Three feet of snow fell in the high areas of Wyoming and Colorado starting Sunday, closing nearly 400 miles of the Interstate-80 Highway, shutting down a major trucking highway for the nation. The Spring snowstorm also downed power lines shutting down power in parts of the region. Snow is not an unfamiliar sight in the […]
The Taliban launched its annual “spring offensive” Monday with a series of attacks across Afghanistan.In the eastern city of Jalalabad, militants entered a provincial justice ministry building, triggering a shootout with police. Two policemen and at least four civilians were killed before the three attackers, including a suicide bomber, were killed in the provincial […]
HOUSTON – (May 9, 2014) – Texas Hispanics were more than twice as likely as whites to have enrolled in health insurance plans offered through the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace between September 2013 and March 2014, according to a report released today by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal […]
In direct opposition to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s calling for a postponement of a succession vote by separatists in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists voted unanimously to go ahead with a referendum of independence from Ukraine on May 11th. Many believe that Putin’s call for postponement was a staged event. According to Denis Pushilin, leader […]