Day: December 8, 2024

Arkansas dessert with an animal in its name is award-winning treat with ‘no possum included’

3:30 pm December 8, 2024

The unofficial state treat of Arkansas is a dessert with an animal in its name. But don’t be fooled. There is no marsupial in the Arkansas-born Possum Pie. “I like to joke around and tell people one of our specialties is the Arkansas Possum Pie – and there’s no possum included,” Misti Stowers told Fox […]

Chicago removes largest homeless encampment, relocates tent residents into apartments and shelters: Report

3:30 pm December 8, 2024

Chicago officials reportedly cleared the largest homeless encampment in the city after relocating some residents into apartments and shelter beds. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the encampments in Humboldt Park, amounting to “roughly 90” per city data, were removed after nearby homeowners shared safety and health concerns and demanded action from city officials. “Other […]

Study links mental health risks to this toxin for those born in ’60s or ’70s

3:00 pm December 8, 2024

Lead exposure in the 20th century may have led to mental health issues in Americans, a new study suggests. Researchers from Duke University and Florida State University studied the impact of lead in gasoline, which was first added in 1923 to help keep car engines healthy. (It was later banned from all U.S. vehicles in […]

Nearly all Fortune 500 companies still maintain corporate DEI commitments: report

2:30 pm December 8, 2024

FIRST ON FOX: A new report looked at company statements, annual reports and other publicly available documents from every Fortune 500 company and found that virtually all of them have maintained their commitments to “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) despite a trend of private companies relinquishing these commitments amid growing criticism. Walmart, last week, became […]

Five ways Trump could dismantle Biden’s climate agenda

2:30 pm December 8, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to roll back several of President Joe Biden’s green energy policies and initiatives when he assumes office in 2024. While on the campaign trail, Trump vowed to lift the Biden administration’s “war on energy” and “disastrous” energy policies. “They annihilated your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, assaulted your oil […]