An adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office says Russian forces are attacking the Azovstal steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol. Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser MORE
“There’s the fascinating problem of trying to get the cream to distribute evenly between the two wafers, which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, MORE
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has his guns pointed at Disney World.’ On Thursday, the Florida state legislature passed a bill seeking to dissolve a special district that allows the Walt Disney Company to act as its own MORE
Wimbledon has set itself on a potential collision course with the rest of tennis after banning Russian and Belarusian players from this summer’s championships due to the scale and severity of the invasion of Ukraine. MORE
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried’s lawsuit targets a federal requirement that prohibits medical marijuana users from purchasing firearms Florida’s lone statewide elected Democrat, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, plans to sue the Biden administration Wednesday to try MORE
When the pandemic hit, things were very good for Netflix, just as things were good for all kinds of businesses that ask you to do nothing more than sit on your ass. But now Netflix is an expensive, MORE
Eighteen states, plus the District of Columbia, now permit recreational use of marijuana. Two-thirds of Americans want recreational marijuana use to be legal under federal law and in their own state. As more states move to MORE
The number of high-level officials with the virus has some concerned. Pelosi, Garland and Raimondo are the second, seventh and 10th person in the presidential order of succession behind President Joe Biden. The recent Gridiron MORE
Clad in combat gear and armed with an assault rifle, longtime MSNBC intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance revealed Monday that he had joined Ukrainian forces fighting on the ground against the Russian invasion. “I spent quite a bit of time MORE
“Dozens of politicians running for state or federal office are aligning themselves with the right-wing, conspiracy-rich, sometimes-violent movement known as QAnon. They’re drawing tens of millions of dollars in donations as the movement’s popularity stays MORE
Ten people were injured by gunfire following a shooting incident at the Columbiana Centre mall in Columbia, South Carolina, Saturday afternoon, according to police. The incident took place around 2:28 p.m., and officers responded to MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, on this good Friday, edging toward Easter, a religious holiday for some, or if you’re me, it’s a sentimental time, a time of nostalgia for the one Sunday going to church MORE
For the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is providing Kyiv with the types of high-power capabilities some Biden administration officials viewed as too much of an escalation risk a few short MORE
On Tuesday evening, former Vice President Mike Pence praised Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy, criticized President Biden and “cancel culture” and said he would tell his child, “I love you” if his son or daughter came MORE
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee was ripped on social media after suggesting that people from her state were demanding a wall on their southern border. Blackburn tweeted “Tennesseans want a wall on our southern border” on MORE
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More than 1,000 books about race, racism, LGBTQ individuals and other issues have been banned in U.S. schools over the past nine months, according to a new report. A study from PEN America, a literary MORE
Slovakia said it sent Ukraine an S-300 air defense system to defend against Russian attacks. The Soviet-era S-300 is a long-range surface-to-air missile system that can shoot down cruise missiles and aircraft. The small Eastern MORE
The extreme move comes after Texas passed a draconian anti-abortion law last year that has forced thousands of women to seek care out of state. A 26-year-old Texas woman has been arrested and charged with murder after MORE
As the staging ground for an assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, one of the most toxic places on earth, was probably not the best choice. But that did not MORE
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Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that Texas will provide charter buses to border communities so migrants can be sent to Washington, D.C., where the Biden administration can better deal with them. “To help local officials whose MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly pointed to the case of a family in the state’s Leon County to explain the need for a controversial new law, dubbed by critics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, that MORE