This school district’s plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks. One schools superintendent has a novel way to keep his students safe from school shooters: arming them with rocks. David Helsel, superintendent of a school district in northeast Pennsylvania, explained his plan to a legislative education […]
Latest US News
March for Our Lives: Hundreds of thousands expected to rally across U.S. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets Saturday for March for Our Lives events across the U.S. — the biggest set to happen in Washington, D.C. Busload after busload has filled the nation’s […]
Trump issues order supporting ban on many transgender troops, defers to Pentagon on new restrictions President Trump issued an order late Friday that supports a ban on many transgender troops, deferring to a new Pentagon plan that essentially cancels a policy adopted by the Obama administration. The decision revokes a […]
Indictment: Waterslide in fatal accident in Kansas was “deadly weapon” A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world’s highest was a “deadly weapon” that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday that […]
U.K. Investigators Raid Cambridge Analytica Offices In London Investigators with Britain’s information commissioner searched the London headquarters of Cambridge Analytica on Friday amid reports that the firm harvested the personal data of millions of Facebook users as part of a campaign to influence the U.S. 2016 presidential elections. The move […]
Mexico Airport Raises $1.6 Billion The group behind Mexico City’s new airport raised $1.6 billion in an initial public offering of Fibra E shares Friday, providing another buffer against threats to shut the endeavor down. Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de Mexico, or GACM, sold 300 million of the securities […]
Half my family is gone’: Mom mourns Iowa family found dead at Mexico resort The only place here large enough to hold the shock and grief engulfing this town will be Southwestern Community College, perhaps in the gymnasium. That’s where mourners will gather for the funeral of a local family […]
The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought Between California and Hawaii, there’s a teeming patch of garbage that’s stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. We already knew it was huge. There’s a reason it’s called the “Great Pacific Garbage […]
Tillerson bids farewell to a ‘mean-spirited town’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appealed to State Department employees on Thursday to maintain their integrity and to be kind in a “mean-spirited town” as he bid farewell to the staff he led for barely a year. Tillerson urged a few hundred employees […]
Protest over fatal police shooting delays NBA game in Sacramento Hundreds of protesters formed a human chain across the entrance to a sports arena in downtown Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday evening, in reaction to Sunday’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. The protesters chanted, “Don’t shoot, it’s a […]
