Tensions are rising between turtle rescue organizations and the Florida Wildlife Commission that oversees their work – so much so that the unpaid volunteers may soon be banned from helping to save the reptiles. Every year between March and October, multiple species of sea turtles, mainly loggerheads, swim up to […]
Missouri’s Long Fight Over Voting Rules Is Now Part Of A Larger National Battle
The same day last month that Georgia’s legislature passed a controversial new voting bill, Missouri’s Republican-led House approved one of its own. It would impose strict photo ID and other requirements on voting. Both bills are part of a wave of measures proposed across the country after the 2020 elections, […]
Biden set to approve wind farm in Martha’s Vineyard after 20 year battle with rich residents
The venture, which is being jointly run by two European energy firms, will produce enough electricity to power about 400,000 homes by 2023. The $2.8 billion project was given the green light in a final environmental review by the US Interior Department on Monday. Announcing the review, Laura Daniel Davis […]
Senate sets hearing dates for Becerra confirmation battle
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! BECERRA CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: IT’S ON Democratic senators have finally scheduled a hearing for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s nomination to be Health and Human Services Secretary – a hearing that is sure to provoke some partisan fighting. While the Senate moved quickly […]
Aledo, TX students design safety projects in battle vs. COVID
Aledo ISD maintenance worker Danny Gabbert holds up one of many doorstops he made so students and staff in the district won’t have to use their hands to open doors when going throughout the buildings. This is one of several projects, including touch-free sanitizing stations from the student engineering department, […]
Battle of iBuyers is back on | Home and Garden
MINNEAPOLIS — When Opendoor, Zillow Offers and other “iBuyers” popped up around the country a few years ago, they hoped to upend the traditional homebuying process by doing for real estate what Amazon did for online shopping by using technology to eliminate all the hassles and uncertainties of buying and […]
Other Nintendo Games That Should Get the Battle Royale Treatment
Nintendo has twice succeeded twice in making unconventional battle royales based off of existing games. Here are four more we’d like to see. The battle royale genre is over-saturated to the point of parody, but there is still space between Apex Legends and Fortnite for clever ideas. Nintendo has proven […]
A beloved teacher in Navajo Nation wore an oxygen mask for virtual classes before she lost her battle with Covid-19
“I know that she kept wanting to go home to teach. She wanted to be with the kids that she was teaching,” Phillip Belone said. “She was actually on oxygen teaching when she would have been in the hospital, but her condition got to the point where she couldn’t physically […]
Donald Trump Lost His Battle. The Culture War Goes On.
You could say that the Trump presidency effectively ended when the polls closed election night or when news outlets called the contest for Joseph R. Biden Jr. four days later. You could say that it ended when the Electoral College voted on Monday to make Mr. Biden the president, or […]
‘Super Mario Bros. 35’ is missing 1 secret ingredient, battle royale devs hint
Super Mario Bros. 35 is the unlikeliest battle royale game yet. Nintendo’s limited-time multiplayer release reimagines the classic 1985 NES platformer as a 35-player elimination game. Instead of shooting or building, players need to master the art of precise platforming and careful time management to take first place. For Nintendo […]
The Bloomingdale’s Battle for Holiday Sales
Retailers like to say they’re thinking “outside the box.” But at Bloomingdale’s this holiday, it’s moved past sound bite and into a virtual realty. Kicking off the gift-shopping season, Bloomingdale’s went online Monday with its annual holiday window unveiling with performances by singer Andra Day and American Ballet Theatre dancers […]
How virtual teachers in Battle Creek have turned homes into classrooms
CLOSE Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Jason Gilbert woke up at 5:30 a.m. Thursday and began the day in the glow of his laptop screen from his bed as he checked emails from some of his roughly 140 students. By 7 a.m. – after his daily morning smoothie – the […]
Joe Biden to take presidency as Democrats battle over future of party
CLOSE House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is happy with the results of the election despite a loss of House seats. (Nov. 6) AP Domestic WASHINGTON – Several elections across the country still hadn’t been decided when the blame game started. House Democrats were stunned by their losses after weeks of forecasting […]
Senate majority battle snags Biden Cabinet hopefuls
A razor-tight Senate margin is complicating President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenBrewery launches new Biden beer described as ‘inoffensive and not too bitter’ Deb Haaland says ‘of course’ she would serve as Interior secretary under Biden State Department won’t give Biden messages from foreign leaders: report MORE‘s strategy for filling his Cabinet […]
Trump golfs as Biden gears up to battle virus | Letters
President Donald Trump finally got something right about COVID-19: We have turned the corner. Unfortunately it’s the wrong corner; the corner to more illness, to more deaths. But, there is hope. America finally has a leader who actually cares and is doing something about COVID-19. Of course, it’s not Trump, it’s […]
Battle Creek music studio amplifies voices as multimedia hub
Battle Creek — The exterior has signage for the Kendall Electric Inc., a couple of campaign yard signs and a black mailbox reading “131 Studios.” Co-owners Trenel Tatum and Derrick Freeman are photographed at 131 Collective Studios on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 in Battle Creek, Mich. Travon Tatum, with older […]
Using CBD Oils To Battle Anxiety & Depression During COVID-19
In partnership with The Fresh Toast Suffering from anxiety is natural, especially in times like these where a global pandemic has taken the world by storm The constant and ongoing stressful atmosphere causes serious damage to your body. Apart from that, it destroys your ability to think, focus, and stay calm. […]
India’s e-commerce battle: Flipkart and Amazon compete for record festive sales
But this year is particularly important as the world reels from economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of Indian shoppers are still wary of venturing into physical stores, and Meena expects online sales to grow more than 34% to $6.5 billion this year. “This is the time when […]
The #FreeBritney Campaign Advocating for Britney Spears Is a Complex Decade-Long Legal Battle
Photo credit: Esquire From Esquire In the past few months or so, Britney Spears’ Instagram has piqued the interest of armchair psychologists, Britney stans, and the pop culture curious alike. Her 25 million followers are obsessed with potential coded messages communicated through colors and flowers, the bizarre story of how […]
In the work-from-home battle for space, women are the reluctant nomads
Ward Cleaver of the popular sitcom ‘Leave It to Beaver’ in his study. Universal Pictures It’s just past 10 a.m. and my partner, on his third virtual meeting today, is working non-stop in our home office. My son has taken over the family room to attend a virtual science camp […]