For many parents, a distinctive name is seen as an opportunity to help their child stand out from the crowd—but it does have drawbacks. Speaking to Live Science, Northwestern University researcher David Figlio noted that MORE
“Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction” As war envelops Ukraine, Russian sources have strived to create a miasma of disinformation about the invasion. Among ample efforts to MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to our Friday free chat, all news all the time, whether personal or political, local or global, near, far, funny, sad, and when all topics have been exhausted, there’s always MORE
From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Trump’s acting chief of staff. On Mulvaney’s watch, the White House took a wrecking ball to checks MORE
The first step toward ending our voting wars is to recognize that every citizen should play a role in shaping our nation’s destiny. In the wake of changes that made voting more convenient, and resulted MORE
Infowars host Alex Jones offered to pay $120,000 per plaintiff to resolve a lawsuit by relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who said he defamed them by asserting the massacre never happened, according MORE
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Wednesday she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring that Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme MORE
The U.S. will record one million confirmed deaths from COVID in the next several weeks. This toll is likely an undercount because there are more than 200,000 other excess deaths that go beyond typical mortality rates, caused in part by MORE
Monday. It’s Monday. The last Monday in March of 2022, and welcome to our free chat, Free Range. This is an open forum, all topics all the time, within the bounds of reason and civility, MORE
The contender for most-bigoted member on Congress used her time at a Trump rally to get weird about the Transportation Secretary and personally attack a college student Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Geo.) on Saturday for some reason MORE
“The judiciary cannot be part of the chain of command.” The Supreme Court on Friday evening decided, no, it was not going to needlessly insert itself in the military chain of command above President Joe MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers — it’s another Friday — following a Monday through Thursday filled with chaos and drama. On our televisions we see a war , a confirmation hearing, a new COVID variant and MORE
A large, deadly tornado battered parts of the New Orleans area on Tuesday night, with damage reported in Arabi and the Lower Ninth Ward. St. Bernard Parish president Guy McInnis told CNN one person had died in MORE
A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even MORE
Welcome to another Monday, this is Free Range, our free chat which is free ranging 😜across mountains and prairies, highways and byways, sea and sky, streams and deserts (and whatever is going on in between)…. MORE
It’s another Friday at News Views, and we’re coming up on two weeks of fighting in Ukraine. While Putin sent his “peacekeeping” troops into Eastern Ukraine on Feb. 21, it was Feb. 24 he dropped MORE
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has called on Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, depicting President Vladimir Putin as an “obviously insane tsar.” Navalny called for protests across the country and MORE
The last Monday in February. This is Free Range, our Monday Free chat with an environmental focus, attention to this blue planet and all things living and non-living, above and below, bright and dark, future MORE
Ukraine’s defense forces, outmanned and outgunned, waged a ferocious resistance to the Russian invasion on Saturday, battling to keep control of the capital, Kyiv, and other cities. There was intense street fighting, and bursts of MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, unbelievably, February is almost gone, and ”good riddance, buh-bye, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. . … .Wars and rumors of wars. We’ve witnessed the beginning of MORE
Ukraine’s government said it faced “a full-scale attack from multiple directions.” World leaders condemned President Vladimir Putin’s actions. Chuhuyiv, in eastern Ukraine, was hit by bombs Thursday as Russian military forces attacked the country from MORE
Several Ukrainian government websites were offline Wednesday as a result of a mass distributed denial of service attack, Mykhailo Fedorov, head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, said in his Telegram channel. The attack, which also MORE
Of all the former secretaries of state under Democratic and Republican presidents, only one is taking to cable news and social media during a moment of peril in Europe to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin MORE
Early in the Reagan administration, several Christian conservative leaders founded a group called the Council for National Policy. It soon turned into what my colleague David Kirkpatrick has described as “a little-known club of a few hundred MORE
The German Response: Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that Germany would halt certification of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that would link his country with Russia, one of the strongest moves yet MORE