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Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — In the wake of the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, engineering and infrastructure policy experts explained the critical need for bridge reform in the United States and an international standard for large cargo ships. The Key Bridge partially collapsed early Tuesday morning after a massive cargo ship collided with […]
Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, recently elected Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, said in a new interview that the national party doesn’t plan to pay his ongoing legal bills and maintained that donors could opt-out of contributing funds for that if they want to. Lara Trump also […]
Lincoln University (OXFORD, Pa.) — Lincoln University’s alumni association has issued a statement of “no confidence” in the HBCU’s Board of Curators after it reinstated President John Moseley, who was on paid, administrative leave while under investigation following the suicide of a school administrator. University alum and vice president of student affairs Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The same storm system that brought flooding and hail to Georgia and Florida — and heavy snow to the Upper Midwest — is moving east on Wednesday. Hail the size of pingpong balls was reported from Florida’s Panhandle to southern Georgia Tuesday while 20 to 40 inches of snow fell […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s partial collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday, “Rebuilding will not be quick or easy or cheap,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “But we will get it done,” he told reporters at a White House press briefing on Wednesday. […]
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — In the wake of the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, engineering and infrastructure policy experts explained the critical need for bridge reform in the United States and an international standard for large cargo ships. The Key Bridge partially collapsed early Tuesday morning after a massive cargo ship collided […]
Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — Six construction workers are presumed dead after a cargo ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, sending the workers into the water. Eight workers were fixing potholes on the span when the ship hit the bridge around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The workers plunged into the frigid water, and two were rescued, […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Advocates in as many as 14 states hope to get measures related to reproductive rights and abortion access on the 2024 general election ballot during a presidential election year, and as abortion access remains a major flash point in the United States, including at the Supreme Court. It’s not the […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (ROCKFORD, Ill.) — An adult male allegedly stabbed multiple victims in the Rockford, Illinois area on Wednesday, leaving four people dead, one in critical condition and four others in stable condition, authorities said in a press conference Wednesday. Rockford police say the suspect is in custody and there is no known motive […]
Alex Slitz/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed to bring former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case to trial in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arguing that her office has fully complied with a congressional subpoena related to a federal funding probe. “[N]othing that […]