It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The Pledge of Allegiance has…… MORE
Anthony “T.J.” Cunningham, a former Seattle Seahawks player and assistant principal at a Colorado high school, has died after being shot during a parking dispute, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said. Cunningham, 46, an NFL safety during the 1996 season, was shot by a neighbor early Sunday and taken to a hospital, where he died…… MORE
Houston police will do away with no-knock warrants, Chief Art Acevedo told residents at a testy town hall dealing with a drug raid that left two people dead and five officers hurt. He did not provide the specific timing for implementing the policy. “The no-knock warrants are going to be going away … and so…… MORE
A potent winter storm is poised to deliver a mixture of snow, sleet, freezing rain and possible flooding across much of the eastern United States through Thursday. More than 117 million people in the country, many from the Plains and Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, are under some sort of winter weather watch, warning…… MORE
Wallace Broecker, the renowned geophysicist who popularized the term “global warming,” has died. He was 87. Broecker died Monday in New York, said Kevin Krajick, a senior science writer at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Broecker spent many years as a professor at Columbia, and his vast body of work focused on the relationship between oceans,…… MORE
West Virginia teachers plan to stay on strike Wednesday, with union leaders saying there is a trust issue with the Legislature, even after the state House of Delegates decided to “postpone indefinitely” any decision on proposed legislation that spurred the teachers to strike. Teachers from all school districts are expected to strike, unions announced. On…… MORE
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says the state will not appeal a ruling striking down the so-called “fetal heartbeat” law, which would have been one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans. The law, signed by Reynolds in May 2018, would have prohibited Iowa doctors from performing most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. An…… MORE
A 45-year old Mexican man who was taken into custody by border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas earlier this month died Monday, US Customs and Border Protection said. CBP says the man was detained on February 2 after crossing the border illegally. He initially asked for medical attention from the Roma…… MORE
In the span of two days, an Arizona man got stuck in quicksand for hours and then had to spend the night coping with a winter storm before being rescued. The ordeal began Saturday as the 34-year-old man and a woman he was with — also from Arizona — were hiking at Zion National Park…… MORE
Almost a year after West Virginia teachers and other school employees shut down schools across the state, demanding higher pay and better benefits, union officials announced Monday night they would go on strike again. “We are left no other choice but as of tomorrow, we are calling a statewide strike of our teachers and our…… MORE
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