• WBRZ

    Saturday PM Forecast: Clouds continue to build, storm chances follow

    Cloud cover continues to build through the remainder of the weekend, spilling over into next week. Storm chances also climb, with our most impactful weather day arriving closer to midweek.Tonight & Tomorrow: High clouds made their presence known on Saturday. More high clouds envelop the region on Saturday night. Closer to daybreak, we might see low cloud formation also. Temperatures turn even milder into Sunday morning, with a low in the lower-60s. Skies will be mostly cloudy on Sunday, and a...

  • Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties?

    Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties? Less than half of OECD countries ban anonymous donations for political financing, according to data published in the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2024 released by the OECD. The report argues that this leaves these countries “exposed to undue influence.” The following chart, from Statista's Anna Fleck, shows which countries have enforced regulations on the complete ban of financial contributions from anonymous...

  • Investigation continues into deadly shooting at Blue Springs park

    Detectives with the Blue Springs Police Department continue to investigate a deadly shooting that happened just after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday near the sand volleyball courts at Wilbur Young Park.

  • THE POUNCING CONTINUES: Networks Hype Arizona Abortion Politics

    The network evening newscasts continue to feast on coverage of the potential political fallout over an Arizona Supreme Court ruling ratifying an 1864 territorial statute that bans abortion in all instances except to save the life of the mother. Understandably so, as newscast time spent hyping abortions in Arizona is less time available to cover the types of things adverse to Democrats generally, and to the Biden presidency, specifically. Watch as NBC’s Hallie Jackson gives the game away: ...

  • THE POUNCING CONTINUES: Networks Hype Arizona Abortion Politics

    The network evening newscasts continue to feast on coverage of the potential political fallout over an Arizona Supreme Court ruling ratifying an 1864 territorial statute that bans abortion in all instances except to save the life of the mother. Understandably so, as newscast time spent hyping abortions in Arizona is less time available to cover the types of things adverse to Democrats generally, and to the Biden presidency, specifically. Watch as NBC’s Hallie Jackson gives the game away: ...

    • WDTN

    One dead following train strike in Tipp City

    TIPP CITY, Ohio (WDTN) -- A woman is dead after being struck by a train Monday night. A police report from the Tipp City Police Department states that crews responded to a call from dispatch that said, "a female was struck by a train." The incident occurred at the West Walnut Street train crossing around []

  • China's festival for the dead gives political focus to the living

    Reports emerge of police patrols in locations that laid flowers for late premier Li Keqiang last year.

    • WBRZ

    Thursday PM Forecast: warmth continues until weekend cold front

    Stubborn clouds have kept high temperatures a few degrees lower than expected the last two afternoons. If sunshine can sneak out on Friday, thermometers will make a big bounce into the upper 80s. The chance for rain returns over the weekend.Tonight & Tomorrow: Clouds have started breaking apart west of the Capital Area and those gaps will start to emerge locally overnight. As a result of partial clearing and a slight dip in humidity, low temperatures will sneak into the upper 60s. The forecast...

  • Dead Last (With an Emphasis on Dead!)

    Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or “medicane.” Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn’t get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four More

  • When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow

    'The ambient presence of journalism and true information in our feeds, the signals of reliability that were there, that's gone,' Taylor Owen, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, says

  • When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow

    Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page. Our numbers are growing and we're reaching more and more people every day, said Ballingall, who publishes up to 10 posts a day and has some 540,000 followers. Media is just going to get more tribal and more niche, he added. This is just igniting it further. Canada has become ground...

  • Sudan conflict: A front-row seat to my country falling apart

    Zeinab Mohammed Salih reflects on what has happened to Sudan since fighting broke out a year ago.