Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting. Minorities suffered the biggest…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic had a perfect record in Australian Open semifinals, and he was playing almost flawless tennis to protect it. It didn’t matter that across the net was Aslan Karatsev, a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers in Washington are digging into the GameStop saga at a congressional hearing. The episode has been portrayed as a victory of the little guy over Wall Street titans, but not everyone…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Emirati police have arrested a man for allegedly stealing a highly valuable newborn camel to give to his girlfriend for her birthday, the United Arab Emirates’ state-linked newspaper reported…

Dear Carolyn: I work a boring, demanding, but well-paying technical job. My joy and passion is my art. I make a little money selling commissions online, and I’ve been dying to do it full-time for…

Welcome winter. My, how we’ve missed you. Igloos and ice skates. Frozen mustaches. Glistening fields of white. Rolling blackouts.  OK, we could do without the latter. This prolonged arctic blast is one for the books, …

 Evidence is building that the American economy badly needs a jolt close to what President Joe Biden and Democrats seek to give it, which is far more than the limp $600 billion relief plan Republicans…

If there is a silver lining to dark and brooding clouds of rolling blackouts amid bone-chilling temperatures and a dangerous snowstorm, it’s that those blackouts are protecting Texas from a larger calamity. No one likes…

Duane and Judy McGraw assumed management of the Dandy-Lion Flower Shop Monday and have renamed it Duane’s Flower Shop. The McGraws came to Iola from Garnett where he was an assistant in a flower shop…

TOPEKA — The House Appropriations Committee voted to insert in the budget for state universities a mandatory tuition rebate to students based on the number of classes taught online and the academic days dropped from…