A Michigan town recently voted to remove most funding from a library after a fight over an LGBTQ novel that was available in the library. According to Bridge Michigan, voters in the Jamestown Township voted against a millage that was used to fund the Patmos Library in the town. The tax was rejected in a […]

Nearly $50,000 has been raised to support a 6-year-old boy who was left with serious injuries after being run over by a bulldozer. Bodie Boring, from Franklin in Texas, was with his father on a construction site when the accident took place. His injuries include a skull fracture, brain bleed, a blood clot on the […]

The FBI arrested former Puerto Rico governor Wanda Vázquez Garced on Thursday morning on corruption charges. She is the first former governor of the island to face federal charges. Vázquez, her political consultant and the president of an international bank are accused of bribery related to funding her 2020 campaign, the Justice Department said in […]

A man arrested in connection to a shooting at a New York McDonald’s now faces charges for murder after allegedly confessing to an unsolved 2020 shooting. According to the New York Police Department, officers responded to reports of a man shot in the neck at a Brooklyn McDonald’s at approximately 7 p.m. Monday. Witnesses told […]

An alleged hospital worker in Illinois said he was suspended without pay for nearly a month after looking at his cell phone, according to a post that went viral this week. “I’m being suspended for 25 days for glancing at my phone,” the employee titled his story in Reddit‘s “Antiwork” forum, posting anonymously as u/SgllsTaklnDux […]

As the Senate continues to fight over how to get President Joe Biden‘s economic agenda passed, Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema—who has yet to back the legislation—is struggling among her constituents. A new Courier Newsroom/Data for Progress poll released this week found that nearly half of likely Arizona voters, 48 percent, disapproved of her performance as […]

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has hit out at people who blamed President Joe Biden for high gas prices, but have been silent as they have fallen in recent weeks. “We’re seeing it go under four bucks in more and more places, but not everywhere and, of course, we want to see it continue to go […]

Four former Louisville, Kentucky, Metro Police Department officers were charged on Thursday in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. During a news conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that his office has filed federal charges against Louisville Metro Police Department’s former Detective Joshua Jaynes and Sergeant Kyle Meany, as well as against Detective Kelly Goodlett […]

Senate Democrats are poised to hand President Joe Biden a significant victory on health care, vindicating the gamble he made as a candidate to support the Affordable Care Act instead of the more progressive proposals backed by his primary rivals. The passage of a sweeping energy and health care package is not a done deal. […]

A beloved hippo family gained a new member on Wednesday night, said the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. The zoo’s announcement of hippo Bibi’s new baby, released together with footage of the newborn and mom bonding, quickly captured the hearts of animal lovers online. Staff watched the birth with “a mix of joy, relief, and […]