Category: Trends

A rare, invasive form of a usually mild and common bacterial infection has killed several children in the United States and Europe in recent weeks, according to public health authorities, prompting alarm among parents and vulnerable adults. Two children have died in the United States due to the Group A streptococcus bacteria, also known as […]

Comment on this story Comment MEXICO CITY — After months of debate and huge demonstrations, Mexico’s Congress moved Thursday to pass legislation that will reduce the powers of the National Electoral Institute, a government agency that has won praise internationally for putting an end to decades of blatant voting fraud and setting the country on […]

As Arizona governor Doug Ducey’s term draws to a close, he’s rushing to cement his legacy: a bunch of battered, rusty shipping containers. Since Oct. 24, crews have double-stacked 900 of the metal boxes at the Arizona-Mexico border to create a 17 ft.-high barrier, with sheet metal welded between them. The aim is to cover […]

Comment on this story Comment LISBON, Portugal — Portugal coach Fernando Santos has quit, the Portuguese soccer federation announced Thursday, after eight years in the job and five days after Portugal’s exit from the World Cup in the quarterfinals. The 68-year-old Santos reached an amicable agreement with the federation to leave two years before his […]

Comment on this story Comment ROME — Revelations that the Vatican let a famous priest off the hook twice for abusing his authority over adult women has exposed two main weaknesses in the Holy See’s abuse policies: sexual and spiritual misconduct against adult women is rarely if ever punished, and secrecy still reigns supreme, especially […]

Comment on this story Comment DAKAR, Senegal — Burkina Faso has allegedly made an agreement with Russia’s Wagner Group in which the shadowy mercenary outfit will help the West African country deal with surging jihadi violence in exchange for a mine. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo made that claim about neighboring Burkina Faso during his visit […]

Things got dicey yesterday aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Late in the day, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin were preparing for a spacewalk when exterior cameras showed a stream of white flakes pouring from the Soyuz spacecraft attached to the station. Simultaneously, telemetry indicated a drop in pressure in the Soyuz’s coolant […]

Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s multi-part documentary has quickly become one of the most talked-about shows on Netflix—in part because of how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex address about their experience dealing with race and racism in the British Royal Family. But, unlike the couple’s Oprah interview, viewers hoping for bombshell revelations will likely […]

Lately I have been fixated on a butterflyfish. This specific butterflyfish lived sometime in the 1970s just south of Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. It swam in the company of two others: gold-striped butterflyfish whose shiny bodies looked like someone had placed a dime on a pat of butter. But it did not […]

Recent national polls showing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis leading former President Donald Trump in a head-to-head match-up by as much as 60 percent could lead to the mistaken conclusion that Trump’s path to the nomination is up hill. The most recent Vanderbilt Poll, taken in the Republican stronghold of Tennessee and released December 14, suggests […]