The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a new program aiming to spend a whopping $1 billion in an effort to reconnect disconnected cities, The Center Square reported.
The funding comes as part of the Reconnecting Communities pilot program, which attempts to reconnect cities that have been divided by...
(Headline USA) Amazon is barring off-duty warehouse workers from the company’s facilities, a move organizers say can hamper union drives.
Under the policy shared with workers on Amazon’s internal app, employees are barred from accessing buildings or other working areas on their scheduled days off, and before or after their...
(Headline USA) The bodies of three young children and a woman believed to be their mother have been recovered from a Minn. lake, and authorities say the deaths are being investigated as a triple murder-suicide.
Meanwhile, the body of the children's father was found at a different location hours earlier....
(Headline USA) A letter written by Alexander Hamilton in 1780 and believed stolen decades ago from the Massachusetts state archives is going back on display — though not exactly in the room where it happened.
The founding father's letter will be the featured piece at the Commonwealth Museum's annual July...
(Headline USA) After years of callously infringing on the privacy of its users, Google has decided to automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has returned states' rights to ban the termination of...
More than a third of small businesses can’t pay rent, newly released data shows.
According to The Center Square, the small business network Alignable released new survey results that found that 35% of U.S. small business owners “could not pay their rent in full or on time in June.”
“Most small business...
U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., both told news outlets Thursday they would not go along with President Joe Biden’s request that Congress remove the Senate filibuster to “codify Roe v. Wade," The Center Square reported.
At a news conference in Spain Thursday during Biden’s last day...
The skies of Mount Rushmore will not be filled with colorful fireworks this year, but South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has not given up hope for next year, The Center Square reported.
The U.S. National Park Service has denied the governor's request for the past two years. But Noem said,...
The Uvalde school district's police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Chief Pete Arredondo said...
(Headline USA) A multinational task force designed to seize Russian oligarchs' wealth has blocked and frozen $30 billion in sanctioned individuals' property and funds in its first 100 days in operation, the Treasury Department reported on June 29.
That’s on top of the yachts, other vessels and luxury real estate...
(Headline USA) People in Tokyo are sweating it out as the government warns of possible power shortages and urges greater efforts to conserve energy while Japan endures unseasonably hot temperatures.
Weather officials announced the earliest end to the annual summer rainy season since the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping records...
(Headline USA) Crews battled a fire at an overnight summer camp in western Maryland on June 29 morning, but no injuries were reported, officials said.
Firefighters were initially dispatched about 7:30 a.m. for a report of a fire in a building at Camp Airy for Boys in Thurmont, Frederick County...