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Per CNN, millions of Americans traveling this holiday weekend are being greeted by unprecedented prices at the gas pump. The national average for regular gasoline rose to a fresh record of $4.62 a gallon on Monday, according to AAA. That's up by a penny from Sunday...

(Image courtesy of Flickr)On May 24, 2022, 19 children and two adults were killed, with 17 others injured, in a school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. The incident has sparked outrage and intensified the debate about guns in America and the security of...

If you hang with enough Trumpers and discuss race, they'll be sure to mention the presumed double standard as it relates to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). "Why are there Black colleges but not White colleges," they'll ask. Answer: Because all of the non-Black colleges...

Last year, Fox News contributor Karl Rove gave President Joe Biden decent marks for his Inauguration speech, overall, but insisted he was “offended” by the president’s comments on racism, nativism, and fear.“I was offended in the speech,” Rove told Fox News. “There was a point in there...

As someone who lives less than 30 minutes from Washington, DC, our Nation’s Capital, I wonder what would happen should the United States be attacked right here on our own soil; especially with all of the violence we’re seeing in Ukraine. Moreover, what if my job...

People obsessed with baseless conspiracy theories want so badly to believe in extraordinary alternatives to reality. After all, why believe the truth when fabricated stories are so much juicier, right? People love conspiracies because they're usually so much more scintillating than reality. Let's face it, they're...

Weeks prior to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, President Donald Trump told Attorney General Bill Barr to bring criminal charges against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, and previous Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for launching a supposed coup against his administration. “Unless...

In a call with reporters On March 23, 2022, Indiana U.S. Senator Mike Braun was asked if the Loving v. Virginia (1967) decision on interracial marriage should be overturned and left for the states to decide. Braun responded: “When it comes to issues, you can’t have...

Although women’s salaries in the United States continue to be about 82 percent of their male counterparts of the same age, the gender wage gap is reversing among young people.Per Pew Research’s analysis of Census Bureau data, women under 30 are already out-earning men in the same age...

Remember when it was cool to hang out at the mall? Oftentimes we’d go just to walk around, window shop, and people watch, all while bonding with friends or relatives.And although retail was always their central focus, we saw malls incorporate fancy theatres, restaurants, workout gyms,...