Daniel Slim via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid mounting frustration from centrist voters and shifting party coalitions, one group thinks it has the solution to making parties and political candidates: comprehensive election reform. Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund, is in the middle of a yearslong effort to support ballot initiatives that would fundamentally alter […]
Major League Baseball’s annual awards week got underway Monday night with the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year award. The Manager of the Year award will follow Tuesday, then it will be Cy Youngs on Wednesday and Most Valuable Players on Thursday. As a reminder, these are regular season awards. There are 30 votes per […]
Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — The foreign ministries of Germany and Finland said Monday that they were “deeply concerned” by the severing of an undersea cable connecting the two countries across the Baltic Sea — one of two Baltic Sea connections suddenly damaged in recent days. Finnish company Cinia reported a “fault […]
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (LINCOLN, NE) — Dan Osborn, a former union president and Navy veteran who ran an unusually competitive U.S. Senate campaign in deep-red Nebraska as an independent, is launching a new political action committee meant to help working class candidates like himself run for office. “At least the idea […]
Justin Lane – Pool/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to propose the next steps in Donald Trump’s New York hush money case Tuesday after the “unprecedented circumstances” of the former president’s election following his conviction on 34 felony counts earlier this year. Trump’s sentencing in the criminal case is […]
ARLINGTON, Texas — The roof is literally falling on the Dallas Cowboys. A piece of the AT&T Stadium roof fell onto the field prior to the Cowboys’ Monday night showdown against the Houston Texans that ended in a 34-10 defeat. Specifically, a large piece of metal fell from the ceiling roughly two hours prior to kickoff […]
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is pictured on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 24, 2024. (Maxim Shemetov via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists that new changes to Russia’s nuclear weapons doctrine signed by President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday mean “the use of Western non-nuclear rockets […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATIONBulls 122, Pistons 11276ers 89, Heat 106Wizards 106, Knicks 134Pacers 119, Raptors 130Rockets 100, Bucks 101Magic 109, Suns 99Hawks 109, Kings 108Warriors 99, Clippers 102 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEBlue Jackets 5, Bruins 1Avalanche 3, Flyers 2Oilers 0, Canadiens 3Ducks 4, Stars 2Capitals […]
USATSI Back in their heyday, the Golden State Warriors were never out of a game. They seemingly dug 20-point holes on purpose just for the fun of shooting their way out of them. They’re not the same team anymore, but as long as you have Stephen Curry, the threat of pulling off the impossible will […]
Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, SC) — With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the Low Country facility has come under intense scrutiny. Animal rights groups have cited the company’s history of violations and previous monkey breakouts; a […]
