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As I trek toward the Great Unknown, as life’s struggles seem to intensify, some odd questions keep recurring.

Japan is set to start pumping billions of gallons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean this week from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (Tepco’s) devastated triple reactor meltdown site at

This week, the Biden administration announced that Medicare would name some 10 prescription drugs it would subject to direct price negotiations. The drugs include Jardiance (diabetes), Entresto (heart failure), Imbruvica

Promises made while on the campaign trail don’t always come full circle. Nothing is easier for an office seeker to promise government benefits that cannot be delivered. During Joanne Stehr’s

If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, it’s gotten late before about the fourth

“War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength.” So wrote George Orwell in “1984,” his famous dystopian novel about authoritarianism. The book gave us the term “Orwellian,” describing situations

Kamala Harris is one of the most prominent people in the United States, with the potential that at any moment she could inherit some of the most fearsome powers on

This past week, the nation noted the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

On Friday, the United Auto Workers said over 97% of their 150,000 members who work for Detroit Three automakers gave union leaders their approval to call a strike if they

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