The Senate has been out of session for about two weeks. It’s convened in brief "pro forma" sessions for just a couple of moments on four occasions since senators called it quits for more than a month at 4:57 a.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 8. Pro forma sessions are where the Senate huddles for just a few seconds, gaveling in and gaveling out with a skeleton crew. It’s rare that more than one senator is even in the chamber. The Senate truly isn’t back for debate and votes until the afternoon of Monday,
Anna Faris is now sober after personally discovering a correlation between "drinking and depression." During an appearance on the "Dear Chelsea" podcast , Faris told host Chelsea Handler that in the past year, she began to feel "ungracious" about her comedy career and movie roles. "I really started to notice and appreciate if and when people recognize me, they would usually smile … thinking about something f---ing stupid I did onscreen," Faris said, which prompted Handler to bring up her sobriet
President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. would temporarily waive tariffs on ground beef.
A University of California, Los Angeles, professor told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the university system’s "test-blind" admissions policy failed to eliminate racial disparities in standardized testing as intended. "That was obviously the motive. The UC Regents were very clear," said Gabriel Rossman, a sociology professor at UCLA. "They did get rid of the SAT because they thought it had a disparate impact by race." More than 3,000 faculty members across the University of California system
Last year I said that Little League umpires should be held more accountable, and I've never felt more vindicated in my life. For those who haven't followed every pitch of the ongoing Little League World Series (all of you), a California team was absolutely robbed this week on the final pitch of what turned out to be a no-hitter. Iowa won the game, 1-0, despite the boys from out west loading the bases with two outs in the sixth inning. Iowa starter Cooper Thissen struck out 15 and didn't allow a
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Leonardo, a 9-month-old golden retriever, went viral for his love of swimming in the ocean.
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The man had taken his two boys on the trip but is said to have left one behind when he got tired.
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Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has promised to match US tariffs “dollar for dollar”, after the two sides failed to agree a trade deal by the midnight deadline. “Last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal,” Carney said in a statement. The US is imposing 50% tariffs on $20bn worth of Canadian products after last-ditch negotiations failed to resolve the latest strain in already tense relations between the historic
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Omaha police agreed to stop carrying electric shock gloves in the halls of state’s largest public school district Omaha police recently agreed to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska ’s largest public school district. The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after the Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE )’s plan to give officers the “Gloves” – or “generated low output voltage emitter
