Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up magnetic fields or hiccups in the heated gas disks surrounding black holes. The flares help illuminate researchers’ understanding of the black holes…
Chrysler is recalling 320,065 Jeep Wranglers and Grand Cherokees because the plug-in hybrid SUVs’ high-voltage batteries could fail, potentially causing a fire while a vehicle is parked or in motion, according to federal regulators. The affected vehicles include the Jeep Wrangler 4Xe for model years 2000-2025 and the Grand Cherokee 4Xe from 2022-2026. Owners should…
Washington — Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is seeking documents from the Justice Department on its move earlier this year to end the investigation into alleged co-conspirators of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I write to demand an explanation for why DOJ has abandoned the…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Zulehkah Crawford loves everything about her family’s home country of Jamaica. “Besides the obvious, the food and the water, the people,” Crawford said. “We are such genuine people. We’re loving, we’re caring. I love the terrain when it comes to the mountains. And then you can go down to the beach and the…
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a force in Republican politics for over 30 years and one of the most powerful people to hold the second-highest office in the U.S., has died. He was 84. In a statement, Cheney’s family said he died Monday night of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, surrounded by his…
Washington — For Lindsay Hagerman, the past few months have felt tumultuous. As the co-owner of the Pennsylvania-based RainCaper, which sells art-inspired travel accessories and gifts, Hagerman has found herself questioning her pricing strategy while watching tariffs on goods imported from China see-saw from 10% to 20% to 145% — and then back down again….
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The U.S. Department of Education finalized the new rule Oct. 31, granting itself authority to disqualify entire agencies or organizations from PSLF eligibility. OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of 21 other attorneys general are suing the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) over what they call illegal restrictions to the…
Matt McCaffery was a relatively unknown GOP chair in suburban Pennsylvania when police showed up at his door last year after an anonymous tip accused the Marine veteran of holding his family hostage — a swatting incident meant to terrorize him and his family just hours after he endorsed Kamala Harris for president. “If it…
President Trump’s comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the nation’s foremost experts. But questions about what kind of testing Mr. Trump does have in mind have been rippling through the nuclear nonproliferation community. In an interview…