Glowing monolith removed from the mountains outside Las Vegas. How it got there remains a mystery

Glowing monolith removed from the mountains outside Las Vegas.  How it got there remains a mystery

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A strange monolith found protruding from rocks In a remote mountain range near Las Vegas was dismantled by authorities. How he got there remains a mystery. “It remains unclear how the object got to its location or who may be responsible,” Las Vegas police said Friday in a series of posts … Read more

Heat wave nears peak from Midwest to Maine, with millions sweating

Heat wave nears peak from Midwest to Maine, with millions sweating

SQUAM LAKE, NH (AP) – As New England cooked in a Heat wave Campground guests on Thursday kept their food and beer cold with blocks of ice harvested months earlier from a frozen lake. And although some relief is expected in the eastern Great Lakes region and New England starting Friday, the National Weather Service … Read more

Law of the Ten Commandments: Gov. Jeff Landry’s efforts to move Louisiana further to the right

Law of the Ten Commandments: Gov.  Jeff Landry’s efforts to move Louisiana further to the right

Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AP) – Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump in the last two, and the Republican Party has held a majority in the state for years. But state politics have shifted even … Read more

Freighter crew may leave US in deal to comply with investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse

Freighter crew may leave US in deal to comply with investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse

BALTIMORE (AP) — Crew members of the freighter Dali can return home as early as Thursday under an agreement that allows lawyers to question them as part of investigations into the cause of the deadly Francis Scott Bridge collapse Baltimore Key. None of the crew members have been able to leave the United States since … Read more

Juneteenth, monument dedicated in Alabama to those who endured slavery

Juneteenth, monument dedicated in Alabama to those who endured slavery

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of family names adorn the imposing monument, representing more than 4 million slaves freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, invoked Juneteenth holidays – the day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States – dedicated its National Monument to Liberty … Read more

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AP) – Louisiana has become the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms, the latest move by a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under leadership of a new governor. The legislation passed by the Republican governor. Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday requiring … Read more

Immigrant families rejoice at Biden’s expansive approach to citizenship, while some are left behind

Immigrant families rejoice at Biden’s expansive approach to citizenship, while some are left behind

HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly ambitious plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out. side. Claudia Zúniga, 35, got married in 2017, 10 years after her husband arrived in the United States. He … Read more

New Mexico wildfires: Governor declares state of emergency as thousands flee

New Mexico wildfires: Governor declares state of emergency as thousands flee

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Thousands of southern New Mexico residents fled a mountain village as a wind-driven wildfire ravaged homes and other buildings and killed at least one person . The authorities warned that the danger was not over. The governor of New Mexico. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency covering Ruidoso … Read more

Biden Calls Trump a ‘Convicted Felon’ Again at Fundraiser, Bringing His 5-Day Total to Around $40 Million

Biden Calls Trump a ‘Convicted Felon’ Again at Fundraiser, Bringing His 5-Day Total to Around  Million

McLEAN, Virginia. (AP) — President Joe Biden Donald Trump was once again called a “convicted felon” at a high-profile fundraiser on Tuesday, saying his likely opponent in the November election was leading an “all-out attack” on the US justice system. Tuesday’s event with former President Bill Clinton raised $8 million for Biden’s re-election campaign. It’s … Read more

US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Native tribes

US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Native tribes

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby … Read more