The grass is apparently not greener in Florida. Thousands of Floridian transplants who moved to the Sunshine State during the pandemic are packing up to move elsewhere‚ complaining of the relentless heat‚ damaging hurricanes and dangerous wildlife. More than 700‚000 people drawn by the promise of sunny weather‚ no income tax and lower costs moved to Florida in 2022 — including 90‚000 from New York state‚ according to census data cited by NBC News.

A fresh lawsuit revives an old challenge for President Joe Biden — delivering on his 2020 campaign pledge to forgive student loans. Biden announced in 2022 that he’d “cancel” $10‚000 of federal student debt per borrower‚ only to see his plan ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. He has since announced another $144 billion in student debt writeoffs and created a program to lower future payments‚ but he was slapped with a new lawsuit by a coalition of Republican-led states on...

When Americans head to the polls in November‚ President Joe Biden will have had a direct effect on the household finances of about 4 million of them: He canceled their student loan debt. More student debt has been forgiven under Biden than any previous administration – but after his signature debt relief program hit a major legal roadblock last year‚ his historic efforts may fall short of some voters’ expectations. Sixteen million people received an email from the...

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks‚ so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year‚ Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year‚ the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine. The jokes were so consistently over-the-top that people learned to laugh them...

Eleven states filed a lawsuit this week against President Joe Biden's recent $156 billion student debt forgiveness plan‚ stemming from last year's rejection of the president's reprieve pitch. Alabama‚ Alaska‚ Idaho‚ Iowa‚ Kansas‚ Louisiana‚ Montana‚ Nebraska‚ South Carolina‚ Texas and Utah are also asking to be repaid for Biden's Saving on a Valuable Education Plan (SAVE) loan forgiveness. All 11 states either fully or partially backed former Republican ...

Police said seven young people between the ages of 12 and 17 were injured in a shooting in downtown Indianapolis Saturday night. Officers patrolling the area heard gunshots near the Circle Centre Mall shortly after 11:30 p.m.‚ according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The officers located a large group of juveniles‚ and among them‚ six had injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. One of the victims was transported to an area hospital in critical condition but was later...

Chocolate Easter bunnies are a sweet example of European tradition re-imagined by American ingenuity and capitalist creativity.  Credit first-generation German-American Robert Lincoln Strohecker‚ known in confectioner’s lore as the "Father of the Chocolate Easter Bunny." The source of Strohecker’s legend was a massive 5-foot-tall (or perhaps even taller) solid chocolate rabbit he displayed outside Pennsylvania retailers in 1890 to popularize smaller versions of his new...

Amid growing concerns about public safety in the Big Apple‚ New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that officials will carry out a gun scanner pilot program to boost confidence in the safety of the public transit system.   “We are taking the next step forward in our ongoing efforts to make our subways even safer and ensure New Yorkers feel safer‚” Adams said at a news conference.  The portable gun scanners will be introduced in some stations after a 90-day waiting...

New York Attorney General Letitia James‚ who won a civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump‚ has a net worth of about $2.7 million‚ her most recent financial disclosure statement shows. But social media posts baselessly claim she’s worth $15 million. The claim appears to come from a website that says it “cannot guarantee its accuracy.” Letitia James‚ New York state’s attorney general‚ has a personal net worth of about $2.7 million‚ according to her most...

Anti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They’re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization. Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children‚ the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them...