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An emergency crew rescued a construction worker from scaffolding on the White House North Portico on Monday afternoon after receiving reports of an injury on site. Dispatchers for the D.C. Fire and EMS department called for a “high-angle rescue” at the White House, according to publicly available audio recordings from the incident. A high-angle rescue…
Cybersecurity has become a core part of how modern organizations operate. Businesses, government agencies, healthcare providers, technology companies, and critical infrastructure operators all depend on connected systems that can expose sensitive information when poorly protected. As digital threats continue to evolve, organizations need clear ways to identify weaknesses and strengthen their defenses. In the United…
The average price of regular gasoline in the United States hit $4.14 a gallon heading into Labor Day weekend, setting a new record high for the holiday. The previous Labor Day record stood at $3.82 a gallon, set back in 2012, meaning prices have now surged well past that historic benchmark. Gas prices have never…
Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, announced Monday the debut of a new meme coin trading under the ticker $LAPTOP. The name directly references the political firestorm that engulfed Hunter Biden beginning in 2020 over his personal laptop and its contents. Meme coins carry no intrinsic value but frequently surge in price driven…
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who later served as President Trump’s personal lawyer, has publicly attacked Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his plans to attend the 9/11 commemoration at Ground Zero. Giuliani led New York City through the devastating aftermath of the September 11 attacks, and he has positioned himself as a vocal…
Hirsch, host of the popular *Not Skinny But Not Fat* podcast, issued a public apology after facing significant backlash over a sponsored advertisement tied to the Lindsay Clancy trial. The controversy began after Hirsch posted a branded ad for Polymarket, an online betting platform where users wager on the outcomes of real-world events. The post…
Decades of progress under the Occupational Safety and Health Act are being quietly eroded by stagnant regulations and a dramatic shortage of federal inspectors. In 1980, OSHA employed nearly 15 inspectors for every million covered workers, a ratio that has since collapsed to fewer than six per million. Today, roughly 740 federal inspectors are responsible…
In 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proclaimed he was the “King of Debt” and boasted he could eliminate the national debt in eight years. At the time Trump made that claim, the national debt stood at $19 trillion, a figure that now looks almost quaint by comparison. Ten years later, the national debt has…
Democrats and reproductive rights groups are making Sen. Susan Collins’s vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh the centerpiece of their campaign to unseat her. Opponents argue Collins paved the way for the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by casting a pivotal vote in Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson released…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered a full ground stop at Miami International Airport on Sunday after an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway and caught fire. The incident occurred at approximately 2 p.m. EDT when 21 Air Flight 7598 overshot the runway following a landing at Miami International Airport. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft had…