Record Share of US Kindergartners Are Skipping Required Vaccines as Measles Surges
A Record That Nobody Wanted to Break For the fourth consecutive year, the national average kindergarten vaccine exemption rate has reached a new record — and the vast majority of parents withholding shots are doing so for nonmedical reasons. Vaccine exemptions among U.S. kindergarteners hit…
American Women Finally Win the Right to Vote After Decades
The 19th Amendment Is Ratified: A Victory Decades in the Making On August 18, 1920, the United States crossed a threshold that had been fought for, bled for, and dreamed about for more than seventy years. Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th…
Foster Care Crisis Forces North Carolina Teens to Sleep in County Office Building
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Trump Uses Record Crime Drop to Reframe His Midterm Narrative
A Political Play Backed by Real Numbers President Donald Trump touted falling violent crime rates on Friday as evidence that his law-and-order and aggressive immigration agenda is working, seeking to shift attention away from economic concerns that have hurt his approval ratings ahead of November’s…
The Citizen App Promises Safety but Its Growing Paywall Is Raising Alarms
A Safety App Under the Spotlight Citizen bills itself as the essential safety app for today’s world, providing real-time safety alerts, live incident videos, and 24/7 emergency assistance to keep you and your loved ones safe. It sounds like a civic good — a digital…
Five Years and 2.4 Million Girls Later, Afghanistan Stands Alone in Banning Education
A Crisis That Keeps Growing About 2.4 million girls in Afghanistan are barred from secondary school, the United Nations cultural agency reported Tuesday, renewing its call on the Taliban government to lift restrictions on female education. Five years into Taliban rule, the scale of this…
Dramatic Car Chase Ends in Arrests After $300,000 Watch Snatched in Saint-Tropez
A Brazen Theft in Broad Daylight Four Spanish nationals have been arrested following the theft of a luxury Richard Mille watch worth around $300,000 — approximately €260,000 — in Saint-Tropez. The watch was stolen from a Brazilian tourist near the Hôtel de Paris Saint-Tropez on…
Myspace Is Coming Back and Its Owners Are Betting on Your Nostalgia
A Blast From the Past — With a Purpose Before TikTok’s endless loops, before Instagram’s curated grids, and before Facebook swallowed the internet whole, there was Myspace — the platform that let you pick a profile song, rank your eight best friends, and design a…
Ransom Notes Released in Nancy Guthrie Case Spark Slight Increase in Tips
Six Months and Still No Answers On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of NBC News journalist and *Today* co-anchor Savannah Guthrie — was kidnapped from her home in Catalina Foothills, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. More than half a year later,…
NASA’s “Big Bang” Maneuver Buys Voyager 2 at Least One More Year in Deep Space
A High-Stakes Swap Billions of Miles From Home Voyager 2’s interstellar instruments will keep transmitting data for at least one more year after NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory completed a high-stakes power swap on August 4, 2026 — a simultaneous procedure, nicknamed the “Big Bang,” that…
