The White House announced Wednesday that it is ready to roll out COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 if the Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer’s applic...
Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a class of man-made chemicals that break down slowly in the environment, can accumulate in the human body and...
How lean can we make the U.S. Army before it’s unable to do its job?
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth recently declared her service must “ruthlessly prioritize” its “tra...
Facebook Inc. may be preparing a fresh coat of paint for itself. A report in technology news site The Verge, citing a source with direct knowledge, says that the company...
As soon as I learned that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had died Monday, my mind flashed back to his infamous U.N. speech on Feb. 5, 2003, in which Powell press...
It has been a rough few months for the internet.
In June, Fastly Inc.’s content delivery network failure forced some of the world’s biggest e-commerce and media websites...
The results from the latest nationwide tests of student proficiency are grim. Downright depressing.
For the first time in the 50-year history of these tests, the scores...
Social Security is the largest single program in the federal budget and it's about to get bigger. The recently announced 5.9 percent jump in the annual cost of living ad...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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A new tax policy allows the IRS to “monitor all transactions involvin...
The U.S. Postal Service recently launched a postal banking pilot program that allows customers to cash payroll and business checks up to $500 in four cities: Washington,...
