Federal Judge Orders Trump to Restore Press Access After White House Media Ban
A First Amendment Showdown at the White House Three national news outlets — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — were banned from the White House by President Donald Trump , setting off one of the most significant press freedom battles in recent American history. The…
Two Pacific Hurricanes Threaten Hawaii and Mexico in a Relentless Storm Season
A Pacific Under Siege The Pacific Ocean is not letting up. As of Saturday, September 26, two powerful hurricanes are simultaneously bearing down on opposite sides of the Pacific basin — one aimed squarely at Hawaii’s Big Island, the other pummeling Mexico’s southwestern coast —…
A Distant Planet Orbiting Completely Backward Is Baffling Scientists
A Planet That Defies the Rules About 73 light-years from Earth lies an exoplanet that has it all backward. While planets generally orbit in the same direction as their host star, this one travels around its star in the opposite direction to the star’s rotation…
Midland Crime Stoppers Earns National Spotlight for Outreach Excellence
A West Texas Program Makes Its Mark on the National Stage When a small-to-mid-sized city’s crime-fighting program beats out programs from across the country, it says something powerful about how that community operates. Midland Crime Stoppers, the West Texas nonprofit that connects anonymous tipsters with…
Chip Stocks and Wall Street Surge as Oil Prices and Bond Yields Both Drop
A Rare Double Tailwind Lifts Markets Wall Street caught a meaningful break on Tuesday, September 22, when two of the market’s most stubborn headwinds — elevated oil prices and rising Treasury yields — retreated at the same time. The result was a broad rally that…
Billie Jean King Defeats Bobby Riggs in Battle of Sexes
The Match Heard Around the World: King vs. Riggs On September 20, 1973, inside the Houston Astrodome, 30,492 spectators — the largest crowd ever to witness a tennis match — packed the stands for what would become one of the most culturally significant sporting events…
Major Auto Lender Pays $694 Million After Knowingly Trapping Borrowers in Unaffordable Loans
A Settlement Built on Broken Deals Georgia alleged that Credit Acceptance Corporation “engaged in deceptive, unfair, and abusive business practices when offering subprime auto loans to Georgia consumers” — and now, the company is paying a steep price. Credit Acceptance Corporation has agreed to a…
Pentagon UFO Dump Reveals Secret Program That Studied Warp Drives and Unexplained Human Injuries
A Trove of Declassified Secrets The Pentagon on Friday released its sixth batch of files on unidentified anomalous phenomena — UAP, or UFOs — including dozens of documents detailing a military program that commissioned studies of warp drives, wormholes, and injuries that researchers linked to…
Australia’s Iron-Rich Outback May Be Sitting on a Clean Energy Jackpot
A Discovery Hidden in Plain Sight As the world searches for sources of low-emission energy, researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) have uncovered a potential clean energy game-changer beneath Western Australia’s red soil — a new study revealing a way to generate naturally occurring hydrogen…
President McKinley Dies, Launching Theodore Roosevelt Into History
The Shot That Changed America: McKinley’s Death and the Rise of TR On September 14, 1901, President William McKinley took his final breath in Buffalo, New York, eight days after being shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition. At just 42 years old,…
