Extreme heat can kill: New Jersey residents urged to take danger seriously
Children, seniors, outdoor workers and people without air conditioning face heightened risks as dangerous temperatures can linger into fall Dangerous heat can linger well into September, leaving New Jersey residents vulnerable to heat exhaustion, heat stroke and other potentially deadly illnesses. Health and emergency officials are urging residents to drink plenty of water, limit strenuous…
After two Pennsylvania residents die of measles, Trump seeks fewer childhood vaccines
For the first time in a generation, measles has killed in Pennsylvania. Two residents of Lancaster County, neither of whom had received the vaccine that makes this disease a ghost of the past, are dead. The last time the commonwealth buried someone from this scourge, the Berlin Wall was still standing, and the first President…
Jeffries-Kushner meeting signals post-election collaboration, analysts say
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, held a private meeting in recent weeks, according to a report in The New York Times. The meeting took place in a private space in New York City arranged by a mutual acquaintance of the two men, the Times reported. The…
A nation’s narrowest escape: Washington’s ‘Midnight Miracle’ at Brooklyn
On this night 250 years ago, the flame of American independence nearly flickered out. Against a backdrop of crushing defeat and overwhelming odds, Gen. George Washington executed a stealthy retreat across the East River that remains one of the greatest military escapes in history—a testament to leadership, expert seamanship, and a timely turn of the…
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