Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, speaks during a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 10, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kent…
Pedestrians look toward a Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi stopped at a red light in Los Angeles. States are trying to prepare for more widespread use of self-driving cars in…
Mother of four and former school psychologist, Liz Barker, successfully ran for the School Board District 2 in Sarasota, Florida. (Courtesy Liz Barker) More than half of candidates who went…
A Haitian mother holds her baby inside a tent in the large migrant camp near an international bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border on September 21, 2021 in Del Rio, Texas.…
The Hazard High School drama club circa 1968. Adviser Evangeline “Dang” Palmer is far left. The author, Dee Davis, is top right. (Via Facebook) At 17 I was the Santa…
Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved…
(Getty Images) By Troy Bickham Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of…
A sampling of the books that writers for The Conversation consider worthy of your time. It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from…
(NBC12) Everyone has heard of Santa Claus, that chubby, white-bearded, red-suited guy who delivers Christmas presents via a reindeer-powered sleigh. But have you never wondered how he became a man…
President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House Rose Garden Nov. 7. Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)…