Month: April 2025

As Americans become increasingly health-conscious, their online grocery orders are showing a shift toward more nutritious food choices.  That’s according to Instacart, which recently revealed new dietary trends based on customers’ purchase and search data. Using data from 2023 to 2024, the online grocery delivery platform calculated a 39% uptick in searches for “high protein,”…

March has long had a Joan Jett-like “bad reputation,” initially because of the assassination of Julius Caesar. That’s where many people get one of the few Latin phrases they know: “Et tu, Brute?” or roughly, “You too, Brutus?” This year, we also witnessed princesses with similar bad reps. The media career of wannabe Princess Meghan…

In 1997, David Halberstam published a 25th anniversary edition of his 1972 best-seller, “The Best and the Brightest,” he penned a new introduction for it and he did not hold back on whom he thought was the real best of brightest: himself. The book had indeed done well in the year of Richard Nixon’s landslide,…

Prince Harry has found himself in an unwanted spotlight after the royal was accused of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force out the leader of a charity he co-founded. Sophie Chandauka, the Sentebale chair, took several shots at the Duke of Sussex on Sky News on Sunday. She told the outlet…

Karen Read, the woman accused of killing her Boston cop boyfriend during a January nor’easter, is set to go on trial for a second time this week after her first prosecution ended with a hung jury. Read, 45, is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly accident in connection with…

President Trump stirs up controversy, by design, on just about everything. And when the media, including me, cover this flood-the-zone approach, Trumpian allies rip the resulting stories and segments as reflecting an unhealthy negative obsession with the president. Memo to the pro-Trump zealots who go online and declare I hate the president, that’s objectively ridiculous….

The Trump administration recently asked American developers, including OpenAI, for input on what the U.S. needs to do to stay ahead in the global AI competition. We believe that preserving AI’s ability to learn should be at the top of the list. In the early years of the internet, landmark legal rulings affirmed that U.S….

President Donald Trump‘s administration told several Planned Parenthood affiliates on Monday that it was withholding funding due to possible violations of civil rights laws, according to reports. Politico reported that tens of millions of dollars were being withheld from Planned Parenthood clinics that provide low-income Americans services like contraception, STI testing and other health services….

A man accused of firebombing a Tesla dealership in Colorado is facing federal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday.  Cooper Jo Fredrick, 24, was arrested in Plano, Texas, on suspicion of attacking a Tesla dealership on March 7 in Loveland, Colo., Bondi said.  “Let this be a warning. You can run, but you cannot…