A homeschooling mother took ‘real world learning,’ to a new level when her family sold their Texas home and bought a sailboat, committing to a life on the high seas. “My kids meet people from all over the world, different languages, different cultures,” said Renee Whitaker, a mom of five. […]

Minnesota Golden Gophers head football coach P.J. Fleck responded to recent claims of mistreatment from former players and others, calling them “baseless allegations.” Fleck said, via ESPN, that a report from Front Office Sports had “been looked into multiple times since 2017,” and there was nothing to confirm any wrongdoing.  […]

MSNBC political analyst Claire McCaskill argued on Wednesday that Republicans will try to indict President Biden over “loving his son.” McCaskill appeared on “All In” with guest host Jen Psaki when the discussion turned to the ongoing accusations and investigations into Hunter Biden. “Hunter Biden is a favorite target of […]

Former President Trump was charged with an additional count of willful retention of National Defense Information and two new obstruction counts as part of a superseding indictment out of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his alleged improper retention of classified records.  “Today, a superseding indictment was returned by a […]

Bo Goldman, who penned the Oscar-winning scripts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard” and whose textured, empathy-rich screenplays made him one of Hollywood’s finest writers, has died. He was 90. Goldman died Tuesday in Helendale, Calif., his son-in-law, the director Todd Field, said. No details […]

The Milwaukee County board voted Thursday to nearly double the county’s sales tax, two weeks after the city of Milwaukee approved a local sales tax increase as part of a bipartisan plan to avoid bankruptcy. Both the city and county, which make up the state’s largest metropolitan areas, faced running […]

The Miami Dolphins won’t have their new cornerback, Jalen Ramsey, on the field to start the regular season. Ramsey will undergo knee surgery after suffering a training camp injury, according to ESPN.  Ramsey’s ACL is intact, ESPN added, and the NFL Network reported Ramsey’s meniscus requires surgery. A more serious […]

Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania say they are angry that millions of dollars to expand adult mental health services got cut out of the budget, and are pushing to get it included now that the legislation is held up in a month-old partisan stalemate. The fight over the money comes as […]

Construction in Maine will resume next week on an electricity transmission project bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid despite a half-billion dollar cost increase, the head of Avangrid said Thursday. CEO Pedro Azagra Blazquez said on an earnings call that the cost of the project, originally estimated […]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse on Thursday announced a $100 million settlement with people who say they were sexual abuse victims as part of its bankruptcy proceedings. Catholic dioceses around the state are dealing with a surge of lawsuits dating to when New York temporarily suspended the statute of […]