We’re No. 2! We’re No. 2!

The 2024 election differs from its 59 predecessors in several ways. Its two front-runners may offer Americans the oldest set of candidates ever. It is being conducted amid civil anger turbocharged by an incendiary media atmosphere.

Thriving, not just surviving

By barring the use of race in college admissions, the Supreme Court has focused attention on a critical question: Who gets into the most elite institutions of higher learning?

Mom wont stop babying 23-year-old child

DEAR HARRIETTE: My mom is still treating me as if I am a child. I understand 23 is still young, but I have moved out of the house and am paying all my own bills. She still feels as if she needs to have control over me. I am switching jobs soon and need to drive halfway across the country.

Nothing is impossible when you have Dane

Ihave always relied upon my cousin Dane.We grew up together. I'm a year older, but he's the closest in age of my many cousins.

HBOT is one treatment for sudden hearing loss

ASK THE DOCTORSDear Doctors: I've been diagnosed with sudden sensorineural hearing loss. None of the doctors I've seen can tell me why it happened. My understanding is that hyperbaric therapy is a possible treatment.

New beau doesn’t offer to drive for first date

DEAR HARRIETTE: I recently started talking to a guy I met on a dating website. He seems really sweet, and we've had great conversations. He lives one town over from me; I don't have a car, but he does. When we discussed meeting up, he suggested that I take the bus to his city.

Blaise Pascal role of faith in an age of science and reason

In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the 'brilliant and inquisitive mind' of the influential French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born on that date 400 years ago.When Pascal lived, at the height of the 17th century's scientific revolution, rapid advances were taking...

Ten years later, the shepherds of Aleppo are still missing

Metropolitan Paul Yazigi had no way to know that he was about to vanish into the chaos of the Turkish-Syrian border during the violent rise of the Islamic State.'If we want to be good children to God, then we don't thank Him only when He gives us (blessings),' he said in one of his final sermons...

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is the 188th day of 2023 and the 17th day of summer.In 1898, the United States annexed Hawaii as a U.S. territory.In 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to serve as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.In 2005, terrorists detonated explosives aboard a doubledecker...

CLINTON’S HISTORY 10, 20, 30 AND 40 YEARS AGO

30 YEARS AGO• The Clinton Maroon Preps captured the championship of the Granite Prep Festival.