The CHP is looking for the driver of a big rig truck who struck the I-80 overpass on Gilman Street then fled the scene, authorities say.

Texas lawmakers, frustrated with what they viewed as liberal political activism from some of the titans of American industry, banned banks last year from doing business with Texas municipalities unless they could certify to the state attorney general they don’t “discriminate” against the gun industry. The Legislative Budget Board, which estimates the costs of proposed legislation, predicted no significant financial impact on the state or on local governments. But in the first eight months since the law was enacted, local governments seeking to finance building projects through bonds — for instance school districts trying to build new football stadiums, cities looking to upgrade their airports — have already paid between $300 million and $500 million more in increased interest payments, according to a study from a University of Pennsylvania professor and a Federal Reserve economist based in Washington.

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — After putting off routine health care for much of the pandemic, Americans are now returning to doctors' offices in big numbers — a trend that's starting to show up in higher insurance rates across the country. Health insurers in individual marketplaces across 13 states and Washington D.C. will raise rates an average of 10% next year, according to a review of rate filings by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Why Democratic power brokers won’t fight for public education Last spring, taking a break from waging conspiratorial campaigns against the republic, an assortment of luminaries associated with the Claremont Institute gathered to lay out a plan to foment a culture war against the nation’s schools. The Clubhouse event, entitled “Building A New Right: Red States vs. Wokeness,” featured a grab bag of Claremont fellows and friends. The star attraction was Manhattan Institute agitprop specialist Christopher Rufo, chief sower of the panics against critical race theory (CRT) and “grooming.” In a now familiar exercise, Rufo sketched out his campaign to make CRT toxic as part of a larger propaganda war against public institutions. The ultimate goal, he explained, was essentially to do away with those institutions and redirect school funding to families and individuals based on their “values.” Rufo waxed apocalyptic about the scourge of “wokeness,” and yet he struck a hopeful note. After all, he reminded listeners, it had only taken the country a few years to go from the Black Panthers to Nixon. In the ensuing months, Rufo’s propaganda campaign would grow increasingly lurid, but on this occasion, he urged his audience to raise the discussion to a higher level. Focus on “excellence,” he admonished them, and attack public schools for failing to meet that standard. Conservative communications guru David Reaboi, who helped seed a previous moral panic on the right against the sinister spread of Sharia law, weighed in with some messaging advice of his own: Go full bore against the teachers unions. Do damage. Today, this coordinated plan to wage a public relations war against the nation’s public schools is an undeniable success. Forty-two states have moved to restrict teaching about oppression, race or gender. According to one estimate, more than one third of students in the country attend school in a state where educators are now subject to some kind of classroom gag order. The achievement of Rufo and his allies is all the more astonishing, given the deep unpopularity of the policies they champion. Polls consistently show that voters across party lines are repelled by the GOP’s education extremism. Across the chasm of our current political divide, bipartisan majorities are largely in agreement that banning books and gagging teachers is bad. And for all of the insurgent right’s bold rhetoric about mining parent outrage for electoral gold, the polls that matter most have shown remarkably poor results for candidates running on scorched-earth education platforms. In New Hampshire, New York, Montana, Georgia, Wisconsin and beyond, voters are rejecting right-wing culture warriors, often by wide margins—a movement that might be summed up as “keeping the crazy away from the kids.” There’s just one problem, though: The leadership of the Democratic party doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.

Newly released documents confirm the Trump administration's push for a citizenship question was part of a bid to alter the census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College.

In tragedy, music provided solace during the AIDS epidemic, and newly discovered cassette tapes captured two decades of parties and pain.

To see the future of election subversion, look at Pennsylvania today. More than a month after the most recent primary election was settled, three counties are still refusing to certify accurate results. These counties offer an unfortunate preview of what to expect in the future. It all started simply enough at the end of 2021 when the outcome of a local judicial election in Lehigh County hinged on whether a small number of contested undated mail-in ballots would be counted. These ballots were cast by eligible voters, received on time by the county and had properly signed return envelopes. However, the return envelopes were missing a handwritten date next to the voters’ signatures. In litigation over these ballots, a federal court of appeals ruled in May that the missing dates were legally immaterial (meaning unrelated to voters’ eligibility) and ordered the mail-in ballots to be counted. A month later in June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block the ballots from being counted and the judicial race was decided. While that case was proceeding, Pennsylvania held primary elections for the U.S. Senate on May 17. Once again, there was a close election where undated mail-in ballots were at issue. When a Republican candidate in the race filed a lawsuit to require the counting of the undated mail-in ballots, a state court, following the reasoning of the federal court’s order in the Lehigh County judicial election, ordered the mail-in ballots to be counted. In normal times, this would be the end of the story. But we do not live in normal times. Despite rulings from both federal and state courts and no active election dispute, two months after the election, three Republican-controlled counties — Berks, Fayette and Lancaster — continue to refuse to include the valid, undated mail-in ballots in their final 2022 primary election certification totals. Last week, Pennsylvania finally sued to force these counties to perform this simple, but vitally important, ministerial act. This is not the first time this year we have witnessed local officials refusing to certify election results. It is an unfortunate trend that threatens to upend our election process. But this situation in Pennsylvania is far more disturbing than those we have seen elsewhere.

Adam Graham called it an "honor and a privilege to break boundaries," but said "certain elements of the population have recently become emboldened to pursue threats."

And what a certain vigilante serial killer has to do with it.

This story has everything: badass sea life, mild gore, responsive politicians, useful safety tips, and defiant New Yorkers.

Because revenues are necessary to stay in business, the companies whose profits Canada steals must recoup them elsewhere, which they do from the only honest payers, Americans. Thus do ailing U.S. consumers subsidize Canadian health care, paying prices for patented medicines that average three and a half times controlled Canadian prices. Canada is not the only Omar, however. High prices in the U.S. make up for revenue deficits in the rest of the world.

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul chided Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday after President Joe Biden decided not to nominate a conservative to a federal district courtship in their home state of Kentucky, intensifying a blame game over what McConnell believed could have been a rare Republican victory on the judiciary under a Democratic president.

Many Washington hospitals are now well over 100% full, leading to long wait times in emergency departments and disruptions in ambulance services throughout the state.

What is it about the DeFeo murders that has inspired such an … eclectic filmography?

It turns out posting anonymously on anonymous review site Glassdoor may be a thing of the past. An American judge has just ruled in favour of kiwi toy company Zuru (valued at well over a billion dollars) — meaning it will be handed the details of former Zuru employees who posted anonymous reviews on the Glassdoor site. Now, Glassdoor is legally required to release the contact details of the posters directly to Zuru, via Zuru’s attorneys. As the judge notes, “Zuru intends to sue the reviewers in New Zealand.”

Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department attempted to shoot a deputy gang tattoo off of a man during a camping trip in Kern County in 2015. Department sources say the deputies shot the tattoo off because an unauthorized change had been made to the design. All deputy gang tattoo changes must be cleared with deputy gang leadership, several sources told Knock LA.

The right-wing tech giant, who has said he believes freedom and democracy are incompatible, has poured millions into his protégé's Senate campaign.

Dave Coulier was in the television shows Full House and Fuller House. He also knows what house he was in with singer Alanis Morissette – the doghouse. Coulier talked earlier this week about t…

The award-winning screenwriter looks back on her story about a teen's unplanned pregnancy in the wake of anti-abortion legislation and why she "stayed out of the discourse" around its anti-choice interpretation until now.