Just one day after President Donald Trump told non-Americans to stay out of the country, the Republican mayor of America’s largest border city sent a completely opposite message. On Monday, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced a 5-year plan to make the city more welcoming to immigrants. “Immigrants from around the globe help define our city. […]
By April Simpson Mississippi lawmakers are setting out to change a 77-year-old law that prevents some of their electric service providers from offering broadband services and taking advantage of federal money to improve rural residents’ access to high-speed Internet. The House Public Utilities Committee approved a bill on Monday that would give electric cooperatives, nonprofits […]
Federal prosecutors have accused former Minnesota charity workers and their friends of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars originally set aside to help the homeless. The heartless scam could have bilked Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis of $750,000, the nonprofit said in a statement ― money that state and local governments had given the charity for […]
Fatima Ali, the “fan favorite” of last season’s “Top Chef” reality show on Bravo, died on Friday, months after announcing a terminal cancer diagnosis, the network announced. She was 29. Ali came in seventh in Season 15 of the TV show but was named “fan favorite” by viewers who were won over by her “unique, […]
Active duty members of the U.S. Coast Guard did not receive their first paychecks of the year, thanks to the ongoing government shutdown, but they could have access to a recent donation of $15 million, the head of the Coast Guard announced Tuesday. Tuesday may mark the first time in the history of the U.S. […]
UPDATE: 8:35 a.m. ― Apple reportedly has disabled the Group FaceTime feature as a temporary fix until a software update is released later this week. PREVIOUSLY: iPhone users have been urged to disable FaceTime after a bug was discovered that allows callers to listen in and see through front-facing cameras ― even if the person they’re […]
Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon became the first major international diplomat to throw his weight behind the so-called Green New Deal, a nascent effort by left-wing Democrats to zero out planet-warming emissions and end poverty over the next decade. In an interview with HuffPost, Ban ― now the co-chair of the newly launched Global Commission […]
Les Moonves isn’t gone yet. Months after his ouster from CBS, the ex-CEO has started a company in West Hollywood and his old workplace is footing the bill, according to The New York Times. On Friday, The Times reported that the former executive had set up shop at 9000 Sunset Boulevard with a business called […]
Midwesterners may be stuck inside this week, but if Twitter is any indication, some are finding ways to have an (Arctic) blast. On Wednesday, a few videos popped up on the social media platform that feature people venturing outside (or to their front doors) and throwing pots, pans and cups of boiling water into the […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow examined the possible consequences of a report in The Washington Post that claimed President Donald Trump had seized his interpreter’s notes following a 2017 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday night, the “Rachel Maddow Show” host said there was “no reason” to suggest that Putin had done the same, which meant that […]