While some companies, like Toyota, expand on their electric vehicle (EV) offerings, others, like Ford, are pulling back. Newly released data from Rho Motion, an EV research house, shows that sales are growing but still fluctuating. Global sales of EVs increased in January compared to 12 months ago, jumping 18% year over year to 1.3…

Another rat was rooted out in Ukraine. The country’s Security Service (SBU) announced on social media that the head of the country’s Anti-Terrorist Center headquarters was actually a Russian spy. The SBU called him a “rat” and said it had evidence of more than a dozen incidents of espionage. Local media in Ukraine identified the…

Hundreds of music artists, including Mariah Carey, Barbra Streisand, Ozzy Osbourne and Stevie Nicks, are calling on Congress to pass a bill that would require radio stations to pay them for the rights to play their songs. In a letter delivered Thursday, Feb. 13, to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.,…

Full Story Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is proposing to lease or sell more than 100 miles of borderlands to the federal government. Abbott’s proposal is part of an $11 billion deal to cover the state’s border security costs under Operation Lone Star. Border security assets on the table Abbott’s offer includes over 50 miles of…

Full Story Republican lawmakers have drafted articles of impeachment against two federal judges who recently ruled against the Trump administration. Rhode Island U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. issued a temporary pause on President Trump’s executive order to freeze federal funding. New York U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer blocked the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s…

Full Story Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., plans to use what he describes as an open dialogue with President Donald Trump to advocate for clean energy initiatives. Despite Trump’s opposition to certain climate policies, Fetterman believes the economic benefits that renewables have brought to several Republican-led states could make the former president more receptive to these…

Millions of Americans use GLP-1 injections like Ozempic to lose weight. A new study is raising concerns about whether these medications could be causing vision loss. Study potentially links vision loss to weight loss injections Researchers published the findings in JAMA Ophthalmology, a scientific journal, just days after the FDA cleared Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic for…

Full Story Elon Musk’s investor group claims it will withdraw its $97.4 billion bid to buy ChatGPT-maker OpenAI if OpenAI drops its plan to shift to a for-profit model. However, the company said it’s not for sale and called the offer “an improper bid to undermine a competitor.” “If OpenAI, Inc.’s Board is prepared to…

Busy beavers are being credited with saving Czech Republic taxpayers more than $1 million by doing what they do best, building dams. How did the beavers save the taxpayers money? The rodent-built structures flooded a protected former army training site where a roughly $1.2 million dam project was planned. However, the project stalled in 2018…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, Feb. 13 to impose sweeping reciprocal tariffs on countries across the globe. The move fulfills Trump’s campaign promise to match the higher rates other nations charge to import American goods and to solve what he has said are unfair trade practices. “I have decided for purposes of…