DOJ Ends Race-Based Admissions At Jersey City High School

 

Jersey City — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it reached a voluntary settlement with the Jersey City Board of Education to end race- and national-origin-based admissions practices at Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, resolving a Civil Rights Division probe into the school's use of seat...

D-backs select Arkansas catcher Ryder Helfrick in Draft

 

Fayetteville — The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Arkansas catcher Ryder Helfrick with the No. 15 pick in the 2026 MLB Draft on Saturday in Philadelphia. Helfrick, a right-handed-hitting backstop known for defense and power, tied the Cape Cod League lead with 11 homers in 2024 and later slugged .616 with 15...

Georgia vote, Florida credits, Indiana tax amnesty announced

 

DEMOREST, Ga. The Demorest City Council unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement Thursday authorizing Mayor Jerry Harkness to sign support for a proposed countywide one-cent sales tax under House Bill 581 and Senate Bill 33, moving Habersham County closer to placing the measure on the Nov. 3 ballot to reduce property...

Iowa airman honored during hometown procession and state mourning

 

Des Moines: Major Brad Hovey, a 35-year-old Iowa native and U.S. Air Force pilot, returned this week to his hometown of Adel following a mid‑June B‑52 test flight crash at Edwards Air Force Base in California that killed eight people. Hovey, assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron, was identified...

DOJ Files Suit Challenging Maryland's Community Trust Act

 

Washington. The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Maryland on Thursday, July 9, challenging the Community Trust Act and asking a federal court to bar the state from enforcing provisions that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration agents. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court...

Germany: Volkswagen weighs 100,000 job cuts, plant closures

 

Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board met Thursday, July 9, 2026, in Wolfsburg, Germany, to examine a sweeping restructuring plan put forward by CEO Oliver Blume. According to internal sources, the proposal under consideration includes cutting up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and permanently closing four major German production plants. The plans have...

United States launches major airstrikes across southern Iran

 

The United States military conducted extensive airstrikes overnight on roughly 90 military targets across southern Iran, in what U.S. Central Command described as an effort to degrade Iran’s capability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The operation, the largest since a temporary ceasefire memorandum agreed on June...

New Jersey reality star’s daughter shares family texts

 

MONTVILLE, New Jersey – Authorities confirmed that 20-year-old Milania Giudice, daughter of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice, was arrested and charged with simple assault following a domestic dispute at the family’s Montville mansion on May 14, 2026. According to records from the Montville Township Police Department,...

Ohio judge grants college players fifth eligibility year

 

An Ohio state judge has issued a preliminary injunction allowing a group of college basketball players from the high school class of 2022 to compete for a fifth year, undermining the NCAA’s recently adopted eligibility rules. Judge Christopher A. Wagner of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas ruled that...

United States firm OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 models

 

San Francisco-based OpenAI on Thursday released its GPT-5.6 frontier model family for general availability and introduced ChatGPT Work, an agentic AI tool designed to execute complex professional tasks across applications and files. The GPT-5.6 lineup consists of three models: Sol, the flagship model that OpenAI says delivers significant performance gains...