The U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency has filed a new lawsuit against Republic Steel that claims the Lorain and Canton plants violated the Clean Water Act numerous times between May 2017 and March 2023. The civil complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Cleveland could cost the company millions of […]
When it comes to leaving students with crushing debt they can’t repay, America’s richest colleges and universities are often the worst perpetrators. Under a new congressional bill, those institutions could face millions in fines if they don’t start giving students a better deal. The idea – known as “risk-sharing” – is one of a slew […]
CADE, La. (KLFY) — A fire in a mobile home containing a cat and a dog in St. Martin Parish last week ended as well as can be expected, officials said. In the early morning hours of Jan. 17, firefighters in Cade were dispatched to a reported structure fire on Whitney Drive. When firefighters arrived […]
Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Chief, has said that Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive was not a “catastrophe”, even though not everything was “fine”, and that Ukraine’s Armed Forces cannot do without a mobilisation campaign. Source: Kyrylo Budanov in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) Details: When asked about Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive failing to achieve its […]
Monday night: Des Moines, Iowa, celebrating victory with supporters over beer and popcorn. Tuesday morning: Manhattan, New York, on trial for defaming a woman he sexually abused. Tuesday night: Atkinson, New Hampshire, campaigning for the US presidency. Wednesday morning: court in New York again. Donald Trump, the former US president and frontrunner for the Republican […]
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: One of the more puzzling adages for stock market investors is that good news is bad news. Less job growth, slower wage gains, falling inflation, and a softening economy are often viewed as […]
To the people leaving California: May the road rise to meet you as you seek better lives in new places. Now, can you please extend some goodwill to those of us who remain? Several friends and members of my extended family have moved out of this state, so I can understand the factors that drive […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police with vulgar, homophobic and anti-migrant comments during an arrest last month for drunken driving was sentenced to serve nearly a year of unsupervised probation and to pay $1,000. Republican state Rep. Nico Rios, of Williston, received the sentence on Jan. 8, when he pleaded […]
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and staff, and disparaging remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are just the latest headache for the Geneva-based humanitarian group. Netanyahu said he intentionally bypassed the Red Cross in helping arrange a shipment into Gaza of medicines for […]
Ecommerce giant eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty for harassing and intimidating a Massachusetts couple in retaliation for their 2019 coverage in an online newsletter and for obstruction of the investigation that followed, according to the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. According to eBay’s admissions, between approximately Aug. 5 and Aug. 23, […]
CLINTON, Iowa — The Iowa campaign trail has long been littered with mainstays, like Pizza Ranch and the Machine Shed BBQ restaurant, but Donald Trump aims to add a new stop on Tuesday nearly 900 miles from Des Moines: A courtroom in Washington, D.C. His campaign and allies see this detour from the Hawkeye State days […]
Twice-impeached ex-president Donald Trump called New York Attorney General Letitia James a “lunatic” after she requested a judge penalize him with a $370 million fine following his civil fraud trial. While Trump’s fate remains unknown since the trial ended last month, James made her penalty request in a post trial brief on Friday, according to […]