TikTok, known for its viral trends and large user base, has been effectively banned in the U.S. following a Supreme Court ruling. The app had become a cultural force, influencing industries like publishing, music, food and fashion, and driving real-world trends. The ban follows years of scrutiny and attempts by U.S. officials to address concerns…
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in “the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history,” the White House announced Thursday. The amnesty will be extended to roughly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and 39 others who were convicted of…
WAUKESHA – The sound, of course, had a familiar ring, but the blast of wind instruments drove the point home more boisterously: the Salvation Army’s bell-ringing season had begun. On Friday, the Salvation Army Waukesha kicked off its Red Kettle campaign with a ceremony featuring the Salvation Army Band playing while invited guests rang miniature…
President-elect Donald Trump placed a key campaign figure in the coming cabinet Thursday, nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy spent the majority of the 2024 campaign as an independent candidate but dropped out and endorsed Trump. He became a de-facto advisor on public health after…
New York – U.S. stock indexes are rising Tuesday as voters head to the polls on the last day of the presidential election and as more data piles up to show the economy remains solid. The S&P 500 was up 0.8% in morning trading, rising closer to its record set last month. The Dow Jones…
WASHINGTON – Another presidential election blown around by a hurricane. In terms of politics, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are hoping that recovery from Hurricane Helene will resemble the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 – a fairly smooth process that did credit to the last Democratic-led White House in…
At the end of the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, 3.3 million more U.S. residents had health insurance than did so in 2019, according to a Capital & Main analysis of U.S. Census data conducted with the support of Thomas Data Consulting. That increase led to a 1.2% decline in the national uninsured…