It is easy to forget how terrible the spread of COVID-19 has been in America. The headlines more recently have focused on outbreaks in Brazil, India and Indonesia. However, there have been 34,462,236 confirmed…
What does it mean to be a historic site? For tourists, they dot countries in Europe. Many are centuries old. Some are places where battles took place. Others are where royal persons were coronated…
Detroit, many of its neighborhoods blighted by the flight of citizens, has come up with a program to sell many homes that it owns because of taxes which were in arrears and are unoccupied.…
As the number of baby boomers grows, so does the worry that health care costs will rocket higher in the United States. The oldest of the boomers are nearly 75 and the youngest are…
General Motor’s Chevy division recalled some of its Bolt EV models because of potential engine fires. The embarrassment and bad publicity for the “Tesla killer” was compounded by the fact that it was the…
The U.S. Census Bureau began to track the effects of COVID-19 on the population through its Household Pulse Survey on April 23 of last year. As the agency’s researchers wrote at the time, “The…
Small business was the most trusted institution in 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
Congress was the least trusted institution in 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time in 2020.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found that sleeping was the activity in which the largest percentage of Americans spent time.
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that Bakersfield, California, has the most car repair locations.
The Saturn V, used in the NASA program from 1967 and 1973, is the largest and heaviest rocket ever launched.
The most popular villain in film appears in 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" and was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins.
The American Southwest is in the vice of a massive heat wave that covers several states. The all-time U.S. record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit, set in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913, could…
The American automotive industry was battered by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first three quarters of 2020. People could not visit dealerships. Vehicles languished on dealer lots. That started to change late in the…
South Sudan, which was part of Sudan, was declared independent in July of 2011.
The International Space Station is the largest object in orbit around the Earth by far.
COVID-19 entered the United States early last year. The first known infection was recorded on January 21, 2020, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It was the start of a…
The incomes of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex probably have skyrocketed since they largely severed relationships with the royal family.
In the United States, pet ownership rates are highest in the heartland and in mountain states.
