(Headline USA) Lightyear did not go to infinity (or beyond) in its first weekend in theaters: Pixar’s first major theatrical release since March 2020 blasted off with $51 million in its debut weekend in North America, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
The movie garnered several negative headlines in conservative...
(Headline USA) New York’s new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians doesn't cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, a gap that could limit its effectiveness in deterring future mass shootings.
Like many gun control rules, libertarian...
(Headline USA) A Ga. prisoner convicted of killing two guards during an escape from a prison transport bus five years ago has been sentenced to die.
A jury on June 16 agreed unanimously on a death sentence for Ricky Dubose in the June 2017 shooting deaths of Sgt. Christopher Monica...
(Headline USA) Two men were charged with murder in a house explosion near St. Louis that authorities say killed four people who were assembling fireworks in a garage.
St. Louis County prosecutors say 37-year-old Terrell Cooks and 43-year-old Seneca Mahan made fireworks and directed younger people on how to load...
(Headline USA) As officials scramble to reopen Yellowstone National Park to tourists after record floods pounded southern Mont., some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park’s limelight and are leaning heavily on one another to pull their lives out of the mud.
In and...
(Headline USA) In a move perfectly emblematic of how fake-news media hacks are contributing to the demise of U.S. democracy, the propagandist Associated Press claimed that House Democrats' irrelevant and contrived Jan. 6 hearings had left Trump supporters struggling with a cohesive response.
In reality, no response is warranted since...
(Headline USA) Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-shirts to party cups.
But many are getting backlash on social media for what critics say undermines the day, designated as a federal holiday last year to honor the emancipation...
(Headline USA) The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter-century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering.
The revisions could open the door to changes long desired by leftist...
(Headline USA) New Mexico’s Democratic governor is asking that the Biden administration delay planned or expanded efforts to transport migrants to her state if pandemic-related restrictions on asylum seekers are lifted.
The federal government has predicted a threefold increase in border crossings if that happens, and first-term Gov. Michelle Lujan...
(Headline USA) The Walt Disney Co. is delaying by more than three years the opening of a campus in central Florida to which 2,000 workers were being relocated from Southern California to work in digital technology, finance and product development.
Despite having recently incurred the wrath of Florida's Republican Gov....
(Headline USA) A planned concert by John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been canceled even as Hinckley was freed from federal court oversight, the New York City venue that had booked the performance announced.
The Market Hotel in Brooklyn cited “very real and...
(Headline USA) A standoff between a Republican-dominated county commission and New Mexico's Democratic secretary of state over the commission's refusal to certify election results comes to a head Friday, the state's certification deadline.
The showdown is providing a stark example of the chaos that election experts have warned about as...