Weapons were stockpiled to be ready; Trump and aides knew supporters brought weapons to White House rally; some incited crowd, then refused to join the Capitol march NOTE: The January 6th committee heard from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, on…

FBI Director Hoover replied to suspect in letter about four years after Kennedy’s assassination Aletter written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1968 confirms that another suspect in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy was arrested in Chicago three weeks before the killing in Dallas, documents released by…

Remembering Mom, travel adventures, and more After migrating south from Washington, D.C., in the mid-1960s, my parents started an annual Great American Road Trip ritual. They’d pile their three kids into the station wagon and drive hundreds of miles. They believed that these marathon trips from Dallas to Shenandoah, Pa…

President makes gas prices decline and gets a major inflation bill passed, playing with conservative critics who accused him of being incompetent The passage of a major inflation bill in Congress and plummeting gas prices have brought back that White House character of old, Bad Ass Biden. The president, who…

From A-Rod to Taylor, here’s a look at some of the best and worst No. 1 picks — The Baltimore Orioles chose Jackson Holliday, son of former MLB player Matt Holliday, as the top pick in the 2022 Draft. While that looks good on the surface, the situation can quickly deteriorate. The pressure on the top pick to produce is real. Just ask the Mets about their top…

Adjusted for inflation, today’s price is lower than 2012 and even 2008 This article was updated on Aug. 8, 2022. While high gasoline prices affected many people’s budgets, mental states, and driving habits earlier this summer, the plummeting prices lately are having an opposite effect. AAA reported that the average…

While some have closed, there are still many bookstores and libraries to support Bigger is not always better. But when it comes to bookstores, square footage tells something about the situation. At one time, there were many mega-bookstores across North America. A 154,250-square-foot Barnes & Noble store on Fifth Avenue…

Anyone can list the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore. It takes real work and insight to come up with these often overlooked places. — Not too long ago, I took my two kids on an almost 7,000-mile road trip of a lifetime across the United States and back in just 17 days in our aging, but still trusty, Honda CR-V. We recently completed another 17-day road odyssey mostly through territory we hadn’t been before…