Looming in Charleston Harbor, the USS Yorktown is a great, grey reminder of service to country. Now a museum, she is the symbolic choice of venue on the Saturday before Veterans Day for the last five years, where artist Mary Whyte holds one of her painting classes for veterans. This time, 30 vets attended; dozens…
Dylan Peterson made his NHL debut last week on the St. Louis Blues. In the third period, he squared off and held his own. Tony Dokoupil has the story. Source link
The arrest of a California couple this week on conspiracy and child abuse charges has raised critical questions regarding the future of the 21 young children at the center of the case, most of them surrogate-born, who were removed from the couple’s Arcadia mansion and other properties. It has been over a year since authorities raided…
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, by lethal injection on Wednesday. If the procedure happens as scheduled, Pike would also become the only woman executed in the state in the last 200 years. Now 50, Pike has been incarcerated since 1995 for the murder that year of…
Canadian trade officials acknowledge that the country’s retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on $20 billion in American goods are intended to exert pressure on the Trump administration by targeting key U.S. states. Although the negotiators haven’t identified those regions, the tariffs could hit states in the Midwest and Northeast particularly hard, according to economists’ analysis…
The national debt topped $40 trillion, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday, representing a fiscal milestone that underscores the federal government’s mounting borrowing and interest costs. The Treasury Department’s daily financial report shows that the nation’s debt reached $40.05 trillion on August 18, more than double its level in 2017. The federal debt has…
