The new University of Austin in Texas, which is set to open its first campus in Dallas in the near future, has begun offering a summer program made up of what the school calls “Forbidden Courses,” which opened last summer to rave reviews from students. The program, which the University[Read More…]

In spite of a bill making its way through Congress to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, 48 of the 50 US states will once again reset their clocks on March 12 and lose an hour. The “Sunshine Protection Act,” introduced by Florida Senator Marco Rubio in 2022, aims to make[Read More…]

Texas news station KTAB-TV reported that A third-grader at Rising Star Elementary School found a gun left by the school’s superintendent Robby Stuteville in a restroom stall last month. Both the Superintendent and the school principal open carry their firearms.  Stuteville confirmed that he had removed his firearm while using the restroom.  Stuteville[Read More…]

United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg penned a letter to the railroad company responsible for the disastrous and toxic freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month, urging the company to make residents whole as swiftly as possible, and clean up its act. In the strongly-worded Sunday[Read More…]

The United States Forest Service announced this week that it will begin culling 150 feral cattle currently roaming the Gila National Forest in New Mexico this week in order to protect the wilderness and visitors to the forest. According to the Thursday announcement from the Gila National Forest, “These feral[Read More…]

Former United States president Jimmy Carter has opted to enter hospice care at his home in Georgia at the age of 98. According to an announcement from The Carter Center, the 39th US president elected to begin hospice care at his longtime home in Plains, Georgia, today. “After a series[Read More…]

Florida lawmakers are considering making a change to the way high schoolers in the state are tested for academic aptitude by doing away with the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and replacing it with the Classic Learning Test.  In response to a public scuffle with the College Board over an Advanced[Read More…]

The United States announced on Friday it was ending the search and recovery for two unidentified flying objects that were shot down over Lake Huron and Alaska last week following an incident with a Chinese spy balloon that entered US airspace days prior. The US Northern Command released a statement[Read More…]

A sanitation company paid the Department of Labor a $1.5 million fine this week after it was discovered the company employed children aged 13 to 17 to do dangerous jobs in meat packing plants across eight states. The shocking DoL investigation revealed that Packers Sanitation Services hired at least 102[Read More…]

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, made headlines again this week when her legal team went to court to ask a Florida judge to dismiss a $75,000 defamation lawsuit filed by Markle’s half-sister, Samantha, claiming the suit is “offensive and inappropriate.” Samantha Markle is seeking about $75k in damages after,[Read More…]