Dear Annie: Several years ago, at a party of 50-some people, my daughter brought up politics and confronted me about my political pick. I tried to assuage her emotions, but she kept on. I finally decided it was best to leave as her hostility was becoming more pronounced. I got my coat to leave ...

Dear Dr. Roach: We are learning a lot about short-term to long-term impacts from COVID-19, especially on the cardiovascular system. But we don’t hear about “long flu” or similar impacts. Is that because COVID really is different, or is it more the case that we have billions of people ...

The first holiday of summer is underway. However, in terms of temperature, it is not really summer just yet. The average high at the National Weather Service (NWS) near Negaunee is only in the mid to upper 60s at the end of May, while the average low remains in the chilly mid 40s. There ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Scientists will set about 1,000 traps this year in their quest to wipe out the Asian giant hornet in Washington, the state Department of Agriculture said Tuesday. Scientists believe the hornets, first detected in the Pacific Northwest state in 2019, are confined in Whatcom ...

It could be argued that World War I, which began with Austria-Hungary, in 1914, actually began Louis the Pious, Charlemagne’s grandson, in 840. Charlemagne was the illegitimate son of Pippin III, the last of the last of the previous dynasty, the Merovingians. The family came to power as ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece. It was the latest in a ...