(Headline USA) Apple's new CEO John Ternus takes the helm of the iconic tech giant on Tuesday, ending Tim Cook's 15-year tenure during which the company's value skyrocket to $4.6 trillion thanks to the iPhone's enormous popularity.
The transition to a new CEO comes at a pivotal time for Apple. Artificial...
(Headline USA) A controversial policing tactic that permitted staggering amounts of deadly fentanyl to reach the streets as federal authorities sought to build bigger drug cases is now under investigation by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.
The committee's chairman, Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter Monday...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Most American voters say the country is on the wrong track heading into the midterm elections, and the independent voters who often decide close races are among the most dissatisfied, a new national poll finds.
The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll found 60% of registered...
(Headline USA) Tropical Storm Karina strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday and could become a major storm this week, forecasters said. The cyclone's center was at far out sea and was not threatening land.
Karina had maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, the Miami-based National...
(Headline USA) A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) Update: US officials told multiple outlets that President Donald Trump dispatched CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Russia to warn Moscow not to attack any NATO countries. Earlier this week, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that “unknown actors” could attack UK facilities producing weapons...
(Headline USA) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a report released Tuesday on the lead-water crisis in the city is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people.
Flint residents...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk's space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a massive new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets, state officials and the company announced Tuesday.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the deal was a big win for the state and country, likening the impact of the...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Billionaire investor Thomas Kaplan has issued an eye-popping gold price forecast of $50,000.
In an interview on Kitco News, Kaplan said, "Seeing gold go up another tenfold from here, to me, is not just likely, but inevitable."
"I can see gold going to 30, 40, 50,000...
(Headline USA) The fast-growing Hawk Fire spread from the Sierra foothills toward the center of Reno early Sunday, growing to more than 10,500 acres. Nearly 14,000 homes were ordered evacuated, and the “GO NOW” zone reached the edge of the University of Nevada campus.
Washoe County, Nevada emergency officials opened...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from subpoenaing records from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office about her investigations.
In a 2-1 ruling Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision...
(Headline USA) The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony's conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats.
That agreement is at the...