Officials helping plan activities in Elkhart County to mark Indiana’s bicentennial are forming an expanded organizational committee that will include minority representation.
It is hard to resist eating even a piece of raw dough while making cookies, or letting the kids scrape the bowl, but the FDA says it could make you sick, even if you don’t use eggs. Many people understand the risk of eating raw dough due to the presence of raw eggs and its Salmonella risk. There is still a risk associated with raw dough without eggs, such as E. coli in flour.
Tufts University researchers reviewed several studies representing more than 600,000 people finding butter had either a very small or insignificant association with any risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes or sudden death.
A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was “racist,” the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.
Superintendent Scott Oswald estimated that on some occasions over the last month, officers may have been called to as many as five incidents per day in the district of 1,875 students.
U.S. sailors who blundered into Iranian waters in January divulged sensitive information to their captors while held at gunpoint by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S. Navy report said on Thursday.
A team of researchers lead by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Climate Change Science Institute discovered a correlation between human activity and the greening of the Northern Hemisphere.
One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”
A large survey of Europeans indicates that more than 6 million have quit smoking with the help of e-cigarettes, while more than 9 million have cut back
A top aide to Hillary Clinton said the former secretary of state’s use of a private e-mail server to conduct government business on at least one occasion got in the way of Clinton’s work and left the aide frustrated, according to a transcript of the aide’s deposition released Wednesday.
Finally making good on long-harbored anger at conservative media, Democrats on the Federal Election Commission voted in secret to punish Fox News’ sponsorship of a Republican presidential debate, using an obscure law to charge the network with helping those on stage.
Sheriff Demings said the boy’s father tried wrestling with the alligator as it pulled his son further into the water. The parents and lifeguard desperately searched for signs of the boy, but found none.
They recovered the boy’s body during my show today. Horrifying.
A British family has told of their terror after being ‘chased’ by an alligator at a luxury Disney World hotel – just weeks before a toddler was attacked at the same resort.
Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach.
The White House reacted to reports that Russian hackers penetrated the Democratic National Committee’s computer network by complaining that Republicans have blocked additional money for funds to enhance the nation’s cybersecurity.
A recently released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core State Standards do not adequately prepare students for college-level work.
“If [Mr. Mateen] was not able to buy a weapon that shoots off 700 rounds in a minute, a lot of those people would still be alive,” the congressman said. “If somebody like him had nothing worse to deal with than a Glock pistol … he might have killed three or four people and not 50. It’s way too easy to kill people in America today, and we have to think long and hard about what to do about that.”
Mass public shootings, where the shooter intends to commit mass murder in a public place, has not “exploded” over the last five years, as frequently claimed in the media,
The death tolls change, the places change: Nine in a church, 23 in a restaurant, 26 in an elementary school, now 49 in a nightclub. The faces in the memorial photos change the most.
Fact: A decade long study, covering 84 mass public shootings, found that pistols were used 60% of the time. Rifles were used 27%. But that is all types of rifles, and so-called “assault weapons” (such as the AR-15 or civilian versions of the AK-47) are a subset of these.
“I just hope that you do some truthful reporting and get to the facts and stay focused, at least for the incident and say your prayers for the victims. It is horrific and we all feel that same pain.”
Yet while lawmakers argued that their legislation would prevent future massacres, they had no definitive answer for whether it would have stopped the killing in Orlando, or whether the #FBI had simply let Mateen slip through its screening procedures.
A “design flaw” that caused the doors of a #Toyota SUV to unlock when the vehicle was placed in park led to the carjacking, kidnapping, and sexual assault of a woman, and to the subsequent hit-and-run murders of a mother and her three children, a #lawsuit alleges.
Then, instead of making a single dime, they crated the product of their labor to the One Blood donation center. The food and drinks were handed out, free of charge, to all the people who had lined up to donate blood.
To accomplish this they had to ignore the text of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Bill of Rights, misinterpret the Supreme Court decision District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and cite English laws going back to 1299.
After a New Jersey sixth-grader criticized a classmate’s vegetarianism last year — noting, among other comments, that “vegetarians are idiots” — the school district is allowed to punish the student for #bullying, the Asbury Park Press reported.
“Carmen was embarrassed that she was being called out in front of her bosses and fellow employees,” states the #lawsuit. “The shame caused Carmen to momentarily attempt to pedal faster.”
The House Select Committee on #Benghazi has demanded a top Defense Department official testify after the committee interviewed a witness Thursday who says he was a drone sensor operator on the night of the attacks — and is a person the official had said in late April the department could not find.
I never really thought of my #iPhone as a product of the United States government, because my iPhone works most of the time and I wasn’t required by law to buy it. But, as always, Nancy #Pelosi knows better.
Except it’s not legal. Like, it’s illegal. Super duper illegal. Quadruple illegal in the case of the Soechtig employee who purchased four firearms across state lines without processing the sale through a federal firearms licensee (FFL) in his home state of Colorado.
High school girls in Alaska are crying foul after a male sprinter took home all-state honors in girls’ track and field. According to local reports, it was the first time in Alaskan history that a male athlete competed in the girls’ state championships.
A #Michigan state lawmaker introduced legislation to help protect parental rights, especially when it comes to knowing if their child is using the boys’ or girls’ restroom at school and who has access to that restroom.
The government released names of 426 organizations. Another 40 were not released as part of the list because they had already opted out of being part of the class-action suit.
