A bear roaming the runway forced a Japanese airport to cancel flights on Thursday and declare itself off-limits to passengers for the day. The black bear appeared at northern Japan’s Yamagata Airport, immediately prompting the closure of its runway. The bear, which was about four feet tall, was first spotted …
Read More »Fact check: Gov. Walz’s appointment of Minnesota lawmaker shootings suspect to advisory board
Vance Boelter, 57, is in the Sherburne County Jail on Tuesday in Elk River, Minnesota, facing several federal and state charges for the shootings that killed a state representative and her husband, and wounded a state senator and his wife. Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, …
Read More »How is Jim Gaffigan as a father? Hear it from one of his kids
You know how Jim Gaffigan is forever complaining about his kids? On this Father’s Day, it seems only right that we give one of his offspring equal time. Hi, I’m Patrick Gaffigan. We are giving my dad the day off this Sunday. Not that whatever he does on this show …
Read More »Planned PBS, NPR cuts would overwhelmingly hit outlets in states Trump won, report finds
The looming federal funding cuts to public television and radio would overwhelmingly gut outlets in states won by President Trump in 2024, according to a new congressional report. Approximately 60% of the hundreds of radio and television stations that could suffer funding cuts are in Trump-won states, according to a …
Read More »RFK Jr. taps allies and COVID vaccine critics among picks for CDC advisory panel. Here’s who’s on the list.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday he’s naming eight new advisers to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine recommendations committee, after firing the committee’s entire previous roster of 17 advisers. “All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and …
Read More »Parents are authorizing their young kids, including toddlers, on credit and debit cards. Here’s why.
A survey from LendingTree shows about one-in-four parents have authorized a child under the age of 18 on their credit or debit card in an effort to give their kids a head start on establishing their credit rating. While Shannon Ho plays pretend shopping with her daughters — Aria, 2, and Gemma, 1 …
Read More »Trump says he’s restoring the original Confederate names of these Army bases — but with new namesakes
President Trump announced Tuesday that he will restore several more Army base names that originally honored Confederate military figures, undoing a renaming process ordered by Congress and completed under President Biden— though the bases will officially recognize other service members, not Confederates, going forward. “We won a lot of battles out of …
Read More »Runaway zebra named Ed caught after a week on the run in Tennessee
A runaway pet zebra that was on the loose for more than a week in Tennessee was captured on Sunday, his owners and authorities said. Ed the zebra, who became an internet sensation, was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in …
Read More »Israel intercepts aid boat bound for Gaza with Greta Thunberg, other activists on board
An aid boat bound for Gaza carrying environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg and other activists was intercepted by Israeli forces and arrived at an Israeli port on Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said. The boat, accompanied by Israel’s navy, arrived in Ashdod in the evening, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry. It published a …
Read More »“Narco subs” trafficking cocaine targeted in latest U.S. sanction
Six accused drug traffickers allegedly using boats and “narco subs” to traffic cocaine were hit with U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Thursday. Four Guyanese nationals — Paul Daby Jr., Randolph Duncan, Mark Cromwell, Himnauth Sawh — and two Colombians — Yeison Andres …
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