MILWAUKEE (AP) — Extremely cold, record-breaking temperatures are settling across parts of the Midwest after a powerful snowstorm pounded the region overnight Monday, and forecasters are describing the subzero weather on the way as potentially life-threatening. Minneapolis Public Schools announced there would be no classes through Wednesday, when the region will experience frigidly low temperatures […]
By April Simpson Cellphone companies often boast about how much of the country they cover. But with billions of federal dollars at stake to expand mobile broadband in rural America, state officials and other groups across 37 states say those claims aren’t always true. The challenge is proving the carriers wrong. In Vermont, that meant […]
A black student is suing her former Kansas high school district and its staff on the grounds that she was racially discriminated against as a member of the school’s dance team, with staff telling her she couldn’t participate in a performance because of her skin color. Camille Sturdivant, who graduated in May 2018, claims she was […]
A viral photo of inmates shoveling snow outside a Chicago jail sparked social media outrage this week as the city deals with record-breaking low temperatures that have already killed people. “La Villita, Chicago,” a Facebook page for the city’s Little Village neighborhood, posted a photo Monday that appears to have originated from Snapchat. The photo […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A 4-year-old boy in a Washington state apartment found a loaded gun under a mattress and used it to shoot his pregnant mother in the face, authorities said Sunday. The 27-year-old woman and her boyfriend were watching television in bed Saturday when their son found the gun between the mattress and box […]
At some point this year, the last American soldiers will return home from Syria per President Donald Trump’s snap decision to end the U.S. mission there against the Islamic State. Their partners in arms ― a Kurdish-led coalition of tens of thousands of Syrians who used support from American airstrikes, intelligence and training to decimate […]
The Transportation Security Administration said Friday that 7.6 percent of its employees took “unscheduled absences” on Thursday instead of working without pay, as the partial government shutdown neared its sixth week. The absence rate was down slightly from the 10 percent figure on Sunday, but still much higher than the 3 percent rate from the […]
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert didn’t pull his punches during a booze-soaked interview with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Christie, making the rounds to promote his new book about President Donald Trump, left office mired in scandals and at one point had an approval rating of just 15 percent. Yet when asked over shots […]
David Callisch, a landlord of a 425-square-foot studio apartment in San Jose, California, thinks his two tenants, Louise and Tina, are pretty ideal. “They don’t drink. They don’t smoke. They don’t play loud music,” Callisch told Bay Area news channel ABC7. Plus, they pay their $1,500-a-month rent on time. Or rather, someone else pays their […]
In a heated round of negotiations over his demands for $5.7 billion to build a border wall, President Donald Trump allegedly berated acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as he tried to work a deal. According to Axios, which broke the story Sunday citing sources present at the Jan. 4 meeting in the White House […]