These are the hardest working states in America: report
Story at a glance North Dakota is the hardest working state in America. Alaska, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Texas rounded out the top five. The bottom five states included West Virginia, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island and New Mexico. North Dakota is the hardest worki
Read MoreEleanor Roosevelt, Bessie Coleman among women honored in new coin designs
The U.S. Mint on Monday announced coin designs for its five new honorees in the second year of its American Women Quarters Program. Indigenous Hawaiian composer Edith Kanaka’ole, Mexican American journalist Jovita Idár and Native American ballerina Maria Tallchief are among the women to be featured in reverse designs on quarters issued in 2023. The new designs will also depict aviator Bessie Coleman, the first African American and first Native American woman pilot, and diplomat Eleanor Roosevelt, the lon
Read MoreA terror network’s struggle for influence in Afghanistan
The presence of al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, under the protection of the Taliban in a luxury villa in Kabul raises important questions about who is actually running the country and what this means for U.S. and allied interests. When U.S. forces killed al-Zawahiri on July 31, he was not just visiting Afghanistan’s capital city. He and his family were staying in a home owned by the family
Read MoreWhite House: US intel review of Mar-a-Lago docs 'appropriate'
The White House said Monday it is not involved in the intelligence community’s damage assessment of classified documents recovered from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate but said such a review is "appropriate." “The White House is not involved in the damage assessment that the DNI is going to be conducting over these documents,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters when asked about the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI) assessment. “It is an appropriate action for the director and the intelligence community to
Read MoreWhy Bridgestone is investing millions in this desert shrub
Story at a glance Bridgestone on Monday announced plans to invest an additional $42 million to establish commercial operations for planting and harvesting a rubber-rich shrub called guayule. The guayule plant bears small white flowers and narrow silvery leaves that grows in hot, arid desert areas with plenty of sun and little water. I
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