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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner is urging President Biden to declassify information related to a “serious national security threat.”  “Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat,” Turner, R-Ohio, said in a statement Wednesday. “I am requesting that President … Read more

A Georgia bill would require private schools to get parental permission before any instruction related to gender identity or queer theory.

Vice President Kamala Harris said she’s ready to step in as president amid growing concerns over President Biden’s age and mental acuity, prompting scorn from Republican lawmakers and support from her fellow Democrats. “She’s vice president of the United States,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said when asked if Harris was ready to serve as president. “She … Read more

Post is credited as part of the Kellogg team to develop a pastry for the breakfast market and enclosing it in foil to keep it fresh William “Bill” Post, a key figure in the creation of Pop Tarts, the pre-cooked, frosted Kellogg toaster pastries, has died at 96. Post is credited as part of the … Read more

Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe On a recent morning in the southern Louisiana town of Bourg, Cynthia Owens reviewed flashcards with her kindergarten class. She held up an image of a crocodile. “Caïman”, she said, using … Read more

We would like to speak to teachers as unions call for the site to be shut down Teachers’ unions in Indiana are calling for the state attorney general to take down a site that asks parents to report “potentially inappropriate materials” in classrooms. The launch of the Eyes on Education site last week follows a … Read more

The White House touted New York Democrat Tom Suozzi’s victory over Republican Mazi Pilip as a “devastating repudiation” of former President Trump and Republicans in Congress on Wednesday. Suozzi defeated Pilip in a special election to replace disgraced former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. White House spokesman Andrew Bates highlighted Suozzi’s support for the bipartisan border … Read more

The homeland security secretary is the first cabinet official since 1876 to be impeached but the case against is so flimsy a trial is not a given In 1876, the last US cabinet official to be impeached, William Belknap, resigned before the House could vote on the matter. Ulysses S Grant’s secretary of war was … Read more

Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action is not taken in the coming decades, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Voters in west Georgia chose a former state House member as their new state senator on Tuesday, while a race in a state House seat near Augusta is headed for a March 12 runoff. In state Senate District 30, Republican Tim Bearden of Carrollton won the majority of votes, according to final unofficial results. Four … Read more