In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights stepped in after a Portuguese woman, left unable to have sex by a medical procedure, received a smaller payout because a Portuguese court assumed intimacy matters less for a 50-year-old mother. The European Court disagreed completely. Physical relationships remain important throughout life, the judges ruled, regardless of...
Mark Laita spent decades shooting advertising campaigns for Apple, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz from his studios in Los Angeles and New York. The work paid well, but by 2004, he was already pursuing a different kind of project, photographing Americans from all walks of life for what would become his book “Created Equal.” That summer, a...
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network stood outside Capitol Hill this week with an ultimatum. If Congress won’t release all the files, they’ll compile and release their own list of alleged participants. Marina Lacerda was speaking publicly for the first time. She directly challenged Trump’s dismissal of their efforts as a Democratic hoax. But she...
Early in August 2025, President Trump announced he hopes to decide “in the coming weeks” whether to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, a policy shift that could trigger the largest wave of state cannabis legalizations in history. The rescheduling wouldn’t make marijuana federally legal for recreational use. But it would solve a big financial problem that...
You pull into the beach parking lot. The kids tumble out and race toward the water. But on the beach, colorful flags snap in the wind near the lifeguard station. You think, time to check the meaning of those beach flags before anyone gets wet. These color-coded flags tell you the current water conditions. The...
Twenty-four years have passed since September 11, 2001. Kimeli Naiyomah, a proud member of the Maasai Tribe, stood in New York City that day, watching the towers fall. The country that had lifted him from poverty had just been attacked. As a Maasai warrior trained to rush toward danger, he knew he couldn’t help at...
Speaking at Grace Christian School in Valrico on September 3, 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida will become the first state to eliminate all school vaccine mandates, ending 45 years of established public health policy. School vaccine requirements have been standard across all states since the 1980s. Florida’s decision would break from a...
When someone says they love you, their words should make you feel valued, not confused. Yet many people find themselves doubting their reality after talks with someone who claims to care. Psychological research shows narcissists use recurring manipulation patterns that can leave victims disoriented and self-doubting. Spotting these phrases and patterns is not about diagnosing...
Israeli scientists reported a surprising finding from the Sea of Galilee. In a study published in Water Resources Research in October 2024, they identified a natural phenomenon that could account for two of Jesus’s best-known fish miracles. The team then matched that process to the very locations named in the Gospels. In 1990, 2007, 2012,...
Bruce Willis now lives apart from his family in a specially adapted home where professional caregivers provide round-the-clock support. The actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, calls this arrangement one of the hardest decisions she has made in her caregiving experience, but she knew Bruce would want their daughters to live in a home more tailored...
A Netflix reality star has shared a health scare that could have led to toxic shock syndrome after she accidentally left a tampon inside her body for an entire month. Savannah Miller, now 24, told national media outlets about the incident that happened when she was 22 and in college. View this post on Instagram...
China just revealed a weapon that could change how wars are fought. In June 2025, Chinese state television aired an animated demonstration of a graphite bomb system designed to plunge entire regions into darkness without firing a single bullet at human targets. The weapon represents a fundamental shift in military thinking. Instead of destroying infrastructure,...
