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A sizable storm could impact the northeast toward the end of the Thanksgiving travel week. Here’s the latest forecast from the WBZ NEXT Weather team. BOSTON – Wouldn’t you know it. After the driest 90-day stretch in recorded history, the weather pattern is taking a major right turn just in time for the Thanksgiving travel…
In U.S. Senator Brian Schatz’ estimation, Congress’ has just one, unambiguous task to accomplish before it adjourns for the holiday break: approve the Biden administration’s $100 billion disaster funding request. What You Need To Know U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz worked with the White House to release the updated disaster funding request and has repeatedly pressed…
Two people were killed and a third was injured when a U.S. Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in Colorado’s Front Range Saturday morning. The small passenger plane with three people aboard crashed near Storm Mountain and Palisade Mountain west of Loveland around 11:15 a.m., according to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office. The plane belonged to…
WASHINGTON — Following the GOP sweep in the Lone Star State on Election Day, Texans in Congress are trying to climb the ranks of the U.S. House — either to help usher in President-elect Trump’s policy priorities or to thwart them. What You Need To Know With Republicans set to take control of the White…
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-provided long-range weapons inside Russia for limited strikes, according to two U.S. officials. Longtime restrictions are being eased as North Korea has deployed thousands of troops to the Kursk region of Russia to support Russian troops fighting Ukrainian forces. The new authority applies to Army Tactical Missile…
Jimmy Baker didn’t consider himself to be much of a political person. At least not until his former football coach took to the national stage, running for the second-highest office in the land. That candidate, of course, was Gov. Tim Walz, whose Everyman appeal was enough to get Baker engaged. “Right away, I was super…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has been taking a bashing lately for allegedly serving as a conduit for Chinese parts and products into North America, and officials here are afraid a re-elected Donald Trump or politically struggling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could try to leave their country out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement….
In southeast Wisconsin and across the country, America’s so-called “Dreamers” are sitting down with their families and discussing worst-case scenarios. If you’re deported, the young adults ask their parents, who would take care of my younger siblings? If I lose my work permit and have to return to a country I haven’t seen since childhood,…
Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and John Kennedy have introduced a bipartisan legislation, the DiasporaLink Act, that promotes economic development and stronger US-African relations. The legislation would direct a study to explore the cost, feasibility, and value of developing an undersea fiber-optic cable between the East Coast of the US and Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria…
ST. ANN, Mo.—The St. Louis metropolitan area will have two new new representatives in Congress beginning in 2025. Democrat Wesley Bell, the St. Louis County Prosecutor who defeated first district incumbent Cori Bush in the August primary, easily bested a field of challengers including Republican Andrew Jones on Tuesday. Bob Onder, the former State Senator…