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The history of pandemics illustrates the importance of continued vigilance.

By CoinWeek .....   October has historically been an important month for the United States Mint. In its earliest days, October marked the beginning

The initial United States government response to the COVID-19 pandemic was marked by a frequent disconnect between government policies and the...

The early leaders of the United States were a remarkable group of individuals, with a peculiar blend of vision and genius. There are seven in particular

July 15th, 2021 Bad Brad By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist I, being a duly board-certified curmudgeon, watch the news in pain and sorrow. Galahad the brilliant Siberian Husky who is in charge of everything (and has an MBA, LCSW and Ph.D’s in geophysics and political science) has attempted to ply me with distractions. Recently, I spoke to him of growing up in Chicago an...

Constellation, by Helen Gerardia, 1956. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Samuel Sumner Goldberg, 1977. The month he was to be sworn in as the first vice president of the United States, John Adams expected to see a comet. In fact, Adams helped to pay for a publication announcing the celestial appearance, an auspicious astronomical event for the first month of the new federal government. Since the classical era, comets had been imagined as ill omens for rulers. Plutarch linked the appeara...

USA TODAY Network Editors note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 245 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nations founding document, the Declaration of Independence.  Last year, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Prude and the failures of the Trump administration, we shared our view that the United States has not always lived up to the Declarations creed. Further, we believ...

Publisher As the country celebrates its 245th birthday this Sunday, it may be a good time to address the misconception that July 4, 1776 was actually the birth of our nation. We’ve all learned that the Declaration of Independence triggered the founding of the United States and we celebrate our Independence Day each year on the now-sacred date of July 4th. We all know the story of the courageous colonists who declared their independence from the most powerful military of the time and defied th...

Were wishing everyone a wonderful Independence Day celebrating Americas founding. Author: WLTX Updated: 12:02 AM EDT July 4, 2021 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Happy July 4th from News19! The holiday, of course, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which formally split the United States from Britain. The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain actually occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to appro...

The Founding Father who helped launch one of America’s great Black churches The Founding Father who helped launch one of America’s great Black churches Benjamin Rush was an abolitionist who helped Richard Allen form a church that started the AME denomination. The signing of the Declaration of Independence.(Keith Lance / Getty Images/iStockphoto) By Eddie Hyatt 1:30 AM on Jul 4, 2021 CDT One of America’s Founding Fathers, Dr. Benjamin Rush, helped launch one of the most successful Black de...