Month: May 2022
Colombia goes into elections Sunday with a leftist looking to make history
Colombia’s presidential election is Sunday, and for the first time, a leftist candidate is favored to come out ahead. Business elites are nervous. (Image credit: Andres Cardona/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Read MoreScientists warned us about monkeypox in 1988. Here’s why they were right.
Their prediction stemmed from the eradication of smallpox. Here’s what they said more than three decades ago — and how it foreshadowed events of 2022. (Image credit: Roger Viollet via Getty Images)
Read MoreSchool Shootings Are Raising Anxiety and Panic in U.S. Children
The May 24 mass shooting in a Uvalde, Texas elementary school, in which a gunman killed 19 young children and two teachers, was the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. But it was also just the latest of an increasingly
Read MoreHow Parents Should Handle the Baby Formula Shortage, According to Pediatricians
The U.S. is still in the throes of an unprecedented infant-formula shortage. Supply-chain issues caused by the pandemic started affecting baby formula in the summer of 2021, and inventory constricted even further after Abbott recalled certain formula products in February
Read MoreWATCH LIVE: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on Uvalde elementary school shooting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to speak Friday on the deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Read MoreWATCH LIVE: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on Uvalde elementary school shooting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to speak Friday on the deadly shooting in Uvalde, Texas where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Read MoreShooter Warning Signs Get Lost In Sea Of Social Media Posts
WASHINGTON — The warning signs were there for anyone to stumble upon, days before the 18-year-old gunman entered a Texas elementary school and slaughtered 19 children and two teachers. There was the Instagram photo of a hand holding a gun
Read MoreRussian lawmakers in hot water for urging Putin to end Ukraine conflict in rare public show of dissent
Two Communist lawmakers in Russia’s far east on Friday urged President Vladimir Putin to put an end to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine in a rare public show of dissent. Despite thousands of people having been killed and wounded during Russia’s
Read MoreU.S. to Send Advanced Rocket Systems to Kyiv, Officials Say
The Biden administration is expected to announce as early as next week it will send to Ukraine long-range rocket systems Kyiv says are necessary to fight off the Russian onslaught in the Donbas region.
Read MoreWhy the Once-Hawkish Heritage Foundation Opposed Aid to Ukraine
The conservative think tank has shifted on foreign policy along with the Republican grass-roots, and it is taking a more skeptical view of U.S. involvement in the world.
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