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Almanac for Nov. 24, 2025

Today is Monday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2025. There are 37 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television. Also on this date: In 1859, ...

How low can deviancy go?

The central scandal in the Epstein's sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It's the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women — that is, females 18 or older — bothers me little. I never cared much about Donald Trump's assignation with porn star Stormy Daniels. Other ...

Supreme Court weighs Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is meeting in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump 's birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices ...

Almanac for Nov. 22, 2025

Today is Saturday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2025. There are 39 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, riding in the same car as Kennedy, was ...

Will America’s ‘golden age’ continue?

We media types obsess about America's problems. But we should acknowledge that today, life in America is better than life has been anywhere, ever. For most of history, the norm was hunger, disease, illiteracy, slavery and war. There were a few exceptions (from some of those problems) — ...

Trump calls Dems’ video message to military ‘seditious behavior’

President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition "punishable by DEATH" after the lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy "illegal orders." The ...