The View From Moscow On The Trump Impeachment Inquiry
"Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in U.S. elections," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at an investment conference last week. "Now they're accusing Ukraine." (Image credit:...
View ArticleConfederate Monument Law Upheld By Alabama Supreme Court
The Alabama Supreme Court said the lower court erred earlier this year when it ruled the city of Birmingham had constitutional rights to free speech. The city must now pay a $25,000 fine. (Image...
View ArticleAuthor Kristin Kimball Wants To Persuade You To Become A Farmer
Kristin Kimball's second book — published nearly two decades after she left New York City to start a farm upstate — explores the ways in which farming has shaped her life and marriage in middle age....
View ArticleFollowing Backlash, Twitter Offers to 'Memorialize' Accounts Of The Deceased
The company received criticism over plans to delete inactive accounts. It later clarified that deletions will not occur until after a "memorial" function is introduced. (Image credit: Jeff Chiu/AP)
View ArticleTrump Floating Terrorist Label For Mexican Cartels Brings Fears Of Drone Strikes
President Trump says he plans to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The remarks are stoking fears that such a move would trigger a military response. (Image credit:...
View ArticleA Private Equity-Owned Doctors' Group Sued Poor Patients Until It Came Under...
After the Blackstone Group acquired a large national physician staffing firm in 2017, low-income patients faced far more debt collection lawsuits. They stopped only after news media investigated....
View ArticleWilliam Ruckelshaus, Who Defied Nixon In 'Saturday Night Massacre,' Has Died...
Ruckelshaus was a moderate Republican who held several posts in the Nixon administration. His loyalty to Nixon had its limits. (Image credit: Charles Gorry/AP)
View ArticleFisheries And Fishermen Hard Hit By Decline Of Oysters On Gulf Coast
Record flooding on the Mississippi River sent too much fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico, killing oysters and crippling other seafood harvests that depend on saltwater to survive. (Image credit:...
View ArticleHere's To Grown-Up Siblings And The Ties That Bind
Though she and her younger brother are very different, he's the one, in a way, she knows best. Sibling relationships, in fact, are the longest-lasting family ties we have, transcending time and loss....
View ArticleWhy We Celebrate Thanksgiving On The 4th Thursday Of November
There is an explanation, but you have to go back to things decreed by Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt (FDR, that is). (Image credit: Bettmann/Corbis/AP)
View Article'Food Pharmacies' In Clinics: When The Diagnosis Is Chronic Hunger
It's hard to manage chronic conditions without a steady source of healthy food. That's why health care providers are setting up food pantries — right inside hospitals and clinics. (Image credit:...
View ArticleThis Florida Keys Neighborhood Has Been Flooded For Nearly 3 Months
Exceptionally high "king tides," combined with rising seas, have left some Key Largo residents surrounded by water. Getting out of the house for work and daily chores can be a challenge. (Image...
View ArticleIn Iraq, Iranian Consulate Torched And Security Forces Fire On Protesters
More than two dozen protesters in Iraq have been killed since Wednesday, and the worst violence has been in the country's south. It's a growing display of anger over Iran's role in Iraqi politics....
View Article'It Was Unmistakably A Directed Attack': 4 Ebola Workers Killed In Congo
The two overnight assaults on Ebola response teams also injured at least six people, according to the World Health Organization. The attacks come at a pivotal time for the fight against the disease....
View ArticleTrump Announces Resumption Of Talks With Taliban During Surprise Visit To...
"The Taliban wants to make a deal," President Trump said during his trip to Bagram Airfield, where he met with U.S. troops. "If they do, they do, and if they don't, they don't. That's fine." (Image...
View ArticleNew Zealand's Prime Minister Apologizes For Government's Handling Of 1979...
"I know the time has come to say I am sorry," New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said at a memorial. An initial investigation had blamed pilot error in the crash that killed 257 people....
View ArticleClive James, Writer, TV Host And Cultural Critic, Dies At 80
"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." That is just one of the many clever observations of the writer, TV host and cultural critic Clive James. He died Sunday in Cambridge, England. (Image...
View Article500 Years After Leonardo Da Vinci's Death, France Celebrates His Life And Work
A new exhibition at the Louvre includes Leonardo's sketches, drawings and 11 paintings. "You can really get into his brain and try to see how he thought," says biographer Serge Bramly. (Image credit:...
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