The Chinese spy balloon that was recently shot down by the U.S. military has raised alarm bells over the presence of similar floating aircraft in American skies. The Pentagon confirmed that at least three other Chinese surveillance balloons were sighted in U.S. airspace during the Trump administration. The reported sightings took place near Texas, Florida,…

The Biden administration will approve a new oil drilling project, U.S. Customs and Border Protection finds tunnels under the border wall, and what’s a lion’s preferred flavor of popsicle? These stories and more highlight the daily afternoon rundown for Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.  Rep. Ilhan Omar removed from House Foreign Affairs Committee House Republicans unanimously…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved Tuesday to block a controversial proposal for a copper and gold mine in Southwest Alaska. The remote region, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery, is a massive source of minerals believed to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars. For nearly 20 years, the Pebble Mine…

It’s a deadly threat you may have never heard of. The New Madrid seismic zone is a series of faults that once rocked the U.S. It runs under parts of Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee. “The seismic risk in the central U.S. has been defined by Homeland Security and FEMA as catastrophic,” said James Wilkinson, the…

In the 2022 midterm election, Nevadans voted to implement nonpartisan primaries and ranked choice voting in their state and congressional elections. 15 states and Washington D.C. use closed, or partially closed, primaries for congressional and state elections. In closed primaries, you need to be a registered Republican or Democrat to vote for either party’s nominee.…

Katie Hobbs is projected to win the state’s gubernatorial election; Donald Trump is expected to announce his bid to run for president in 2024; and the world population is expected to surpass 8 billion. These stories highlight the Daily Rundown for Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Hobbs wins Arizona gubernatorial race: Arizona Secretary of State Katie…

The siblings of Sacheen Littlefeather are accusing the actress of faking her Native American ancestry. The late actress is known for famously taking the stage for Marlon Brando in 1973 to decline the Best Actor Oscar. In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Littlefeather’s sisters Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi said that their sister’s…

The U.S. Coast Guard is closely watching a new naval presence seen near Alaska. The group of warships belong to China and Russia. A U.S. Coast Guard ship was on a routine patrol in the Bering Sea when it came across a guided missile cruiser from China. Behind it was two other Chinese naval ships…

Nearly every single Alaskan received $3,284 on Tuesday as part of a combined payout as the state began distributing oil-wealth checks from its permanent investment fund. The amount was announced during a livestream broadcast on Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s Facebook page. Officially called the Permanent Fund Dividend, or PFD, the payments amounted to $2,622 — the…

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Focus on the Family ran ads celebrating the ruling and accusing multiple states of allowing late-term abortion “even up to the moment before birth.” Fact-checkers at PolitiFact looked at the ads and declared them to be “Mostly False.” However, the facts tell a different story — and…