Boy sues to wear makeup for driver's license photo
A 16-year-old in South Carolina sued the state's Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday because the agency won't allow him to take a driver's license photo wearing makeup.
A 16-year-old in South Carolina sued the state's Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday because the agency won't allow him to take a driver's license photo wearing makeup.
Judge Scott McAfee will hear arguments Thursday on motions brought by former President Donald Trump and former Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer seeking to have the charges on the election interference case dismissed.
The NTSB released photos and video Wednesday from on board the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Massive barges carrying cranes streamed toward Baltimore on Thursday to begin the challenging work of removing twisted metal and concrete in an attempt to open a key shipping route blocked by the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. U.S. Coast Guard officials said Wednesday night that the barges were on their way to the spot where the bridge crossed the Patapsco River, but it was not clear when they would arrive. Divers reached the bodies of two men in a pickup truck near the bridge’s middle span on Wednesday, but officials said they would need to start clearing away the twisted wreckage before anyone could reach the bodies of four other missing workers.
Algeria's government has flooded newly opened markets selling subsidized goods with pantry staples to stave off shortages during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, when demand typically increases in Muslim-majority countries and prices tend to rise. Authorities have moved to increase food and fuel imports and also limit exports, hoping to meet the demands of Algerians preparing nightly feasts as their families break the sunrise-to-sunset fasting during Ramadan. The policies mark a reversal of the government’s longstanding practice of limiting imports to buoy local producers in the oil-rich North African nation with a struggling economy.
The disbelieving voice of a police officer witnessing the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore in the early hours of Tuesday summed up the shock about to be felt across the country.
The terms Hispanic or Latino and Middle Eastern or North African will now be listed as a single race/ethnicity category in federal forms, reflecting the reality of how many Americans identify, federal officials said.
The Dutch government on Thursday unveiled a plan worth 2.5 billion euros to retain global firms like chip giant ASML amid fears of a far-right clampdown on immigration. "If investment plans change, these forecasts and the required commitment will be adjusted," warned the Dutch government.
French lawmakers on Thursday condemned an infamous 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris as a “bloody and murderous repression,” marking another step in the country's recognition of the massacre that authorities sought to cover up for decades. The National Assembly, parliament's lower house, voted 67-11 in favor of a nonbinding resolution that condemned the police brutality that occurred on Oct. 17, 1961. About 12,000 Algerians were arrested in the crackdown and dozens were killed, “their bodies thrown into the Seine River,” President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged in 2021 on the 60th anniversary of the massacre.
A postal carrier was among four people killed when a man went on a stabbing rampage in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. The attacks in Rockford on Wednesday also left seven people injured, and a 22-year-old suspect is in custody. Authorities have not released the victims' names, but the United States Postal Inspection Service, a division of the United States Postal Service, confirmed Thursday that a USPS letter carrier was among the dead.
Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The legislation calls for a special election to fill any Senate vacancy from the Bluegrass State. “So it would be a direct voice of the people determining how the vacancy is filled,” Republican Senate President Robert Stivers said while presenting the bill to his colleagues.
Up next: North Dakota, which will hold its Democratic primary on March 30.
The University of Michigan's benchmark Consumer Sentiment Index rose to a final reading for the month of 79.4, the highest since July 2021, from February's 76.9. Consumer assessments of both current conditions and the economic outlook both improved from the March mid-month and February final readings. Expectations for inflation over a one-year horizon declined to 2.9% from 3.0% in February to match January's reading, which had been the lowest since December 2020.
“Fairly or unfairly, the Biden Administration will be judged by how quickly it can line up funding and how quickly it can rebuild the bridge."
Kate Middleton had to share her diagnosis with her children. These parents have been there.
France's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill forbidding workplace discrimination based on hair texture, which the draft law's backers say has hit mostly black women wearing their hair naturally.The bill was approved in the lower house National Assembly with 44 votes in favour and two against.
While most tax-saving moves had to be wrapped up by Dec. 31 to count for your 2023 return, here are three smart actions you can still take before the filing deadline on April 15.
"What Gaza needs is a massive well-coordinated relief effort," writes David J. Simon.
US and European stock markets mostly rose Thursday heading into the Easter break, with traders still focused on inflation and the outlook for interest rates.A recent market rally has started to peter out as traders assess the outlook for US monetary policy, with a string of above-forecast inflation and economic data leading some to question whether the Fed can stick to its projection of three cuts this year.
They worked the overnight shift repairing potholes on a famed bridge that 30,000 Marylanders relied on every day. But early Thursday morning, a 212-million-pound cargo vessel crashed into a pillar, destroying the bridge and plunging the construction workers into the frigid water below.
The Federal Student Aid office announced 200,000 FAFSA applicants received incorrect financial aid packages that need to be recalculated and resubmitted to college financial aid offices.