Day: September 29, 2023

Conservatives call for GOP candidates to drop out after 2nd debate: ‘Time to thin the herd’

1:50 pm September 29, 2023

Conservative pundits reacted to Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate by calling for the field to narrow while also concluding, along with a poll following the debate, that Gov. Ron DeSantis is the candidate in the best position to go up against former President Trump. “Honestly, nothing personal, but I felt Nikki Haley won the obnoxious […]

Thousands of park rangers to be furloughed if US government shuts down

1:42 pm September 29, 2023

Entrances to national parks will be blocked and thousands of park rangers will be furloughed if Congress doesn’t reach a budget agreement this weekend, the Department of Interior said Friday. The stance is a reversal from five years ago when the Trump administration kept some iconic parks open in a move that has been lambasted […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to undergo hip replacement surgery

1:16 pm September 29, 2023

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to undergo hip replacement surgery Friday, a procedure likely to put a temporary halt to his frequent international trips but otherwise not disrupt his activities. The 77-year-old leader should spend a few days in the Hospital Sirio-Libanes in the capital, Brasilia, before heading back to the […]

NYC firefighters seen cutting apart truck that got wedged in tunnel, causing traffic nightmare

1:15 pm September 29, 2023

A truck got stuck in a New York City tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan causing a miles-long traffic jam, resulting in firefighters sawing apart the vehicle’s trailer, officials said. The 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck became wedged about a mile into the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel on Thursday morning, and it took responding crews around two hours […]

Indiana to build $1.2 billion prison to replace 2 other facilities

1:15 pm September 29, 2023

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb broke ground Thursday on a $1.2 billion prison in northern Indiana that will replace two others in the state’s costliest building project ever. The new Westville Correctional Facility in LaPorte County, when finished, will replace the existing facility with that name and the nearby Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. The […]