• We Asked: How do you feel about a potential TikTok ban?

    TikTok users across the country are one step closer to seeing the app banned.

  • Take Your Best Shot: Amy Boerger

    Amy Boerger captured this shot of a happy seagull on the San Francisco wharf on Monday, April 8. Continue reading at The Republic News.

  • Column: Make investments to protect our aina

    Last year, we saw firsthand the devastating consequences of not being attentive to ‘aina, when raging fires on Maui and Hawaii island caused unprecedented destruction. These avoidable disasters were exacerbated by numerous environmental issues, including invasive brush and drought conditions driven by climate change.

  • Column: Do Celebrities Have Deeper Liberal Thoughts?

    When Laura Ingraham wrote her book Shut Up and Sing in 2003, the Left didn’t read the book as much as overreact to the title. The title implied something important. While celebrities gain a “platform” they feel compelled to use, do their opinions reflect any expertise? Or is fame more important than logic? Celebrities often lead with emotion, and expect to cause an emotional reaction. They don’t expect “independent fact-checkers” to examine their emotions. Exhibit A is an April 15 interview...

  • Guest Opinion: Ask Davis, Heintzeman to do their jobs

    While rural Minnesota faces crises in child care, housing and health care, our representatives spend their time fighting the new flag and complaining they don’t have a voice.

  • Column: No one has more contempt for America than Donald Trump himself

    On Tuesday, the judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial held the former president in criminal contempt for violating his gag order. Nine times. With a fine of $1,000 a pop. Though it's shocking that a former president doesn't appear to understand courtroom rules that anyone who has ever seen "Law & Order" could explain, there is a certain poetic justice. After all, no one loves contempt more than Donald Trump. It is his metier, his medium, his world view. Contempt for those who disagree with...

  • What should we ask Maine’s next Catholic bishop?

    The Most Rev. James Thomas Ruggieri is scheduled to be ordained and installed as the 13th Bishop of Portland on May 7.

  • DFA asked to revoke Quiboloy’s passport

    MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Monday called on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to cancel the passport of fugitive preacher and Kingdom of Jesus Christ sect leader Apollo

  • New Vegan Asks Reddit How to Grocery Shop

    Becoming vegan isn't just a change in diet; it's a perspective shift. Stepping into the grocery store after making the switch is eye-opening.

  • The Column: Corey Robinson: Open or shut case?

    LOWELL CITY Councilor Corey Robinson’s status hearing on his two counts of assault and battery on his on-again/off-again girlfriend at her home in Dracut is set to take place Tuesday morning in a Lowell Judicial Center courtroom.

  • Who asked France’s celebrities for political advice?

    Since 2012, the French actor Omar Sy has lived in Los Angeles. One of his houses has included a sprawling…What to read next: A tide of Euroscepticism is sweeping France | France and Britain have both shamefully neglected the white working class | Will under-13 curfews really make France safer? | Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?

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    Virginians asked to ‘keep bears wild’ this spring

    After a video showing a group of people pulling bear cubs from trees to take photos with them in North Carolina began circulating online earlier this week, the Wildlife Center of Virginia is asking residents of the Commonwealth to "keep bears wild" this Spring as they emerge from hibernation.