German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck sees a special role for Berlin in dealing with the Gaza war in view of its close relations with Israel. “Precisely because the Israeli public knows that Germany, that the Federal Government, has made a special promise of protection for Israel, which cannot be relativized, we can also find clear […]
For anyone who’s worried about Biden’s mental acuity because of verbal slip-ups he makes while on the campagin trail, NBC host Seth Meyers has a message — Trump does the exact same thing, and perhaps even more so. To prove it, he played a minute-long supercut of Trump flubbing basic words, dating all the way […]
Use words properly I teach biology and it is frustrating to repeatedly witness the misuse of the term “evolving,” which is a word that only applies to how species of living organisms change over time. In the article that featured the top eight upcoming stories of 2024, one of the topics read “downtown Akron evolves […]
Opinion. Today marks the 133rd anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee during the wintry week between Christmas and New Years back in 1890. Nine days before the massacre that left hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children dead, an obscure weekly newspaper in South Dakota ran an editorial about the death of the Hunkpapa […]
In 1988 a famous sailing yacht went missing, leaving behind a strange final message, a mangled investigation and questions of suicide, piracy, mutiny and drug trafficking. I’ve long been fascinated by ship wrecks and disappearances and this one is one of my favorites, not only because it’s such a mysterious story, but because the ship […]
Three Washington state police officers were found not guilty of all criminal charges in the fatal arrest of Manuel Ellis — a Black man who was walking home in 2020 when deputies confronted him before being pinned down and brutalized as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.” The more than two-month trial ended Dec. 21 as […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge who is weighing whether to allow the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia to go forward next month, urged Alabama on Thursday to change procedures so the inmate can pray and say his final words before the gas mask is placed on his face. U.S. District Judge R. […]
Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens might be one the biggest sports power couples of our time. The Olympic medalist gymnast and the NFL player started dating at the start of the pandemic in 2020, and tied the knot on April 22, 2023. They’d been in a long-distance relationship since shortly after their wedding in Cabo, […]
Dear Allison: My kids use so many words that I don’t understand that I think I need a crash course in teen-speak. Can you help? This is a true story: A couple of weeks ago, my college freshman called me and proceeded to share a monologue of his goings-on, and at about the two-minute mark, […]
Scientists studying DNA. December has been a big month for CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CRSP). On Dec. 8, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for CRISPR’s gene-editing therapy, Casgevy, as a treatment for sickle cell disease. It was a monumental decision as it also marked the first approval for a therapy utilizing the CRISPR/Cas9 […]
By now you’ve probably at least heard the words “fanum tax,“ “Skibidi toilet,” “rizzler” and “gyatt.” If you’re really in the know, you might even understand what they mean. But if you’re feeling overwhelmed by all this new lingo, then you are unwittingly a part of a trend yourself — it’s called slang overload. Slang […]
Paul Ryan, the Republican former House speaker-turned-Fox Corp. board member, has summed up Donald Trump as a “populist, authoritarian narcissist.” The former president is “not a conservative,” Ryan declared during a recent virtual interview hosted by CEO advisory firm Teneo that the Republican Accountability group unearthed and shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. Trump’s […]