1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (531+ words) The testimony from Anthea M. Hartig came as President Donald Trump has engaged in a broad national effort to reshape the stories of America told by cultural institutions controlled or influenced by the federal government and, in particular, to purge diversity,…...

6+ hour, 25+ min ago   (659+ words) Pull into the small town of Luverne and the figure — a nearly 66-foot (20-meter) tall nutcracker, decked out like Uncle Sam — comes into full view. Luverne, which thanks to a local collector claims to have more of the decorative figurines…...

10+ hour, 34+ min ago   (588+ words) A U.S. soldier killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone was a 30-year-old father from North Carolina who had served for nearly a decade, according to a military statement Tuesday and his family. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton,…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (718+ words) Smart, 58, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry. The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence. Though Smart denied…...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago   (418+ words) A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow more time for Biden to consider another appeal. The panel’s 2-1 ruling late Monday found there is a “substantial…...

3+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1606+ words) The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya. It’s proposing to allocate nearly $41 million to restore America’s formal diplomatic presence in the North African nation. The effort…...

5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (269+ words) KRQE [1] Family of murder victim in Santa Fe say potential sentence for killer is not enough - In October 2022, Kiara McCulley stabbed 21-year-old Grace Jennings with a long sword 27 times Her boyfriend, Isaac Apodaca encouraged McCulley to commit the murder to…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (760+ words) Burnham told his top team that he would lead a “cost-of-living government” focused on easing the economic burden felt by millions of people. “We need to think every day, what can we do just to take that little bit of…...

8+ hour, 31+ min ago   (805+ words) There are a lot of things that could have gone wrong during this summer’s World Cup — a complicated logistical undertaking that included three host nations, 16 stadiums, 48 teams, 104 games and endless opportunities for controversy on and off the soccer field. But…...

9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (323+ words) Tobias Korenke, a great-nephew of Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, attempted to remove the wreath from the parliamentary group of Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at Monday’s event at the site where the main plotters were executed, German news…...