Attempts to drag Nancy Pelosi into court to berate her on the stand and, hopefully, on live TV. Claims that the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was an FBI frame job, with an assist from Antifa. Conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was indeed “stolen,” supposedly backed up by still-classified documents. Unhinged assertions that President Joe […]
When Souleymane Ouedraogo and Morgan Triska were parenting their first child — now in middle school — they were at an impasse when their baby struggled with a bad cold. Ouedraogo wanted to boil eucalyptus leaves with some other plants to create a healing steam cloud for his son. Triska wanted to use Vicks VapoRub. […]
LANSING — Lansing School District officials hope a mentoring program introduced this fall helps increase student performance, and hopefully graduation rates, and students who took part say it’s already taught them new things and helped them build confidence. The district graduated fewer than 7 in 10 students in the 2021-22 school year, and officials acknowledged […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Put bluntly, the relationship between Nashville’s Metro Council and the state has been bad. But a new mayor has brought some new blood. “I mean, it’s a new day,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville) said. “It really depends on how the governor and the supermajority wants to approach […]
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok (KFOR) — If you want to start off the new year with a clean start, the first step can be recycling your natural, live Christmas tree. Oklahoma City Parks and Grounds crews have hosted the recycling program for more than seven years. There are two locations to drop off your tree in […]
Talk about a strong finish. Investors who hung onto the top S&P 500 stocks this year ended up much richer for the effort. X If you invested $10,000 in January in the top-performing stock in the S&P 500 and reinvested that in each month’s top performer, including Illumina (ILMN) in December, you’d have $313,671 now, says an Investor’s […]
Maine on Thursday became the second US state to bar Donald Trump from a Republican presidential primary ballot, part of a flurry of legal challenges to his eligibility to run for president in 2024. The challenges are being filed under a provision in the US Constitution banning officials who have engaged in “insurrection” from holding […]
By Andrew Goudsward (Reuters) – Maine on Thursday became the second U.S. state to bar Donald Trump from a Republican presidential primary ballot, part of a flurry of legal challenges to his eligibility to run for president in 2024. The challenges are being filed under a provision in the U.S. Constitution banning officials who have […]
Farmer Vesta Mandloi was surprised to learn recently that one of the “stone balls” his family had been worshipping for generations has turned out to be the fossilised egg of a giant dinosaur that lived in central India’s Narmada valley millions of years ago. Like Mandloi, many farmers of Padlya village in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar […]
By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Thursday said it will not turn a blind eye to repeated “provocations and harassment” by the Philippines, amid heightened tensions over a spate of run-ins in the South China Sea. Manila earlier this month accused the Chinese coastguard and maritime militia of repeatedly firing water cannons at its […]
A Michigan man won a big prize by utilizing his losing lottery tickets. Safa Behnam, 45, won $100,000 on the 500X Money Maker Second Chance game. Behnam earned entries into the game’s giveaway by scanning losing tickets on the Michigan Lottery app, according to a Dec. 26 news release from the Michigan Lottery Connect. “I […]
Dec. 21—At Bishop’s Lodge SkyFire Restaurant, chef Pablo Peñalosa Nájera carefully crafts his two-day, slow-cooked mole sauce — a painstakingly detailed recipe that combines chiles with chocolate, fruit, cinnamon, plantains and other ingredients. But for holidays at home, he turns to the recipes his grandmother made. “I remember waking up in her house to the […]