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As a therapist, I’ve been able to zero in on four reliable signs that it may be time to pull the plug, or at least pay close ...

In the early 1960s, architect Samuel Ebbert Clippard urged fellow Presbyterians to build a retirement home for Central ...

Thirty years ago, our publisher, Elinor R. Tatum, was a reporter for the AmNews and she was assigned to cover the Million Man March.

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Donald Trump has posthumously given Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, making a mockery of the nation’s top ...