Walmart and Amazon race to win over rural America with speedier deliveries
PEA RIDGE, Ark. | Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start in the contest to build […]
Top Colorado court orders Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora should restart gender-affirming care for transgender children, about five months after the hospital stopped providing such treatment in the face of threats to federal funding. The wants the lower trial court to reverse its […]
Bam! Pow! Krakoom! The everlasting allure of the American comic book
BARCELONA, Spain | Pick one up. Be seduced by its glossy cover. Gaze upon the impossibly muscular body clad in a skin-tight suit. Our hero or heroine will surely be soaring, shouting, blasting a villain into next week. They are ridiculous. They are addictively great. Comic books, of the superhero variety, are 100% American. Compare […]
Created as IDs, dog tags became a crucial link between military families and fallen troops
Family members often clench them as if they were still clasping their fallen loved one’s hands. Companions-in-arms have broken down reading them. More than a century after a U.S. Army chaplain pushed for “dog tags” to become standard issue for troops, they remain one of the most powerful links for grieving military families to their […]
Toon in Tuesday
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TUESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video
Read more EDITORIAL: The chief problem in Aurora is the police chief, not public information Read more Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court risks being seen as political after voting rights decision Read more Rockies outlast Rangers 7-6 as Texas starter Mackenzie Gore leaves with injury after 1 inning
EDITORIAL: The chief problem in Aurora is the police chief, not public information
Aurora lawmakers this week made clear how valid the old adage is that when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. In a ham-handed attempt to reign in the city’s problematic police chief, city council members whacked the entire police department on the head with its legislation tool. The […]
Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court risks being seen as political after voting rights decision
WASHINGTON | Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Monday that the Supreme Court risks being seen as political in the wake of a major voting rights decision. She spoke after writing a solo dissent from the court’s decision allowing Louisiana to move quickly to use new maps after the court’s conservative majority struck down a majority-Black […]
Rockies outlast Rangers 7-6 as Texas starter Mackenzie Gore leaves with injury after 1 inning
DENVER | Texas starter MacKenzie Gore surrendered a two-run double to Ezequiel Tovar and then left with an injury after one inning as the Rangers lost 7-6 to the Colorado Rockies on Monday night. Willi Castro doubled leading off the first against Gore (3-4), and Brenton Doyle and TJ Rumfield drew walks to load the […]
OpenAI avoided a costly court loss to Elon Musk, but neither side is unscathed
OAKLAND, Calif. | After prevailing in its court fight with Elon Musk, OpenAI — the ChatGPT maker valued at $852 billion — remains on track for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history. Musk had been seeking the ouster of his fellow OpenAI co-founder, CEO Sam Altman, among other changes […]