Our house came with an American flag.
It seemed to complement our Small Town, U.S.A., zeitgeist. So we let it fly, enjoying its snap and rustle.
Because it was old, howe...
Sitting in my eighth-grade classroom, I stealthily check my email, hoping for news updates from The New York Times or CNN about the heightened COVID-19 crisis in India, ...
Some bad — but not particularly shocking — news was released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week: Overdose deaths were on the rise in Pennsy...
As U.S. and coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan and the Taliban militia gains more territory, women and girls who resisted gender-based violence and fled to prote...
We should have seen it coming. There had been too many near-misses for devastating human pandemics: the Ebola virus, beginning in 1976; the “bird” flu H5N1, first appear...
The worst and most arrogant answer someone can ever give for why they did something extravagant would be “because I can.”
Why do you own such a big home when there are ...
The coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of a number of activities across the county during the past year, but the Leadership Butler County Class of 2020 would n...
This month, the Food and Drug Administration changed the label for the recently approved Alzheimer’s treatment aducanumab — sold under the brand name “Aduhelm” — to spec...
We’re barely a month out from the Colonial Pipeline hacking, perpetrated by the Russian-speaking hacking group DarkSide, which left thousands of Americans without gas, p...
At first glance, it’s one of those things that appears relatively benign: Amazon received federal approval the other day to develop a device for tracking your sleep patt...
