Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their ...
The race for control of the Senate next January is a dead heat. Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive. And they might. But it's possible that the fate of the chamber known as the "world's greatest deliberative body" will come down to a state not usually considered all that swingy: Texas. Everything is always bigger in Texas, and that now includes the stakes for control of the Senate. For over a decade, Democrats have touted the purported inevitability of Texas turning blue. "Demographics is ...
In one of his Truth Social bombs, President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Canada refused to accept his trade negotiation terms. It obviously echoes his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It's easy to find these whole geographic ...
Having trouble getting your steps in? We know walking is good for our heart, our muscles, and our mental health. However, knowing we should exercise and actually doing it are two very different things. As a Personal Trainer, one of my less popular mantras is that “motivation is an ...
“You don’t have to be loud to be bold.” That’s what I was told once in a prayer session two weeks before I received the sacrament of confirmation. I had asked my fellow candidates and catechumens to pray that I would be bold in my faith. Just 30 minutes before I was nearly shaking ...
In 2007, Hugo Chavez sent men with rifles into the Orinoco Belt. They walked into oilfields Americans had surveyed, Americans had drilled and American engineering had made productive and told ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to take a minority stake in their own work or get out. Those two got ...
