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For the first time in history, the USA women’s hockey team and the USA men’s hockey team both won gold at the same Olympic Winter Games. The men’s team last won gold in 1980, against Finland, shortly after defeating the heavily favored Soviet Union in a match that stunned and sustained a weary nation. The game against the Soviets, which inspired the fantastic movie “Miracle,” happened exactly ...
Institutions across the country are being asked to choose between their transgender patients and keeping their doors open. Hospitals have been ending their gender-affirming care programs for minors after President Donald Trump’s administration threatened federal funding for any hospital providing such treatment.
As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, the nation is suffering a crisis of patriotism. A Gallup poll last year found that just 41% of Americans say they are “extremely proud” to be American – down from 70% in 2003.
One hundred years ago, Black History Month began as an act of correction.
A solid indicator of the State of the Union could be found in who was and who wasn’t in the U.S. Capitol when President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday to deliver his annual address to Congress.
By curtailing the president regarding tariffs, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday perhaps applied a defibrillator to Congress. Its weak contemporary heartbeat threatens the constitutional architecture of powers separated, checked and balanced. But Congress’s fluttering pulse requires a stronger jolt than last week’s 6-3 decision. It addressed only part of the problem that Congress has created by behavior that fuels today’s rampant presidency.
By state Sens. Yasmin Trudeau and Jeff Holy
MUNICH — When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, no one imagined Moscow would be enmeshed in a quagmire four years later, having lost nearly 1.2 million killed, wounded, or missing soldiers to an army a fraction of its size. The price Ukraine has paid for its defiance was written on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face — weary, puffy, aged dramatically beyond his 48 years — as he took the stage at ...
Every February, Black History Month invites Americans to honor the giants of the civil rights movement. We commemorate them in speeches and street names, reassuring ourselves that their struggles belong safely to the past. But history tells a less comforting story. We tend to celebrate Black moral courage only after it has been stripped of urgency — after its disruptions have been neutralized ...
Who gets to be “American”? In the United States, it’s become a fiery political question with life-or-death consequences. On one side is Team MAGA, for whom “America” means the U.S. and “American” signifies a U.S. citizen — in many of their minds, specifically a native-born, white, Christian U.S. citizen. They routinely deny that the category of “American,” even if limited to meaning ...
I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on Earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist who studies these underwater mountains and valleys, this opportunity to descend into the deepest part of the deep ocean was nothing short of spectacular.
February is National Time Management Month, which feels almost ironic because if Americans were good at managing time, we probably wouldn’t need a reminder.
Long before I ever covered him as a reporter, the Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., whose death at age 84 was announced Tuesday, was already a giant in my world.
I never imagined I’d miss being lied to by George W. Bush and his henchmen.
Despite “tariffs” being President Donald Trump’s favorite word in the dictionary, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday yoinked his ability to use tariffs willy-nilly, prompting me to ask one serious question: When will I get my money back?
Marco Rubio gave a speech Saturday to the Munich Security Conference in which he extolled an ideal that’s supposedly long out of fashion.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a guy whose social media platform most companies still use, is a BIG fan of white people. I mean … you could say he thinks white people are super. Maybe even “supreme.”
Critics from the right and left slammed President Donald Trump for posting a racist video on his social media on Feb. 5. The post was deleted, but it prompted some denouncements from across the political spectrum and put supporters back in the hot seat.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a congressional hearing room with some of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors seated behind her, showed the world that finding justice for those survivors and holding Epstein’s wealthy friends and clients accountable doesn’t matter.
From Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Greenland and government shutdowns, the barrage of daily headlines is never ending, as are the daily headaches for those who want to stay in the know.
