Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced its new emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles on Friday, which the agency claims will avoid 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. The move comes in an election year when the Biden-Harris campaign is working to demonstrate achievements in theirRead More →
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — Gas prices have surged higher at the outset of 2024, stressing household budgets and complicating efforts to cool inflation. Since the beginning of the year, the average national price for a gallon of unleaded regular gas has jumped nearly 14%, amounting to anRead More →
ABC News (ROCKFORD, Ill.) — Keith Fahreny was driving home from his trigonometry class at Rock Valley College Wednesday afternoon when he saw a commotion outside his neighbor’s home. “She kind of turned towards me, and her face was just bright red with blood,” Fahreny told ABC News. Fahreny didn’tRead More →
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Electrical engineer Katya Echazarreta made history nearly two years ago when she became the first Mexican woman in space. Echazarreta was aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flight as part of The Space For Humanity initiative. Before that feat, she was already a star through herRead More →
ABC News (NEW YORK) — “The Godmother” of Manhattan’s go-to spot for everything bling has neither a cat nor cannolis, but she has cemented her position as a leading jeweler in a field dominated by men. Kerri Lavine, who earned her nickname after a photo captured her holding a cognacRead More →
Patti Peeples said that squatters were illegally living in her empty property. Via ABC (NEW YORK) — Patti Peeples says she was taken by surprise last year when she discovered her unoccupied home in Jacksonville, Florida, wasn’t actually vacant. A pair of squatters broke into one of her investment propertiesRead More →
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Friday marks a year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia. The first American reporter to be imprisoned by Moscow since the Cold War, he remains trapped in jail while the United States struggles to find a deal withRead More →
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday officially invited President Joe Biden to testify before the panel as part of a Republican-led impeachment inquiry into allegations that Biden used his office to participate in and profit from his family’s foreign business dealings — whichRead More →
Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — Just after midnight on Tuesday, the fully loaded container ship Dali lifted anchor and prepared to depart the Port of Baltimore with 23 crew members aboard, destined for Sri Lanka nearly 9,000 miles away. There was no apparent indication of the catastrophe awaiting the vessel. AuthoritiesRead More →
Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Thursday that the impeachment articles for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be sent over to the Senate on April 10, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate trial will take place on AprilRead More →
