By Alexander Fernandez, Reporter The United States revoked visas and imposed new travel restrictions on individuals in Nicaragua who, according to the State Department, facilitated irregular migration routes that moved travelers toward the U.S. border. In a Nov. 17 announcement, the department said the action targeted owners, executives, and senior officials in transportation companies, travel agencies, and tour operators that marketed or coordinated travel for migrants seeki

How the dark fleet evades global enforcement

Japan’s parliament, known as the National Diet (ND), voted to elect Sanae Takaichi as the country’s new prime minister on Oct. 21, 2025. She becomes Japan’s first female prime minister, succeeding Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned in September 2025 after his party suffered internal divisions and declining public approval. Her election comes in a country where women hold fewer than 10% of seats in the House of Representatives, according to Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and C

Federal healthcare funding begins and ends with the American taxpayer. In 2024, individuals and employers contributed about $1.7 trillion to Medicare and Medicaid — roughly $848 billion for Medicare and $890 billion for Medicaid — according to federal budget data. Together, these programs account for more than one quarter of total federal spending, and nearly one in three Americans receives coverage through them. Each year, Medicare collects slightly more in revenue than it p

By Alexander Fernandez Life News Today WASHINGTON (Oct. 15, 2025) — When Congress passed the Martha Wright-Reed Act in 2023, it promised an end to one of the most persistent financial burdens in America’s justice system: the price of a phone call home. Two years later, that promise remains out of reach. The law gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) full authority to regulate how much prisons and jails could charge for calls. The goal was simply to stop private tele

Alexander Fernandez A legacy neglected The Library of Congress (Library) in Washington, D.C., was established by an act of Congress in 1800 during John Adams’ presidency. It is the largest library in the world by cataloged holdings, with more than 178 million items in its collections as of 2025 and about 12,000 new items added each day, according to the Library’s About page. Its archives span books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, recordings and assorted curiosities su

By Alexander Fernandez Reporter for Life News Today Montgomery County, Md., Oct. 4, 2025 - At the heart of Montgomery County’s creative...

By Alexander Fernandez Reporter with Life News Today In 2011, long before a global pandemic tested national preparedness and cyberattacks targeted the nation’s infrastructure, a handful of junior officers at United States Strategic Command gathered in a windowless room in Omaha, Nebraska, facing a blank contingency planning template. Their assignment was to design a mock operation using the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES), the framework the Pentagon used

When a new restaurant prepares to open, the first diners through the door often arrive before the official launch. These quiet previews,...

When the United States first adopted daylight saving time, the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour during the summer months...

Trust in American newsrooms has fallen to historic lows. In 2025, only 32 percent of adults said they trusted the mass media a great deal...

Americans are waking up to a harsh reality: their most private communications are not always secure. Many phone calls, emails, and...

Elections

Four countries held elections in March. Pakistan on the 9th, Russia on the 17th, Slovakia on the 23rd, and Ukraine on March 31st....

Four countries held elections in February. El Salvador on the 5th, Azerbaijan on the 7th, Indonesia on the 14th, and Senegal on the 25th....

Trio Trio Residential, LLC (Trio), a company marketing itself as helpful to low-income families, with the dream of homeownership, who...

On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, a rocket strike hit a Gaza City hospital killing over 500 people, according to AP. According to the 1970 U.N....

A new form of selling and buying real estate has emerged, called wholesaling . The practice has many homeowners losing thousands of...

Cirque du Soleil returns to Tysons from Sep. 6 until Oct. 22, showcasing their latest performance, Echo. The show’s runtime is 125...

Pig-butchering is a method used by scammers who drain money out of a investor’s cryptocurrency account. The scam uses an official-looking...

Every year my family and I go to the Renaissance Festival in Crownsville Maryland. This year was the first time that every restaurant and...

Uruguayan citizens face a three-year-long drought that threatens clean drinking water and risks health. The record-setting drought is...

Masha Platonova, 15, born in Moscow, Russia, started training as a figure skater at age 3. Her parents moved to Florida in 2021 to...

The National Weather Service reported that dry global temperatures and atmospheric contrast from Hurricane Dora caused wildfires in the...