Rick Slayman is a lucky man. Thanks to doctors willing to think outside the box, he is alive and home after he received a lifesaving transplant using a genetically modified pig kidney. That’s right – a pig kidney. He is the first living recipient. The groundbreaking surgery took place last month. The transplant was performed […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio is pulling out all the stops for Monday’s total solar eclipse, as it braces for potentially hundreds of thousands of visitors. “I have to say, we don’t always get a lot of time leading up to events,” Ohio Emergency Management Agency Director Sima Merick said at a news conference Friday. “Right? […]
America’s children stayed at home when their fathers went overseas during World War I to fight the Germans and their allies in a conflict that was engulfing most of Europe. But that didn’t mean the nation’s youth played no part in the war effort. Children during the war helped to plant gardens that added to […]
Over 40 days ago, Ash Wednesday began with the words, “Remember Man thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.” After having lived this period of prayer penance and almsgiving and having passed through Good Friday, we arrive today at the great silence of Holy Saturday. It is […]
By 2050, one in four people on earth will be from the Africa, a continent of vast natural resource and precious metal reserves but also great foreign and national security challenges for Washington. A wave of military coups has occurred over the past four years, and China and Russia are increasingly rival U.S. attempts to […]
As California continues to suffer from unrelenting crime with district attorneys who refuse to hold criminals accountable, parents of students at the University of California, Berkeley are having to take extra measures. Parents have raised $42,000 to pay for private security guards that patrol just outside the campus according to the San Francisco Chronicle, being […]
Allegations are flying after the Justice Department intervened to send a $3.3 billion lawsuit against Dish Network into legal limbo. The Justice Department’s action ended claims by Vermont Telephone that Dish and other companies wrongly manipulated Federal Communications Commission rules to obtain wireless communication licenses, according to the New York Post. The March decision by […]
In following the political portion of Donald J. Trump’s career nearly since its inception (I started covering the 2016 presidential race about a month after he and Melania took their famous escalator ride at Trump Tower), rarely have I encountered a thorough treatment on what is meant by his “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. […]
As I wrote in Wednesday’s Morning Briefing, the 1980s were a glorious boom time for stand-up comedy. I am eternally grateful that I got my start back then. Before I started, I’d been watching comics like Jerry Seinfeld and Garry Shandling, who got the Great Comedy Boom rolling in the late ’70s. […]
Severe storms that appear to have spawned a rare February tornado outbreak sent sleeping Midwesterners scrambling for safety and left a trail of damage and power outages across four Great Lakes states, including the Chicago suburbs, ending a spell of summerlike, sometimes record temperatures. At least seven suspected or confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan […]
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