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Searching For Meaning In Life

“Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose,” a New York Times bestselling book by award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace, has made an instant buzz with readers this year. If you want to check “Mattering” out from your local library, you are most likely in for a long wait, as copies have flown off the shelves, and e-books are in use. “Mattering” was released in January and is getting rave reviews from users on Amazon, as well as a huge endorsement from public health leader and former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Murthy, who ...

America Has Her Swagger Back

In 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared, “The east is rising, and the west is declining.” It certainly looked that way during former President Joe Biden’s term. In August 2021, Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban. During the chaotic pullout, a suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. troops. Medieval barbarians humbled the mighty United States and took control of billions of dollars of military equipment. Russian President Vladimir Putin sure noticed. Just months later, Russia invaded Ukraine. Shortly before the attack, Biden mused that a “minor incursion” would lead ...

Dont’ Worry, Silly Injuries Happen To The Best Of Us

I hurt my knee taking a step onto a riser in a performance at my kids’ elementary school the other day. I’m not sure yet how serious the injury is, but it’s the kind of incident that makes you feel about 100 years old and like a complete moron. I mean, who gets hurt taking the stairs? So, after it happened, I decided to make myself feel better in a manner passed down through the centuries as a sure-fire method for dispelling shame: Find someone who did something even dumber than you did. With that, I commenced to furious googling, turning up tales of some of the most ...

Supreme Court rejects suit challenging East Palestine settlement

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge of the $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern Railroad and victims of toxic train derailment in East Palestine more than three years ago. The high court let stand the ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in November, ...

Trump says Iran’s supreme leader is dead

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, President Donald Trump said Saturday on social media. Trump said his death is "the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to ...

House Rolls Back Hope Scholarship Changes

CHARLESTON – After unveiling an originating bill last week that would have made substantive reforms to the Hope Scholarship educational voucher program, the House Finance Committee pushed out a new bill Thursday changing only the payment structure of the program. The committee recommended ...