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Pope denies resignation rumors, hopes to visit Kyiv, Moscow

3 years 1 month ago
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has dismissed rumors he plans to resign anytime soon, and says that he hopes to visit Moscow and Kyiv after traveling to Canada later this month. Francis also told Reuters in an interview published Monday that the idea “never entered my mind” to announce a planned retirement at the end [...]

When Her Dad Died Too Young, Tom Petty Was There

3 years 1 month ago
During the first moments of her first show as a DJ at community radio station WFHB, Katie Moulton notices that something’s gone wrong. Looking at the unmoving levels of the sound board, she realizes that no one can hear her. “Dead air, dead air, dead air, dead air,” she thinks, panicking.
Jessica Rogen

Lower insulin co-pays, list prices targeted in new bipartisan U.S. Senate bill

3 years 1 month ago

WASHINGTON — Two key senators have unveiled the details of a bipartisan plan to lower costs for insulin, a lifesaving drug that some Americans have struggled to afford in recent years as prices have skyrocketed. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, and Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, introduced the measure in June, after months of work to […]

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Allison Winter

On Fourth of July, let’s pause and reflect on America’s well-being

3 years 1 month ago

As we pause to celebrate the birth of our nation, we need to seriously reflect on the state of its health and well-being. The greatest problems we face, while troubling, are not rising inflation, high gas prices, nor rampant gun violence. There is a deeper sickness growing in our land that threatens the very existence […]

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Janice Ellis

Remembering the Battle of St. Louis

3 years 1 month ago
While famous New England battles such as those of Saratoga and Trenton have long dominated the conversations surrounding the Revolutionary War, the city of St. Louis’s impact on the American victory is often forgotten. By the late 18th century, the small French fur-trading settlement was owned and operated by the Spanish Empire, with Lieutenant Governor …
Brittany Krewson