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Today remains fairly calm, sunny and warm, but winds return to the forecast tonight and tomorrow. This afternoon we’ll reach 98 as we did yesterday under a retreating ridge of high pressure. A cool front to our North will usher in winds in the 25mph range this evening and closer to gusts of 30-40mph tomorrow
Continue ReadingThree dollar store chains will make up almost half of all the new stores opening up in the United States this year, a reflection of the dollar store sector’s outsized growth in the retail industry as other chains close shops or stop building new ones. About 45% of the 3,597 store openings that large retail
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, Eleven Madison Park’s chef and owner Daniel Humm made an unexpected announcement: When the famed New York City restaurant reopens its doors next month, meat will be off the menu. It might seem like the perfect time to get people on board with an all-vegan menu. Plant-based proteins are as popular as
Continue ReadingA controversial proposal to allow Texans to carry handguns in public without obtaining a license or training passed the state Senate Wednesday, putting Texas on track to potentially join a handful of others that have passed permitless carry laws this year. More than a dozen states have introduced measures this year to allow residents to
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ efforts to sell their green agenda and infrastructure plan are being complicated by a thorny conflict of interest for Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm — who stands to gain a windfall from stock options in a private electric vehicle company. Last month, Biden took a virtual tour of
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. In a pair of new interviews, White House press secretary Jen Psaki is sharing a lot about her approach to the job; the frantic news cycle; media fragmentation, and the role of Twitter. In a
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Click here for updates on this story VENICE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Residents in Venice continue to voice their frustration over growing homeless encampments in the area they say are becoming increasingly dangerous. Eyewitness News obtained video of a homeless man being shot last week on the Venice Boardwalk, which also shows the shooter walk
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PICO RIVERA, California (KABC) — It was a day of socially distant celebration at North Park Academy of the Arts in Pico Rivera, on Tuesday. There was mariachi, clapping and dancing. All that led up to a big moment when a nonprofit, Violins Not Violence, gifted instruments to
Continue ReadingRio Tinto shareholders have rebelled over payouts to former CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques and other executives who quit last year after the company destroyed a 46,000-year-old sacred Indigenous site in Australia. More than 60% of the votes cast at the mining company’s annual general meetings in London and Sydney were against its remuneration report, according to
Continue Reading Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent spaceflight capabilities. India and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A jury trial was cut short Wednesday, May 5, when a Milwaukee man charged with killing his 5-year-old son over a piece of cheesecake pleaded guilty. Travis Stackhouse initially told officers his 5-year-old son was playing with another child upstairs when he fell down the
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Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — The northbound lanes of the West Side Highway have reopened, six hours after a carjacking led to a crash and police-involved shooting near the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum at 46th Street. It started when police got a report of a Toyota
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Click here for updates on this story LEVITTOWN, Long Island (WABC) — An elderly woman on Long Island is frustrated with a county mistake that forced her to pay higher taxes after someone mistook her for dead. The 94-year-old woman is demanding thousands of dollars in a tax refund from Nassau County after she lost
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A woman intentionally ramming her car into another car is caught on tape. Some people will watch this video and be shocked, but community advocates aren’t. They say the violence is nothing new and there is a lot more than just what’s in this video.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — Local UAW leaders are launching an investigation after claims of missing money. “I’m very disappointed,” said Steve Dawes, region 1D director for the UAW. Dawes is not happy about a letter recently posted on social media by UAW local 699 elected officials. Dawes claims
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — A case of elder abuse leading to charges against a 50-year-old Genesee County man and authorities say this was a preventable tragedy. Officers were called to Hurley Medical Center for a 72-year-old woman who was admitted for a few days. The Genesee County
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House Republicans are moving to oust Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from a party leadership position over her vocal repudiation of former President Donald Trump’s lies about the integrity of the 2020 election. The top candidate to replace Cheney is New York Rep. Elise Stefanik — who promoted some of those election lies and sought to
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Cruise ship operators may begin simulated voyages with volunteer passengers, according to an order from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidelines are a new phase in the CDC’s Framework for Conditional Sailing Order, released in October as a phased approach for preventing Covid-19 transmission aboard cruise ships and eventually resuming cruises
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden on Thursday will make the case that his sweeping economic proposals are better positioned to bolster the middle class than tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, according to a White House official. During his trip to Louisiana, the President will, according to the official, pose the question to the American public
Continue ReadingSome of Tucker Carlson’s colleagues at Fox News are objecting to his reckless anti-vaccination rhetoric. They are speaking out in small ways on Twitter — but they are not being given the prime time platform that Carlson enjoys, and the millions of people who watch Carlson are not being given accurate information about the Covid
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