The court’s ruling, which rattled reproductive medicine practitioners across the country and shut down in vitro fertilization (IVF) operations in Alabama, is not only unscientific but absurd.

Arizona has more than 30 wineries and three certified AVAs – Sonoita and Willcox in the southeast, and newly-sanctioned Verde Valley in the north central part of the state.

The goateed, wiry artist became an amateur pianist and composer, wrote prose and poetry, and enjoyed an insatiable appetite for film, science, concerts, travel, and the theater. 

Though still in his mid-20s, Ozawa already had it all. His musicality was genuine and his energy palpable. There was a freshness to his music-making that you rarely encountered among conductors of any age, and it was a freshness he never lost.

They are motivated by fear. Which may be the most concise way to describe what’s truly sad and alarming about our country today: faith, which among other things means trust, now seems overmatched by fear.

This book is arguably local author Hannah’s finest of the more than 20 historical novels she has authored.  In her latest work, the reader closely follows a 20-year-old nursing graduate intent on serving her country in Vietnam.

Some bills were stripped of controversial sections, and then the strip-club strippers showed up in Olympia.

The delays are likely to hurt some colleges more than others. Those with large numbers of students eligible for need-based Pell grants and those serving large numbers of minority students could experience major challenges.

Even though Democrats are (and ought to be) nervous about the 2024 race, no leader has even hinted that Biden should step aside. Democrats and Biden deserve a few months to turn things around.

These multi-arts cultural centers were mostly created in the 1960s, as was Seattle Center, once home of the Ballet, the Opera, and (before it moved downtown) the Symphony. They are expensive to build and maintain, and hard to manage with so many independent organizations.

Orange wines, which are made by leaving white wine grapes to ferment on their skins rather than being pressed off immediately, offer a range of scents and flavors that can seem unbounded.

Eric Redman’s second crime novel set in Hawai’i, “Death in Hilo,” is better than his first, lots better, and “Bones of Hilo” which came out in 2021 was itself a strikingly good first novel.

From the paranoid perspective of Putin, Navalny had to be eliminated, just as the last, best hope for a democratic candidate’s survival was eliminated nine years ago in a drive-by assassination of former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov on the doorstep of the Kremlin.

AG “Ferguson started at 21 percent last March, improved to 25 percent in June of 2023, then to 31 percent in November of 2023, and now at 35 percent,” said Andrew Villeneuve, who heads Northwest Progressive Institute.

After a short go at “judgment free,” being judgmental has made a roaring comeback, thanks to the internet, and especially in the on-line space. Man, has it ever!

Experience shows American presidents can support a secure Israel rather than an aggressive one. That is a lesson that Biden must learn from former presidents.

The outcome in New York state increases prospects of Democrats capturing a majority in November. If so, power would flow to senior House members from Washington state.

This year’s crop of Super Bowl advertisements are not likely to live on in the annals of effective commercials. Nor are they likely to inspire creative advertising that spurs thoughtful conversations.

Though Bernstein certainly fit the image of maestro in the popular imagination and was unquestionably the most famous American conductor of his day, he was oddly something of an artifact himself.

The New York expats (composers, lyricists, producers, most with Jewish backgrounds) would play elaborate word games and engage in scavenger hunts with insanely difficult clues. Mary Rodgers describes Bernstein and Sondheim winning at anagrams by turning 10-letter words like harmonicas into maraschino. 

All within the realm of rules and customs, of course, but the Chiefs' harrowing triumph in the 75th minute of play did not at all resemble, say, the 13th century works of Genghis Khan, his many offspring and the Mongol Empire.

The impressive ensemble acting is evidence of the actors’ craft as well as the deep dive process before rehearsals.

Russia’s vaunted naval forces have dominated maritime civilian and military activity in the Black Sea since Crimea became the southern pillar of the Imperial Russian Navy in 1783. But in less than two years of fierce defiance of the Kremlin invasion, Ukraine has destroyed or disabled half of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Norwegian reindeer, with Sami herders, were meant to provide meat for Alaskan Natives. The cultural exchange became a rich one.

Not just his dark windbreaker for cool weather outdoors, Chinese officials also copy Xi’s indoor or summer look, usually a white shirt tucked in black pants.

The idea that somehow it’s the taste of wine that is to blame for the industry’s woes is way off the mark.

No one writes an obituary that says the newly departed beat his wife and never paid their debts. The obituaries that do get written remind us that many people live lives well worth living, lives that bring joy to others.

By and large, mainline and liberal Christians stopped crediting the devil or the demonic a couple generations ago. For that crowd — my crowd — there were only two actors on the cosmic stage: God and the human being.

Chile is one of the many countries that overcame its own coup and dictatorship in the 20th century, and I believe there are important lessons that we need to learn from the struggles of the people of Chile.

She follows two other top-ranking Republicans who are not seeking reelection. The GOP may well lose control of Congress’ lower chamber in the November election.