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President Donald Trump sought to tout the wins of his time back in office while also blaming Democrats for problems that continue to plague the country under his administration. The Morning Joe panel ...

In 2025, rumors abounded that Oura Health, the maker of a ring that reads biometric data, and Palantir Technologies, a software company that serves the U.S. government, allowed the latter company ...

Because it’s not trendy to be plus size anymore? Because I’m 35? I don’t know, but it’s been hard not to have this huge ...

How much does an American family of four need to earn to avoid poverty? According to the Census Bureau, $32,130. But what if it were really $140,000? Late last month, the investor and Substack writer ...

In the introduction of his new book on Belgian embassies, Bram De Maeyer starts by citing a seemingly bland bit of bureaucracy from 2016, when the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to move ...

The English language is rich with expressive words that capture emotions in their deepest shades, and one such word is lugubrious. It is not a term you hear in everyday conversation, yet it carries a ...

The reaction to President Donald Trump’s recent social media post was immediate and telling. For many, the post was stunning in its cruelty, a line so clearly crossed it demanded condemnation. For ...

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night, most of which have been debunked before. Here is a fact check of some of his ...

“Trauma is now treated as a personal possession: something to be owned, narrated, and curated by the individual,” writes Katherine Rowland in The Guardian, in an article aptly titled “They’re selling ...

Several years ago, I was approached to write a popular book on terminal lucidity—a near-death phenomenon in which individuals with severe cognitive impairment experience unexpected moments of clarity ...