• The Kate Middleton effect: Visits to cancer advice websites and NHS advice page surge five-fold in wake of Princess of Wales's shock diagnosis

    Figures from NHS England show that in the 24 hours after the princess revealed she was undergoing treatment last week, there were 2,840 visits to the page on cancer.

  • COLUMN: Curiosities

    Are you familiar with the idiom: “Curiosity killed the cat?” Truth be told, that is only part of the story. There is more to that saying that I will attempt to unpack as this column wanders to a conclusion. No doubt, curiosity is the root of learning. My dad once told me, on the farm, […]

  • COLUMN: Wash the Rice

    Earlier this week, as I drove from patient to patient, I was consumed with the worry of being a parent. Seeing your children, adult or young, struggle with life is the most emotionally painful thing I have ever experienced. I just want to solve everything for them make life easy for them. Unfortunately, my children and […]

  • Ignore This Tax Advice From TikTok

    The bite-sized video format of TikTok lends itself to oversimplification and embellishment on complex topics like tax planning. Many videos distill nuanced tax strategies down to just a few misleading sentences. Here's some of the TikTok tax advice that have gained traction, but could potentially lead people astray.

  • Healthy Headlines: Advice For New Parents

    In this week's Healthy Headlines, Dr. Sameena Hassan of Novant Health, joins Rising to give advice for new parents.

  • The Column: Spring, the Riverwalk, and domestic violence

    LET’S PLAY a game called fill in the blanks. Nothing says spring like _______. If you guessed a foot-high mound of façade bricks blocking the newly reopened Riverwalk extension, you win.

  • Joey Graziadei has some advice for the next Bachelor

    Graziadei also discusses the last time he was starstruck

  • How to install More Columns mod in The Sims 4

    The Sims 4 More Columns mod increases the number of columns that are available in the Create-A-Sim (CAS) section in the game. This is one of the many mods that improves the UI experience of the game, so here's how you use it. The CAS feature in Sims 4 is the place where you can create and customize your own Sim, and determine how they look and what they wear. In the vanilla version of the game, you have only two columns in the CAS section which can hamper the experience because...

  • Essential advice for landing your dream job

    When you’re looking for a new job there’s a lot to figure out: What information should you include on your résumé and what do you need to trim? Is a cover letter really necessary? What are the best answers to the most common interview questions? Do you really need to send a thank you note?Fast Company contributor Judith Humphrey’s book The Job Seeker’s Script offers everything job seekers need to navigate all the unwritten rules of applying for (and hopefully landing) your next dream job. Here’s...

  • Column: Hyperbolic MSNBC's Ronna McDaniel Debacle

    The word broke on March 26 that NBC News was reversing its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as a political commentator. MSNBC hosts across the schedule broke out into frenzied denunciations of whichever executive who thought that McDaniel should be paid to speak anywhere on this hypnotically/robotically anti-Trump network. In one of her typical half-hour jeremiads, Rachel Maddow compared McDaniel to a mobster and a pickpocket. “You wouldn't -- you wouldn't hire a...

  • Obituary: Carolyn Akin Gray, 1930-2024

    Family, faith and friends were the most important parts of South Burlington woman’s life Carolyn Akin Gray of South Burlington, Vt., went to her heavenly home on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at the age of 93, with her daughter, Jill, holding her hand. She had shared the previous day with grandchildren, great-grandchildren, her minister and friends. She told Jill that it had felt like her birthday, rather than a normal day. Family, faith and friends were her...

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    M25 reopens after drivers heed shutdown advice

    Traffic on a five-mile stretch of the M25 in Surrey returned to normal on