More than one million acres have already burned in California as of Aug. 14, Cal Fire reports. California’s scorched earth totals nearly one quarter of all the acres of land that have burned nationally this year, about 3.9 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The Dixie Fire,...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at a press conference at the Capitol in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2021. (Montinique Monroe/Getty Images) The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday granted an emergency stay to Gov. Greg Abbott over his ban on mask mandates. It overrides lower court rulings that allowed Dallas...
Americans didn’t hear much about inflation during the previous administration because prices for food and commodities weren’t out of sync with rising wages that all demographics enjoyed under President Donald Trump’s kick-butt economy. His policies were in balance. The government wasn’t spending an inordinate amount of money relative to what the...
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez California Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off his fight to keep his job in San Francisco on Friday night and fell back on the old, established Democratic attack strategy of trying to paint his leading adversary, Larry Elder, as “more to the right” than Donald Trump. Elder...
Gavin Newsom (Santiago Mejia / San Francisco Chronicle via Associated Press, Pool) A CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday shows 48% of likely California voters favoring a recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and 52% opposed to his removal — a result within the poll’s 4% margin of error. The poll...
Throughout the night and today U.S. personnel were evacuated from the embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. flag has been removed. The airport in Kabul is no longer safe and flights have been suspended. Afghanistan President Ghani has fled the country. The Taliban are on the streets of Kabul as...