Author: Tyrone Jones

Federal, transportation and union leaders gathered in Las Vegas Monday to drive spikes into a symbolic rail, marking the beginning of construction for a $12 billion high-speed rail line that will link Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area. “People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said…

“There's no redemption for you here,” the judge told Brahm as he sat silently at the defense table. “You show no sign that you can ever be rehabilitated. Sir, your actions were cruel. They displayed a complete disregard for human life. I find that you acted with physical and mental cruelty.

The victims were unable to agree to sexual relationships because their IQs were in the 50s. One of them got pregnant and had a baby.

The European Commission is investigating TikTok over a feature that launched in France and Spain that offers users the ability to earn points for completing certain tasks on the app, the commission said Monday. The investigation will look into whether TikTok’s “addictive” features of its “TikTok lite” program violated the European Union’s Digital Service Act…

I saw two blue jays quickly moving from the branches of our red maple tree every time I walked from the garage to our shed. After noticing this happening repeatedly, I realized that they were probably building a nest close by.

AIDS was once the number one cause of death for men 25-44. While the illness is no longer a death sentence, there’s still a lot of work to do.

President Biden is narrowly leading former President Trump in a new national poll of voters, with his lead growing slightly when narrowing in on those who said they definitely plan to vote in November. A Marist/PBS NewsHour poll published Monday found Biden leading Trump 51 percent to 48 percent among registered voters, a slight uptick…

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed his desire to move the U.S. budget onto blockchain, a record of transactions commonly linked with bitcoin and other digital currencies. “I'm going to transfer the complete U.S. budget onto blockchain so that any American – every American – can view every budget item at any time.

NEWTOWN — May begins with musical tributes to classic performers, even if some are reluctant to classify 90s music as “classic” just yet. The historic Newtown Theatre will present “The Janis Joplin Experience” featuring Lisa Polizzi on Thursday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m. The Janis Joplin Experience was conceived when a promoter heard Polizzi singing […]

The bill would be “catastrophic” for Iraq’s relations with the West if it passed, one expert said.