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Apr 19 2024
News
Taylor Swift’s New Album, The Tortured Poets Department, Is Here, and It Is Bleak
After months of speculation and anticipation, Taylor Swift has finally released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, on Friday, April 19. Swift made good on her self-ordained Mastermind title, serving fans up a surprise at 2 a.m. EST: Instead of the expected 16 tracks and four bonus songs, Swift announced a “secret DOUBLE album,” bringing the total number of songs to 31 on
Vanity FairMar 28 2024
Opinion
The Department of Education’s FAFSA Fiasco
If, like me, you have a college-bound high-school senior in your family, you’ve likely been on the receiving end of yet another colossal screw-up by our federal government: the overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, commonly known as the FAFSA. Every year, students (or more commonly their parents) need to fill out the FAFSA with information about their income, assets, and
Dan McLaughlinApr 18 2024
News
Illinois Department of Public Health reports 64 measles cases this year
The Illinois Department of Public Health has reported 64 measles cases in the state this year. Last year, the state saw five cases of measles, and the last case before 2023 was in 2019. The first case this year was reported in early March. Many of the initial cases were linked to a Chicago migrant shelter, and two cases were in suburban Cook County. The most recent case was reported in Cicero
Daily NorthwesternApr 03 2024
News
More BNA flights departing on time
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AxiosNov 16 2017
News
Trump's Interior Department to begin issuing elephant trophy hunting permits
The Trump administration is planning to begin issuing permits for elephant trophy hunting, despite the Obama administration's decision to ban elephant ivory and tusks from being imported into the U.S.
Washington ExaminerApr 11 2024
News
Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding the State Department’s DEI pseudoscience
The federal government increasingly looks like an Ivy League classroom, combining therapy for fragile souls with indoctrination into specious ideology. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the State Department, in which employees are encouraged to take courses in the name of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, or DEIA, that stress their differences, trauma, and status on the
Washington ExaminerJan 30 2024
News
Scientists may have found a reservoir of magma in Interior Alaska
For years, scientists have wondered why North America’s highest mountain is not a volcano. All the ingredients for volcanic activity lurk deep beneath Denali, which sits above where one planetary plate grinds past another. Recently, while looking for something else, researchers found a reservoir of what might be magma, seven miles beneath the muskeg of middle Alaska. The spot intrigues Carl
KTOOApr 17 2024
News
Boston City Council weighs potential for a rat-focused city department
Last week, the Boston City Council met to discuss one of the top, pressing issues facing our city: The rat population causing a nuisance to residents citywide. For the second year in a row, Councilor Ed Flynn has proposed a measure to create a city department solely devoted to pest-related concerns, arguing that a specialized department would streamline efforts to tackle rat issues and allow
WBURApr 16 2024
News
Lawsuit alleging rampant racism at Chicago Water Department cleared for trial
A federal judge has cleared the way for a high-profile trial this summer over allegations that Black employees at the Chicago Department of Water Management were subjected to years of racist and sexist slurs, including some by politically connected top-level supervisors. In his 54-page ruling on summary judgment issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly said there was sufficient
Chicago TribuneApr 19 2024
News
State Department employees urged ‘more to punish Israel’ in private meetings: Report
Employees at the State Department privately called for “more to punish Israel” in meetings at Foggy Bottom, according to a new report. The listening session meetings started in February and have been hosted by Kurt Campbell, deputy secretary of state and former Indo-Pacific coordinator for the White House National Security Council, Jewish Insider reported. News of the meetings comes after
Washington Examiner