Ronald J Adair

A strange monolith found jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas has been taken down by authorities. How it got there is still unsolved. “It remains unknown how the item got to its location or who might be responsible,” Las Vegas police said Friday in a series of posts on X announcing the removal of the glimmering, 6-foot-4 prism. Its discovery over the weekend, and quick removal because of public safety and environmental concerns, revived a pandemic-era mystery that captured the public’s imagination when shiny monoliths evoking the object that appears in the Stanley Kubrick movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” began to appear around the globe. Members of the Las Vegas police search and rescue team found the object near Gass Peak, part of the vast Desert National Wildlife Refuge where bighorn sheep and desert tortoises can be found roaming. It was the latest discovery in a series of mysterious columns that have popped up since at least 2020. In November of tha...

The 6-3 decision along ideological lines found that citizens don't necessarily have the right to participate in federal government decisions about whether immigrant spouse s can legally live in the U.S. “While Congress has made it easier for spouses to immigrate, it has never made spousal immigration a matter of right,” said Justice Amy Coney Barrett, reading from the bench the majority opinion joined by her fellow conservatives. While a citizen “certainly has a fundamental right to marriage” Barrett said, “it is a fallacy to leap from that premise to the conclusion that United States citizens have a fundamental right that can limit how Congress exercises the nation’s sovereign power to admit or exclude foreigners.” In a dissent joined by her liberal colleagues, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that denying citizens the right to seek specific reasons about why their spouses are denied entry, “gravely undervalues the right

The 6-3 decision along ideological lines found that citizens don't necessarily have the right to participate in federal government decisions about whether immigrant spouse s can legally live in the U.S. “While Congress has made it easier for spouses to immigrate, it has never made spousal immigration a matter of right,” said Justice Amy Coney Barrett, reading from the bench the majority opinion joined by her fellow conservatives. While a citizen “certainly has a fundamental right to marriage” Barrett said, “it is a fallacy to leap from that premise to the conclusion that United States citizens have a fundamental right that can limit how Congress exercises the nation’s sovereign power to admit or exclude foreigners.” In a dissent joined by her liberal colleagues, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that denying citizens the right to seek specific reasons about why their spouses are denied entry, “gravely undervalues the right

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that Snapchill LLC out of Green Bay, WI, is recalling all canned coffee products out of concern the company’s current manufacturing process could lead to the growth and production of botulinum toxin, a deadly toxin. The company failed to file its process for manufacturing with the FDA. The coffee products are low-acid foods requiring a specific canning process to prevent botulism, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning that can result from consuming a product with botulinum toxin. To date, there have been no illnesses reported. How To Identify the Recalled Canned Coffees The canned coffees were distributed nationwide through various coffee roasters and retail locations. They were also sold directly online from Snapchill, although to date, the company’s website makes no mention of the voluntary recall. The canned coffees were sold under various roaster and brand names in can sizes ranging from 7 ounces to 12 ounces. The FDA list...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that Snapchill LLC out of Green Bay, WI, is recalling all canned coffee products out of concern the company’s current manufacturing process could lead to the growth and production of botulinum toxin, a deadly toxin. The company failed to file its process for manufacturing with the FDA. The coffee products are low-acid foods requiring a specific canning process to prevent botulism, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning that can result from consuming a product with botulinum toxin. To date, there have been no illnesses reported. How To Identify the Recalled Canned Coffees The canned coffees were distributed nationwide through various coffee roasters and retail locations. They were also sold directly online from Snapchill, although to date, the company’s website makes no mention of the voluntary recall. The canned coffees were sold under various roaster and brand names in can sizes ranging from 7 ounces to 12 ounces. The FDA list...

We won't learn the official 2025 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) until October, but the latest estimates put it somewhere around 2.57%. This is less than the 3.2% boost beneficiaries got this year and well under the 8.7% increase we saw in 2023. A 2.57% increase would add about $49 to the $1,917 average Social Security check as of May 2024. It's not a lot, but it might be the biggest increase seniors can expect for years to come. Below, we'll look at why and what you can do to help stretch your checks as far as possible.

On Friday, they wrote: “Jay’s mums asked I post this. For everyone asking who has logged into his Instagram account, it’s not him or her, somebody else has logged into it.” It comes as Lancashire Police told The Independent that Spain’s Guardia Civil turned down its “offer of support” to help in the major search. The teenager was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with shorts and trainers in Buenavista del Norte at around 8am when he twice asked a cafe owner what time the bus arrived, before walking off.

In May, 51 million retired-worker beneficiaries took home an average Social Security check totaling $1,916.63, which works out to $23,000 on an annualized basis. While this might not sound like a game-changing amount of money, the average retiree would struggle mightily without their guaranteed monthly benefit. Over the last 23 years, national pollster Gallup has surveyed retirees to gauge their reliance on Social Security income. Between 80% and 90% of respondents have consistently leaned on their payout as a "major" or "minor" income source. In other words, a majority of retired workers might not be able to cover their expenses if Social Security didn't exist.