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Like any Ivy League school, a degree from Yale University has the potential to help you go very far in life. The New Haven, Connecticut-based university has a long list of notable alumni, including actors Angela Bassett and Jodie Foster, Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and billionaire businessman Tom Steyer. Those are just some of the undergraduate alums — the list of notable alumni from Yale's graduate programs is even longer and includes several other U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, actors, founders and more. Plus, Yale students go on to command a median salary of $95,961...

President Joe Biden is expected to be among the special guests attending an ice cream social at his Harrisburg area campaign headquarters on Sunday. The event, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Biden-Harris headquarters in Lower Paxton Township, is by invitation only. It will be Biden’s first visit to the region since Labor Day 2020 when he stopped by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO office in downtown Harrisburg. Biden was scheduled to speak before the National Education Association in Philadelphia on Sunday, but the campaign cancelled those plans following the National Education Association Staff Organization’s Friday announcement it was going on...

Instead of reassuring Democrats, Biden's ABC News interview may have accelerated the revolt against his nomination. President Joe Biden’s make-or-break interview with ABC News on Friday night did little to convince alarmed Democrats that he is capable of winning the election and serving another four years in the White House. But among the more jarring moments in the interview was when Biden framed his insistence on running in this critically important election — and his potential defeat — as a personal endeavor. “And if you stay in and Trump is elected, and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how...

Click on pic for a 2011 YouTube clip of Beau Biden, in his role as Delaware AG, speaking about elder abuse…..…

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The First Lady will be making a stop in Wilmington on Monday for a campaign event. Dr. Jill Biden is also expected to make an appearance at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida the same day. WECT has not yet learned if the event is open to the public.

On this date in 1835, five professional gamblers were strung up in Vicksburg. It was an event more adjacent to than constituent of the slave rebellion panic shaking Mississippi, for the men were neither slaves nor their confederates and they were not struck down for threatening the Slave Power; at best, the uneasiness of possible insurrectionary stirrings abroad informed the tense background, or offered the post hoc justification — but these lynchings were a different thing that inhabited by chance the same time and place. A Mississippi River boomtown “created by the easy credit of the Jacksonian ‘flush times’ and...

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A Lake County jury awarded over $4 million to a woman after she slipped in a Publix store nearly four years ago, according to law firm Morgan & Morgan. Court records show that the woman — Heidi Jordan of Brevard County, who is represented by Morgan & Morgan — visited a Publix Supermarket along US-27 in Leesburg back in August 2020. While shopping, Jordan slipped on water in the produce department, causing her to suffer major injuries, she claimed. She then filed a lawsuit against Publix, arguing that the company’s negligence was responsible. ”She suffered from...

And ghastly, thro' the drizzling rain, on the bald street breaks the blank day', or so wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson on another occasion. It certainly seemed fitting as I biked through the suburbs on Friday morning, contemplating 20 years of dwelling in Starmergrad, if I make it that far. We are told that we should give 'losers' consent', when people we don't like win democratic elections, and I agree that is the only civilised thing to do. But I can't actually remember an election when I did not have to give a least a bit of loser's consent. A bit...

In the US, hysterectomy is the second most commonly performed surgery among women after cesarean section; around 1 in 3 will undergo the procedure by the age of 60. But according to a new study, 1 in 5 women in the US may not need to. Around 68% of hysterectomies for benign conditions are done to treat abnormal uterine bleeding, uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Rates of hysterectomy in the US are falling, with one study reporting a 36.4% reduction in the number of hysterectomies carried out between 2003 and 2010. Still, more than 400,000 hysterectomies are carried out in the...

CONFLICTING LOYALTIES An interviewer once asked the late Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. how he had developed such insight into human behavior. "I had a good teacher, Henry Horace Williams," replied Ervin. "He said the things that try people's souls do not consist of choosing between good and evil. The thing that tries a person's soul is having to choose between conflicting loyalties." Ervin went on to say that understanding that concept had not only helped him make better decisions, but to judge other people more fairly as well. Sometimes unwise choices were simply the result of misplaced loyalty. "A...

Whoopi Goldberg, the star actress of Sister Act and The Colour Purple, has come under significant public backlash after she had some harsh advice for Gen Zs and millennials. Goldberg emphasised during a session on The View, where she hosts alongside others, that they "just need to work harder" if they want to purchase property and provide for their families.

President Biden is under mounting pressure to drop his bid for a second term. Historian Allan Lichtman, who correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidents based on his system of thirteen true/false questions to the strength and performance of the White House party, breaks down why Biden still represents the best bet for Democrats. Answers of true always favors stability. If six or more answers are false, we have earthquakes. US Presidential elections are essentially up or down votes on the strength of the performance of the White House party. In other words, it's performance, not campaigning, that...

An urgent warning has been issued to all 1.46 billion iPhone users after tech experts uncovered a new cyberattack targeting Apple IDs. Bad actors are using SMS phishing campaigns that send messages claiming to be from Apple, prompting users to visit a link to an 'important request' about iCloud. California-based Symantec security firm discovered the attack this month, warning the links lead to fake websites that urge users to hand over their Apple ID information. Apple has established guidelines for such an attack, urging iPhone owners to use two-factor authentication that requires a password and six-digit verification code to access...

On July 6, due to an ongoing electric power issue, Amtrak canceled service between Boston and New York City for the remainder of the day. Amtrak is communicating directly with impacted customers about this service interruption and offering options for rebooking their travel plans. Amtrak apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the disruption. Our crews are working hard to correct the issues.

NEW ORLEANS — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Saturday delivered a strong defense of President Biden, pushing back on critics who say he’s too old to be president. “We are now at a point in time where people are talking about Biden as too old,” she said. “Hell, I’m older than Biden!” Waters spoke on a panel at the Essence Festival of Culture here in New Orleans ahead of Vice President Harris’s appearance. As an audience of hundreds of Black women cheered, Waters challenged Black voters who may be wooed by Donald Trump’s pitch that he would be a better...

This is such a buzz kill. As it turns out, consuming just one alcoholic beverage per day — whether it be a pint of beer, a glass of wine or a shot of your favorite spirit — can shorten your lifespan by approximately two-and-a-half months, one expert asserts Dr. Tim Stockwell, of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, told Daily Mail that those who drink significantly more alcohol than that — about 35 beverages a week — could slash a staggering two years off their lifespan. It’s a rude awakening for those who might like to unwind with a...

Numerous officials, lawmakers and strategists in President Biden’s own party increasingly see his candidacy as unsustainable — and their private anxieties are slowly but steadily spilling into public view, interviews with more than 50 Democrats this week showed.Growing swaths of Democrats now believe that by remaining on the ticket, the president is jeopardizing their ability to maintain the White House and threatening other candidates up and down the ballot. The moment is setting up an extraordinary clash between a defiant president of the United States who insists he is not abandoning his re-election campaign and members of his party who...

CHICAGO -- At least 71 people have been shot, 11 fatally, in gun violence across Chicago since Wednesday evening during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police said. The violence includes three mass shootings, one in which two women and an 8-year-old boy were killed and two young boys were left in critical condition after multiple shooters opened fire into a Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood home on the South Side. At least 19 of those shot were in mass shootings in Austin, Greater Grand Crossing and Little Italy.

A top advisor to former President Obama offered a dismal assessment of President Biden’s make or break interview on ABC. David Axelrod, the architect of Obama’s two successful presidential campaigns, called the Friday sitdown “sad” to watch. “When George Stephanopoulos asked him if he’d be willing to take a cognitive test, he said, ‘I take a cognitive test every day.’ Well, the fact is, that may be true, but 75% of the American people think he fails,” Axelrod said in post-interview analysis on CNN Friday. While Biden again rejected calls to leave the race, saying only the “Lord Almighty” could...

President Joe Biden, on Saturday, lost the support of yet another Democrat member of Congress, the first to do so in the aftermath of Biden’s too-little-too-late Friday ABC News interview, which failed to assuage his critics. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) officially asked Biden to step aside early Saturday morning, saying, “As an elected leader, I feel a responsibility to be honest about what I believe, even when it’s hard to hear.” Craig is the fifth member of Congress to demand Biden step aside since his disastrous June 27 debate. The battleground district lawmaker hails from Minnesota, a state unexpectedly in...