By month 25 of the Covid-19 pandemic, we all probably should have learned not to try to anticipate what the SARS-CoV-2 virus is going to do next. It has so consistently defied predictions. But the tsunami that is the Omicron wave is tempting us all the same, in large part […]
Is there a sound that makes you shudder because it reminds you of being jolted out of a deep sleep on countless cold, dark mornings? I have two: the infamous grating beep of OG alarm clocks and that first-ever default iPhone alarm sound that berated me into waking up for 9 a.m. […]
On a balmy day in March, a container ship called the One Munchen docked in Savannah, Georgia. On board was a shipment of button-down shirts made of “peached cotton,” a fuzzy fabric meant to feel as soft as the skin of the fruit. Embroidered on their pockets was the Hugo Boss logo. Now on sale […]
The planet is warming and there are more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activity than ever. President Joe Biden’s proposed $500 billion in climate spending baked into the Build Back Better bill is currently stalled out. The midterm elections are looming. One year into Biden’s presidency, his administration is […]
Premiering on Monday, The Gilded Age, this HBO period drama created and written by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), begins in 1882. We follow Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson), who decides to move to New York City to live with her aunts, Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon), […]
Conservative members of a federal civil rights commission pushed Friday for changes to how the agency operates that would greatly limit its dissemination of information on historic and current civil rights issues. The proposed amendments by Commissioner Stephen Gilchrist, a Republican appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2020, were to change the […]
While conducting a welfare check in Maryland, police discovered a dead man and his collection of 124 caged snakes. The snakes, some venomous and illegal, were “meticulously cared for” in cages stacked throughout the home, Charles County spokesperson Jennifer Harris told NBC Washington. On Wednesday, fire and EMS authorities knocked down the front […]
WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion activists gathered at the nation’s capital Friday for the 49th March for Life, held annually on the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, kicked off the rally at noon on the National Mall by presenting this year’s theme: “Equality […]
The next big stimulus update will come as soon as this week when the Senate votes on its own version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue package that was passed by the House of Representatives last week. According to one estimate of how things will play out this […]
Google has announced that a built-in screen recorder is coming to Chrome OS in March. Google hopes the tool will make it easier for students and teachers to record virtual lessons. “Teachers have long recorded lessons to help students do homework and study for tests, but in the past year […]