A week after a Boeing 737 Max 8 passenger jet crashed in Ethiopia, that country’s transport minister said recovered flight recorders from Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 showed “clear similarity” to a deadly accident in Indonesia last October involving a Lion Air plane of the same model.
It seems almost every year a politician in Tallahassee wants to throw a punch at the press by filing a bill to eliminate a key source of revenue in the form of public notices. This year, it’s Rep. Randy Fine (R-Brevard County).
California law gives teenagers the legal right to consent to abortions, obtain birth control, get tested for HIV or vaccinated for sexually transmitted diseases, even if their parents object. Should they also have the right to seek out immunization for other serious and potentially deadly di…
The sharp rise in the number of unauthorized migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in February seemed to confirm one of President Trump’s loudest claims — that the nation faces a full-blown migrant crisis that requires a border wall. More than 76,000 unauthorized migrants crossed th…
The news stories and photos from a Berrien County, Georgia, puppy mill are half past maddening: In recent days, authorities have removed more than 700 dogs from the wretched facility. Rescuers reported that the dogs had been living in tiny crates stacked one atop another. Many of the canines…
Federal U.S. border agents have compiled a list of activists, legal advocates and journalists to be targeted for questioning when they’re encountered at the border with Mexico, according to new reporting. Some have already been detained and interrogated.
When federal prosecutors revealed a national investigation into fraudulent college admissions, it probably shouldn’t have come as a surprise that USC was at the epicenter of the scheme.
How many times has this happened to you?
Has anything ever rocked elite colleges, or poached parents to a parboil, quite like the massive college admissions cheating scandal did in its first 24 hours?
Measles used to be part of a medical past, among diseases that modern science had virtually eradicated in the United States. Then came the anti-vaxxers with their faux science, and now measles cases are on the rise again.
The University of Central Florida report from the state House of Representatives is as bad as you might have expected.
Noted greenie Ron DeSantis turned heads after taking office when he pledged to spend $2.5 billion over four years to clean up the Everglades and restore water quality in the state.
Democrats won big in the November midterm elections by making health care their primary issue. But cracks are beginning to show as the progressive wing tries to coalesce the party behind a “Medicare for All” platform. Democrats have a lot of work to do if they hope to make it a winning strat…
The biannual shifting of the clocks took place Sunday morning, and you may be a little discombobulated. The transition to daylight saving time each March means losing the extra hour of night we enjoyed when the clocks shifted back four months earlier, and it can take a while for sleep schedu…
If ever there was a group of people we’d think wouldn’t have a care in the world, it would be NBA players. Their wealth, talent and fame are beyond what any of us could imagine for ourselves.
The United States has lost 1,800 newspapers since 2004.
The measles vaccine does not increase the risk of autism. A major new study confirms this fact, which has been accepted science for years.
With greater equality comes greater responsibility. That’s essentially what a federal judge said in a recent ruling that renders America’s male-only military draft unconstitutional.
Could this be the last year Floridians set their clocks ahead an hour on the second Sunday in March?
Abraham Lincoln was furious with General George Meade because he had not pursued and destroyed Robert E. Lee’s defeated army after the Battle of Gettysburg.
When federal prosecutors revealed a national investigation into fraudulent college admissions, it probably shouldn’t have come as a surprise that USC was at the epicenter of the scheme.
How many times has this happened to you?
Has anything ever rocked elite colleges, or poached parents to a parboil, quite like the massive college admissions cheating scandal did in its first 24 hours?
Measles used to be part of a medical past, among diseases that modern science had virtually eradicated in the United States. Then came the anti-vaxxers with their faux science, and now measles cases are on the rise again.
The University of Central Florida report from the state House of Representatives is as bad as you might have expected.
Noted greenie Ron DeSantis turned heads after taking office when he pledged to spend $2.5 billion over four years to clean up the Everglades and restore water quality in the state.
Democrats won big in the November midterm elections by making health care their primary issue. But cracks are beginning to show as the progressive wing tries to coalesce the party behind a “Medicare for All” platform. Democrats have a lot of work to do if they hope to make it a winning strat…
The biannual shifting of the clocks took place Sunday morning, and you may be a little discombobulated. The transition to daylight saving time each March means losing the extra hour of night we enjoyed when the clocks shifted back four months earlier, and it can take a while for sleep schedu…
If ever there was a group of people we’d think wouldn’t have a care in the world, it would be NBA players. Their wealth, talent and fame are beyond what any of us could imagine for ourselves.
The United States has lost 1,800 newspapers since 2004.
The measles vaccine does not increase the risk of autism. A major new study confirms this fact, which has been accepted science for years.
With greater equality comes greater responsibility. That’s essentially what a federal judge said in a recent ruling that renders America’s male-only military draft unconstitutional.
Could this be the last year Floridians set their clocks ahead an hour on the second Sunday in March?
Abraham Lincoln was furious with General George Meade because he had not pursued and destroyed Robert E. Lee’s defeated army after the Battle of Gettysburg.
When a motorist sees flashing blue lights in their rear view mirror, instinct says the person should pull over. What has been the right thing to do in the past, the normal protocol may not be the safest or smartest thing to do now.
Walking has become more hazardous to your health. Pedestrian deaths nationwide appear to have hit their highest point in almost 30 years, a troubling spike even amid increased attention to safety.
Have we got a job for you!
For generations, students have been told that whatever they did in school could end up on their “permanent record.”
Early in Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday, the convicted and disbarred former personal attorney for President Donald Trump told Congress that he and other employees of Trump’s private company understood precisely what their jobs were.
I’m typing this column amid getting ready for a trip. I will be heading to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a week-long writing workshop/conference.
