More people moved to a county rich with citrus groves located between two of Florida’s most populous metro areas than to any other county in the U.S. last year, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. More than 29,300 people moved last year to the county between Tampa and Orlando, two metro […]
Paul Alexander, polio survivor who inspired many, died in iron lung Monday
Paul Alexander, who contracted polio as a child and spent most of his life in an iron lung, passed away Monday at the age of 78. Despite his paralysis from the neck down, Alexander managed to train himself to breathe independently for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his […]
Bill to force the sale of TikTok heads to Democrat-controlled Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring the Chinese company ByteCance Ltd. to either sell TikTok or cease operating in the U.S. “We have given TikTok a clear choice,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, has said. “Separate from your parent company ByteDance, which is beholden to the CCP (the Chinese Communist Party), […]
Staff at wildlife center pretend to be red foxes while caring for an orphaned kit
Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care. In a video posted to the center’s Facebook page Tuesday, Executive Director Melissa Stanley is shown wearing a red fox mask and […]
$3 tote bag from Trader Joe’s resells for hundreds online
Trader Joe’s mini canvas tote is the latest item to cause a stir on social media, so much so that resellers are taking advantage of the hype. The mini totes are offered in four colors — blue, red, green, and yellow — and they are all in high demand. The bags, retailing for $2.99, are […]
GOP House Speaker blindsided by this sudden retirement
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., had already declined to run for re-election… but now he’s set to leave Congress even sooner than expected. On Tuesday, Buck announced his plan to leave Congress on March 22, after nine years in office. Buck made the announcement during the hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into President Joe […]
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer tell appeals judges that Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida plea deal protects her
Imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution deal with a U.S. attorney in Florida should have prevented her prosecution. Attorney Diana Fabi Samson’s argument was repeatedly challenged by one judge on the 2nd U.S. […]
GOP former congressman has died at 87
Former Alabama Republican U.S. Rep. Robert Terry Everett, who represented the state’s 2nd District from 1993 to 2009, died Tuesday, the governor’s office confirmed. He was 87. Everett died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Rehobeth, a suburb of Dothan, Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said. “Terry tirelessly served the people of southeast Alabama […]
Arkansas stops offering ‘X’ as an alternative to male and female on IDs
Arkansas will no longer allow residents to use “X” instead of male or female on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards, officials announced under new rules Tuesday that will also make it more difficult for transgender people to change the sex listed on their licenses and IDs. The changes announced by the Department of Finance […]
Trump and Biden clinch nominations Tuesday, breaking 68 year-streak
After Tuesday’s primaries, former President Donald Trump won enough delegates to clinch the presumptive nomination, according to the Associated Press projections. On the same day, President Joe Biden clinched a second straight Democratic nomination and set up an all-but-certain rematch with his predecessor Biden and Trump have set up a political movie the country has […]
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