Coal Power Defined This Minnesota Town. Can Solar Win It Over?
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…
Paddle-boarders find rare ‘doomsday’ fish off California coast
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…
Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom hat sells for £490,000 at auction
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…
Florida woman convicted of fatally shooting neighbour
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…
Deploying on U.S. Soil: How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants
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…
Zombie Wells: A $280 Billion Problem the U.S. Can’t Ignore | naked capitalism
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…
U.S. Awards $1.6 Billion to Texas Instruments to Build Semiconductor Plants
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…
Biden Will Designate Illinois Race Riot Site as a National Monument
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…
On a Scrambled 2024 Map, North Carolina Democrats Say Harris Has a Shot
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…
Foetuses can be called ‘unborn humans’ for Arizona abortion vote
Pro-choice activists in Arizona have hit out after judges allowed the state to use what the campaigners call “biased” language ahead of a vote on abortion. The state’s top court…