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The service is being held Thursday at the National Cathedral. WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral will be held in Washington on Thursday, with several high-profile political figures set to be at the service for the man considered one of the most influential vice presidents in U.S. history. Former President Joe Biden plans to attend, a spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. The funeral will be held at Washington National Cathedral at 11 a.m. ET. Former President George W. Bush, who Cheney served for two terms, will offer a tribute at the service. According to the cathedral's program, Cheney's...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — A Volusia County woman is facing battery charges and possible deportation after deputies say she threw cold coffee on a woman, her 11-month-old son and their dog during a confrontation over a leash. The incident happened Friday morning on Quail Nest Lane, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Kelly Brisell told WESH 2 News she was walking with her son, Owen, and her 5-year-old Dalmatian, Ponce, when she encountered Nina Jaaskelainen outside a home. Brisell said Jaaskelainen became upset that her dog was not on a leash. “She started screaming at us,” Brisell said. “I...

Greg Price @greg_price11 🚨 Aftyn Behn-- the Democrat nominee for the upcoming TN07 special election-- says that she despises Nashville, the city that she's running to represent in Congress: “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville. I hate it."

As support grows to impeach Trump's biggest nemesis on the federal bench, the embattled D.C. chief judge plans to resume contempt proceedings against the administration. Are Republicans finally preparing to oust Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg? This week, six Republican senators asked Sri Srinivasan, the chief judge of the D.C. circuit court, to suspend Boasberg pending potential impeachment proceedings in the House against the embattled Obama appointee. Senators Eric Schmitt, Mike Lee, Tommy Tuberville, Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, and Kevin Cramer want Srinivasan to sideline Boasberg indefinitely; earlier this month, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) filed articles of impeachment against Boasberg following...

KEY POINTS * Starbucks Workers United says it is adding more than two dozen new cities and stores to its strike count, brining the total to 95 stores in 65 cities. * The union, which began organizing in 2021, has threatened the “largest, longest” strike in company history. It began on Nov. 13 and is open-ended. * Starbucks and the union entered into mediation in February, and hundreds of barista delegates voted down the economic package Starbucks proposed in April. * Both sides have pointed blame at the other for failure to reach a bargaining agreement, and say they’re ready...

Scientists at the University of Santiago de Compostela have unveiled a new photocatalytic method that converts methane and other natural gas components directly into versatile chemical building blocks. Researchers have created an iron-based catalyst that controls methane’s extreme reactivity, opening the door for natural gas to serve as a sustainable feedstock for high-value chemicals, including pharmaceuticals. Natural gas, one of the most plentiful energy resources on Earth, consists mainly of methane, ethane, and propane. Although it is commonly burned for power and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, researchers have long looked for ways to convert these stable hydrocarbons into useful...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Kathy Hochul is calling on President Donald Trump to release $400 million in federal funds for the Home Energy Assistance Program. Governor Hochul said 1.5 million New Yorkers will rely on HEAP to help them heat their homes this winter. Hochul noted that, despite the government shutdown ending after 43 days, the longest hiatus in history, the Trump Administration has yet to release the funds. New York State will begin accepting HEAP applications on Nov. 24, but Hochul said that this will only be possible if the funding is provided. CNY Central spoke to one local...

Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots. In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source...

MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions, prosecutors allege. "Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime," Attorney General...

As climate change threatens our planet, AP climate choices reporter Caleigh Wells is explaining what readers can do. Here’s what she said: Climate change stories can be devastating — frustrating policy fights, environmental destruction, public health disasters — and my fellow AP climate reporters are great at telling them. That’s not my job. I cover “climate choices.” I tell readers how their actions impact the planet. It’s important for two reasons: First, if we’re going to tackle this big existential climate threat, we have to know how, and 2) climate news sparks dread and anxiety. And the best antidotes I’ve...

A political commentator for NonLib Take says getting to the bottom of the Arctic Frost controversy must reveal who ordered telecom companies to give up phone records for Jack Smith’s investigation of President Trump. Arynne Wexler, in a post on X, said the central issue is to identify who authorized the subpoenas targeting Republican lawmakers, asking, “But is this really about Verizon? They were one of the multiple telecom companies threatened by court order,” said Wexler. “We shouldn’t lose focus over who directed Arctic Frost. Jack Smith and Judge Boasberg directed this overreach – everyone should know their names.” Arctic...

World leaders are heading into the final days of COP30, the United Nations climate meeting in Brazil. They are trying to agree on how to curb global warming and pay for the costs of an increasingly hotter planet. For the past eight years, one of the primary objectives of the annual negotiations has been to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to the temperatures in the late 1800s. That temperature goal was established after a landmark international scientific report laid out the catastrophic effects of exceeding that amount of warming. But that goal is no longer plausible, scientists...

A Colorado consumer advocacy group says some of the newest toys on shelves this holiday season are equipped with artificial intelligence, and they may not be good for kids. These robots, and even teddy bears, are equipped with AI chatbots that can talk to your child. In tests, some of the toys could tell kids how to find and light matches or even discuss inappropriate topics. In its annual "Trouble in Toyland" report, U.S. PIRG said, "In our testing, it was obvious that some toy companies are putting in guardrails to make their toys behave in a more kid-appropriate way...

If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, posing serious health risks to nearby communities, according to a new study. Researchers identified 5,500 sites that store, emit or handle sewage, trash, oil, gas and other hazards that could face coastal flooding by 2100, with much of the risk already locked in due to past emissions. But more than half the sites are projected to face flood risk much sooner — as soon as 2050. Low-income, communities...

Within 24 hours of arriving in San Miguel de Allende, Karen decided to permanently leave the United States and become one of the many recent US immigrants to Mexico. Four months before visiting the city, the 55-year-old had been terminated as part of the Trump administration’s January 20 executive order suspending the US Refugee Admissions Program. Karen, who asked me not to use her full name because of her current immigration status, says through a haze of tears, “It’s hard to explain the compound grief involved in seeing a sector that did nothing but good just destroyed,” adding that much...

Rigid ideologies like DEI, climate dogma, and anti-Trump obsession keep collapsing under their own contradictions, leaving their loudest champions looking increasingly absurd. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males. DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers. So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged...

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum performed a needed service for America by leaving a loathsome Democrat congressman completely embarrassed after he called for members of the military to defy orders from President Trump and commit treason in the process. Rep. Crow appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to defend the disgusting video he made with his fellow Democrats, and was quickly embarrassed by MacCallum. She pointed out that he was not discussing any actual policy in the video, leaving viewers confused about what he and his fellow Democrats were talking about. Not only did Crow have no answer for this, but...

More Americans report seeing the impacts of President Donald Trump’s cuts to federal programs and the government workforce, according to new survey data released Monday by the Partnership for Public Service. Despite the additional respondents noticing the effects of these reductions, however, the share of individuals supporting or opposing the administration’s overhauls has hardly changed over the past six months. The nonpartisan good government nonprofit found in a fall survey that 46% of respondents said they know someone who has been affected by the federal cuts while 48% did not. In comparison, when the Partnership polled this question in March,...

Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags. At Toronto Metropolitan University, a “performative male” contest recently drew a sizeable crowd by poking fun at this new TikTok archetype of masculinity. The “performative man” is a new Gen Z term describing young men who deliberately craft a soft, sensitive, emotionally aware aesthetic, signalling the rejection of “toxic masculinity.” At “performative male” contests, participants compete for laughs and for women’s attention by reciting poetry, showing off thrifted fashion or handing out feminine hygiene products...

German police have opened up an investigation into the death of variety show stars and twin sisters Alice and Ellen Kessler, who shot to fame in the 1950s. According the the German news agency dpa, the pair were found on Monday in the home they shared in Grünwald, a prosperous suburb of Munich. They were 89