"America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy ... She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit." — John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) In the middle of his term as Secretary of State, the future president John Quincy Adams ...

In the early morning of July 4, a flash flood emergency was issued for Austin and San Antonio by the National Weather Service in Texas. According to the NWS, a flash flood emergency is "exceedingly rare" and is only used when "there is a severe threat to human life and catastrophic ...

Hardline Republicans — specifically those members of the House Freedom Caucus — are being derided in the press, as if they've been playing some kind of a game. That is, threatening to not vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill, when, supposedly, everyone knew, in the end, they would cave and ...

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. ...

The flooding in Texas is cataclysmic. It was a hellscape as dozens, many of them girls from a summer camp, were swept to their deaths. Such tragedies spawn questions over whether the National Weather Service could have better warned the public. But this one is different in that the Trump ...

I refuse to try to build any more precious childhood memories for my kids. I'm just giving them fuel for the therapist's office (and I'm sure they already have enough of that). The camel's back-breaking straw came the other day, when my husband and I took our kids to an open-air concert at a ...