Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is finding himself playing the hero, after his move to stop Planned Parenthood’s funding in his state has found legal traction. Conservatives around the country rejoiced when a federal judge ruled Tuesday that Utah can cut off federal funds to the state’s Planned Parenthood organization, a… Read More
Polls: Trump running away with GOP race
The latest polls are in, and it’s looking more and more certain. Despite media backlash, billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump has mastered politics like he did business, and seems to be running away with the Republican nomination. According to the latest poll from CNN, Trump has double the support of… Read More
Weird weather across US – here’s what’s causing it
A weather pattern partly linked with El Nino has turned winter upside-down across the U.S. during a week of heavy holiday travel, bringing spring-like warmth to the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and so much snow across the West that even skiing slopes have been overwhelmed. In… Read More
Russian rocket spotted exploding over West coast
Military officials say a streak of light seen burning across the sky by people in three western states was debris from a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere. U.S. Strategic Command spokeswoman Julie Ziegenhorn says the fireball seen over Arizona, Nevada and California in the Tuesday night sky was an SL-4… Read More
Whoops! Thousands of criminals accidentally freed from jail
More than 3,000 prisoners in Washington have been mistakenly released early since 2002 because of an error by the state’s Department of Corrections that resulted in wrongly calculated sentences for about 3 percent of the prison population. At a news conference announcing the error Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee said he… Read More
El Nino washes rare, venomous snake onto American coasts
A dead yellow-bellied sea snake from southern Mexico has been discovered on Bolsa Chica beach, only the third one ever reported in California. Natural History Museum snake curator Greg Pauly says it’s only the seventh or eighth one ever seen north of Baja California’s Magdalena Bay. All the California sightings… Read More
May the police force be with you! Man in prison after Star Wars argument
An 18-year-old Helena man is charged with threatening to shoot a boy for sharing information about a subplot of the new “Star Wars” movie during an online conversation. Arthur Charles Roy was charged with felony assault with a weapon Monday during an appearance in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court…. Read More
The return of Superman? Scientists invent real X-Ray vision
The superpower we’ve all been waiting for could finally be possible! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that allows radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls. The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Meet Rafia Farook – Mother and roommate of the San Bernardino shooters
When Rafia Sultana Farook needed help, she often turned to her younger son, a quiet and devout Muslim who the FBI says began veering toward radical ideology while living under her roof. After filing for divorce and claiming she was abused, Farook relied on Syed Rizwan Farook to help supervise… Read More
No indictment in case of Texas woman who died in jail
A grand jury decided that neither sheriff’s officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Texas county jail last summer, but it has not yet determined whether the state trooper who arrested her should face charges, a prosecutor said. Prosecutor Darrell… Read More