There’s something incredible about a person who sees a problem and devotes her life to solving it. Willa Johnson, a 59-year-old grandmother from Fort Worth, Texas, is one of those people. After working in food services for the state of Texas for ten years, Willa noticed an alarming trend in small, impoverished towns like Athens, … Read more
Ever wonder what happens to disposable contact lenses when it’s time to actually dispose of them? Some scientists at Arizona State University asked that question and found that a lot of them are going down the sink or getting flushed down the toilet — adding to the problem of microplastic pollution. Microplastics are bits of plastic … Read more
Hazy, smoke-filled skies from large wildfires burning throughout California, Montana and across the Canadian border in British Columbia are causing poor air quality and health concerns. Officials have issued unhealthy air quality and smoke warnings in California, Washington, Oregon and Montana. Here is some advice for reducing your exposure risk and keeping yourself and your … Read more
New cervical cancer screening guidelines have been released by the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force, and they may be welcomed as good news by many: fewer Pap smears. According to the new guidelines published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), women between the ages of 21 and 29 should get a Pap smear every … Read more
Childhood cancer is one of the most devastating things a family can endure. In early August 2018, Brett and Christina Thompson of Winder, Georgia, found out that the youngest of their five children has acute myeloid leukemia. Little Phoenix is just two years old, and her diagnosis instantly launched a treatment plan that includes multiple … Read more
After Cristhian Bahena Rivera was charged in the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts on Tuesday, anti-immigrant trolls took to Twitter to harass the dead woman for her criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The barrage of offensive tweets is a distillation of a political culture in which conservative victories hinge on—and … Read more
President Donald Trump suggested that people should no longer be able to cooperate with authorities in exchange for reduced sentences in light of his former lawyer Michael Cohen‘s guilty plea earlier this week. The president made the claims during a wide-ranging interview with FOX & Friends, where he discussed Democrats potentially pursuing impeachment if they … Read more
President Donald Trump made his first-ever tweet as president about Africa late Tuesday. It is about the white people being treated unfairly. I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land … Read more
There appears to be a divide brewing between critics and audiences over Netflix’s Insatiable. After the dark comedy bowed on the streaming service earlier this month, it earned a dire 10 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics referred to Insatiable, in which a fat-girl-turned-beauty queen (Debby Ryan) gets revenge on the classmates who tormented her, as “trite,” “way … Read more
For the third time in as many years, singer Steven Tyler sent President Donald Trump a cease-and-desist letter over the Aerosmith songs played at Trump events. During Tuesday’s rally in West Virginia, Aerosmith’s 1993 hit Livin’ On The Edge played over loudspeakers while supporters filled into seats prior to the president stumping for Republican Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey. In … Read more