NATIONAL REVIEW – Edwin J. Feulner, founder and longest-serving president of the Heritage Foundation, died yesterday at 83. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and their two children.
Feulner founded Heritage in 1973 alongside Paul Weyrich and Joseph Coors. Since his passing, Republican politicians and conservative institutions have remembered him as a courageous and wise defender of truth.
“Sir Isaac Newton said, ‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of...
CNN – Astronomer, the tech company that found itself launched into the public eye after its CEO Andy Byron was spotted on a Jumbotron video at a Coldplay concert earlier this week embracing an employee, announced that Byron has been placed on leave.
Astronomer’s cofounder and chief product officer Pete DeJoy is now serving as interim CEO, the company said in a statement Friday night.
The New York-based company earlier Friday issued a statement about the...
In a time when skincare and haircare dupes have become their own kind of status symbol—smart, savvy, and often just as effective—these budget buys more than hold their own.
FITCHBURG, Mass. (WWLP) – A Massachusetts resident won two $1 million Powerball prizes in the same drawing after mistakenly buying an extra ticket last week.
Paul Corcoran had initially purchased a multi-game ticket — which was good for seven upcoming drawings — at a local supermarket.
But less than a week later, he purchased another multi-game ticket from a gas station, mistakenly thinking that his initial ticket was outdated.
When the July 9 Powerball drawing came around,...
Nguyen Nang Manh is accused of giving money to certain agency officials. The Ministry of Public Security said these officials then ignored violations, created favorable conditions for appraisal, and granted food safety certificates of good manufacturing practices for two factories run by MediPhar and MediUSA.
REUTERS – Eight children in the U.K. have been spared from devastating genetic diseases thanks to a new three-person in vitro fertilization technique, scientists from Newcastle University reported on Wednesday.
The technique, which is banned in the United States, transfers pieces from inside the mother’s fertilized egg - its nucleus, plus the nucleus of the father’s sperm - into a healthy egg provided by an anonymous donor.
The procedure prevents the transfer of mutated genes from...
THE ATLANTIC – Donald Trump is enamored with Coca-Cola.
In January, he smiled from ear to ear in a photo with the company’s CEO, who gifted him a special Coke bottle commemorating his inauguration.
When Trump officially returned to the Oval Office as president a few days later, his desk was already set up as it had been in his first term: with a button to summon a bottle of Diet Coke.
Between sips of the fizzy...
Mehmet Oz, current administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said the administration is "cracking down on abuse that drives up costs."
BBC News – On Thursday, the White House announced that US President Donald Trump has a medical condition in his veins called chronic venous insufficiency.
Here are the some of the key things to know about the US president's diagnosis.
What is chronic venous insufficiency?
Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when leg veins don't allow blood to flow back up to the heart, causing it to pool in the lower limbs.
Normal blood flow from the legs back up...
LAWANDCRIME.COM – A Florida woman was thrown behind bars after she allegedly used bear spray to attack a driver and "teach her a lesson" for not "waiting to let a chicken cross the road" while stopped at an intersection — instead running the bird over and killing it, cops say.
Cynthia Sosa, 38, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and one count of burglary with assault or battery in connection with the July...