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If a muscle atrophies, our bodies weaken. We can’t walk very far, we can’t lift things.

When your ability to think atrophies, well, that’s arguably a whole lot worse. “Cogito, ergo sum,” or — “I think, ...Read more

What if the secret to happiness was … low expectations?

Most residents of rich, Western countries have relatively high earnings, but many also feel they can’t afford a reasonable lifestyle. Americans, for example, are...Read more

The International Association for Great Lakes Research is standing by one of its longest colleagues — Lake Ontario.

The scientific organization, which promotes research on the Great Lakes, among other freshwater bodies ...Read more

The United States has entered into an agreement with Venezuela that will give American interests majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to President Donald Trump.

In a post on...Read more

Six months into a conflict that President Donald Trump predicted would last “four to five weeks,” Republican strategists worry there’s no way to keep the Iran war from hurting the party’s prospects in November’s ...Read more

Construction on President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom shows no signs of slowing down. And the U.S. Supreme Court shows no signs of wanting to stop it.

More than a week has passed since Chief Justice John Roberts...Read more

Riding in the backseat of a long, black Chevy Caprice Classic in 1983, I heard an unforgettable melody.

A woman’s light and airy soprano harmonized with a man’s velvety baritone.

Sail away with me

To another world

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L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman did something last week few prosecutors ever do — changed his mind in public, swapping out felony charges for misdemeanors in the case of an LAPD officer accused of secretly ...Read more

Republicans don’t tend to run for office promising to rack up new federal debts. Especially in Texas. But that’s what state Attorney General Ken Paxton is doing in his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Affordability tops ...Read more

It shouldn’t have taken this long for prominent Democrats to confront their party’s antisemitism problem. But left-wing influencer Hasan Piker apparently crossed a line.

Even before the 2026 primary election season ...Read more

Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80, and for a moment, America did something it almost never does. It agreed on someone. Democrats and Republicans, the churched and the unchurched, posted the same grief for a devoutly, openly ...Read more

More than six years after a novel coronavirus spread to the United States, our nation’s leaders are still locked in a partisan cage-match over the origin of the pathogen. The neverending cycle of recriminations and ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance’s recently resurfaced comments rightly question whether the U.S. dollar should continue to be the world’s reserve currency. He has also recognized that the problem dates back 40-some years, ...Read more

Democrats’ obsession with “affordability” is right on target, given that American workers’ share of GDP is near the lowest ever recorded. Today, 61% of Americans are skimping at the grocery store, and housing and ...Read more

Nestled between two large lakes, near the northwest tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, you'll find more than 1,000 acres of land dedicated to the performing arts.

The list of children who have spent time there and gone on...Read more

On Tuesday, authorities in Pennsylvania reported two deaths from measles. Both of the patients were unvaccinated. Measles is reportedly ravaging Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, where 70 people have been hospitalized so ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — House Speaker Lisa Demuth was meandering through the Minnesota State Fair with a slice of bacon on a stick when two fairgoers stopped her to talk.

“I’m a Democrat, but thank God you’re running,�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is pushing back on requests for information about how it resolved President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing challengers of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump lost another bid to move a challenge to his New York criminal fraud conviction to a federal court as a judge said that payments to an adult film star don’t constitute an official act ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell plans to introduce legislation next week that aims to undo President Donald Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, restoring the lake's indigenous ...Read more