It’s legal to have a gun on an airplane. Just don’t try to carry it through a security checkpoint or pack it in your carry-on luggage. The Transportation Security Administration found 33 firearms in carry-on bags at RDU through the first three months of the year. That’s up from 27 during the same period last […]
Musician and conservative Kid Rock is a known Bud Light hater, but he didn’t realize he was rocking a company-branded hat during a Thursday interview on Fox News. “I see you’re wearing a, is that a Budweiser hat? Like, wasn’t it a year ago, right, that you famously posted that video of I think you […]
I have been in Tennessee since 2003 and as of today I really wish I never moved here! The GOP owns this state whereas you cannot vote your choice. I came from a progressive state (Wisconsin). Here now if you are a Dem. you no longer have a choice. In Spring Hill I voted in […]
When Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote a cheerleading concurrence in his colleagues’ decision to effectively end in vitro fertilization in the state, he cited Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas, as I learned in Father Koterski’s philosophy class, was a Dominican theologian who spent most of his life trying to synthesize Catholic Church teachings with the philosophy of […]
A 7-year-old girl died Tuesday after sand from a deep hole she was digging with her brother at the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea collapsed in on them both. Her brother was pulled out alive, but was hospitalized. The tragedy that befell the family visiting South Florida from Indiana made international headlines given what seems like the […]
A Maryland angler’s decision to duke it out with his resistant catch proved worthwhile when he broke a state record, wildlife officials said. Jean-Philippe Lartigue set the Maryland state record for rainbow trout on Feb. 10 after pulling up his “massive” catch at Antietam Creek in Devil’s Backbone County Park, according to a Feb. 13 […]
One of the best aspects of putting your money to work on Wall Street is that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all strategy for success. Depending on your goals, investment risk tolerance, and interests, there’s almost certainly a strategy that can make you richer over time. However, the caveat to the above is that it’s tough to […]
Volunteers from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh removed thousands of pounds of debris from Lake Michigan, pulling out everything from single-use plastics to tires weighing hundreds of pounds. What’s happening? Staff members and students from UW-Oshkosh spent four days a week last summer cleaning up areas susceptible to pollution, including Manitowoc, Kewaunee, Algoma, Green Bay, and […]
Feeling broke on a $665K salary: This surgeon and his wife didn’t realize their financial adviser may have been charging a high fee until Ramit Sethi set things straight Jeff, 50, is a specialized surgeon. His wife Susan, 48, is a stay-at-home mom. Even though Jeff earns an enviable $665,000 a year, the couple — […]
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Wednesday explained why she believes former President Donald Trump’s courtroom antics — which saw him threatened with removal from the courtroom during E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against him earlier in the day — may backfire on him in the long term. McCaskill, talking to MSNBC’s Joy Reid, argued […]
Social Security is a complicated program. There are many rules about retirement benefits, survivors benefits, spousal benefits, and more that many Americans don’t fully understand. Avoiding Social Security mistakes can make it easier to plan for retirement, put additional money in your pocket, and prevent you from making unnecessary sacrifices when it comes to a […]
Scythians in modern-day Ukraine made leather out of human skin, a team of researchers has determined, likely as a macabre trophy item. The discovery affirms a claim by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote extensively on the Scythian way of life. In their work, the researchers use paleoproteomics to establish the sources of leather […]