(DES MOINES, IOWA) — Iowa lawmakers voted Thursday to strike gender identity from state civil rights protections. The state’s civil rights law currently protects against discrimination in the workplace, school, accommodations, housing and more based on someone’s “age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, or disability.” The recent legislation on […]
(WASHINGTON) — Economists say the uncertainty from President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and mass layoffs of government workers are starting to have a “chilling” effect on the U.S. economy. “It’s a very difficult business environment, because they can’t plan for what their cost structure is going to be,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow […]
(CALIFORNIA) — A cousin of the Menendez brothers said she’s “thrilled” that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is addressing the brothers’ request for clemency and ordering the parole board to investigate further. “I certainly gasped in relief,” cousin Anamaria Baralt, one of at least 20 relatives in support of the brothers’ release, told ABC News at a virtual […]
(WASHINGTON) — Several U.S. Agency for International Development staffers cleared out their offices at the agency’s Washington headquarters on Thursday, saying they were disheartened after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency laid them off or placed them on leave. “The more I talk about it, the more I want to cry,” said Amanda, who worked in science and […]
New police footage shows the moment a sheriff’s deputy rescued a baby from a burning apartment in Winder, Georgia. At approximately 1:13 p.m. on Tuesday, Winder police and fire units reached out to the Barrow County Sheriff’s Department for assistance in a residential fire, according to the sheriff’s department. While on the way to the […]
Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Live Nation PartyNextDoor is walking back comments he made about Tory Lanez in a diss track he previously previewed in an Instagram Live session. In the song, he was heard rapping, “I’m not y’all n***** friends. Stop saying my name.” “F*** what Tory Lanez say/ I did everything he did he’s […]
More than 300 of college football’s top players have arrived in Indianapolis for the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, where they will showcase their skills in front of NFL coaches and executives from Feb. 24-March 3. On-field drills kick off Feb. 27, with defensive linemen and linebackers getting the first shot at the televised workouts (3 […]
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for FIREAID Police in Atlanta say Lil Baby‘s actions triggered a chain of events that ended with the murders of two innocent children. As WSB-TV reports, Jakody Davis and Lamon Freeman were shot in July 2024 at Lamon’s birthday party. “The cowardly acts of an Atlanta-based rapper that decided to go into a rival […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Doug Gottlieb walks down a back hallway in the Kress Center and into what he calls the “f— tunnel,” the path he takes from the belly of the arena where his University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men’s basketball team has just lost its 20th consecutive game. As we enter the gym, […]
Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 13 people have been injured after a car rammed into a bus stop in Israel, at Karkur Junction, according to Israeli police. The suspect is a 53-year-old Palestinian from the Jenin area who is married to an Israeli citizen and living in Israel without a permit, […]
