Winter Leagues have begun

The 2025-2026 winter league baseball games have begun. The Mexican Pacific League, Dominican Winter League and Venezuelan Winter League all began their schedules on Oct. 15. The Puerto Rican League begins on Nov. 7. All four leagues continue...

Lux Pascal and Naomi Watts Are Tired of Keeping Secrets

Dress and Shoes Balmain Lux Pascal and Naomi Watts swap stories about famous siblings, family secrets, and refusing to stick to the script. ——— THURSDAY 12:30 PM SEPT. 4, 2025 PUERTO RICO LUX PASCAL: Hi! NAOMI WATTS: How are you? PASCAL: I’m doing...

The Cynicism of Marco Rubio and the State Department: A Revealing List of Torture

4 Published in: Blockade against Cuba Cuba is a country that has been, more than blockaded, I would say tortured. Silvio Rodríguez to Rolling Stone Two days ago, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced the enormous pressure that the...

Head Start will continue if federal funds not available, local superintendents say

Superintendents of both the Paintsville Independent and Johnson County school districts said Head Start will continue to operate in their schools if federal funding is frozen due to the government shutdown. Due to the timing of federal grants, six...

Blood Thinners & Anti-Obesity Shots Dominate Medicare Drug Spending

From diabetes injectables to blockbuster blood thinners, a handful of drugs account for a sizable share of Medicare’s pharmacy bill. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, ranks the most common drugs by total Medicare spending in...

Melissa forecast to blast Jamaica for days as a major hurricane

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Millions of people in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are preparing for flooding rain and high winds as Tropical Storm Melissa, which is now forecast to become a Category 4 hurricane, meanders in the central...

Plantation, Florida Pathologist Launches Navy Career

PLANTATION, Fla. – Cameron Summers-Powell, M.D., a resident physician with HCA Florida Westside Hospital's pathology residency program, took his oath of office in front of friends, family and colleagues, inside Bennet Medical Plaza in Plantation,...

US FDA won’t tell you if a contaminated factory made your pills

This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. They were the sort of disturbing discoveries that anyone taking generic medication would want to know. At one Indian factory manufacturing drugs...

A Satirical Guidebook to Independence

Dear Kosovo, Uyghur, Catalunya, Tibet, Kashmir, Western Sahara, Chechnya, the Basques Country, Quebec, Bavaria, Corsica, Kurdistan, Puerto Rico, and Scotland, if you wish to gain your independence or greater autonomy, here are the steps you ought...

The HIV Epidemic in the United States – Epidemiological Projections and Public Economic Impact of Achieving Zero Transmission Goals

Introduction The United States (US) has made substantial progress in controlling the acquired human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic, in particular since the advent of highly effective antiretroviral therapy (ART).1 Once considered a...

Pangborn shell (too long) READERS

Published 11:52 am Thursday, October 23, 2025 By FRANK PANGBORN / for the Rogue Valley Times Veterans Day is upon us. Veterans Day is always on November 11 because it marks the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918,...

Tropical Storm Melissa nears hurricane strength and drops torrential rain on Caribbean

Tropical Storm Melissa neared hurricane strength Saturday and was expected to rapidly intensify this weekend, as forecasters warned of massive rainfall and life-threatening flooding and landslides in the northern Caribbean.An astounding 35 inches...

Senator John Thune discusses government shutdown and legislative priorities on The Ben Shapiro Show

Senator John Thune, US Senator for South Dakota | Official U.S. Senate headshotSenator John Thune, US Senator for South Dakota | Official U.S. Senate headshot U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) appeared on The Ben Shapiro Show to...

NBA Investigation Highlights Growing Risk Of Sports Betting And Problem Gambling

NBA Players And Coach Part Of Gambling And Sports Betting Investigation A sweeping federal investigation into gambling and corruption involving current and former NBA players, a current head coach, and the mafia has highlighted the rapid growth of...

Enrile, Napoles acquitted of graft

(UPDATE) MANILA, Philippines — Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile was acquitted by the Sandiganbayan's Special Third Division of graft over the alleged misuse of nearly P173 million of his Priority Development Assisance Fund (PDAF)...

2 killed in Bulacan road mishap

October 26, 2025 | 12:00am CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga, Philippines — Two people were killed after they were run over by a truck in San Miguel, Bulacan on Friday night. John Michael Ignacio and Jocelyn Medrano were traveling along the highway in...

Kulang ebidensya! Enrile, Gigi Reyes, Napoles acquitted in P172-M pork barrel graft cases

The Sandiganbayan Special Third Division has acquitted Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile, his former chief of staff Jessica “Gigi” Reyes, and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles in connection with the alleged misuse of ₱172 million in...

A Cocoon For Us to Fit In

WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 9713 [post_author] => 15 [post_date] => 2025-10-22 17:42:39 [post_date_gmt] => 2025-10-22 17:42:39 [post_content] => Why eating disorders are so prevalent in Latinx and AAPI communities in the U.S. It was a summer morning...

The ongoing Latinx experience: Community members persevere in the wake of Trump's administration

Khamalia Williams (K.W.): During his election campaign, as well as his first few months in office, President Trump has made promises of “mass deportations” and to the launch of the quote, unquote, “largest domestic deportation operation in...

We love immigrants, as long as they can play baseball (Guest Opinion by Guillermo Martinez & Karines Reyes)

Assemblywoman Karines Reyes, D-Bronx, is chair of the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force. Guillermo A. Martinez is deputy director and intergovernmental liaison for the Institute on Immigrant Integration Research and Policy...