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Netflix show revisits one of the deadliest twisters in U.S.

The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160. “You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all ...

Book gathers historic accounts of Michigan cougar encounters

LANSING — In 1892, a woman left her young child asleep in a wagon while she picked blackberries close by in small-town Fergus, Saginaw County. She returned a short time later to a horrific scene: Her child was gone and a pool of blood lay in its place. That story, first reported by the ...

The canary in the coal mine

Tens of thousands of pages related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy were released last week. Not to spoil it, but he dies in the end. In the process of reviewing the documents, it is apparent that the government kept a lot private because the names of CIA agents in the ...

CBS paints Trump as worse than Venezuelan gangs

In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president. The Trump administration sent a plane stuffed with alleged Tren de Aragua members to El ...

Certain tariffs could be political malpractice

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”? This week, it started to look like the answer might be ...