Day: June 2, 2023

California city faces fury of residents at community meeting: Who wants to live like this?!

2:00 pm June 2, 2023

Over 500 residents and business owners turned up to a community meeting in Oakland, Calif., this week to voice their frustrations over the city’s “rampant” crime problem. Open Mind Music owner Henry Wimmer told “America Reports” Thursday that he’s been a victim of smash-and-grab theft and once scared off a person casing a car with […]

High temperatures in parts of Great Lakes region force schools to close, students to shift to remote learning

1:13 pm June 2, 2023

The calendar says it’s still spring, but for parts of the Great Lakes region, hot, summerlike temperatures already have arrived, forcing some schools to close or shift students to remote learning. Detroit Public Schools Community District began closing its more than 100 schools three hours earlier Thursday and will do the same Friday as temperatures […]

Nevada Republican Party sues state to maintain party-run caucuses

1:11 pm June 2, 2023

The Nevada Republican Party is suing the state in an effort to maintain its party-run caucuses, even as Nevada shifts to a presidential primary system beginning in 2024. Nevada lawmakers ditched the presidential caucus model after the 2020 election, passing a law the following year that says major political parties in the state with more […]

Nebraska lawmakers adjourn for year after banning gender surgery for minors, abortion

1:09 pm June 2, 2023

Nebraska lawmakers adjourned for the year on Thursday, wrapping up a particularly contentious session that saw nearly every bill before the body filibustered. The filibuster effort led by Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh and a handful of allies was a protest over a bill that began as a measure to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors […]

Olympic medalist Bode Miller shares video of son running uphill after ‘quitting on his soccer team’

1:08 pm June 2, 2023

Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller has learned a thing or two about discipline and commitment during his lengthy and successful career as a professional alpine skier. Now, he is using some of what he learned to teach his children. Miller, 45, posted a video to his Instagram account last week of his son running up […]