In response to article “Monroeville Public Library was ‘directed’ to take down Pride Month display in children’s section” (June 29, TribLive), I offer another perspective. Accusing librarians of ...

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Is ‘Jimothy’? Social media has become obsessed with an oddly shaped raccoon from Seattle—here’s everything you need to know.

A simple polymer clay technique recreates the puffy balloon-letter look, minus the deflating disappointment.

Civil War soldier David Harrington's kepi at the Hopkinton Historical Society on June 12, 2026. The Hopkinton Historical Society recently acquired Harrington's hat from an auction. Credit: CLARA ...

A real president does not insert himself in the center ring of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration. It is not about him! I remember the country’s bicentennial but don’t remember it being about ...

The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is currently stressing storm surge mitigation projects. Timely elevated structures are the only adequate method of accomplishing that goal. A 10- to 15 ...

It’s a modern-day gold rush. Pennsylvania is not the first to experience the data center development boom. But it’s in full force in the Commonwealth now, with dozens of large-scale projects either ...

“It would be hard to imagine a project failing today because nobody could agree how many inches were in a foot,” writes Tim Harford (“Lessons from a shipwreck”, FT Weekend, Undercover Economist, July ...

Your Wordle opener can have a bigger impact than you might think. While plenty of players stick with familiar starting words like “TRAIN” or “CLOSE,” relying on the same guess every day isn’t ...

In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...