Five people, including two children, were found dead in southwest Oklahoma City on Monday morning, according to police. While very little was known about the slayings as of early Monday afternoon, the Oklahoma City Police Department said on social media that those found dead were each homicide victims. Per a department spokesperson, the bodies were […]
Single workers need a six-figure salary to live comfortably in 11 U.S. states, according to a new study released this month by personal finance company SmartAsset. The study defines a comfortable lifestyle as one where 50% of a person’s earnings go toward primary needs like food and shelter, 30% to miscellaneous “wants” and 20% to […]
The ground rumbled Friday beneath New York City, home to famous skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. Though buildings that can reach above 100 stories might seem especially vulnerable to earthquakes, engineering experts say skyscrapers are built with enough flexibility to withstand moderate shaking. The 4.8 magnitude quake on Friday […]
The Navy’s decision to ask Congress for only a single Virginia-class fast-attack submarine in its fiscal year 2025 budget request wasn’t some “inside the Beltway” maneuver to trick Congress into securing enough funds to pay for a second sub, the service’s comptroller said Wednesday. Assistant Navy Secretary Russell Rumbaugh said it was a “real decision” […]
How would you respond were you asked: what is the single most important fact in all of human history? Rome fell? Roland died so Charlemagne could defeat the Saracens? The printing press? The U.S. Constitution? America beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb? Those and many more facts have […]
Authoritarian climate crusaders most likely regard themselves as too enlightened, important and virtuous to heed cautionary tales about green energy. For everyone else, however, those tales remind us why we did not trust the crusaders in the first place. According to ABC13 in Houston, a violent hailstorm on March 16 caused significant damage to the […]
PHILADELPHIA — Northeast Philadelphia native Marc Rayfield is a registered Democrat, considers himself a liberal and voted for Democrats John Fetterman (for Senate) and Josh Shapiro (for governor) in 2022 and for Joe Biden in 2020. Now, though, he says he finds himself estranged from the party due to rising crime […]
Not everybody in poverty is irresponsible and makes all the wrong choices. There are a lot of different paths that people walk, and until we know somebody’s story, we should withhold judgment. That’s as true for people trying to help others out as it is for those inclined to look askance at people. There is […]
NABATIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese state media reported Thursday, making the previous day the deadliest in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate for Wednesday’s strikes, which hit in the city of […]
When you wake up in the middle of the night wondering how things got so crazy, remember it could be worse. You could live in Canada. If men playing in women’s sports are a burr under the saddle of sane Americans, in Canada men are well on the way to dominating women’s sports. Last week […]
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