Three 18-year-olds have been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of longtime sports radio personality Jimmy Dodds, whose death has shaken the Kansas City, Kansas, community and renewed concerns about youth violence. Dodds, 64, was killed Sunday outside his home in the 3000 block of 82nd Terrace in Kansas City, Kansas. Known to … Read more
A State Department spokesperson told reporters that, to their knowledge, this is the first time an officer has been terminated under the authority granted by Executive Order 14211, which President Trump signed earlier this year to strengthen accountability within the diplomatic corps. The order states that “all officers or employees charged with implementing continue reading … Read more
President Trump on Sunday appeared to finally deliver what he’s been teasing now for weeks: A peace deal of some sort with Iran: President Donald Trump says an agreement with Iran has been reached and that the US will end its naval blockade on the country. Tehran has not immediately confirmed the agreement. Key mediator Pakistan … Read more
There’s been another chilling update on Kentucky GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell. Emergency dispatch audio indicating that an individual at McConnell’s Washington, D.C., residence suffered a reported “cardiac arrest” earlier this month has renewed questions about the former Senate Republican leader’s health and whether he will return to the Senate. Since the continue reading …
On my sixty-fifth birthday, my daughter-in-law knocked my cake onto the patio, smiled like she had just finished loading the dishwasher, and said, “Oops.” So I picked up her expensive Italian handbag, the one she never stopped mentioning cost more than most people’s monthly rent, dropped it into the fire pit, watched the leather begin … Read more
My mother stared at my newborn as though the nurse had carried in something disgraceful rather than a seven pound miracle. Before I could fully sit up, she announced, we will never acknowledge a fatherless child. My father stood next to her in a charcoal suit, his arms folded. And we will never hold that … Read more
By the time Vanessa Carter unlocked her front door in Plano, Texas, she was supposed to be in Chicago for two more days. The client conference had wrapped up early, the closing dinner had been quietly canceled when half the attendees rebooked their flights, and after three nights of hotel food and forced networking, all … Read more
The Room at the End of the Hall My son told me I would be better off in a nursing home, and that his family needed my room. So I packed quietly and left without an argument. A few days later, when he finally understood that I was not coming back, the color drained out … Read more
I counted the calls because the clock on the hospital wall was mounted directly across from my bed, and there was nothing else in that room to look at. Nine. Nine times my thumb trembled against the buttons of the hospital phone while the monitors beeped their steady rhythm beside me. Nine times I called … Read more
My parents laughed when I walked into Portsmouth Family Court in my Navy dress uniform at 9:03 on a Tuesday morning to fight for my grandfather’s eighty-four-acre farm. Not loudly. Not in the way people laugh when something is actually funny. It was worse than that. It was the small, practiced laughter of people who … Read more
