A late local poet whose work was featured on a “Poem Page” in The Evening Republican decades ago will have her words come to life when performed as a song by the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir. Continue reading at The Republic News.
By AAMER MADHANI (The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked […]
Chris Williamson is a native of Mingo County and watched many neighbors and family members struggle with breathing ailments for years. He said an improved safety standard for the industry on silica was sorely needed as those ailments appear in younger and younger miners.
Back in the day, Salman Rushdie used to joke that the argument over The Satanic Verses, his satirical novel caricaturing Prophet Muhammad, was a “quarrel between those with a sense of humour and those without one”.But, lately, his mood has darkened and he has become less forgiving of his critics, judging from his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a cathartic account of the murderous attack on him at a literary event in upstate New York in the summer of 2022.It left him with...
Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the Read More
Flavored milk will remain in the lunchrooms of America’s public schools, according to new Biden administration guidelines, but the food fight will continue on other fronts. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will set sugar and sodium limits on school lunches beginning in fall 2025, which should allow for chocolate and strawberry milk to remain on […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that Kiev and Washington were working on a bilateral security agreement, part of his ongoing effort to ensure his war-torn country receives long-term support. "We are already working on a specific text," said Zelensky in his evening video address. "Our goal is to make this agreement the strongest of all. We are discussing the specific foundations of our security and cooperation. We are also working on fixing specific levels of support for...
Mogul’s lawyers say decision in New York will strengthen appeal in Los Angeles but victims confident guilty verdict will be upheldHarvey Weinstein was already expected to spend the remainder of his life in prison for crimes in New York when a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault in 2022 and he was sentenced to an additional 16 years.But on Thursday New York’s top court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for two sex crimes and found he should receive a new trial, and...
MORNING NEWSBREAK | S.C. Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver is recommending that state school districts disregard new federal rules that would expanded the definition of sex discrimination under Title IX to protect gay, lesbian and transgender (LGBTQ) students. Weaver wrote in a memo that frames herself as a defender of S.C. schools from “divisive distractions […]
China might see a new wave of bond defaults as soon as next year — the third round in about a decade, according to an S&P Global Ratings report released Tuesday.
Biological males in girls’ bathrooms and dorms? Sanctions if you don’t use somebody’s preferred pronouns?
The Department of Education just released its long-delayed Title IX rule—a rewrite of the 50 year-old civil rights law so vast that it promises to Read More