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The Harris County elections commissioner is resigning after 10,000 uncounted ballots for last week’s primary were discovered, according to an announcement posted online on Monday. “Today I am submitting my resignation, effective July 1,” Isabel Longoria said in the announcement. “I think this date ensures that there is a presiding officer during the May and June elections and allows the election commission the time they need to find a replacement. I remain committed to the office and its mission and hope to aid in defeating harmful rhetoric to ensure successful elections in the future.” It’s not clear exactly why Longoria...

New Yorker Shakeya Hudson, 33, is one of 100 moms who are receiving the cash as part of the Bridge Project scheme. The scheme provides support to moms and their babies and aims to reduce child poverty across New York City.

An intensive care unit doctor was hit and killed by his own Mercedes while chasing down the carjackers who stole the car. Dr. Rakesh Patel, 33, of Silver Springs, Maryland, had his car stolen on Vernon Street in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington DC on Tuesday around 8pm. Patel had left his car running when he got out to give a package to his girlfriend Rachel Lincoln. As the couple embraced, at least one carjacker jumped inside the doctor's car and sped off. Patel ran after them but was run over by the thief when he caught up with...

Ballot drop boxes should be placed at gas stations, talk radio host Andrew Wilkow said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s The Wilkow Majority. “If Joe Biden is so confident that the rest of us don’t think he holds any blame here, then how about this one?” Wilkow asked. “Why don’t we start putting ballot drop boxes at gas stations and start the early voting now? You want early voting? You want convenience? Let’s start voting at gas stations right now, Joe Biden. Let’s have the midterms start right now. Put drop boxes next to the pump and see who gets...

The suspect in New York City's latest hammer attack that left an Asian man with blood pouring from a wound on his head has a vast criminal history that includes 47 arrests. Christian Jeffers, 48, who identifies as a woman, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon on charges of assault, aggravated harassment and menacing as hate crimes, and one count of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from a brutal attack on a 29-year-old man that took place at the 14th Street subway station in Manhattan on Tuesday. Jeffers, wearing a black wig and purple lipstick, was caught on video smashing...

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

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Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are prolonging mask rules for public transportation until April 18 even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said most citizens may ditch face coverings. According to a White House official, the CDC will collaborate with additional agencies regarding an updated “policy framework” as to when the rules may be lifted, NBC News reported Thursday. “The requirement was set to expire on March 18 after having been extended twice before,” the outlet said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday the “barbaric” Russian regime was indulging in a tried-and-tested ruse as it lays the ground for the possible use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. “The stuff which you are hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of the Russian playbook,” he told Sky News, echoing US warnings that President Vladimir Putin could be set on a horrifying escalation. “They start saying that there are chemical weapons that are being stored by their opponents or by the Americans, so that when they themselves deploy chemical weapons — as I fear they may — they...

The central San Joaquin Valley’s top labor organizations say they want to see stricter enforcement of the COVID-19 paid sick leave law and other labor regulations. Worker advocates also say they want to see better outreach about labor rights to rural farmworkers, as well as people who don’t speak English or Spanish, such as those who speak Punjabi, Hmong and Indigenous languages. Some say that few of the Central Valley’s rural workers even know they are entitled to retroactive COVID-19 paid sick leave. “Our experience is that none of them (rural farmworkers) know about it,” Perfecto Muñoz of the West...

Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine️ At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.

VIDEO"Biden is right" Not exactly a winning message in the middle of surging inflation when you want to win votes. However, that is the losing message that Pennsylvania Lurch is hyping as he runs for U.S. Senator from the Keystone State. It's almost like he is performing in an attack ad upon himself. Oh, and about Lurch promoting that we should manufacture stuff here in the U.S.A. instead of China... President Trump already been there, done that. It's one thing to talk the (dirty) talk as Lurch is doing but quite another to walk the walk as President Trump already...

U.S. Sends $13 Billion (That It Doesn't Have) To Ukraine -- Even While Inflation Slams Americans 2 Minute Clip...

The Hazara University has discovered coins, utensils and other important artefacts during excavation at the Fort Feroza in the Gullibagh the capital of the last Turk King [18th century] Sultan Mahmood Khurd...“This city known as Gullibagh witnessed fall and rise four times as it was occupied and then destroyed and re-emerged as a city,” Dr Shakar, the head of the HU’s Archaeology Department, said.He said that it was such an ancient site that infused a great interest in Archaeologists and art historians. “This is known history of the late medieval Muslim period as mentioned by the famous court historian of...

Wyoming legislators on Tuesday failed to advance a bill barring so-called crossover voting in state primaries, a measure former President Trump backed as he pushes voters to oust one of his most vocal Republican critics, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.). The bill would have prohibited voters from changing their party registration on primary Election Day, barring last-minute changes that would allow them to choose the party primary in which they wanted to participate. Supporters of the bill said making the change would prevent Democrats or independent voters from casting a ballot in the Republican primary - presumably, voters who would be...

Western Union Co. said Thursday that it is suspending its operations in Russia and Belarus. The money-transfer and payments company said it has engaged in "extensive dialogue" with a wide variety of its stakeholders to arrive at a decision regarding its services in Russia and Belarus.

A U.S. digital currency could be on the horizon. The Biden administration is putting its support behind the research and development of a “U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency,” or CBDC. The move is part of a sweeping executive order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday instructing the federal government to explore possible uses of and regulations for digital assets like cryptocurrencies. "My Administration places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC," the executive order reads. The order asks for a wide variety of agencies to begin research and...

he Biden administration is offering nearly $1 million for groups to investigate alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, an effort that will delegitimize Israel, according to sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. The State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) is soliciting nonprofit groups to apply for grant money up to $987,654 to "strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza," according to a grant notice first posted online in mid-February.

British intelligence services helped to monitor the Russian invasion of Ukraine by tracking the soldiers' use of social networking sites – including the gay dating app Grindr.

History shows we could be nearing the end of the stock market's 2022 correction. "The current correction in stocks is overdue: we have not had a 10%+ S&P 500 correction since the quick bear market of March 2020. 10%+ corrections have occurred once per year on average since 1930, and have lasted on average 54 trading days before lifting more than 10% from the trough (since January 3, the market has dropped 13% as of Wednesday's low and Thursday is the 45th trading day)," pointed out Bank of America strategist Savita Subramanian. Despite the compelling history lesson (which suggests we...