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Dear Prudence, My close friend, “Will,” was fired due to a sexual harassment complaint against him at work. Will and the women involved are of similar ages and status in the company. I don’t work with him and don’t really know details, but from what I do know, it’s in the category of “hitting on women at work and continuing to after they said no.” He denies most of it. Without knowing what exactly happened, my guess at the truth would be that it happened and is possibly more sever...

Nearly a week after the Christmas morning bombing in Nashville, Tennessee, still little is known about the motivation of the bomber, 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner, who packed an RV with explosives and parked it in front of an AT&T transmission building in the early hours of the morning before it detonated, wreaking havoc on downtown Nashville. Warner sat in the vehicle while a speaker blared evacuation warnings before the vehicle exploded, killing only Warner and injuring several others. Th...

Dear Care and Feeding, Is there such a thing as taking too many pictures of your kids? My husband, who is a great father, is really fanatical about taking photos of our only child, a 3-year-old girl. He takes pictures of her CONSTANTLY. He thinks it’s important to document every day, so he’ll take a minimum of 10 photos daily, along with a few short videos. That’s just on an average day. If anything remotely interesting happens—a new toy, an outing, a new skill—he’ll take dozens of ...

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri announced on Wednesday that he plans to object during Congress’ meeting to certify Electoral College votes next week in order to highlight unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud and the role of “Big Tech monopolies” in the election. The move will delay the final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory by forcing lawmakers in both chambers of Congress to debate and then vote on the objection. “At the very least, Congress should in...

Argentina is set to become the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion after the country’s Senate approved a measure Wednesday allowing women access to abortion services in the first 14 weeks of a pregnancy. The vote was years in the making, as activists pushed in the grassroots for the legalization of abortion, and came immediately after 12 hours of often heated debate in the country’s upper house. The ultimate vote took place at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning with swarms of demonstr...

The new Congress will convene on Jan. 3, but will do so without one of its freshman members, Louisiana’s Luke Letlow, who died Tuesday night at a Shreveport hospital due to complications stemming from COVID-19. Letlow became the newest member of the state’s congressional delegation on Dec. 5 when he handily won a runoff against a fellow Republican to capture Louisiana’s sprawling, rural 5 th Congressional District that is also the nation’s second poorest district. Two weeks later, Letlo...

The New York Post published a striking cover editorial online on Sunday night and in print on Monday: “The Post Says: Give It Up, Mr. President—for Your Sake and the Nation’s.” The Post’s editorial board called on President Donald Trump to put aside his futile crusade to overturn the election for the sake of his legacy and encouraged him to focus on helping Republicans win the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia. The board also harshly criticized Trump’s enablers, calling attorney Si...

Post-holiday air travel hit new pandemic-era highs over the weekend as Americans boarded planes and crisscrossed the country following the Christmas holiday. The spike in air travel is an ominous sign for a country that continues to be the runaway global leader in new coronavirus cases and deaths while seeing a rising number of hospitalizations—three upward national trend lines that show no sign of flattening. The holiday travel, mixing strangers on planes and in airports with family members ...

The House voted Monday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, one of Trump’s final incoherent acts of chaos in the dying days of his presidency. The bill, a standard yearly reauthorization of military policy priorities and spending has managed bipartisan agreement and approval each year for the past 60 years, but was blocked by Trump this year despite overwhelming bipartisan support. Trump vetoed the authorization, ostensibly, because a number o...

Leading up to the Nov. 3 election in the United States, there were major concerns that President Donald Trump’s posture and rhetoric and the consistent social polarization he had engendered in the country since taking office would bubble to the surface, leading to major attacks or sustained violence on the streets. However, aside from a few incidents, largely related to protests, and despite Trump encouraging his supporters not to accept the results of the election, there has been a marked ab...