Search WREG.com

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s environment minister said Tuesday her government will lobby against UNESCO adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered World Heritage sites, arguing that criticisms of government inaction on climate change were outdated. Officials from the U.N. cultural agency and the International Union for Conservation of Nature released a […]

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on House Republicans on Monday to lay out the spending cuts they’re proposing as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling and decried what he called their strategy of “brinkmanship” and “hostage taking” to open negotiations.  Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor that Democrats […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina House on Wednesday approved a Republican package of abortion restrictions that would tighten the state’s ban on the procedure from after 20 weeks to after 12 weeks, while creating new exceptions but also more requirements for pregnant women and physicians. The fast-tracked legislation, which emerged the previous day […]

NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Family, friends and other mourners gathered Wednesday at a Virginia church to remember Irvo Otieno at a funeral service, celebrating his life and calling for mental health care and policing reforms after the 28-year-old Black man’s death earlier this month while in custody at a state psychiatric hospital. “He had […]

BARTLETT, Tenn. — The City of Bartlett Animal Shelter needs your help finding a new home for a dog that was left alone at a dog park over the weekend. The heart-wrenching moment was caught on video as the couple turned their backs and walked away. Meet Buddy. He’s a 1-year-old pit mix and a […]

The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would require that all infants born after attempted abortions get medical care, the first abortion-related legislation from the House GOP majority after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade over the summer. The measure, titled the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, passed in a mainly 220-210-1 […]

It appears the final push to motivate voters on issues like the economy and abortion is working since early numbers indicate there could be record voter turnout for a midterm election.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The latest high-profile instance of one party in a statehouse deciding who can be heard during legislative debate has ended for now after a judge denied a transgender lawmaker’s bid to get back onto the Montana House floor and the Legislature adjourned. First-term Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr had been prevented from […]

The balloon, which the Pentagon said was being used by China for surveillance, was shot down by a U.S. aircraft at around 2:05 p.m. EST, a military intelligence source told NewsNation.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Vivienne Gray doesn’t fit the same profile as former or current professional athletes forced to live with the ongoing effects of concussions. The 33-year-old cardiac care nurse has been attempting to cope with the side effects of a concussion sustained during a collision with an opposing player in an inline hockey […]

Senate Democrats used a Thursday Budget Committee hearing to ramp up attacks on a GOP bill that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for steep spending cuts. “Since the House didn’t hold a single hearing on this extreme and dangerous measure, the Senate will,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said at the […]