Congressional Democrats are calling on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to protect the country’s mail from future delivery delays and raising questions about his leadership, urging President Joe Biden to fill vacancies on the US Postal Service’s Board of Governors so that the board can “seriously consider” whether the Trump administration appointee “is suitable to continue
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People in Australia can no longer find news on Facebook. Facebook said Wednesday that people and publishers in Australia cannot share and view news from local and international outlets. The announcement is a response to proposed legislation in Australia that would force tech platforms to pay news publishers for content. “What the proposed law introduced
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As millions across Texas battle power outages and freezing temperatures during the massive winter storm, one element has proved especially problematic — water. Whether it’s too much water or too little, high pressure or low pressure, or simply just the wrong form, water has been a huge issue for Texans during this ongoing catastrophe. “A
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COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) Below freezing temperatures have brought along challenges for local cattlemen and their cattle. Missouri is ranked number 5 in beef production in the U.S. and is a driving force for the economy. According to the USDA, there are currently over 1.9 million beef cows in Missouri. “Missouri’s agriculture is an $88.4 billion
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President Joe Biden is getting outside reinforcements to help promote and build support for his policy agenda in the form of a new nonprofit advocacy group, a senior administration official and a person familiar with the matter told CNN. The nonprofit, named Building Back Together, will launch next month with the White House’s blessing and
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Congratulations to Hickman’s Ashtyn Klusmeyer and Ella Rogers for winning our Week 6 SportsZone Basketball play of the week. You can watch Klusmeyer’s impressive block and and Rogers’ finish on the other end in the video player above. Hickman is 3-3 on the season. Up next – the Kewpies are scheduled to meet the Battle
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The brutal winter storm in the United States is disrupting business across a range of industries, including many sectors that are still trying to recover from the pandemic. Widespread outages, particularly in Texas, have left millions of residents without power in frigid temperatures for a third day. At least 26 people have died. The storm
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Local fire departments have been responding to an increase in fires in the recent weeks as the weather has turned colder.
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Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops will remain in Washington through March 12 due, in part, to concerns about potential violence stemming from online chatter among QAnon supporters who suggest former President Donald Trump could still be inaugurated on March 4, according to the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. “Some of these people
Continue Reading One-third of US military service members eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccination have opted not to, defense officials said Monday as they announced the Department of Defense is nearing 1 million vaccinations delivered. Cautioning that it’s still “very early data,” Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CARROLL, IA (WQAD) — Several fire departments spent hours late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning putting out a fire at a propane business in rural Carroll County. According to a volunteer firefighter on the scene, crews worked the fire from 10 p.m. Tuesday to 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. People
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors investigated some of the Proud Boys, including their leader Enrique Tarrio, and their ties to longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone, in a previously undisclosed criminal probe in 2019 into whether the men intended to threaten a federal judge. ​ The threat investigation did not lead to charges. But its existence, now revealed by
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MAGAZINE, AR (KFSM) — A man was found dead after trying to rescue a calf from a frozen pond in the Magazine area. According to the Logan County Sheriff’s Office, Jesse Roberts, 69, of Magazine, died after falling into his frozen pond while attempting to free a calf
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A day after Kylian Mbappe lit up the Champions League with an impressive hat trick against Barcelona, Erling Braut Haaland netted a wonderful brace as the game’s new stars continue to take center stage. The 20-year-old was in devastating form as Borussia Dortmund came from behind to take control of its Champions League round of
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The acquittal of Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial speaks volumes about the moral fiber of the Republican senators who refused to abandon him. Even more, it shows how the former President, despite his political toxicity, still has a stranglehold on the Republican Party. This should be an electoral bonanza for Democrats in the
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Former President Donald Trump made a number of wild claims in a statement Tuesday savaging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. But one really stood out to me: His insistence that he had “single-handedly saved” more than a dozen Senate seats — including McConnell’s! — from falling into the clutches of Democrats over the past two
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The Biden administration is relishing the chance to put its new-and-improved distribution program on display with the release of the forthcoming Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but as the US Food and Drug Administration weighs authorization, expectations for a massive, imminent surge in available vaccine doses have been dashed. Federal health officials now expect to get
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DES MOINES, IA (WQAD) — Anonymous racist trolls on Saturday crashed a public meeting of Iowa state lawmakers on the video conferencing service, Zoom. The “Zoom bombing” of a virtual legislative forum hosted by four Des Moines area lawmakers comes one week after a similar incident on a
Continue Reading The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is investigating after video footage shows multiple police officers assaulting a Muslim Arab American teenager. Osamah Alsaidi, 19 at the time, was assaulted and arrested by police officers with the Paterson Police Department in New Jersey in December, his lawyer Diego Navas said in a pre-lawsuit notice of claim.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had an instant reaction when seeing the lengthy attack he endured from former President Donald Trump. He laughed about it, according to a source familiar with the matter. The reaction underscores how McConnell plans to navigate the post-Trump era: Focus squarely on winning back the Senate majority — while ignoring
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