Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Has Killed Two and Shows No Signs of Stopping
A Preventable Disease Turns Deadly A disease most Americans assumed was long gone has returned with a vengeance. Pennsylvania is now at the center of the nation’s largest active measles outbreak, a crisis that has spread across dozens of counties, filled hospital beds, and claimed…
Arkansas Faces Wildfires, Bank Closures, and a Landmark Press Freedom Fight
A State Under Pressure From All Sides Arkansas is navigating a turbulent stretch, with three major stories converging this week that touch the lives of nearly every resident in the state: a dangerous wildfire emergency gripping all 75 counties, a major regional bank shutting down…
LSU Faces Lawsuit and Possible Expulsion as College Football’s Wild Opening Weekend Arrives
A Season Opener Like No Other College football’s 2026 season is officially underway, and it has arrived with courtroom drama, historic venues, and a coaching legend looking to prove himself. The week’s most explosive storyline doesn’t involve a Hail Mary or a last-second field goal…
Major Medical Groups Step Up With Fall Vaccine Guidance as Federal Health Agencies Go Silent
Doctors Fill a Federal Void Major medical groups have released their vaccine recommendations for the 2026-2027 respiratory virus season, stepping in as federal health agencies face credibility concerns under the influence of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It is an extraordinary moment in American…
Spanish Settlers Found a Tiny Village Called Los Angeles
The Humble Birth of America’s Second-Largest City On September 4, 1781, a small group of 44 settlers — a remarkably diverse band of farmers, soldiers, and their families — gathered in what is now Southern California to officially establish a new settlement under Spanish colonial…
One Man’s Camera Captured the Largest Glacier Collapse in Recorded History
A Skeptic Watches a Mountain of Ice Disappear In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic — and at the time, he was a skeptic about climate change. For nearly 20 years,…
A Constitutional Loophole Has Kept Slavery Legal in America for 161 Years
A campaign is calling for an amendment to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to fully abolish slavery in America. The current amendment, ratified in 1865, contains a loophole that permits slavery as punishment for a crime. Advocates argue this exception has allowed forced prison labor to persist and must be eliminated to truly outlaw slavery.
US Secures Majority Control of 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil in Historic Deal
A Deal Unlike Any Other On Friday, August 29, President Donald Trump announced what he called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY” — a sweeping agreement giving the United States majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves. Venezuela’s…
ICE Arrests in the SF Bay Area Surge Nearly 70 Percent, New Data Reveals
A Sharp Rise in Immigration Enforcement New data from UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project is painting a stark picture of immigration enforcement in the San Francisco Bay Area. From January through July 2025, ICE made 2,928 arrests in the region. During the same period in…
The Safety App Keeping Millions Informed Has Had a Turbulent Year
From Local Alerts to a Global Mission The Citizen app bills itself as the essential safety platform for modern life, providing real-time safety alerts, live incident videos, and 24/7 emergency assistance to keep users and their loved ones safe. What started as a hyper-local crime…
