Author name: Tom Martin

Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota has almost no national profile. He emphasized his small-town roots as he began his longshot presidential candidacy on Wednesday. “It should come as no surprise that small-town values have guided me my entire life; small-town values are at the heart of America,” he said at a campaign announcement event …

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The sun was covered by a dense layer of hazardous smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires as New York City awoke to an orange glow on Tuesday. In recent years, hazy air from faraway fires has become frequent in New York, though mainly later in the summer as wildfires rage out west. On Tuesday, government …

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The Senate voted mainly along party lines on Thursday to oppose President Joe Biden’s student debt reduction scheme after it cleared a significant procedural barrier in the chamber. The legislation was passed by a 52-46 vote a day after senators voted to proceed with the measure, which would terminate Biden’s debt reduction program and halt …

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Just one day after Minnesota legalized recreational marijuana use, an organization that monitors weapons use warned that any current marijuana user is forbidden from having firearms or ammunition. The explanation was provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) field office in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, just after Gov. Tim Walz …

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Former President Trump has chastised Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) for being silent on the impeachment of controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “MISSING IN ACTION!” Trump tweeted on Saturday in a Truth Social post. “Where is the Governor of Texas on his Attorney General’s Impeachment?” Abbott has been a prominent Republican figure and Trump’s …

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The FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation police are investigating the fatal shooting of a tribe member in southern Arizona by US border patrol officials. Agents from the Ajo border patrol station “were involved” in a deadly shooting on the Tohono O’odham reservation in Ajo at 10 p.m. Thursday, according to federal Customs and Border Protection …

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While everyone is still basking in the sunshine of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, a wonderful return to form for the MCU, we’re back to the Disney Plus lineup in no time. While we know that Marvel’s Secret Invasion will launch on June 21, we now have two additional dates for Loki Season 2 …

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A 14-year-old Michigan boy defended his 8-year-old sister from a would-be kidnapper with a slingshot. According to Alpena Post, Lt. John Grimshaw, a 17-year-old suspect, walked through the woods of a rural Alpena, Mich., property and grabbed the girl “like you’d see in a movie, his hand over the mouth, arm around the waist,” in …

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