A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition to the long-term uninsured. North Carolina […]

What good is a right if you don’t know you have it? What if you know about your right but are blocked from exercising it? That’s the situation for millions of public workers. They have a constitutional right not to pay dues to government labor unions, yet unions are furiously […]

A woman told the Los Angeles Times that violent homeless people and COVID-19 restrictions made her flee from California to Florida, one of many stories of Americans relocating in recent years. The LA Times interviewed a variety of people from both Florida and California who have swapped states in recent […]

Shane MacGowan, the lead singer of Celtic punk band The Pogues and known the world over for the 1987 hit “Fairytale Of New York,” has died aged 65. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced the singer’s death via a post on Instagram Thursday. “There’s no way to describe the loss […]

A Texas man who was the first arrest by a Justice Department task force that investigates threats to election workers has been sentenced to two years in prison over posts made following the 2020 election, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Chad Christopher Stark, 55, was accused of posting threatening messages on […]

Powerful North Korean official Kim Yo Jong claimed Thursday that her nation was not even considering meeting with the U.S. face to face on any issues. Yo Jong released a harsh statement in reaction to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who joined representatives of many other nations in […]

Retired astronaut Mary Cleave, the first woman to crew a spaceflight after the shocking Challenger explosion of 1986, died on Monday, NASA announced. She was 76. A cause of death was not immediately released.  Cleave, a scientist with training in civil and environmental engineering, was the first woman to serve […]

A couple from Chicago “forced” four children to help them steal nearly $1,000 in merchandise from a suburban Macy’s store that has been an ongoing target of retail theft this holiday season, authorities said Wednesday. Angelo Almaraz, 26, of Chicago, and his 32-year-old domestic partner Thalia Morales, of Hammond, Indiana, […]

The College Football Playoff Committee could have a chaos scenario on their hands if an undefeated team should go down during the conference championship weekend. The latest rankings showed Georgia (12-0), Michigan (12-0), Washington (12-0) and Florida State (12-0). Each team is competing for a conference championship. CLICK HERE FOR […]

A shooting at a bus station near Jerusalem on Thursday morning left three Israelis dead and 11 others with various injuries. According to Israeli police, the shooting was carried out by two Hamas terrorists who drove to the Givat Shaul junction on the outskirts of the Holy City in an […]