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August 2, 2026
Dwight Fletcher | If you could go back ... would you?
If you were given one chance to go back in time and change a single moment in your life, would you take it? This week, as we celebrate Emancipation Day and Independence Day, it’s natural for us to…
August 2, 2026
Yaakov Raskin | Loving and fearing – What the fisherman knows about G-d
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered these words, which is arguably the best-known political quote in American history.
August 2, 2026
More than workers - Immigration crackdown threatens Haitian caregivers and the seniors who rely on them
NEW YORK (AP): Who will be there each morning with Solange French’s eggs at breakfast, and who will be ready with soup or fish at lunch? When the 91-year-old needs help in the shower, who will rush to…
August 2, 2026
‘None of this is normal’ - Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico beaches swathed in record levels of seaweed
PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico (AP): Swaths of seaweed are blanketing the beaches and coastlines of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines and snuffing out marine life while spooking…
August 2, 2026
Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure over child safety mounts
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually…
August 2, 2026
Discarded SpaceX rocket on high-speed collision course with moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP): A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. The rocket’s upper stage will…
August 2, 2026
Oprah Winfrey says she will close her school for girls in South Africa next year
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Oprah Winfrey says she will close the school for underprivileged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year. Winfrey opened the Oprah Winfrey…
August 2, 2026
UK funeral director sentenced to 20 years after families given wrong ashes
LONDON (AP): A British funeral director was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday after the judge heard emotional testimony about how he gave families the wrong ashes for their cremated loved ones,…
August 2, 2026
Child soldiers recount horrors of Sudan’s war and presence of Colombian mercenaries
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP): The teenage boy’s hands and legs were shackled to the anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup as Sudanese warplanes attacked. He saw another child chained to the steering wheel. As…