Reservoir Hill residents seek to stop Amtrak’s West Baltimore tunnel in civil rights complaint The new Frederick Douglass Tunnel, named for the Maryland-born abolitionist who escaped slavery, is expected to primarily serve electrified Amtrak and MARC passenger trains. The complaint links the ... 05/2/2024 - 8:51 am | View Link
Amtrak requests $130 million from Congress to upgrade service before 2026 World Cup The rail service recently submitted its annual request for funding, which could impact travelers using Amtrak between World Cup host cities Seattle and Vancouver. 05/1/2024 - 5:58 pm | View Link
Amtrak rail replacement project moves into new phase Amtrak moved into phase two of its infrastructure project to replace wooded ties and rail with concrete ones along the Keystone line between Harrisburg and Lancaster.The track-laying machine and crews ... 05/1/2024 - 10:27 am | View Link
Amtrak rail replacement project begins new phase Amtrak moved into phase two of its infrastructure project to replace wooded ties and rail with concrete ones along the Keystone line between Harrisburg and Lancaster. 05/1/2024 - 10:19 am | View Link
Amtrak Harrisburg Line Track renovation enters second phase Amtrak crews say they entered the second phase of their major track repair project two weeks ahead of schedule. 05/1/2024 - 10:03 am | View Link
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
Rumours have been swirling about Cuellar for over two years, ever since the FBI raided his home in January 2022.
Cuellar maintains his and his wife's innocence and vows to fight the charges. Since he had no challengers, Cuellar will be on the ballot in November for the Democrats in TX-28.
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Rudy Giuliani was not only respected, but revered as "America's Mayor." The hero of 9/11 (which he'd tell you every other sentence). He never deserved any of it, of course.
He was always a nasty piece of work, a philanderer, racist and, frankly, an asshole who couldn't get along with anyone.
Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U. S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.
At the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
hearing—entitled "Higher Prices: How Shrinkflation and Technology Can Impact Consumers' Finances"—Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began by acknowledging that "prices today are far too high, and families are having a harder time finding a fair price, seeing more of their paycheck vanish into thin air."
"All of this is happening while corporate profits hit record highs," the senator continued.
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more