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Watchdog group says Mamdani's plans for ‘free’ NYC bus service would cost more than $900M a year
Mamdani's progressive plan to offer free bus service would saddle taxpayers with more than $900 million a year in new costs, according to a fiscal watchdog, which says the money would be better spent on reducing fares.
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Detention hearing pushed to next week for suspect in threats to President Trump
According to the federal complaint, "The defendant, did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States."
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Catholic counselor sues Oregon over $90k fine for not 'blessing' client's lesbian relationship
Supreme Court explicitly rejected the Beaver State's argument, that words alone are "professional conduct," when it stopped Colorado from punishing therapist for not affirming young clients' gender confusion, lawsuit says.
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Body found near Kentucky highway shooting site is confirmed as suspect Joseph Couch
Kentucky's Chief Medical Examiner William Ralston said the cause of Couch's death was a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. It is not clear when Couch allegedly committed suicide, but the body was in such a state of decomposition that the identity could not be confirmed through soft tissue DNA.
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Climate fiction is popular, but readers sometimes led to believe fictional portrayals are accurate
One popular title by Kim Stanley Robinson opens in 2025 with a heat wave killing 20 million people in India. For context, the average annual deaths from all natural disasters between 2010 and 2019 across the entire world, including non-climate disasters like earthquakes, was 45,311.
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Feds appeal to remove endangered species status for gray wolf
Fish and Wildlife Service hopes to reinstate a rule passed under Trump that removes protections for gray wolves in lower 48 states.
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Poll shows Harris gaining ground with voters on the economy in warning sign for Trump
“We need all economic voters voting for Trump,” former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore told Just the News. “He has to keep stressing that people are poorer… the average family is doing worse than they were four years ago.”
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App exposes worst of U.S. military housing
Founder Rob Evans created the app more than a year ago after a Congressional watchdog called attention to longstanding problems with housing for junior enlisted service members.
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Poll: Harris, Trump tied in Virginia
The Trump campaign and Virginia Republicans maintain the commonwealth is in play this election year despite Virginia not going for a GOP presidential candidate in 20 years.
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Judge declares mistrial in Madigan-linked corruption case
Mistrial marks first defeat for federal prosecutors who have been pursuing corruption charges related to Illinois House speaker.
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Midwest Teamsters unions support Harris; Trump claims majority support him
The flurry of endorsements comes after the national Teamsters union officially declined to endorse any presidential candidate, the first time in nearly 30 years.
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Mobile health clinic planned for Springfield
City officials have been asking for help in dealing with infrastructure, health care and educational system stress since July.
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Texas land commissioner slams 'crazy' Biden wind farm proposal
In July, the Biden-Harris administration announced an offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.