Residents of Lexington, Nebraska are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would be shutting down operations early next year. read more
The Nebraska Republican is not running for reelection and has long been a critic of Trump's treatment of Ukraine and relationship with Russia. read more
On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate. For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. They'd culled USAID's staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank. There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field. read more
Measles is spreading to more people and more parts of Utah since an initial outbreak on the Arizona border, with 115 people diagnosed statewide and recent cases confirmed in Davis, Salt Lake and Wasatch counties, the state's top public health officer said Thursday. "We haven't had that many measles cases in Utah for over 30 years," state epidemiologist Leisha Nolen told reporters Thursday. "So this is very extreme, and it's really concerning. But also of concern to us is the fact that we're now seeing measles in more parts of the state." Nolen noted the virus can hang in the air for two hours. She and Salt Lake County Health Department Executive Director Dorothy Adams said they're especially concerned about the danger it poses to babies too young to be vaccinated, who may be exposed to measles in waiting rooms in clinics and hospitals.
Police will release a man detained in connection with yesterday's deadly shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in an embarrassing twist for FBI director Kash Patel. The decision was confirmed in a late-night press conference including Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, who said evidence in the case "now points in a different direction." FBI Director Kash Patel had previously posted about tracking the person of interest down, claiming on X that the FBI's Cellular Analysis Survey Team had used "critical geolocation capabilities" to detain the man in a hotel room in Coventry.
Putin's rotting DNA receptacle is a national embarrassment.