Senior citizens are a blessing. This weekend, my grandmother-in-law turns 100, and last weekend, my own grandmother turned 94. That’s a LOT of life! Think of everything they’ve seen and done that so few people can properly imagine. I could listen to my grandmother tell stories of her youth all day. Does she repeat a…… MORE
The man who implemented India’s biggest economic reforms of the 21st century has died. Arun Jaitley, who served as India’s finance minister for the last five years, passed away on Saturday in New Delhi. He was 66. Jaitley took charge as India’s top economic official in 2014, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s victory in an…… MORE
The man who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton in a controversial “stand your ground case” was found guilty by a jury Friday night, and McGlockton’s family says they can now begin to heal. After six hours of deliberation, a jury found Michael Drejka guilty of manslaughter for shooting unarmed McGlockton in Florida last summer over a…… MORE
The Paradise High School Bobcats had their season stolen from them last year. The team in Northern California missed the playoffs for reasons out of their control after the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise in the span of two and a half weeks last November. Now billed as the state’s deadliest and most…… MORE
Six people were injured in a prison riot in San Diego Friday night, according to a Cal Fire spokesman. The riot took place at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Capt. Thomas Shoots told CNN. “Approximately 100 inmates were in the yard at the time, but Cal Fire had adequate resources and the situation is…… MORE
Taras Petryshyn started out in Clifton Public Schools as a high school student, then a custodian. Now, he’s about to start his first school year as an assistant principal in the same district. “I cannot really explain how special it is,” he told CNN. Petryshyn moved to Clifton, New Jersey, from Ukraine in 1997 after…… MORE
As politicians on Capitol Hill clashed over immigration, Corbin Kunst had a different struggle ahead of him: successfully crossing the Mexico-US border hundreds of feet in the air. The government had been shut down for a historic 35 days, in a standoff about funding for President Trump’s border wall. On January 25, the last day…… MORE
The dangerous new twist in the tariff war between the United States and China will heap ominous pressure on the global economy at a moment when it is already struggling in the undertow of their trade superpower showdown. China’s announcement of new tariffs on $75 billion in US goods, and an incandescent reaction from President…… MORE
The office of an African American diversity change agent at the Department of Education was vandalized this week, department employees told CNN on Friday. One employee said the woman’s diploma had been knocked down and that some figurines in her office had been broken. “She had some dolls in her office that were decapitated,” the…… MORE
NASA is examining a claim that an astronaut improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station, The New York Times reported Friday — potentially the first criminal allegation from space. NASA astronaut Anne McClain told investigators she had accessed the bank account of her spouse while on a six-month…… MORE
