Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to make the opioid-crisis” target=”_blank”>opioid crisis< (DOJ), but it seems as though the Biden administration has put the situation on the backburner. During his confirmation questioning, Garland was asked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., if he believed stopping the funneling of “highly potent” synthetic opioids into America should be a top…
general issued an apology to a woman who was told to cover up a sweatshirt that said “f—k cancer.” The airline apologized to Roslyn Singleton, a two-time cancer survivor from North Carolina, who says she was told before boarding her flight to Charlotte earlier this week the clothing item violated American’s policy for having “inappropriate…
A study focused on health care workers over the last year found that up to 1 in 10 who experienced a mild case of infectious-disease was still dealing with a lingering symptom that negatively impacts their life eight months after their illness resolved. The most common complaints among the study participants were a lingering loss…
celebrity-news” target=”_blank”>Ree Drummond<, Ladd Drummond, horseback riding during sunset reads. The post adds that the Drummond family “is so grateful for all of your kind words!” REE DRUMMOND SAYS HUSBAND LADD BROKE HIS NECK IN CRASH: IT WAS ‘VERY CLOSE TO BEING CATASTROPHIC’ The good news comes a few weeks after the “Pioneer Woman” went into…
NASCAR is taking the wraps off of its next-generation Cup Series cars on May 5. (NASCAR) The entirely new vehicles were originally scheduled to start racing in the 2021 season, but their introduction was pushed to 2022 due to the challenges posed to their development by the coronavirus pandemic. (NASCAR) The new design aims to…
The novel infectious-disease SARS-CoV-2 is the latest pathogen to “spill over” from animals to people, but hundreds of thousands of other viruses lurking in animals could pose a similar threat. Now, a new online tool ranks viruses by their potential to hop from animals to people and cause pandemics. The tool, called SpillOver, essentially creates a…
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. – Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot mental-health still clenched in his fist. She wound toward his house in the hills outside of town. The man had been revived by paramedics, and Cox leads…
Signed “relationships” target=”_blank”>Love, Jack< of the Titanic disaster – but he wasn’t the fictional (swoon!) Jack Dawson character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the epic 1997 movie. Nonetheless, the 1912 correspondence bearing an image of the supposed “unsinkable” ship written by senior wireless operator Jack Phillips is expected to fetch at least $15,000 at auction this month….
“Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?”— Rev. Mather Blyes (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston…
Three luxury vacation-destinations” target=”_blank”>resorts< have partnered with the Maui Humane Society to host shelter pets” target=”_blank”>dogs<” campaign. ANIMAL RESCUE GROUP FLIES HUNDREDS OF PETS FROM HAWAII TO NORTHWEST US According to a press release for the event, the resorts that are participating in the “Wags to Riches Slumber Party” are the Four Seasons Resort Maui,…