On Election Day in November, Democrats across Texas waited with hopeful anticipation. High early-voter turnout, recent political trends and changing demographics fueled one burning question: Could the state actually turn blue this cycle? By midnight, the answer was a resounding no. Then-President Donald Trump easily carried Texas, by 5.6 percentage points. And while Democrats gained
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A bear mauled a hiker in Yellowstone National Park near the Wyoming-Montana state line on Friday morning — an attack that sent the man to a hospital in an ambulance, park officials said. The man, 39, suffered significant injuries to his lower extremities but was able to hike out on his own before the ambulance
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLOWER MOUND, Texas (KTVT) — Accusations of censorship versus complaints of political bias have set off a war of words over a North Texas school yearbook. It looks like a typical school yearbook that 13-year-old Carissa Neunherz helped design for Downing Middle School. But the back cover has
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday renewing a White House initiative charged with advancing “equity, justice, and opportunity” for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, including coordinating a “comprehensive” federal response to the rise in anti-Asian violence and discrimination. “… For far too long, systemic barriers to equity, justice, and opportunity
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — After a spree of carjackings in Bucktown this week amid an ongoing carjacking crisis in Chicago, one family has decided to move out of the neighborhood. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Thursday, people are saying they feel like sitting targets in their cars. Terry
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President Joe Biden on Friday delivered a message of hope and optimism on the declining number of Covid-19 cases and increased vaccination rates ahead of the Memorial Day weekend in a speech in northern Virginia. Biden outlined the progress the nation has made across the country, as well as in Virginia specifically, in combating the
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Katie Boyd Britt, the president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, is expected to jump into the Alabama Senate race next month as some Republicans in the state seek an alternative to Rep. Mo Brooks, who has already earned former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Some
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Buncombe County man has been taken into custody by county law enforcement on drug trafficking charges. James Michael Deaver, age 42, of Jupiter Road, was arrested May 27 by the Buncombe County Anti-Crime Task Force (BCAT) of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City home caught fire early Friday morning. According to a news release, the Jefferson City Fire Department responded to the home in the 2300 block of St. Louis Road just after 6 a.m. Firefighters found smoke and fire coming from the back of the house. Fire officials said the
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Senate Republicans blocked a bill on Friday to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot. Six Senate Republicans broke from party leadership to vote in favor of the commission. Supporters of the January 6 commission — including the mother of a Capitol Police officer who died the day after the riot
Continue Reading Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has announced that she’s transitioning out of her role as executive director. On Thursday, she said on her YouTube channel, “… I feel excited for me, and my next journey.” Cullors revealed that at the end of 2019 she had stepped back from the organization, but people within BLM
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Senate Republicans blocked a bill on Friday to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot. The vote on the January 6 commission was 54 to 35, showing the bill had a bipartisan majority of support with six Republicans voting with Democrats. However, the bill needed 60 votes to advance.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO KTVK) — At just 19 years old, Luis Gastelum has responsibilities not many teens can relate to. Two years ago, the immigrant from Mexico came to Arizona for a better life. When he isn’t studying or playing soccer, he is working to provide for his 14-year-old
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An Iowa jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a farm worker accused of abducting and fatally stabbing 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in July 2018. The verdict is expected to be announced shortly. Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, admitted in an August 2018 interview with
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A series of major digital security breaches over the past year are serving as a wake-up call to Corporate America about the need to invest in cybersecurity. Friday brought yet another reminder of the risk of cyberattacks, when Microsoft said the hackers behind the 2020 Solar Winds breach launched a new attack on more than
Continue ReadingToday: Yesterday’s low has pushed easterly allowing for us to see drier conditions. Temperatures top out in the upper 50’s thanks to a northerly flowing wind. We will see mostly cloudy skies throughout the rest of the day. Tonight: Temperatures bottom out in the lower 40’s thanks to the clouds pushing out overnight in conjunction
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MCDOWELL COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Marion woman has been arrested and charged after authorities said she fled police after a traffic violation. The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office says on Monday, May 24, 2021, at around 6:45 p.m. a deputy was sitting at the traffic light at
Continue Reading Correos, Spain’s postal service, ended a widely derided stamp campaign inspired by different skin tones, just three days after its launch, following criticism that it perpetuated racism. The government-run postal service earlier this week debuted “Equality Stamps,” a collection of four stamps meant to represent different skin colors. The palest of the stamps cost 90
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WLS) — A $5,000 reward is being offered to find the person responsible for a fatal hit-and-run that killed a baby girl on Chicago’s Near West Side. It happened in the 300-block of South Western Avenue early Thursday morning. Chicago police said just after midnight, a black
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The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning that events associated with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre could be targets for racial violence, according to a source familiar with the warning. These events “probably are attractive targets for some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists to commit violence,” the Wednesday
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