Tarrant County Public Health is advising residents to take extra care as West Nile virus cases increase across the county. Public Health Director Vinny Taneja said precautions against WNV are particularly important during the population's current pandemic. "It's prudent to stay focused on protecting against COVID-19, and although mosquitoes do not carry the COVID-19 virus,…

The Trump administration is rolling back major environmental protections that require the US government to comprehensively analyze how proposed projects like pipelines and highways affect surrounding communities.Trump announced the changes on Wednesday afternoon from a UPS airport hub in Atlanta, where he backed the widening of commercial truck lanes on Interstate Highway 75. The White…

July 15, 2020 | 1:55pm | Updated July 15, 2020 | 8:18pm Video tweeted out by the NYPD Tuesday appears to show a protester on the Brooklyn Bridge use a stick like a baton to whack police officers over the head. The scuffle came as scores of men and women marched across the bridge to…

JACKSON, Miss.—After schools shut down in March, LaKenya Bunton would get home around 7 a.m. from an overnight quality-control job at a factory, doze for a few hours, then become teacher to her 16-year-old son, Amarrius. Her son, a rising sophomore, had received no remote-learning materials from his school and didn’t hear from most of…

Thousands of homeless people have been housed in several of San Francisco’s empty hotels in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.However, City Journal contributor Erica Sandberg told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Wednesday the policy has been an "absolute disaster""It's solving exactly nothing and as a matter of fact, it's making all the problems worse," said Sandberg, who described the scene inside the hotels as "about…