Category: USA News

The world’s highest peaks are deeply revered around the world, likely due to the immense difficulty of reaching them. In 2019, Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja gained national attention by climbing 14 of the world’s tallest mountains in a little over six months. Each of these mountains are so tall that oxygen levels at the peak are […]

A man was attacked by a mountain lion while he was sitting in a hot tub at a Colorado rental home this weekend, state wildlife officials said. The man sustained minor injuries, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said, with four scratches on the top of his head and by one of his ears. State officials had not […]

With more than a week having passed since players and teams first began striking deals, NFL free agency’s first wave seems long gone.  This year’s open market seemed downright reasonable when compared to the big-dollar, market-resetting deals that had become commonplace in past offseasons. Whether due to lessons learned from past spending sprees or merely […]

Nearly six years after it was first announced at Disney’s D23 Expo, fans are finally getting a chance to enter The Grid. TRON Lightcycle / Run soft opened this week at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, with its official opening set for April 4.  The roller coaster is unlike anything most people have experienced before, and that’s what worries some […]

For the first time in recent memory, the Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting on interest rates, kicking off Tuesday, is shaping up to be a nail-biter. Will the Fed back up its inflation-fighting rhetoric and raise interest rates again despite the aftershocks of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse? Or will it prioritize financial stability during a period […]

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is designating new national monuments in Texas and Nevada. Biden will announce Tuesday that he will sign proclamations establishing the Castner Range National Monument in El Paso, Texas, and the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada. Biden will make the announcement at the White House Conservation in Action […]

Eddy Jack Martin took up broom making in the mid-1980s. His brooms have been used by the governor and first lady and on the Broadway stage. It takes him about 45 minutes to make each broom, and he makes between six and 10 per day. MCNAIRY COUNTY, Tenn. — Inside the broom maker’s little workshop […]

“PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” “WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!” So ended two posts from former President Donald Trump, who has been posting incessantly — often in all caps — on his Truth Social page for the last few days. The messages have been flowing ever since Trump announced on Saturday that he believes he […]

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump has predicted Tuesday will be the day he is indicted as an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office comes to a close.  Though there is no confirmation the indictment will come Tuesday, Trump may face charges for his alleged role in making a $130,000 hush-money payment to an adult film actress just before […]

Col. Nicole Aunapu Mann is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. Meet this year’s honorees at womenoftheyear.usatoday.com. If there’s one thing NASA astronaut Col. Nicole Mann would tell her younger self, it would be, “Hang in there, kid. You’re […]