The stock market’s tumble this year has put the S&P 500 into a bear market — the term for when stocks decline at least 20% from their most recent high. The index lost 4% on Monday to close at 3,750, putting it 21% below its peak in January. Wall Street …
Read More »Sarah Palin runs against Santa and 46 others in crowded special primary for Alaska’s lone congressional seat
Voters in Alaska will pick from a huge list of candidates in a special election on Saturday to fill the seat of the late Republican Congressman Don Young, who represented Alaska from 1973 until his death earlier this year at the age of 88. Former Alaska Governor and Republican vice …
Read More »Judge blocks Louisiana Congress map with one Black district
Louisiana’s Democratic governor said Monday he will call the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that a federal judge has blocked use of maps that have only one majority-Black district. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his plan at a news conference at …
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Summerton, S.C. — A drive-by shooting at a South Carolina high school graduation party killed a woman and wounded seven other people, authorities said. It was one of several U.S. shootings over the weekend including one in Philadelphia that left three dead and 11 wounded and one in Chattanooga, Tennessee …
Read More »Student loan forgiveness won’t solve the college debt problem
The Biden administration on Wednesday cancelled student loan debt for hundreds of thousands of students who attended the now-defunct for-profit college system, Corinthian Colleges, as the president mulls broader student loan forgiveness for millions of borrowers. The college chain collapsed in 2015 when Vice President Kamala Harris was attorney general …
Read More »Charles Booker, Black Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, wears noose in campaign video
Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker released a campaign video Wednesday which features him wearing a noose, in an attempt to highlight Senator Rand Paul’s opposition to a 2020 bill that would have made lynching a federal hate crime. The video, which starts with a graphic warning, opens with a shot …
Read More »Pete Davidson confirms he’s leaving “Saturday Night Live”
Pete Davidson confirmed that he is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after eight seasons. “It’s crazy to think that today I’ll be doing my last one,” Davidson wrote on Instagram prior to Saturday’s season finale. Davidson does not have his own Instagram account, but he posted a message through Dave Sirus, …
Read More »DHS watchdog: Migrants weren’t tested for COVID before transport on domestic commercial flights
The top watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) failed to test migrants before transferring, transporting and releasing migrants from ICE detention facilities – a clear violation of the department’s COVID-19 policy. “We identified numerous …
Read More »What are Twitter bots, and why is Elon Musk obsessed with them?
Elon Musk’s proposed $44 billion purchase of Twitter appears to be wobbling, with the billionaire raising concerns about the number of inauthentic accounts, or bots, on the social media platform. If you’re on Twitter, chances are you’ve encountered a bot, although you may not know it. On Tuesday, Musk said …
Read More »California church shooting suspect charged with first
The man accused of opening fire in a Taiwanese church on Sunday, killing one person and injuring five more, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder, CBS Los Angeles reports. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced the charges for 68-year-old David Chou …
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