Carnival Cruise Lines has been in the news lately with four of its cruise ships failing sanitation inspections in the last two months and a total of five ships failing USPH inspections in the last year. The Carnival Vista (79), Carnival Breeze (77), Carnival Triumph...
After nearly four hours of delays prompted by last-minute claims of dated injection drugs and botched executions, John Battaglia of Dallas was put to death on Thursday, the Houston Chronicle reports. Battaglia, 62, had fatally shot his daughters, 9 and 6. Battaglia’s was the third...
Since Trump’s executive decisions regarding immigration, U.S. border security has taken steps to reflect the changes in legislation. One of the actions taken was the increased search of travelers’ phones and other electronic devices by border agents. In this episode of Digital Detectives, hosts Sharon...
Larry Nassar, the gymnastics osteopath convicted of sexually abusing young female gymnasts and other patients under the guise of medical care, has been called a monster by many of the victims and by the judge in the case. New York Times op-ed writer Frank Bruni,...
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie hopes that in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, in which the court will consider whether an Illinois law allowing public-sector unions to charge nonmembers for collective-bargaining activities violates the...
Football is a key ritual in the nation’s civic religion and the best and worst aspects of its impact on the country’s cultural landscape flow from this....