
Lawmakers issue bipartisan call for ban on Russian energy imports
The United States imported an average of more than 20.4 million barrels of crude and refined products per month from Russia in 2021.

The United States imported an average of more than 20.4 million barrels of crude and refined products per month from Russia in 2021.

The US and our European allies made it possible for Putin to wage such an unprovoked and unjustified war.

It’s Women’s History Month, and in an act of unthinkable atrocity, Mad Vlad Putin is indiscriminately killing women and children across Ukraine. Men, too, of course.

Lyme disease is carried by black-legged ticks and infects people when they are bitten and transmit the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.

There are many important questions and conversations emerging about the current war in Ukraine.

In January, the CDC updated its guidance for reducing COVID-19 transmission in schools and day care settings.

The West in many ways has been provoking Russia’s aggression since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It’s been 60 years since the Cuban Missile Crisis, which Robert McNamara admitted we got through not by diplomatic skill but by sheer good luck.

While it is true that Ukraine is unlikely to prevail over the invader and that civilians will die so long as they refuse to surrender to Russian aggression, to go down fighting is by no means the same thing as ceding defeat.

A Madison County woman was sentenced this week to 12 years in prison for perpetrating a scheme in which she stole more than $1.6 million from victims while purporting to have terminal cancer, vast wealth, and connections to celebrities.
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