The Central Ohio Transit Authority has been awarded a $1.26-million grant to study how to efficiently transport workers between two of Greater Columbus’ hottest jobs markets. The funding is coming from the Ohio Department of Transportation’s Office of Transit’s Workforce Mobility Partnership Program Awards, and will be used to study transporting workers between job centers […]
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Brooklyn preacher goes on trial for fraud charges prosecutors say fueled lavish lifestyle
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn preacher with ties to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to go on trial Monday in Manhattan federal court over charges that he looted a parishioner’s retirement savings and tried to extort a businessman to fuel his lavish lifestyle. Lamor Miller-Whitehead, 47, a Rolls Royce-driving bishop, faces […]
Ex-FBI informant charged over false claims that fueled Biden impeachment inquiry due in court
LAS VEGAS — The former FBI informant who allegedly fed the bureau false information about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign is set to appear at a detention hearing in a federal courtroom in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old who had been working as a […]
This Moore restaurant is fueled by a love for first responders and grilled cheeses
Erratic weather fueled by climate change will worsen locust outbreaks, study finds
Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather patterns and cause higher outbreak risks, a new study has found. The desert locust — a short-horned species found in some dry areas of northern and eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South […]
Wellness influencers fueled pandemic misinformation. Now they have another big conspiracy in their sights
When wildfire ripped through Hawaii’s Maui last August, the impact was devastating: a whole town reduced to ashes, more than 100 lives lost. The inferno was described as the “largest natural disaster in state history.” But some on Instagram suggested, without evidence, there was something much more nefarious at play. Wellness influencer @truth_crunchy_mama told her […]
US inflation edges up, fueled by energy and housing prices, but many other costs rise only mildly
WASHINGTON — Higher energy and housing prices boosted overall U.S. inflation in December, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s drive to slow inflation to its 2 percent target will likely remain a bumpy one. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that overall prices rose 0.3 percent from November and 3.4 percent from 12 months […]
Nazi Germany had admirers among American religious leaders – and white supremacy fueled their support
Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and banned “race-mixing” between Jews and other Germans. Eighty-eight years later, the United States is facing rising antisemitism and white supremacist ideology – including two neo-Nazi demonstrations in Florida in September 2023 alone. The Nuremberg […]