This congresswoman was born and raised in Ukraine. She just voted against aid for her homeland U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz is the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress. In the first days of the war, she emerged as a natural voice for Ukraine. But she recently voted against sending $61 ... 05/1/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
UW System President praises UW-Madison for taking action: Live updates Encampments continued for the third day as students at University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee called for cutting university ties to Israel and for peace in Gaza. 05/1/2024 - 9:15 am | View Link
Candidates talk teacher retention, property tax in pair of Mandan School Board debates Candidates in two Mandan School Board races faced off in a pair of debates at Mandan City Hall on Monday night, with three board seats hanging in the balance in ... 04/29/2024 - 3:00 pm | View Link
Trump hush money trial day 6 highlights: David Pecker testifies, judge hears gag order arguments Merchan's apparent frustrations with Blanche just reached a boiling point. "Mr. Blanche, you’re losing all credibility with this court,” Merchan said. 04/23/2024 - 8:42 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.