• Republicans Sound Alarm On DOJ's 'Red Flag' Initiative

    Republicans Sound Alarm On DOJ's 'Red Flag' Initiative Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans issued a warning over the weekend after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a training “resource center” to help implement state red flag laws designed to keep guns away from certain individuals. Attorney General Merrick Garland in Washington on March 21, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement on...

  • Mom's Hack For Getting Her Kids To Use Their Manners Goes Viral

    After Karalea Pior noticed that the way she was asking her girls to use their manners didn’t sit quite right with her, she decided to make some changes.

  • US maritime union sounds alarm over global shipping standards

    Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association warned of the dangers of bigger cargo vessels and smaller crews not at par with US levelsA top labor union for maritime engineers has sounded the alarm against corporate profiteering in the wake of Tuesday’s cargo ship crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, claiming the industry is “probably the worst offender”.The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (Meba) warned of the dangers of growing vessels and shrinking crews – claiming that those from...

  • Tuberculosis cases rising in California, and state officials are sounding the alarm

    Tuberculosis cases are rising again in California, and health officials are urging those at higher risk, as well as doctors, to be alert for the disease, which can lurk in people's bodies for years before becoming potentially deadly. The number of tuberculosis cases in 2023 rose by 15% in California compared to the previous year, the state Department of Public Health said. That's the highest year-over-year increase since 1989, when it was tied to people co-infected with HIV. There were 2,113...

  • Doctors urge refrigerating acne creams to reduce cancer risk

    Storing benzoyl peroxide creams, gels and washes at refrigerated temperatures could minimize the risk of benzene exposure.

  • Nervous Sherrod Brown Sounds the Alarm After Bernie Moreno Victory

    Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sounded the alarm after Bernie Moreno secured a victory in the Republican primary race.

  • As time goes by, the beat goes on

    Times change. Life changes. It’s called progress. We need to stay flexible.

  • Sea of coffins sounds alarm over work-related accidents in Italy

    A thousand coffins filled one of Rome's most beautiful squares Tuesday as a trade union made a powerful statement on the number of deaths in work-related accidents

  • World Happiness Report sounds alarm about the welfare of young people

    Lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z’s traditionally positive outlookYounger people becoming more unhappy than older generationsVivek Murthy: the US surgeon general fighting for youngsters’ happinessSomething is going wrong for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the UK, across Europe, the US and Australia.The latest World Happiness Report shows that while not all teenagers and young adults are suffering, a large and growing number cannot cope with being left...

  • Sweet dog found ‘skeletal,’ partially blind has been adopted after being abandoned twice

    Back in November, he was found in a pile of leaves, trying to keep himself warm.

  • 'Threat to democracy': Watchdogs sound alarm as $55M poured into controversial project

    Conservative donors are pouring money into a controversial effort to overhaul the federal government and implement a right-wing agenda from the start of a potential second Donald Trump presidency, according to a report.The Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025 last April to develop policy recommendations and identify thousands of political appointees who could carry out its agenda in the next Republican administration. And groups linked to conservative activist Leonard Leo and the Koch...

  • Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction

    Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s Supreme Court chambers are not quite as grand as those he occupied before he retired in 2022, but they are still pretty nice. As before, they include a working fireplace, which was crackling when I went to visit him on a temperate afternoon in late February to talk about his new book. In earlier interviews, Justice Breyer could be rambling and opaque. This time he was direct. He said he meant to sound an alarm about the direction of the Supreme Court. “Something...