Tag: overreporting

It was one of the worst phone calls I'd ever received: a friend in Kabul calling on a Sunday afternoon to tell me that...

Former NFL coach Urban Meyer attended former President Donald Trump's annual Super Bowl party on Sunday night, where guests dined on a game-day menu...

Colorado's attorney general announced on Wednesday that a grand jury had indicted three police officers and two paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain,...

The word is now out that there are several new strains of the coronavirus spreading around the world and now across the United States....

The dire warning implicit in President Joe Biden’s more than $2trillion American Jobs Plan — which promises to rebuild American infrastructure, create union jobs, and...

Four months into Russia's invasion, unprecedented Western economic retaliation and military aid to Ukraine have not dampened Vladimir V. Putin's ability or apparent determination...

The Russell Westbrook experiment in Los Angeles has yet to click, and I'm not sure it ever will. LeBron James' absence from games due...

When some members of his own church referred to the shots as "the mark of the beast," a biblical reference to allegiance to the...

Vladimir Putin's first interview with an American television news outlet in three years was a big hit for Russia's networks, perhaps strategically so. The Russian...

When President Biden’s team announced last Tuesday that he would hold his first solo White House news conference this Thursday, they were optimistic that...

The European Union agreed Monday to impose sanctions on Belarus, including a ban on its airlines using EU airspace and airports, in response to...

According to the head of the International Energy Agency, Europe must prepare immediately for Russia to cut off all gas exports to the region...

Facebook is changing its name to Meta, a rebranded corporate parent. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the change on Thursday, saying he wanted a new brand...

According to a new analysis by PEN America, a nonprofit organization advocating for free speech, Texas banned more books from school libraries this year...

The rise in consumer prices, which pushed inflation to a four-decade high of 6.8 percent in November, has prompted the Federal Reserve to drastically...

Criminal organizations trafficking women, children, families and single adults over the U.S.- Mexico Border earned as much as $14 million a day in February, according...

In the race for Pennsylvania governor, one of the country's most important midterm elections, Trump-backed Republican Doug Mastriano trails his Democratic opponent in fundraising,...

Mark Zuckerberg is facing new challenges after a former employee turned whistleblower is set to testify before Congress, potentially revealing more damning allegations about...

Germany held a national memorial service on Sunday for its nearly 80,000 victims of the coronavirus pandemic, with the president urging the country to...

Car insurance premiums skyrocket by as much as 130% when a new teen driver is added onto an already existing policy and may even...

The CEOs of America's largest airlines have warned of "catastrophic disruption" to travel and shipping operations if telecommunications companies deploy 5G technology as planned...

On Thursday morning, shortly after beginning their second day of deliberations, the jury in Nikolas Cruz's death penalty trial reached a decision on whether...

Starting Monday, the world swimming governing body effectively banned transgender women from competing in women's events. On Sunday, FINA members overwhelmingly approved a new "gender...

A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that some Russian troops in Ukraine have surrendered en masse or sabotaged their own vehicles to avoid...

According to a report by a panel that advises state officials, oil refineries, utilities, and other companies that must pay to emit greenhouse gases...

With the U.S. pause of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine stretched into a second week, authorities are weighing whether to resume the shots the...

Idaho became the first state on Wednesday to pass a law modeled after a Texas law prohibiting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a Washington regulator that almost no one has heard of, is suddenly gaining a lot of attention—and for...

On Wednesday, Donald J. Trump faced unusual public attacks from across the Republican Party in the aftermath of a string of midterm losses by...

Beginning this weekend, Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world will gather at the Vatican for events that could serve as a dress rehearsal...

US President Joe Biden slipped a phrase into a major address on infrastructure spending earlier this month with a laugh, calling it a "boring...

AstraZeneca Plc's antibody cocktail was only 33% effective in preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in people who had been exposed to the virus, failing a key...

The Summer Olympics are just around the corner and, for the first time since 2000, Jamaican sprinting superstar Usain Bolt won't be on the track. It's...

Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old marching band member who was killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, would have graduated this year from Marjory Stoneman...

Climbers were ecstatic when Nepal decided to reopen its side of Mount Everest this year, but reports indicate that even the world's highest peak...

Only a few students wore masks when classes started a few weeks ago, before the first and then the second teacher at Connally Junior...

According to a report released Wednesday by the British Defense Ministry, some Russian military units that suffered heavy losses in Ukraine have been forced...

The six-month suspension of Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving from playing home games due to his vaccination status appears to be coming to an...

According to officials, 46 people were found dead and 16 others were taken to hospitals Monday after a tractor-trailer carrying suspected migrants was discovered...

The state's highest court ruled on Monday that the practice of allowing doctors to give mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses a lethal dose...

Developing nations are faced with the gradual erosion of their foreign trade tax revenues, which subsequently reduces their overall tax income. In light of...

A digital currency issued by the United States could be on the horizon. The Biden administration is supporting research and development of a "U.S. Central...

With the demise of the Soviet Union and dissolution of the Berlin wall, Europe has once again confronted a revitalized Moscow. This time, the...

Dell is being sued in California over claims that its Alienware Area 51m-R1 gaming laptops can be upgraded. In his lawsuit, Robert Felter claimed that...

As he arrived at an EU summit dominated by growing controversy over the issue, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended a new law in...

Districts are planning to ramp up COVID-19 testing when classes resume in January, anticipating steep challenges in reopening schools amid an omicron-driven surge of...

The most recent coup in bauxite-rich Analysts say Guinea is reverberating throughout the aluminum market, but the global production chain appears to be unaffected...

On Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused President Joe Biden and his administration of fomenting a “crisis” along the US-Mexico border. Biden’s abandonment...

At least 69 people have died in the Vancouver area of Canada as a result of a record-breaking heat wave that has engulfed the...

The civil rights enforcement division of the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into a North Texas school district whose superintendent was...

As Donald Trump publicly mulls his political future, playing a "will he-won't he" game in a potential bid for the White House in 2024,...

Bradie Tennell, the top U.S. women's singles skater at the 2018 Olympics and reigning national champion, has been out of competitions since July due...

The war in Afghanistan did not end when US and UK troops left Kabul airport last year; it simply took a new, but still...

While many Republican candidates began this election season by attacking Democrats over inflation, Lee Zeldin of New York had a different focus: crime. The Republican...

America has been paying reparations for slavery for more than 160 years. President Abraham Lincoln acknowledged this in his second inaugural address, saying, "We pray fervently...

A new warning has been issued to Apple and Google, urging the tech titans to remove the China-based app TikTok from their app stores....

Jill Biden's weekend included five flights, 11 events, and three meetings with Democrats who all asked for her assistance ahead of the midterm elections....

  President Joe Biden and his administration are planning to share with the public Tuesday that they will begin distributing a limited number of COVID-19 vaccines straight...

The expansion of COVID-19 vaccination requirements across the United States has not had the desired effect, with the number of Americans receiving their first...

The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has been working for nearly a year,...

Authorities said a magnitude 6 earthquake jolted both sides of the California-Nevada border, tossed boulders onto a major highway, and was felt as far...

Authorities seized a helicopter and an airplane belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk and his family and turned them over to the Armed Forces. The...

Later this month, U.S. intelligence agencies will deliver to Congress a highly anticipated unclassified report on what they know about UFOs, or Unexplained Aerial...

Approximately 1,000 Air National Guard troops assigned to space missions are experiencing identity crisis. Their units, torn between the Air Force, where they have traditionally...

A Missouri school district has announced that spanking will be reinstated this school year, but with a parental caveat. Merlyn Johnson, superintendent of Cassville School...

According to Andy Slavitt, a former senior pandemic adviser to President Joe Biden, the Omicron coronavirus variant will cause a "winter wave" that will...

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a gunman opened fire in a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, killing at least 19 children...

Perhaps no midterm primary is garnering as much attention as Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney's, whose race next week could be the most high-profile test...

Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chastised Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX), as well as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), for their...

It's been two years since the coronavirus pandemic upended people's lives all over the world. Although the nationwide quarantine was intended to last only 14...

Barbados has officially severed ties with Queen Elizabeth II after 55 years, and one of its first acts as the world's newest republic was...

After 16 years in power, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is about to step down as leader of Europe's largest economy. Just a few months...

Thursday night at the U.S. Olympic figure skating trials, as younger women began to secure their spots on the 2022 Olympic team, another woman,...

On Monday, an airman was charged with five counts of animal cruelty at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, the latest in a...

Texas residents can now sue Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content, after a federal appeals court sided with the state's law...

In Washington, a heated debate is raging over President Biden's choice to lead a typically low-profile agency that regulates the banking industry. Saule Omarova, 55,...

At the scene of a plane crash in Los Angeles on Sunday, police pulled a bloodied pilot to safety just seconds before a train...

The worldwide web as we know it may be coming to an end…  Over the last year, countries across the world have established strict regulations...

Any firefighters who pose as sick to protest New York City's Covid-19 vaccine mandate are "doing an enormous disservice" to the city, according to...