Urine trouble no more, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority hopes, with a new program to tackle public urination in system elevators with technology. The MBTA, which services Boston and the surrounding area, is launching a pilot program this summer in which urine detection sensors will be placed in four downtown… Read More
Tony Awards stun Sunday with 9 key moments
Surely many in the audience were thinking it, but “Company” director Marianne Elliott said it most directly at Sunday’s Tony awards: In the devastating two years since the pandemic hit, it “felt at times that live theater was endangered.” As in, the industry might never recover. The exuberant ceremony Sunday… Read More
U.S. inflation breaks a 40-year record… again
The prices of gas, food and most other goods and services jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from 12 months earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year increase of 8.3%, the Labor Department… Read More
Marco Rubio catches liberal red-handed in lie
Gun control activist David Hogg picked a Twitter fight with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. — and it didn’t end well for the liberal activist. Hogg has been meeting with senators all week as the Senate prepares to deliberate on the two gun bills passed by the House. However, Hogg claimed,… Read More
Birds leave behind $3,000 mess in historic jail incident
A family of jail birds has left behind a nearly $3,000 mess at the historic Steuben County Jail in northeastern Indiana. The Steuben County Commissioners have approved spending that amount of money to clean up the waste left behind by a family of starlings, mainly in duct work at the… Read More
Federal regulators to release new rules on whales coming soon
Federal authorities spent the past few years analyzing rules for the shipping industry and are now close to releasing fresh guidelines to help protect a vanishing species of whale. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been reviewing the speed regulations it uses to protect North Atlantic right whales, and… Read More
Massachusetts gas station owner gets fed up, stops selling fuel
A Massachusetts gas station owner fed up with what he considers attempts by oil companies to fleece customers with outrageously high prices at the pump has stopped selling gas as a protest. Reynold Gladu, who has run Ren’s Mobil Service in downtown Amherst for nearly 50 years, drained his tanks… Read More
Teslas nearly recalled after major wrecks
Teslas with partially automated driving systems are a step closer to being recalled after the U.S. elevated its investigation into a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles or trucks with warning signs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it is upgrading the Tesla probe to an… Read More
Chris Wallace just shocked his critics
CNN’s Chris Wallace is no fan of former President Donald Trump, often using his shows to criticize the 45th president — and in turn, Trump supporters have been openly critical of Wallace for years. But on Thursday, the two camps found common ground after Wallace expressed skepticism of the Democrat-led… Read More
Western hemisphere leaders reach a pact on the border crisis
President Joe Biden and other Western Hemisphere leaders are set to announce on Friday what is being billed as a roadmap for countries to host large numbers of illegal migrants and would-be refugees. “The Los Angeles Declaration” is perhaps the biggest achievement of the Summit of the Americas, which was… Read More
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