• Growing wildfire in eastern California prompts evacuations, Cal Fire says
    By Surbhi Misra (Reuters) -A rapidly growing wildfire in California’s Eastern Sierra region burned through 1,000 acres and forced evacuations in multiple counties, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said on Sunday. The Silver Fire, which ignited around 2:11 p.m. PT on Sunday near Highway 6 and Silver Canyon Road in […]
  • Young Abraham Lincoln’s tiny Illinois town is due for a makeover
    PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving […]
  • Judge weighs request to withhold investigation records in deaths of Gene Hackman and wife
    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico court is weighing whether to block the disclosure of an array of records from an investigation into the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, at the request of the couple’s estate. Santa Fe-based Judge Matthew Wilson scheduled a hearing Monday to consider a […]
  • New Mexico Republican Party HQ set on fire, graffitied ‘ICE=KKK’
    By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico was set on fire on Sunday and “ICE=KKK” spray painted on the building in what the party called “a deliberate act of arson.” Fire officials in Albuquerque, the largest city in Democratic-controlled New Mexico, were called to the blaze around 6 […]
  • Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president
    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029. “There are methods which you […]