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A new study revealed that Americans waste nearly a pound of food per person each day, and those with higher quality diets are the worst offenders. The research, released by the USDA, University of Vermont, and University of New Hampshire, found that between 2007 and 2014, U.S. consumers wasted nearly 150,000 tons of food per day, which equals roughly 30 percent of the average daily calories consumed by all Americans combined.
April 18, U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Dick Durbin along with Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced a bill to lower the barriers to voting for millions of college students. Booker and Krishnamoorthi joined dozens of student leaders from around the country to announce the bill - called the Help Students Vote Act - earlier today at a press conference at the Capitol.
Kauai was visited by a Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Friday - and thankfully not the heavy rain that was forecast - as immense recovery efforts continue for much of the island's north shore after devastating floods that hit Sunday. Read More
In seven special elections since the 2016 election, Democrats have overperformed in districts and states that Republicans have historically dominated, and they might add Arizona's 8th congressional district to that growing list. But the reason for this may have less to do with a Democratic wave and more to do with the fact that these districts are located in the suburbs, which are largely turning their support from red to blue.
Predictions by the US's top emergency response agency FEMA reveal the terrifying possibilities of a nuclear attack by Russia on the US. Vladimir Putin has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons at his fingertips, with Donald Trump just a hair's breadth behind as the two sides squareup to one another over the Middle East.
NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks the votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have his nomination to be Secretary of State be favorably reported out of committee on Monday night. Democrats on the committee have expressed fears that Pompeo, a warmonger, will reinforce the worst tendencies of Trump.
Larry Campell, left, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer's budget director, confers with J.G. Scott, center, the Legislature's top fiscal analyst, and Raney Gilliland, right, the director of the Legislature's research staff, before the release of a new fiscal forecast, Friday, April 20, 2018, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The new forecast boosts projected tax collections through June 2019 by a total of $540 million less Larry Campell, left, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer's budget director, confers with J.G. Scott, center, the Legislature's top fiscal analyst, and Raney Gilliland, right, the director of the Legislature's research ... more TOPEKA, Kan.
The homeless man has been charged with murder in a random stabbing attack in which a man was killed wh... . FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2018, file photo, shows former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sitting behind the wheel of a tractor during a tour of Gibson's Green Acres Dairy in Ogden, Utah.
A prominent biomedical ethics expert predicts that in 20 to 40 years, many parents will choose babies from dozens of embryos, after examining DNA information on each. . This 2016 photo provided by OrganOx shows Drs.
The driver of a tractor-trailer found in Texas last summer packed with dozens of undocumented immigrants, 10 of whom died, was sentenced Friday to life without parole in a federal prison. James Matthew Bradley Jr., 61, pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to transport aliens resulting in death and one count of transporting aliens resulting in death.
Former FBI Director James Comey poses with his new book during an appearance Wednesday at a Barnes & Noble in New York. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to complain that the life of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has been "totally destroyed" and to bemoan that fired FBI Director James Comey was making money off what Trump termed a "third rate book."
The Democratic Party sued Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Russia, WikiLeaks, and Trump's son and son-in-law Friday, accusing them of an intricate conspiracy to undercut Democrats in the 2016 election by stealing tens of thousands of emails and documents. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court seeks unspecified damages and an order to prevent further interference with computer systems of the Democratic National Committee.
A job for a Gold Star mother was part of kickbacks to then-Sen. Jon Woods in return for state General Improvement Fund grants to Ecclesia College, the government argued Friday. Helping the mother of his childhood friend who was killed in combat in 2011 was an act of compassion, the defense contended.
After two years of the media and Democrat Party trying to link the Trump campaign to Russia they have found nothing. Then today the DNC sued the Trump Campaign, including the President and his family, Russia and Wikileaks today for disrupting the 2016 election.
Re-election campaigns - like the one the Trudeau Liberals will embark on next year - hang on a government's ability to convince voters that it still represents positive change, Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said Friday. David Axelrod and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics in February.
More than a decade after he served as what's been called the president's "inbox and outbox," Brett Kavanaugh's role as White House staff secretary to President George W. Bush has become a flashpoint as Republicans push his confirmation to the Supreme Court. Democrats want to see records from the time, portraying the potentially millions of documents as vital to understanding his approach to the law.