DEAR ABBY: You have printed letters from readers asking what to do with old love letters (either before the writers die or when the letters are found after a death). Let me share my story.One evening, shortly after our mother passed, my siblings and I were going through some of her belongings and came across correspondence between her and our stepfather, ...

When you ask people in Melbourne, Sydney or Australias capital of Canberra whether they vote, the answer is almost always an enthusiastic yes.But head deep into the countrys interior to a remote town like Yuendumu (pop. 740), and you hear a very different story.Never voted, says one man.To me, voting isnt the right way to do things, says another.Im a free ...

The weeks leading up to a presidential election are always a time of intense hustle and bustle for those working to make vote counting accurate and secure.This year there is a new and alarming element. Around the country, including in Illinois, election workers and officials are being targeted with threats. This imperils democracy itself, and law ...

Thanks to Candy Woodall for fairly reporting on Larry Hogan and his run for a Senate seat.

Opponents of the war want a ceasefire, but an arms embargo would be a significant first step, leaders of the uninstructed movement say.

Most of the victims were women killed in one house, according to the police, who have started a manhunt for the gunmen.

Spending a personal fortune to fund a passion project isnt folly. Its the ultimate kind of cinematic courage.

To truly appreciate her novels, we have to stop imagining that theyre all about her, or about us.

She has been doing an effective job of vice signaling from the left.

The latest worm in the Big Apple.

From what his coaches have shared, Drake Maye looks ready to start. But are the Patriots ready for him?

A police chase out of Plano on Friday ended with a person shot by officers in Aurora. ISP said suspect posed a 'lethal threat.'

One sentence is all it takes to understand writer Ta-Nehisi Coates views on Israel. On the last day of my trip to Palestine, I visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Coates writes as the lead to the final section of his new book, The Message. Arriving on the eve of the first anniversary...

If we cant remember the things we read and watch and even loved, do they still count?

In its weird, shambolic spectacle, the record-setting game seemed to encapsulate the teams entire dreadful season.

In 2022, GOP Rep. John Duarte beat Adam Gray by just 564 votes. Both men are campaigning hard to win the rematch in a moderate Central Valley district.

He is mostly forgotten today. But Caryl Chessman's death penalty conviction dominated the debate about capital punishment for years.

A professor suggests cynicism can be combated with a willingness to question our assumptions.

The news broke last week that an American woman became the first-ever victim of the Sarco pod a ghastly device that suffocates the user with nitrogen at the push of a button. The assisted suicide occurred in Switzerland, reportedly under the auspices of the Last Resort, a local affiliate of pro-suicide group Exit International,...

More than 5% of all cancer cases are caused by drinking alcohol, according to the Cancer Progress Report 2024 from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

Shame on Baltimore's mayor for seeing opposition to Inner Harbor redevelopment as racially motivated.

A professor suggests cynicism can be combated with a willingness to question our assumptions.

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