Significant relief has come to a metro Atlanta animal shelter that has struggled with overcrowding for years. Officials cut the ribbon on a $4.1 million expansion of the DeKalb County Animal Services shelter off Chamblee Dunwoody Road. Most of the funding came from a special-purpose local option sales tax. The expansion is called a “pet…
In several tense exchanges with Democratic senators, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr denied accusations of censorship and defended his agency’s actions against broadcasters. “You’re now the chairman of the ‘Federal Censorship Commission,’” Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., told Carr in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday. “And these broadcasters, they feel that censorship.” Carr maintained he is doing…
Amid the ongoing tensions between the US and Venezuela, a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump has sparked major confusion. On Tuesday, Trump claimed that “it’s time” for Venezuela to “return… the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.” Government supporters participate in a protest against US President Donald Trump’s…
Bitcoin’s value has been dropping recently, but it has still been a top-performing investment over the past few years. Did you know that in the past five years, Bitcoin (BTC 1.89%) has vastly outperformed the S&P 500? While the broad index has risen by 83% during that time frame, the top cryptocurrency has appreciated by…
By MICHAEL MELIA, Associated Press It was one of the year’s biggest stories — the selection of the first American pope — and an Associated Press journalist was interviewing the pope’s brother at his home in suburban Chicago. Suddenly, they heard a ringing coming from the basement. “That might be the pope,” the new pontiff’s…
When it comes to soap operas, we hold certain truths to be self-evident. Lovers will never have an easy go of it, weddings will rarely go off without a hitch, and the person put on trial for murder (attempted or otherwise) will inevitably prove to be innocent. So this week, as General Hospital’s Willow faces…
Osmond Chia,Business reporterand Danielle Kaye,Business reporter Getty Images The Warner Bros. logo is displayed at Warner Bros. Studio on December 5, 2025 in Burbank, California. Warner Bros Discovery has told its shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s $108.4bn (£80.75bn) takeover bid. Paramount had said its offer was “superior” to a $72bn deal that Warner Bros struck…
Richard Bloschock knows his days are numbered as he steps onto the sugar sand. The serenity of Island Beach State Park is where his father taught him how to surf fish when he was a boy. Years later, he brought his own sons here to teach the next generation of Bloschock men how to cast…
The shooting attack at a Jewish Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach put the spotlight on Islamic State, which police said appeared to inspire the gunmen. Mourners stand near tributes piled together at the front of the Bondi Pavilion, in memory of the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting, in Sydney on December 17, 2025….
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