Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina at about 7:30 on Friday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Even well away from the center you can get some of these winds,” NHC Director Ken Graham warned in a live update posted on Facebook. “Let’s […]
Sen. Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillLobbying world Dem candidate has Hawley served subpoena at CPAC Annual scorecard ranks GOP environmental efforts far below Dems in 2018 MORE (D) and state Attorney General Josh Hawley (R) coasted to victory in their respective primaries in Missouri on Tuesday night, setting up a contentious battle for McCaskill’s Senate seat in […]
A mayor in upstate New York is rejecting calls for him to resign over his social media post that described Democratic voters as “retarded.” Denis Langlois, mayor of Fort Ann, told local news outlet The Post Star in an interview Monday that he will not step down and plans to run for reelection. “I’m not […]
Democratic students at two Michigan universities announced Friday that they have filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Ruth Johnson (R), arguing the state’s voting laws discriminate against young voters. College Democrats at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University as well as the Michigan Federation of College Democrats are challenging state laws that require a voter’s residence to match […]
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday signed a package of legislation that will take powers away from his Democratic successor and the state’s incoming Democratic attorney general. Walker signed legislation that would limit the next governor’s authority to withdraw the state from a lawsuit challenging ObamaCare. Another bill gives the legislature control of the […]
Authorities on Sunday said 228 people are unaccounted for in Northern California following a devastating wildfire, raising the number of missing people by more than 100 since Saturday. The wildfire, dubbed the Camp Fire, began Thursday and had officially killed 29 people by Sunday, with that number expected to rise, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said at a […]
A Milwaukee police officer who was one of the men on the scene of Milwaukee Bucks star Sterling Brown’s arrest in January has been fired for sending text messages about the incident deemed to be racist. Milwaukee’s police chief told CNN on Friday that Erik Andrade, the fired officer, was one of eight who responded to the incident […]
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Sunday he believes the science surrounding the deadly wildfires that have ravaged California in recent years will become so evident that climate skeptics will become believers in the less than five years. “The last five years, the fires have never been this bad. This fire in Malibu is the […]
Democrat Frank Scott on Tuesday was elected mayor of Little Rock, Ark., becoming the first African-American to be elected mayor in the city’s history. Scott defeated Republican Baker Kurrus in a runoff election, winning about 58 percent of the vote, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Scott and Kurrus had each advanced to the runoff election from the […]
At least five people are confirmed dead in a Northern California wildfire that began Thursday, according to state officials. Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection told reporters that the blaze grew so quickly that firefighters almost immediately shifted from prevention to evacuation. “There was really no firefight involved,” he said. “These firefighters […]