A mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Dallin, moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School. In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar"and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child"she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity: collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more. Read more
Hundreds of thousands of downloads push usage to 50 times its normal rate as users embrace the brand's decision to keep familiar lake and gulf names LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapQuest, the original internet mapping service, is the No. 1 Navigation app and the No. 8 overall free app in the U.S. Apple App Store, and the No. 2 overall free app in the Canada Apple App Store, as of 7 p.m. PDT on August 30. It is the highest chart position in the brand's 30-year history. Hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded the MapQuest apps since Thursday, and usage is running roughly 50 times its normal rate. Read more
In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump wrote: Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be "hotter" than ever before! Read more
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has 148 "open allegations" of agent misconduct and potential criminal wrongdoing, including sexual assault, bribery and drug smuggling, from the last three years, internal records obtained by Newsweek show.
Marcus Coleman, the father of a California girl permanently disabled by an illegal immigrant, blasts sanctuary city policies at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday. Coleman's daughter, Dalilah, suffered a fractured skull, broken femur, and traumatic brain injury in the 2024 California crash after an 18-wheeler driven by an illegal immigrant crashed into the vehicle she was in. At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing, Coleman told Democratic members of Congress that he "rejects their sympathy."
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war.
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In this episode, I ride to Harbin, a large city in China. Nowadays, it's a cool city with lots to see and to do, but on the outskirts of the city lies a dark place that should not be forgotten.
Republicans have been facing a problem with voters over high gasoline prices for months " but the economic pain from near-record diesel fuel prices looks set to hit at the worst possible time for them. The war in Iran, disruptions in Russian production and refining bottlenecks have sent the price of diesel fuel rising faster than that of gasoline or crude oil, and it's now grinding toward an all-time record just two months ahead of the midterms. That matters for Republicans in particular because diesel prices hit first " and hardest " in rural areas and affect blue-collar businesses like farming and trucking before spreading to suburban dinner tables and the rest of the economy.
MAGA Rep. Nancy Mace hurled an expletive Tuesday as she learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bragged on live TV that he manipulated Donald Trump into attacking Iran. Viewers were left gasping as Netanyahu revealed he ran an "influence" campaign he claimed helped drag America into the widely unpopular war " that has now been going on for six months, has killed an estimated 18 Americans and left Trump's popularity ratings plummeting. Facing grim poll numbers ahead of October elections, Netanyahu sat down with Israeli network Channel 14 Sunday to make his case to voters. Speaking in Hebrew, he described decades of opposition to Iran and claimed it eventually paid off. "I've been against Iran for almost 40 years ... it took a long time to bring the United States to its senses," Netanyahu said in Hebrew, according to Zeteo's Prem Thakker.
Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles... I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
A House Intelligence Committee report warns artificial intelligence could become the same kind of blind spot that led to the September 11 attacks. The report cites testimony from Benjamin Buchanan, a Johns Hopkins professor and former White House Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence on the National Security Council, who compared AI to the 9/11 Commission's original finding that the attacks stemmed from a "failure of imagination."
Could a scientist intervene in a brain experiment on the other side of the world without leaving their desk? Researchers have now demonstrated that possibility by sending commands from Chicago to a wireless brain implant in Daejeon, South Korea, 10,596 kilometers (6,584 miles) away
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) names Epstein co-conspirators on House floor, discusses Epstein Files
The standard explanation for why rain causes corrosion is that water carries dissolved salts and acids to a surface, constant drumming of raindrops abrades whatever protective coating is on it, and oxygen does the rest. Nearly all our tools to prevent this -- paints, polymer films, or oxide layers -- are built around this idea. But we've apparently been missing something important about the rain.
A senior prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James' office has accused his superiors of wasting taxpayer money by targeting President Donald Trump and his allies without legitimate investigative grounds, according to the New York Post. Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld made the allegations in a weekend email sent to roughly 2,000 employees in James' office, arguing that its resources were being used to pursue "convenient public enemies" instead of crimes affecting New Yorkers.
