…
The Biden administration will award up to $1.6 billion in grants to Texas Instruments to help the company build three new manufacturing plants, the latest in a slew of awards…
President Biden will designate a national monument on Friday at the site of a 1908 race riot that laid waste to a Black community in Springfield, Ill., joining civil rights…
President Biden’s campaign declared in its earliest days that he had a strong chance of winning North Carolina, even though no Democrat had captured the state since Barack Obama’s victory…