Tanya Barfield’s new play gets its regional premiere at Pillsbury House Theatre.
"Shake it off" parenting sends mixed messages to young children. How can we expect to raise kind and caring kids when we are quick to dismiss our own children in the heat of the moment?
The three Democratic presidential hopefuls are gathering for a town hall on Monday night, their last major event before next week's Iowa caucuses.
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Educating for Democracy: Faith-based Politics
The series of debates among presidential candidates that are being displayed with the eloquence and logic of a Battle Royal sponsored by the World Wide Wrestling Federation reminds me of the contrast between the debates today and those of forty years ago. That's when Watergate was freshly in the minds of voters and Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford in 1976. During a heated exchange, Ford made a major factual error in insisting that "Poland... Читать дальше...
Nothing wakes you out of winter despair quite like the fabulous week of fashion that is Paris Haute Couture. For a fleeting moment, you can let yourself be carried away to a world of...
Hollis Johnson
Chick-fil-A has come a long way since the first location opened in 1967.
The chicken chain has exploded in the last couple years, as it expands across the US with some of the best fried chicken sandwiches in the country. However, as Chick-fil-A gets bigger, there are some facts about the chain that would be major surprises to many customers.
Here are some of the most unbelieveable things that have happened in Chick-fil-A's 49 year history.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina - The Latest on The Citadel disciplining 14 cadets after photographs surfaced on social media of seven freshmen with pillowcases similar to KKK garb on their heads (all times local):
He's not getting off on it, he actually has a point.
The "American Pie" singer was arrested earlier this month.
This may be the end of the legal road for Shelby County, Alabama.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from the county to award it $2 million in attorney fees to cover its successful challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Triple Helix Venturing
Microsoft has launched a new strategic investment fund under the Microsoft Ventures name, and may consolidate its previous startup-investment programs underneath this new program.
To make this happen, Microsoft Ventures has a new boss, as first reported by Fortune earlier on Monday: Nagraj Kashyap, the former head of Qualcomm Ventures.
What's changing?
In recent years, Microsoft has created several programs that invest in startups, including BizSpark, Microsoft Reactor, and the Bing Fund. Читать дальше...
COLUMBIA, South Carolina - South Carolina coach Frank Martin believes his team's current bumpy stretch is nothing that a little time at home this week can't correct.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin has planted a "delay-action mine" by advocating for the individual republics' right to political secession.
Five years after Arab Spring demonstrations and protests led to the toppling of rulers throughout the Middle East and North Africa, one expert said the uprisings were "an open invitation to destabilization."
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has concluded an annual weeklong prayer for Christian unity by making a sweeping apology for Catholic wrongs committed against other Christians and by announci…
Want to cut fuel costs but still cram in a bunch of cargo? Welcome to the hatchback.
The City Council bills would create civil penalties that cops could use instead of criminal ones for violations like public drinking.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people than expected are purchasing health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, a report confirmed on Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people than expected are purchasing health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, a report confirmed on Monday.
The Congressional Budget Office study said that 13 million people are likely to purchase policies through the Affordable Care Act this year, down about 8 million from estimates the agency made early last year. The Department of Health and Human Services had already flagged the lowered expectations last fall, predicting just 10 million customers signed up and paying premiums through online insurance markets by the end of 2016. At issue is enrollment in the law's health insurance markets, or exchanges, which offer subsidized private coverage. Читать дальше...
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The high-yield market needs to see a broad-based, solid rebound soon, or things are going to get a lot worse.
One measure of just how extreme panic among junk-bond investors has gotten is the difference between yields on high-yield bonds and comparable US Treasuries.
The spread on junk-rated bonds outside the energy sector has widened 115 basis points since December, and now stands at 667 basis points, according to Deutsche Bank strategists Oley Melentyev and Daniel Sorid. Читать дальше...
The Italian Police evacuated Rome`s central train station on Monday evening after a man was spotted in the huge terminus armed with a gun, the state railways said.
Inside a secure conference room on the 6th floor of the Justice Department in early 2014, top federal law enforcement officials gathered to hear what criminal charges prosecutors were contemplating against David H. Petraeus, the storied wartime general and former CIA director whose public career had ended about 15 months earlier over an extramarital affair.
