Matt Gagnon discusses the hiring process in Old Orchard Beach, highlighting the challenges faced by local police officers and the recent controversy involving a reserve officer. He praises the officers’ hard work but criticizes the hiring fiasco. Gagnon then shifts to the issue of illegal immigrants obtaining driver’s licenses and voter registrations, particularly in California, arguing it creates confusion and potential voter fraud. He criticizes the practice as a political strategy to attract Latino voters. Gagnon also shares his personal experience obtaining a Real ID, noting the stringent verification process and the potential for document fraud.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
