A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups. On Monday, a coalition of 75 animal rights and wildlife protection organizations sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking her to scrap what they describe as a "reckless plan" to wipe out half a million barred owls in West Coast states over the next three decades. The letter, spearheaded by...
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Local government minister says the project near Gayton would cause "major visual harm".
A postal carrier was among four people killed when a man went on a stabbing rampage in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday.The attacks in Rockford on Wednesday also left seven people injured, including one in critical condition, and a 22-year-old suspect is in custody.A 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and […]
The White House is “reviewing and updating” plans for shuttering federal agencies should the Senate fail to pass legislation to avert a government shutdown over the weekend. The House passed a bill funding the government Friday morning, yet it’s unclear if the Senate will also pass it before Friday’s quickly approaching midnight deadline. White House […]
The Department of Transport has published its Future of Flight Action Plan.
A 46-year-old man who stabbed his wife and three children to death early Sunday in Manoa before killing himself did it to escape crushing debt, according to the preliminary findings of a Honolulu Police Department investigation.
Thousands of Slovaks rallied in the capital on Friday to condemn a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to overhaul the country’s public broadcasting during a wave of anti-government protests. The protesters in Freedom Square at downtown Bratislava joined President Zuzana Čaputová, local journalists, the opposition, international media organizations, the European Commission and others who warned that the changes would result in the government’s full control of the...
The pilot project for which is being launched in 19 cities this year, with a plan to launch a full-fledged rollout next year.
Former President Donald Trump furiously defended his health care policy in a typo-ridden rant posted to his Truth Social platform Tuesday.Among other things, Trump appeared to disavow the idea that he and the Republican Party would repeal the Affordable Care Act, which was a massive point of controversy during Trump's term as president as efforts to get rid of it ended in failure.Instead, he posted, he would work to improve it — despite previously vowing that he would replace it in a second...
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump took over the Republican Party as co-chair last week — and immediately announced the shuttering of the Republican National Committee's community centers in neighborhoods of color.The GOP opened a number of centers in key swing states where they thought they could move Black and Latino voters to support Republican candidates. Another key decision was canceling a program called "Bank Your Vote," which promoted early voting and voting by mail, both of which...
Thousands Slovaks rallied in the capital on Friday to condemn a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to overhaul the country’s public broadcasting during a wave of anti-government protests.