Tennis Style, Anyone?
If you spend any time around the All England Club during Wimbledon, as I did for several hours last Monday, you start to notice that many people dress in what…
What’s Worse Than Heat and Humidity? Heat and Humidity on the Subway.
You make a mad dash out of one subway car and into another before the doors slam shut. Or you use your hands as fans. Or you sit by an…
Detroit Takes On Problems That Were Once Beyond Reach
On a stretch of Detroit’s West Side with mostly empty storefronts, the building with “Fried Fish” painted on its window had not served a meal in years. A small forest…
In Gilgo Beach Killings, an Arrest Bears Out a Decade-Old Prediction
In April 2011, just months after the bodies of four women were discovered buried near Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s South Shore, several experts and criminologists put together a sketch…
High school student’s on-campus arrest after graduation ceremony raises tensions in Delaware
After a student was thrown to the ground and arrested by campus police, following a high school held graduation on the University of Delaware campus, administrators with one of the…
Why the children of Claxton, Tennessee, have a playground built on top of coal ash
In the hills of East Tennessee, just a half hour outside Knoxville, is a wood-framed playground that looks like a palace for children. It’s just over 20 years old, designed…
Landslides, floods kill several in South Korea
Heavy rain in South Korea has killed several people and left others missing in landslides and floods. (14-15 July 2023)
Portland food truck owner severely beaten in random attack thanks TikToker for arrest
An Oregon food truck owner severely beaten in a random attack that’s being prosecuted as a hate crime is questioning how police initially handled his case and crediting the power…
To be or not to be on the shelf? New Florida school book law could restrict even Shakespeare
To be or not to be on the shelf? That’s the question school districts across Florida are asking themselves as they figure out how to apply a new book-challenge law.…
House passes controversial Defense bill, a murder charge in a decades old case: 5 things podcast
On today’s episode of the 5 Things podcast: USA TODAY Congress, Campaigns, and Democracy Reporter Miles Herszenhorn talks about a House-passed Defense bill, and looks at where Americans stand on aid to Ukraine.…