With the exception of Pearl Harbor, the Western Hemisphere escaped World War II mostly unscathed. It also led, to paraphrase Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto's alleged quote, a sleeping giant to wake up in the form of the United States. With Europe and Asia in rubble, the threat of the Soviets ...

Her blank face in court spoke volumes. Jennifer Crumbley saw no problem handing her severely depressed 15-year-old a semiautomatic handgun as a Christmas present. Ethan soon after turned the gun on the student body of Oxford High, killing four. What makes this case both chilling and sickening ...

The border bill circus is the latest demonstration of a bedrock reality of today's Republican Party: It does not exist to achieve political outcomes. Its chief function is fan service. The overriding concern of GOP voters, according to polls and to elected Republicans, is immigration. In the ...

Can chronic absenteeism be solved through punishment? Not likely. There has been ample evidence that punishing students and families for absenteeism doesn’t work. A group devoted to solving chronic absenteeism, Attendance Works, said this, “Effective approaches are those that treat ...

Utah small-business owners are some of the strongest, most creative and resilient people you will ever meet. In recent years, our small-business community has weathered a global pandemic, persistent supply chain issues, sometimes volatile prices and a tight labor market. Black-owned businesses ...

President Joe Biden wants to remind you that your Super Bowl party was more expensive than it used to be. The reason, he claims, is corporate greed and "shrinkflation." In a social media video before Sunday night's game, he spoke of companies selling "smaller-than-usual products where the price ...