The American Lung Association (ALA) in April released its annual report card assessing the air that we breathe and found much to be concerned about. The ALA...
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When Charles Carroll became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he was one of only about 30,000 Catholics in the 13 colonies. At...
A video of an Easter luncheon at the White House caught President Donald Trump in a hot mic moment when he told guests that it wasn’t the federal government’s...
In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian children are using a small piece of land as a soccer field. The location—against a looming wall that separates...
The day before the United States and Israel launched a joint military campaign over Iran, which, in its first days, reached more than 4,000 targets and killed...
President Donald Trump has discovered a number of ways to divide his fellow Americans. In attacks on American universities and threats to withhold federal...
Since his return to office a year ago, President Donald Trump has devoted a lot of energy to reversing initiatives favored by his predecessor, Joe Biden...
There are a lot of ways to measure a society and a country in decline. Economists like to track gross domestic product and national debt. Politicians and...
When residents of advanced economies think about nations wounded by criminal impunity, a few glaring cases no doubt come to mind—Haiti, where gangs have...
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Vice President JD Vance complained to tech and corporate leaders gathered at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington last...






