When losing soldiers flee a battlefield — or people migrate in search of a better life — they are voting with their feet. “Foot voting” lets people control their own destiny, law professor Ilya Somin argues. In America today, people are also voting with their arms, rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated against Covid-19
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Click here for updates on this story BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOV) — A Bridgeton Popeyes employee shot a man after an argument Saturday afternoon. Officials with the Bridgeton Police Department said the 17-year-old employee and another female employee got into an argument with a man before 3 p.m. at the 953 Northwest Plaza Drive location. The
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Former President Donald Trump repeated familiar lies about the 2020 election and insulted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Saturday when speaking to Republican National Committee donors gathered for the first time since Trump’s defeat, a person in the room told CNN. Donors assembled just down the road from his Mar-a-Lago home — a sign that
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Arkansas’ Republican governor on Sunday knocked former President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on top party leaders as “divisive” and unhelpful for elected GOP officials around the country. “Well, anything that is divisive is a concern and is not helpful for us fighting in the battles in Washington and at the state level,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson
Continue Reading At first glance, the drawings seem innocuous. Each of the 20 black and white sketches artfully depicts a natural landscape. Pine trees and mountains set against a bright orb in the sky. Cartoonish leaves splayed out like tentacles. Unearthly limestone columns towering before an ominous cloud. Their origins, though, are darker: They are believed to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — A Tennessee man needed a double lung transplant while battling COVID-19. Zach Lloyd was only 37 years old and didn’t have any pre-existing health conditions. News4 spoke with him as he was released from the hospital on Friday. “Find something you can cling to
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For 200 years, Boston has been led by an unbroken string of White men — until now. Kim Janey, a Black woman who traces her roots in the city back generations, and even further to ancestors who fled slavery in the South, is now the city’s mayor. Janey’s ascension to the role leading one of
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In Philadelphia, a Black cowboy in a white undershirt and a gold chain wrangles a wayward horse. Teens pile hay and clean up manure near brick row houses. Men and women ride cantering horses down a city street as cars pass by. These are scenes from “Concrete Cowboy,” a new Netflix movie starring Idris Elba
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When losing soldiers flee a battlefield — or people migrate in search of a better life — they are voting with their feet. “Foot voting” lets people control their own destiny, law professor Ilya Somin argues. In America today, people are also voting with their arms, rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated against Covid-19
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The world has joined Queen Elizabeth II in sorrow over the loss Friday of her husband of seven decades, Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh, just two months shy of his 100th birthday. The duo was a loving and close-knit couple. The Queen told guests at a luncheon on their 50th wedding anniversary that Phillip
Continue Reading An armed man barricaded inside a hotel in Hawaii has forced an hourslong lockdown, Honolulu police said. A call about shots fired at The Kahala Hotel and Resort came around 5:40 p.m. (11:40 p.m. ET) Saturday, Honolulu police Capt. Brian Lynch told CNN affiliate KITV. About five shots were fired from inside a guest room
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Being stuck in isolation in a small hotel room for days on end with no option to leave could easily have been the basis for a fly-on-the-wall wall reality show a few years ago. However, as travel restrictions continue to change due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this scenario is becoming part and parcel of traveling
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The Dow and S&P 500 are at record highs thanks to Wall Street optimism about Covid-19 vaccines, federal government stimulus, a rebounding global economy and a surge in value stocks. Now it’s time for Corporate America to prove that investors should believe the hype. A slew of big banks and other financial firms will report
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Real Madrid weathered bitter winds and driving rain to defeat Barcelona 2-1 in an action-packed El Clasico on Saturday. The win, which came courtesy of goals from Karim Benzema and Toni Kroos, saw Real go top of La Liga ahead of rivals Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, although Atletico has a chance to regain the top
Continue Reading During his Easter sermon last weekend, Pastor Jim Conrad preached a message of love and acceptance from the pulpit of his church. Over the past several months, the pastor’s stance on love and acceptance has drawn national attention to Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia. Specifically, over the question of who’s allowed to become
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County residents have been getting vaccinated more than any other Missouri jurisdiction. According to the state dashboard, 37.4% of the Boone County population has received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Nearly three million vaccines have been given out statewide which equates to 30.4% of the population receiving at
Continue Reading For weeks, Nick Muerdter had been hearing about his coworkers’ concerns and frustrations as they tried to navigate complicated and evolving Covid-19 vaccination systems to land an appointment for their parents. Some sent around emails with helpful articles and brainstormed for a solution. “It seemed like a lot of people were just spending a lot
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Lyth Hishmeh kept feeling ill months after contracting coronavirus a year ago in March. He had chest pain and couldn’t concentrate. At 26 years old, the former regular runner was fatigued and breathless, struggling to function properly. Yet medical professionals kept telling him he simply could not still be ill. “They were telling me it’s
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The US just hit a record high of about 4.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines reported administered in one day, according to data published Saturday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Amazing Saturday! +4.63M doses administered over total yesterday, a new record,” Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, the Covid-19 data director at the White House,
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