WAILUKU, Hawaii — Teva Loft, a high school football player in the Hawaii town that was destroyed by the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century, has never been to Las Vegas nor has he watched an NFL game in person. But he and three of his fellow Lahainaluna High School captains will be at […]
It’s one of the most infamous misquotes of all time: Aristotle’s supposed assertion that, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” One blogger notes that the misquote appears to have first surfaced in Lowell Bennion’s 1959 book “Religion and the Pursuit of Truth” and […]
I know it sounds vaguely McCarthyite to call today’s Left-wingers communists, but the fact is that today’s Left-wingers are communists. Actually, in the 1950s, there were lots of commies too. There were communist spies throughout our government–but McCarthy was spraying and praying, not identifying actual communists. He did more to undermine concern about real communists […]
LONDON (AP) — Oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and natural gas prices, which had surged the year before in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a statement Thursday, London-based Shell said its post-tax earnings fell 29%, to $28.3 billion from […]
A high-school wrestling coach has received a severe penalty after going one step too far to protect his son. On Jan. 20, assistant wrestling coach Russell Brunson of Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian, Idaho, interrupted a match and appeared to strike an opposing wrestler who had Brunson’s son pinned in what Brunson regarded as […]
LAS VEGAS — Four high school students in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the fatal beating of their schoolmate that was caught on cellphone video and shared widely across social media. A grand jury in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, returned an indictment last week against the teens, all […]
The CEO who has been running the high speed rail project in California since 2018 announced last week that he was stepping down. [Brian] Kelly inherited a massive project that had been bogged down by slow acquisition of property for the route through the central San Joaquin Valley and beset by schedule delays and cost […]
First lady Jill Biden spoke to teachers and students at a high school in Utah on Tuesday, but the visit came with some unfortunate optics that apparently no one who organized the event considered beforehand. The wife of President Joe Biden paid a visit to a school in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt […]
There’s a major storm headed for New York City and that means migrants who are currently living in a tent camp on federal land in Brooklyn need to be moved somewhere else for their own safety. Here’s an aerial shot showing Floyd Bennet Field which is now the site of a large tent camp. This […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The deadliest mass shooting in Maine history propelled homicides to a new high in the state in 2023, hitting at least 50 to shatter the previous record as the end of the year approaches, officials said. Eighteen people were killed and 13 injured in the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston, a […]
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