Today is Saturday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2025. There are 151 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted seven former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious "Black Sox" scandal ...

Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer. We license drivers. We license dogs. But most government licensing is useless. Or harmful. It limits competition, raises costs, leaves consumers with fewer choices and blocks opportunity for people who want to work. Michelle ...

Today is Friday, Aug. 1, the 213th day of 2025. There are 152 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1981, MTV began its American broadcast; the first music video aired on the new cable TV network was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by The Buggles. Also on this date: In 1876, ...

Hamas started a war, rejected a ceasefire and stole and profited from humanitarian aid, and we are supposed to believe that it's all Israel's fault. International attention is focused on food shortages in Gaza, with the blame and the pressure — as always — on Israel to do something about ...

Today is Thursday, July 31, the 212th day of 2025. There are 153 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2012, at the Summer Olympics in London, swimmer Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic medal, becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time. (He would finish his career with 28 total ...

After the resignation of Astronomer CEO Andy Byron after he was caught on a jumbotron at a Coldplay concert in Boston cuddling with Human Resources chief Kristin Cabot (who is not his wife), the company issued this statement: “Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and ...