Yesterday, a Russian judge sentenced US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for bringing marijuana into Russia with criminal intent. However, this outcome was expected to clear the way for negotiations over her release, since Russian… Read more

If anyone thought the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade settled the issue of abortion in America, today’s headlines should convince them that the battle has actually just begun. On Tuesday, Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that… Read more

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan late yesterday. She met today with Taiwanese lawmakers and then with Taiwan’s president. Some are supporting her visit; others are criticizing her. China responded by announcing military exercises that will… Read more

President Joe Biden announced from the White House on August 1 that a US missile launched from a drone in Afghanistan had killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Who was al-Zawahiri? Why is his death so significant? What can we now… Read more

NOTE: President Biden stated last night that a US missile killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. I will publish a Daily Article Special Edition this morning with reflections on this historic announcement. NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson was baptized in the… Read more

President Biden declared last week that the US economy is not in a recession. However, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday that the US economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, meeting the definition for a so-called technical recession. Unsurprisingly,… Read more

Tony Dow, a teenage star in the popular 1950s and 60s comedy series Leave It to Beaver, died Wednesday at his California home at the age of seventy-seven. Since many of you are not old enough to remember the show… Read more

One of the problems with writing a Daily Article of a certain length is that I must sometimes leave out stories I wish I could tell. For example, in my reporting on the Mega Millions lottery yesterday, I had no… Read more

No one won last night’s Mega Millions drawing, which had a jackpot of $830 million, the fourth-largest in US history. As a result, the grand prize in Friday night’s drawing is now an estimated $1.02 billion, though that number is… Read more

Did you hear about sharks that can walk on land? Or the “city-killer asteroids” now being discovered in an unexplored region of our solar system? Or the company that wants to pay you $100,000 a year to taste candy? As… Read more