Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his campaign to be US president on Monday, cutting the field of Republican candidates to four. Mr Ramaswamy made his announcement after former president Donald Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses. The wealthy biotech entrepreneur and conservative author finished fourth, behind Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley. […]
You don’t have to wait for a winner to be called tonight to know how Iowa’s Republican caucuses are going to unfold. To get a sense of whether the polls are right and Donald Trump is gearing up for a landslide, look to key county returns as they trickle in through the evening — they’ll […]
For one 15-year-old girl in 2024, some of the everyday problems she posts to her 10,000-plus followers on TikTok sound similar to any teenager’s from any generation. The girl, who will remain unidentified here given her status as a minor, tries on different outfits for a concert, stresses about going to her sophomore year Spanish […]
Vast swaths of the US have been hit with powerful storms, including blizzards that have blanketed parts of the Midwest and Northeast in snow. But something’s amiss: many states accustomed to white winters are now getting more rain than snow. A new study published on Wednesday shows that the human-caused climate crisis has reduced snowpack […]
This story will be updated. Two Republican candidates and one Democrat have filed with the state, as others signal their interest, to run for Utah’s now-open 3rd Congressional District following Rep. John Curtis’ late entrance in the state’s U.S. Senate race. Curtis has represented the district — which includes the Wasatch Front from Provo to […]
During the last fiscal year, North Carolina residents spent more than $4.3 billion on lottery tickets, according to the N.C. Education Lottery. More than $1 billion of those funds were donated to the state’s public education system, the lottery announced in September. The top 10 counties that spent the most on lottery tickets were responsible […]
Reports of hate crimes are on the rise across the United States, including Illinois. The 75 incidents of hate crimes against LGBTQ individuals in 2022, the latest U.S. Department of Justice statistics available, dwarf the totals set in Illinois over the previous two years combined. Here’s a look at hate crime trends tracked by the […]
Kentucky’s half-dozen seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for grabs again in 2024, and several candidates are planning to challenge the incumbents. Here’s a look at who’s entered the races to represent the Bluegrass State, according to filings with the Kentucky Secretary of State’s Office. Incumbents are listed in bold along with […]
Nearly two-thirds of millennials say spending $7 on their daily cup of coffee brings them ‘joy’ — but Suze Orman has compared it to ‘peeing $1M down the drain.’ Who’s right? There’s something truly priceless about starting your day at your local cafe and snagging a steaming cup of coffee before you start work — […]
QUINCY − In the six-year legal battle over Boston’s planned reconstruction of the Long Island Bridge, Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch is celebrating what he sees as a favorable preliminary order in the city’s appeal of a key permit, a state Chapter 91 draft waterways license granted by the Department of Environmental Protection in August. Chapter […]
Companies across industries are hiring talent to help them develop and use generative AI. JPMorgan Chase, Accenture, and Disney have been among the companies posting AI-related jobs. Listings tend to offer base pay of more than $100,000 — with salaries going as high as $338,000. AI developers, engineers, and consultants are seeing a lot of […]
The World Health Organization is keeping an eye on a new COVID variant—one that, in some countries, is sending wastewater levels of the virus skyrocketing to the highest point ever seen. The global health watchdog on Tuesday promoted JN.1—an Omicron spawn experts flagged this summer for its unusually large number of mutations—to a “variant of […]