Gasoline prices are surging ahead of Labor Day, with AAA predicting travelers will face the highest pump prices on record for the holiday weekend amid ongoing conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. The national average for regular gasoline reached $4.14 a gallon Thursday, up 4 cents from a week earlier, according to AAA data. Diesel averaged…
Boston — A federal judge on Thursday pressed the Justice Department on the Trump administration’s plans to impose new regulations for mail voting just weeks before the November midterms and echoed concerns that the measures could result in the disenfranchisement of voters. Lawyers for the government and a group of Democratic-led states, joined by voting…
With the burgeoning El Niño now forecast to intensify significantly in the coming months, the “supersized” climate event will likely have an outsized impact on severe weather around the world, fueling heat, drought and flooding, among other extremes, the United Nations warned Thursday. “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said…
Hillary Clinton reflects on Gloria Steinem’s impact on women’s rights – CBS News Watch CBS News Writer and women’s rights trailblazer Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at 92, her foundation announced Thursday. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined “CBS Mornings” via phone to reflect on Steinem’s life and impact. Source link
Leon Black, an investor and former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein who was subpoenaed to appear before Congress on Thursday instead filed a lawsuit to contest the subpoenas compelling him to testify and provide documents to the House committee investigating the notorious sex abuser. Black was subpoenaed in June after he abruptly left a voluntary…
Hillary Clinton on Thursday remembered activist Gloria Steinem as “one of the architects of the entire structure of women’s equality,” while encouraging young women to lift up others in the continued fight for the causes Steinem championed. “I’m hoping that young women realize that the fight is worth it. It is exhilarating,” said the former…
Gloria Steinem, who co-founded Ms. Magazine and played a significant role in the women’s liberation movement, died Wednesday at 92, her foundation announced Thursday on social media. Source link
Gloria Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine and a trailblazing figure of the women’s liberation movement in the latter half of the 20th century, has died. She was 92. The Gloria Steinem Foundation said in a social media post Thursday that she “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some…
The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial left for the day without a verdict after telling Plymouth Superior Judge William Sullivan that it remains deadlocked after more than 28 hours of deliberations. Deliberations are set to resume Thursday morning. It was the second time they have told the judge they cannot reach a verdict, leading Sullivan to…
The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is deadlocked, they told a judge after entering their fourth day of deliberations Tuesday in Massachusetts. They met for less than an hour to start the morning and then had a question for Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan just after 10 a.m. “After many hours of deliberation, we…
