A new word, doomscrolling, describes the way we compulsively tickle our phones into providing a nonstop stream of dire health and disease statistics, grim economic predictions, images of food lines a…
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will get some company in Washington this week, as Congress -- which has been on an elongated July Fourth break -- returns to town. THIS MEANS HUNDREDS of lawmakers running around the Capitol complex, reporters looking for reaction to each of the president’s utterances and, most importantly, the beginning of negotiations over…
French President Emmanuel Macron, center, leaves the European Council building in the early morning during an EU summit in Brussels, on July 20, 2020.OLIVIER MATTHYS | AFP | Getty ImagesEuropean leaders are meeting for a fourth consecutive day on Monday to continue tense negotiations over a 750-billion-euro ($858 billion conversion) recovery fund.The European Commission, the…
All across America, African American children are trapped in failing schools that are teaching them nothing, held hostage by power-hungry teachers' unions that too often protect bad teachers and Democratic politicians who think that pumping endless streams of taxpayer money into these schools will turn around their dismal performance.Donald Trump can speak to the voting parents of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…