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A Kentuckian has been identified as one of the crew members who died in the crash of a refueling aircraft during a combat mission supporting the U.S. war on Iran. Tech Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, was among six Air Force personnel who died when their KC-135 aircraft crashed Thursday in Iraq. The […]

Lawmakers are considering spending over $480 million on the Mississippi Department of Corrections for the next fiscal year, an increase of $12 million.

Pittsburgh’s Public Source annually requests roster information from local governments. The Sheriff’s Office is seeking to withhold names of around half of its deputies. A county judge sided with the sheriff, but Public Source will appeal. The post Public Source challenges Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office decision to redact deputy names appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source. PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region. Visit www.publicsource.org to read more.

Mississippi efforts to pass Medicaid expansion evaporated with the passage of President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.

Congo-Brazzaville holds elections Sunday in a vote expected to extend 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso's more than four decades in power in the oil-rich central African country. Observers say voter turnout could reach a record low.

This week in BehanVox: inside the chikankaari industry, asylum for Iranian women's football, and more The post BehanVox: No Fuel, Long Queues, But ‘All Is Well’ appeared first on BehanBox.

After Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller signed Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act in 1967, the Arkansas Democrat newspaper ran the entire text of the law in its pages. “Freedom of Information law secures rights of everyone, not just the press,” the headline proclaimed. It’s a statement that’s been repeated often by transparency advocates, press groups and others […]

A fast-moving Sixth Circuit and its conservative tilt could put Michigan at the center of the DOJ’s fight over access to state voter rolls.

A report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says the Israeli war on Lebanon, since 23 September 2024, has triggered a major new wave of emigration.

France coach Fabien Galthié hailed four-try hero Louis Bielle-Biarrey after the team's last-gasp 48-46 victory over England earned them back-to-back Six Nations rugby titles.

On Feb. 10, 2024, Allie Standish, a 37-year-old Wolcott woman, was killed. Her father syas Connecticut officials have not delivered justice. The post Dropped Charges: A Connecticut woman is dead. Her father says officials let her killer off easy. appeared first on Inside Investigator.

Polling booths have opened across France for municipal elections – widely seen as a barometer of France's political mood ahead of the high-stakes 2027 presidential race.

“If the authorities crack down harshly, then Kazakhstani artists will have no choice but to move abroad in search of creative competition.”

Lamont proposed ending Community First Choice, which provides at-home care to all who qualify. Families are confused, worried and angry.

PATAGONIA,  Ariz.—The U.S. Forest Service on March 5 announced it plans to soon approve the nation’s first critical minerals mine, South32’s Hermosa project, when it released the final environmental impact statement, which was permitted under a streamlined process.  The federal government called it “a strategic investment in America’s energy future” that “directly supports U.S. energy […]

The cost of locking up students is much higher than educating them, and the long-term benefits of investing in education and support programs are robust.

Oil and gas wells might seem unusual sites for religious pilgrims, but on January 12, three faith-motivated environmentalists set out on a 328-mile trek from Carlsbad, New Mexico, that would see them slogging on foot past fossil-fuel developments, through remote ranch lands and deep into the desert on their way to the state capitol in […]

An FBI agent arrived at the door of a former member of Extinction Rebellion NYC last month, saying she had questions about the environmental advocacy group.  It wasn’t the first time climate activists have drawn scrutiny from the FBI. But the visit appeared to place this group on the leading edge of the Trump administration’s […]

By the time you read this, those swept up in ICE raids may already be filling some of the 1,000 beds at a troubled for-profit prison in Leavenworth now turned federal detention facility. The last hurdle for owner CoreCivic to reopen its site was a special use permit from the city of Leavenworth and, after […]

The bombing of academic institutions and the killing of faculty members, theorists, professors and students, follows a pattern established long before the recent zionist genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in 2023.