The People Who Don’t Read Books

Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

Six found dead inside railroad boxcar near Texas border

Six deceased individuals were found in a train car near the border town of Laredo, Texas, on Sunday afternoon, according to local police.

Trump team hopes positive IG report cues low-drama Powell exit

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett expressed hope Monday that there is an off-ramp for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to peacefully exit the central bank.

Rand Paul asks DOJ to charge Fauci before statute of limitation expires

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday renewed calls for the Justice Department to prosecute former top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci, arguing prosecutors were running out of time to pursue charges over allegations Fauci lied to Congress about U.S.-funded research tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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How Trump’s Tariffs Can Paradoxically Raise Economic Freedom

This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here.

Trump says he aims to temporarily suspend federal gas tax

President Trump told CBS News' Nancy Cordes in a phone interview that he aims to suspend the federal gas tax amid surging gas prices.

Texas firm looking to explore oil in rural Georgia

A Texas-based oil and gas company is seeking permission to drill exploratory wells in southwest Georgia, reviving the possibility of oil production in a state where commercial extraction has never taken hold.

The Empire of Baloney

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Neil deGrasse Tyson talks UFO files and evidence he needs to see: "Fork up the aliens"

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks to "CBS Mornings" about the newly released documents and videos from the Pentagon on UFOs, what they reveal and evidence he would need to see to be convinced there are aliens.

Flames erupt from Frontier plane after trespasser struck and killed

New surveillance video shows a trespasser wandering onto a runway at Denver International Airport on Friday. Just minutes later the individual was struck and killed by a Frontier plane taking off. Kris Van Cleave reports.

Rock and Roll Faces the Inevitable

Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney are wringing great art and performance out of the relationship between the present and the past.

Love in America

“It is as if the experience of being in love could only be one of two things: a superhuman ecstasy, the way of reaching heaven on earth and in pairs; or a psychopathic condition to be treated by specialists.”

Three Rules for Middle-Age Happiness

Gather friends and feed them, laugh in the face of calamity, and cut out all the things––people, jobs, body parts––that no longer serve you.

Two hantavirus passengers in Atlanta while rest isolate in Nebraska

Two U.S. passengers aboard the cruise ship that was hit by a rare hantavirus outbreak are being monitored in Georgia, while 16 others are at a prestigious medical facility in Nebraska, officials said Monday.

The Department of Labor's proposed rule complicates healthcare

America’s healthcare market is about to get less fair and more costly, thanks to a badly written new set of compliance and declaration rules from the Department of Labor. It’s not too late to stop it.

Meet Gout Gout, the Australian sprinting phenom drawing comparisons to Usain Bolt

There may be no sport older than sprinting. And still, there's something singularly intoxicating about speed, about watching the fastest humans on the planet make like Usain Bolt and thunder down the straightaway, all the more so when they've navigated a circuitous path to get there. So, remember the name (and how could you not) "Gout Gout." He's an 18-year-old Australian. When he's not watching his beloved anime or taking photos on his Kodak camera, he's running – and inevitably winning – races in roughly the time it takes to spit out this sentence. When the 2028 Olympics arrive in Los Angeles in barely two years time, Gout Gout could bolt bolt to a medal.

Gout Gout, the fastest teen ever in the 200m, got his start when a coach saw him running around with friends

Australian sprinter Gout Gout thought he was in trouble when his school's "cranky" track coach called him over for a chat six years ago.

Rashford seals title for Barcelona and completes week to forget for Real Madrid

This time it was Marcus Rashford who delivered the knockout blow. Three days after the fight between Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni that ended with Real Madrid’s vice captain taken to hospital and the crisis at the club laid painfully bare for all to see, they went to the Camp Nou and finally relinquished the league title they had effectively lost long ago. For the first time in 94 years a meeting of sport’s greatest rivals decided La Liga, 62,000 fans starting the party as goals from the Englishman and Ferran Torres took Hansi Flick’s team over the line with three games to spare.

VAR offers up Arsenal’s title-deciding moment for digital mess generation

Multibillion stage of title-relegation stagger boils down to a referee in front of a screen decoding a raised forearm

The Empire of Baloney

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The People Who Don’t Read Books

Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

Love in America

“It is as if the experience of being in love could only be one of two things: a superhuman ecstasy, the way of reaching heaven on earth and in pairs; or a psychopathic condition to be treated by specialists.”

Three Rules for Middle-Age Happiness

Gather friends and feed them, laugh in the face of calamity, and cut out all the things––people, jobs, body parts––that no longer serve you.

D.C. launches pilot program to try out electric cargo bikes for package delivery

The District Department of Transportation launched the MicroFreight DC Pilot Program on May 6 in partnership with Amazon, aiming to test quieter, lower-emission package deliveries to D.C. neighborhoods using electric cargo e-quads, according to DDOT.

Greg Bovino Wants To Rid America Of Parasitic ... AIDS Patients? AIDS Patients.

What a pathetic weasel.

Six found dead inside railroad boxcar near Texas border

Six deceased individuals were found in a train car near the border town of Laredo, Texas, on Sunday afternoon, according to local police.

Trump team hopes positive IG report cues low-drama Powell exit

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett expressed hope Monday that there is an off-ramp for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to peacefully exit the central bank.

Trump-Xi summit comes with high stakes for Taiwan, the island democracy that China claims as its own

President Donald Trump, in his return to the White House, has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach that's raising questions ahead of this week's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping about whether the U.S. leader could be open to dialing back support for the island democracy that Beijing views as its breakaway province.

WATCH: Two kittens rescued after tornado find new home

Two kittens who were rescued from the rubble of a tornado-flattened Mississippi trailer park now have a new family.

Trump administration launches website to help new moms, boost nation's birth rate

President Trump launched a website Monday for new and expectant mothers as part of the administration's plan to reverse the nation's declining birth rate and improve maternal and infant health.

Rand Paul asks DOJ to charge Fauci before statute of limitation expires

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday renewed calls for the Justice Department to prosecute former top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci, arguing prosecutors were running out of time to pursue charges over allegations Fauci lied to Congress about U.S.-funded research tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.