Baseball Teams Sending the Most Players to the Hall of Fame
On Tuesday, Jan. 25, David Ortiz became the latest player to be selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Dominican-born Ortiz was the only player to receive more than 75% of the votes…
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Jobs Where People Need the Most Time Off
There were 2.7 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private-industry employees in 2020, a drop of 5.7% from 2.8 million in 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in November. The estimates, complicated…
How COVID Fatality Rates Compare With Other Deadly Diseases
With the second anniversary of the pandemic nearing, we don’t need to be reminded of the deadliness of viruses. As of Jan. 22, 5.58 million deaths worldwide have been attributed to the novel coronavirus,…
States Where Democracy Is Under Siege
The 2020 presidential election has gone down as among the most divisive in American history. The bitterness of the campaign culminated in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., in which supporters of former…
The Most Important Events in NASA’s History
In 2021 NASA landed a new robotic rover Perseverance on Mars, the space agency’s most ambitious and successful effort in decades to directly study whether there ever was life on the red planet that…
States With the Highest Gas Taxes
Americans are gradually returning to the nation’s roadways, after the pandemic had suppressed travel. Gas prices have followed suit. Drivers now pay an average of $3.31 per gallon, according to AAA, from the sharp…
Best Country Songs of 2021
If 2020 was the year for country artists to hunker down and try to avoid the pandemic, 2021 was the year to recover. After taking advantage of time off the road to craft new…
30 Special Skills You Need to Become an Astronaut
Do you have the right stuff to be an astronaut? Becoming an astronaut is harder than getting into an Ivy League school. Only few have ever been selected by NASA. In 2016, more than…
Martin Luther King Jr. and 49 Other Most Important Civil Rights Leaders of the 20th Century
The 20th century witnessed great changes around the world — socially, politically, and economically. While many of the seismic shifts worldwide involved people throwing off the yoke of colonialism, in the United States change…
The Most Important Moments of the Civil Rights Movement
The quest for racial equality and justice in the United States has been long and divisive. As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17, 2022, 24/7 Tempo has created a list…
The Most Popular Countries on CDC’s Do Not Travel List
The world is in the throes of the latest COVID-19 variant, the fast-moving and highly transmissible omicron version of the coronavirus. The variant was first detected in South Africa in late November and quickly…
Scandals That Rocked the Sports World
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic is embroiled in an international incident after his visa was revoked by Australian authorities over alleged irregularities in his travel declaration form. Djokovic’s unvaccinated status is at odds with…
The Biggest Comebacks in Music History
Whether it’s in motion pictures, sports, or the media, nothing is more capricious than fame. Frank Sinatra voiced that sentiment in the song “That’s Life,” when he sang, “You’re ridin’ high in April, shot…
The Best Places to Buy Your First Home in 2022
Even as home prices galloped higher in 2021, the American dream of owning a place of their own became a reality for many Americans, including first-time homebuyers. Fueled by pandemic-induced low interest rates and…
Countries Where the 1% Control the Most Wealth
The so-called 1% of a nation’s highest earners have become one of the most politicized cohorts in our society. They have been criticized for exercising disproportionate power in the economy and in government, and…
28 Important Things That Came and Went During Betty White’s Lifetime
Betty White, whose career in entertainment spanned eight decades, died on Dec. 31, just weeks before her 100th birthday. A lot happened over the lifetime of the beloved television icon. To determine things that…
Countries With the Biggest Income Gaps
The wealth gap between the richest few and poorest many tends to widen whenever there is a dramatic change in the economy. The deficit began to expand in the middle of the 19th century…
Worst SNL Hosts of All Time
The sketch-comedy show “Saturday Night Live” has been a television institution on late Saturday night since 1975, making it one of the longest-running shows in American television history. One of the features of the…
Famous Brands That Will Disappear in 2022
The U.S. economy is in the midst of one of its most turbulent periods in history. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult for many businesses to operate, and soaring inflation has made…
The Countries With the Highest CO2 Emissions Per Capita
The Paris Agreement in 2015 was an historic accord that committed nations on every continent to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The goal was to limit the rise in mean global temperature to less than a…