Queen Elizabeth II marked her 92nd birthday on Saturday. The celebrations kicked off at Buckingham Palace during the changing of the guardwhere the Band of the Irish Guards played “Happy Birthday.” The customary gun salutes by the British Army took place midday — “a 41 gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21 gun salute in Windsor […]

Pluto, the dwarf world in our solar system has recently been removed from the planet status to a dwarf planet, and many experts believe that this space body is too severe to harbor life in deep space. However, a new research conducted by NASA has revealed that Pluto has an enormous underground ocean, and sometimes, […]

President Emmanuel Macron likes to convince people. In manner and method, he is unlike his predecessors. Nicolas Sarkozy cajoled and bullied. François Hollande just gave up. Macron fixes interlocutors with his intense blue stare and builds a Cartesian argument. If that doesn’t work, he starts over, patiently, but with determination. The past week has tested the young […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Democrat is using marijuana’s informal holiday to announce a change of heart about the drug, another sign of the growing political acceptance of pot. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Friday he’ll introduce a bill taking marijuana off the federal list of controlled substances — in […]

Let me just get this out of the way now: James Harden traveled. He probably traveled more than once in Game 1 of the Rockets’ first-round playoff series against the Timberwolves on Sunday, but I’m specifically talking about his step-back jumper to shake Andrew Wiggins and sink a three-pointer. It feels so good to get that off […]

Just two days after the death of former first lady Barbara Bush, her granddaughter Lauren Bush Lauren and her husband, David, welcomed Max Walker Lauren to the family. According to a Facebook post from Barbara’s Bush son Neil Bush, Max was born on Thursday. Arriving two weeks before his mom’s due date, the baby boy […]

When Carson’s stores ring up their final sales — likely by late summer — they will leave behind a 164-year history as one of Illinois’ iconic homegrown department store chains. They will also leave their landlords with millions of square feet of empty retail space to fill. Parent company Bon-Ton Stores filed for bankruptcy protection […]

Paris (AFP) – They talk regularly, have shared memorable handshakes and supposedly have an “unbreakable” friendship. When US President Donald Trump and France’s Emmanuel Macron meet next week, there will be more back-slapping — but also major differences. The Trump-Macron relationship has been one of the few stable elements in recent American foreign policy, with […]

Fourteen centuries have passed since the mythic Trojan War, and more than 10,000 years since Achilles and Hector were immortalized in the epic poem, The Illiad. More than 150 years after the famous walls arose from the pages of legend to the annals of archaeology and two decades after its historical significance was recognized on […]

I was raised on natural beauty, but I’m behind the curve when it comes to cannabinoids and hemp-based beauty products. So for those of you who, like me, need a primer on the how and why of weed-based beauty, I got you. It seems like every day I see some innovative new way to use […]