It’s Not Just the US Where Suicide Rates Are on the Rise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every newspaper in America seems to be highlighting the current issue of Vital Signs, in which the CDC announced that suicide rates have gone up by more than 30 percent in half of all states since 1999: The biggest increases are in small-population states in…
Today I Bring You a Mini Health Care Mystery Starring . . . Tylenol!
Vince Talotta/The Toronto Star/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a peculiar health care story. It is extremely non-momentous, but entertaining in its own way. I’m not sure if there are any lessons to be drawn from it. Every Thursday I go to my local infusion center for chemotherapy. However,…
The Omani Rial Mystery — Solved!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Responding to my bank mystery earlier today, a reader with lots of currency trading experience emails with an explanation for why Iran’s $5.7 billion in Oman had to go through a 3-step transfer (rials —> dollars —> euros) to be converted into euros. Here’s the…
North Carolina Republicans Want a Constitutional Amendment to Require ID to Vote
Voter ID rules posted at a polling place in Greensboro, N.C. News & Record via AP/Andrew Krech Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. North Carolina Republicans are resurrecting their efforts to require voters to present specific forms of identification in order to cast a ballot, after an earlier voter ID law was…
Here Are All the Emails the FCC Received From People Complaining About “Roseanne” Being Canceled.
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last month ABC cancelled Roseanne Barr’s sitcom, “Roseanne,” after the comedian sent a racist tweet about former Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett. Although Barr’s Twitter feed had been a bog of right-wing conspiracy theories for months, conservatives rallied…
Top Hill Democrat Says Mueller Should Consider Perjury Charges Against Trump-Russia Witnesses
Robert MuellerJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, made a dramatic request: He essentially asked special counsel Robert Mueller to consider whether perjury charges should be brought against witnesses who testified to the committee…