• North Dakota’s historic sites will finally have toilets that flush
    BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Lawrence Welk didn’t have a flush toilet where he grew up, but visitors to his childhood home in rural North Dakota now do. The bandleader’s childhood family home marks the latest step in the State Historical Society of North Dakota’s nearly completed goal of installing flush toilets at its dozen most […]
  • OAN’s Pentagon reporter learns the limits of expressing her own opinion
    Assigned to cover the Pentagon for the conservative outlet One America News Network, Gabrielle Cuccia didn’t pretend to be an unbiased reporter. She describes herself as “a MAGA girl” who is unapologetically defiant in her support of President Donald Trump. Yet days after publicly criticizing a Trump appointee, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Cuccia found herself […]
  • Attack at demonstration calling for Israeli hostages’ release was first where group faced violence
    Demonstrators with Run for Their Lives have staged global events since 2023 calling for Hamas to release Israeli hostages, but organizers say Sunday’s walk in Boulder, Colorado, where 12 people were injured in a fiery attack, was the first in which they have faced violence. The group was wrapping their weekly demonstration at a bustling […]
  • Man accused of framing other man for deportation by writing letters threatening Trump’s life
    MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin man is facing charges accusing him of forging a letter threatening President Donald Trump’s life in an effort to get another man deported. Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint filed Monday that Demetric D. Scott was behind a letter sent to state and federal officials with the return address and […]
  • Trump and Senate budget hawks talk privately over increasing cuts in GOP tax bill
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said he’d spoken with Trump recently about the bill after his promise that at least four senators were willing to hold the bill unless steeper cuts to the deficit were made. “My main sticking point is the debt ceiling. If they strip the debt ceiling off, […]