Month: July 2021

The scheme resulted in Milton receiving tens of millions of dollars in personal benefits, prosecutors say. Read full article

A Black Capitol Police officer who testified on Tuesday before the House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection […] The post Capitol officer Harry Dunn responds to right-wing attacks: ‘Can’t put Band-Aid on my emotions’ appeared first on TheGrio. Read full article

The freshman representative from the Palmetto State had a message for the Democratic House speaker as masks are again being required in the Capitol. Read full article

Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life. It's a scenario playing out time and again at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, where 22 people died…

“Congress and the States have shown that they are ready and able to address the issue,” lawyers representing the lawmakers wrote in a brief. Read full article

A Florida school board voted Wednesday to require all students and faculty to wear masks inside schools for the fall semester, a policy at odds with Gov. Ron DeSantis's stance against making face covers compulsory. Read full article

The best board games can be displayed even when they’re not in use, like this colorful chess box set from the MoMA Design Store that comes in a very stylish sliding-top design. Double the gameplay, double the fun! Read full article

The Taliban's surge in Afghanistan as the United States completes its withdrawal could lead to an “existential crisis,” a U.S. oversight report said. Read full article

Conservative pundit Steven Crowder posted a photo of himself Tuesday in a hospital bed, telling his audience he'd been close to death. Read full article

The bugs were discovered by agricultural specialists at the Port of New Orleans. Read full article