Liz Weston: 5 ways to simplify and reduce your money clutter
Professional organizers might define household clutter as a pile of unmade decisions. Money clutter is much the same.
America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal
In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has changed the law of the land in ways they consider oppressive.
Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological...
Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for well-being of people living on it, according to a new study.
US births in 2022 didn’t return to pre-pandemic levels
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
In Canada, each cigarette will get a warning label: ‘poison in every puff’
TORONTO (AP) — Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on individual cigarettes.
Audit finds National Highway Traffic Safety Administration auto safety defect probes take too long
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government agency charged with keeping the roads safe is slow to investigate automobile safety defects, limiting its ability to handle rapidly changing or severe risks, an audit made public Thursday found.
Gardening is strenuous. How to go gentle on your body
Gardening is widely regarded as a moderate to strenuous form of exercise. All that bending, lifting, digging and hauling burns calories and builds muscle.
Proposals would bring dramatic change to Ohio’s voucher program
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio parents could soon see more taxpayer money in their pockets to help send their schoolchildren to private and religious schools, or fund homeschooling, under changes to a voucher program that Republican state lawmakers and the governor must hammer out by month’s end.
No more survivors found after India train crash kills over 280, injures 900; Modi...
BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.
Underestimated McCarthy emerges from debt deal empowered as speaker, still threatened by far right
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is nothing if not a political survivor.
