ISLAMABAD (AP) — An estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan could be affected by the upcoming monsoon season, which is expected to bring heavier rains than usual, a top U.N. official warned on Thursday. The United Nations, with help from local authorities, has prepared a contingency plan, with $40 million set aside to respond to any […]
A new border crackdown unveiled by the Biden administration this week is likely to disproportionately affect families, whose soaring numbers in the last decade have drastically changed the profile of the population crossing the southern border. Family units have come to represent a substantial share of border crossers, accounting for about 40% of all migrants […]
President Biden signed an executive order Tuesday that will allow U.S. immigration officials to temporarily shut down the U.S. border with Mexico to asylum seekers if the number of migrants attempting to cross in a single day reaches a certain threshold. Surrounded by at the White House, Biden announced the move, which he hopes will […]
Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. Teens who spend lots of time on social media have complained of feeling like they can’t pay attention to more important things like homework or time with loved ones. A […]
PLATTSBURGH — The guilty verdict in the case against former President Donald Trump will affect the 2024 election, says a local expert who has been watching and studying the case. “The guilty verdict will affect the 2024 presidential election campaign, both in terms of initial public reaction and campaign strategies,” Dr. Harvey Schantz, a longtime […]
May 31—VALDOSTA — Former President Donald Trump has a long history of popularity in Lowndes County, and the chief of the county’s Republican Party organization doesn’t see that changing in the wake of Trump’s conviction. Trump was found guilty Thursday by a jury in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to […]
The guilty verdict Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial likely will not affect plans by U.S. intelligence agencies to provide him with briefings after he is formally named the Republican presidential nominee, a U.S. official told NBC News. The intelligence briefings for presidential nominees are not mandated by law but are a […]
Pollsters routinely ask the public for their opinions about things that have happened. The task becomes a little trickier when pollsters ask about expected opinions related to things that haven’t yet happened. And yet, there’s been plenty of polling in recent months in which Americans were asked an important question: If Donald Trump were convicted […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Baton Rouge and surrounding areas are currently under an air quality alert. “It’s not just for East Baton Rouge but West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, Iberville, Ascension, Livingston parishes, all of these parishes are impacted by the air pollution that’s generated by Baton Rouge,” said BRProud Chief Meteorologist Sam Parish. […]
There might be total darkness in the depths of the sea, but the sun still impacts the abyss. During this month’s solar storms — you know, the ones that resulted in the aurora lighting up half of the planet on May 10 — Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) deep-sea observatories recorded disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field. The […]
May 20—State leaders are unable to say how many members of the Ohio National Guard would be impacted by an Air Force plan to pull some members into the U.S. Space Force. In April, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine asked President Biden to withdraw a proposal that would incorporate Guard members into Space Force. In response […]
(FOX40.COM) — Travelers headed to the Sacramento International Airport may want to leave slightly earlier when heading to the airport starting at the end of the coming weekend and continuing for several days. Caltrans will be closing the southbound I-5 offramp that leads onto Airport Boulevard from Sunday night until at least Tuesday morning. Terminals, […]