Rosalyn LaPier still shudders when she thinks of the abandoned, windowless Victorian manor that sat next to a tiny chapel on the Montana reservation where she grew up. Some weekends, as a child, LaPier would pass by the gloomy estate on her way to a local cemetery to pay respects to deceased relatives. Along the…
Edward Lucas is a longtime journalist and commentator who specializes in security and geopolitics. He has authored books on topics from spy craft and cybersecurity to Putin’s Russia and its perceived threat to the West. Lucas spoke with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service about the October 26 national elections in Georgia. He talked about what the process…
With Halloween being one of the deadliest nights of the year for child pedestrians, News4JAX wants to give trick-or-treaters the tools to have the safest night of frights possible. “Over the past three years, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that an annual average of 3,200 Halloween-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments,”…
In September, China’s central bank announced its most aggressive measures since the pandemic to get its economy back on track after it became clear the country might miss its 5 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth target for 2024. The world’s second-largest economy is still struggling from the lingering side-effects of COVID-19 – when China…
Joe Biden’s planned trip to Angola on October 13 was meant to be historic. It would have been his first visit to Africa during his tenure as president of the United States. But as Hurricane Milton advanced on Florida last week, the White House postponed the trip to an unspecified date, alongside a visit to…
A greying, slightly bent man asked for a table for two at the Sea Lounge, the iconic coffee shop at the Taj Hotels’ flagship hotel in Mumbai, a few years ago. The restaurant was buzzing with customers there to sit by the windows and watch the sun melt into the Arabian Sea outside. There were no…
For months, Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have traded constant cross-border attacks that have killed dozens and displaced thousands of people. Now there are fears of a full-blown war between the foes amid the fallout from a deadly rocket attack from Lebanon hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Hezbollah quickly denied it was responsible…
Five days before President Vladimir Putin announced that he would loosen the conditions under which Russia might use a nuclear weapon against an adversary, one of those very same nuclear weapons had a spectacularly explosive mishap. The Sarmat, Russia’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile, a next-generation projectile that Putin has bragged about, erupted in an unexplained…
Shilpa Shetty, who is not only an actress and producer, but also an entrepreneur who extensively invests in fitness products, opened up about the psyche behind associating with a brand. The actress insisted on the need for celebrities to take responsibility when they are investing or associating with a brand and along with that, she…
Special to the News-Journal September is National Cholesterol Education Month and Christus Health is spreading awareness about the importance and dangers of cholesterol and its impact on both cardiac health and overall health. Cholesterol is a waxy substance that comes from two sources: Your liver and food. The liver makes all the cholesterol your body…