Day: October 31, 2024

Fox News Democracy ’24: The keys to the count in every battleground state

7:21 pm October 31, 2024

The countdown to election night is on. Officials across the country are preparing to count tens of millions of ballots. Every state reports votes differently, and that means the candidate in the lead in any race can change throughout election night and the days after. For example, a state that reports votes from cities and […]

Advocate for ‘gender affirming care’ for prisoners named by AG Garland to corrections advisory board

7:06 pm October 31, 2024

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a progressive state prison official — who was instrumental in establishing “gender-affirming care” for trans inmates in Washington state — to serve on the Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections (NIC) advisory board. Among the policies implemented was one where pat-downs or other searches would be “performed by a correctional […]

Helicopter spins out of control at Texas airport, crashes into parked plane: video

6:34 pm October 31, 2024

A helicopter spun out of control during takeoff at a Houston-area airport on Sunday, crashing into a parked plane, according to video of the incident. The Robinson R44 helicopter was taking off from the Pearland Regional Airport around 8:35 a.m. when it began to spin, FOX26 Houston reported, citing officials. Only the pilot was on […]

Independents react negatively to Biden’s ‘garbage’ comments in real time

6:28 pm October 31, 2024

A Fox News focus group of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents gave their real-time reactions to President Biden’s recent comments seeming to call supporters of former President Trump “garbage,” with the latter two groups registering a strongly negative impression of the president’s words. The groups recently participated in a dial test while watching Biden’s controversial statements […]

Tuberculosis has overtaken COVID as world’s deadliest infectious disease

6:28 pm October 31, 2024

Tuberculosis (TB) is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday announcement from the World Health Organization (WHO). The contagious disease was responsible for 1.25 million global deaths in 2023, WHO reported, including 161,000 people with HIV. COVID-19 had overtaken TB as the world’s leading infectious killer for […]