Previewing The 2025-26 Free Agent Class: Starting Pitcher

MLBTR continues its position-by-position look at the upcoming free agent class. We’ve gone through each offensive position and now turn to the starting rotation. For this exercise, we’re focused on pitchers who spent most of this past season...

FFA Western Region VP: Why ‘behind the scenes’ work makes a difference

This past year, I’ve had the honor of serving as the National FFA Western Region Vice President. Throughout this time, I’ve traveled the country speaking to middle and high school students about FFA and how the organization can positively impact...

Molokai’s ‘No Dictators’ Protestors Join Millions Nationwide

A couple dozen Molokai residents participated in the ‘No Dictators’ protest in Kaunakakai, joining seven million people in the ‘No Kings’ rallies across the nation. Photo by Léo Azambuja By Léo Azambuja A group of Molokai residents joined millions...

Extreme heat risks higher for affordable housing residents

“Extreme heat is the deadliest climate impact and is colliding with the nation’s long-standing shortage in safe, affordable housing for people with the lowest incomes,” said Zoe Middleton, a co-author of the analysis and associate director for...

Daylight Saving Time Ends Next Week: Don't Get Caught Off Guard

Next week, it's time to change any of your clocks that don't automatically adjust.Two days after Halloween, most of the US will be moving the clocks backward one hour. Daylight saving time ends on Nov. 2, with the time officially changing at 2...

Head Start centers face ‘dire’ funding loss from government shutdown

A “catastrophic” loss of funding is little over a week away for Head Start centers serving 2,500 children across Oklahoma. If the nationwide government shutdown continues, four Head Start programs in Oklahoma will run out of federal funding on...

Fall Back 2025: 9 Must-Know Facts About U.S. Daylight Saving Time, Check Here!

Fall Back 2025 Facts: Do You Know that every November, Americans prepare to fall back for daylight saving time 2025? It is the time when clocks are set back one hour on Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 2 a.m. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep...

Rep. Maxine Waters unveils bill to safeguard Head Start

(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Maxine Waters, CA-43, ranking member of the Committee on Financial Services and a former Head Start teacher introduced the Head Start Shutdown Protection Act in the House of...

O’Brien and Zuckerman Join Striking Teamsters Nurses at Henry Ford Genesys

750 Teamsters Nurses Escalate Contract Demands as Strike Approaches Two Months Press Contact: Lena Melentijevic Phone: (347) 208-2279 Email: LMelentijevic@teamster.org (GRAND BLANC, Mich.) – Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and General...

Mavs to take on Rangers and Hardrockers in two-game home stand

Story Links GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Looking to build on their trend of strong play against conference competition, the Colorado Mesa University Men's Soccer Team returns home this upcoming weekend as they host a pair of RMAC schools at Community...

Top windsurfers test their skills at Aloha Classic

Kai Lenny, a professional surfer from Maui, competes in the 2025 Aloha Classic at Hookipa Beach Park. The mix keeps growing as the mecca of windsurfing from around the world comes together to compete on Maui’s North Shore at Hoʻokipa Beach Park....

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

The decades of exploration in the Caribbean and Spanish encounters with indigenous peoples, and the use of enslaved labor in mining, would lead to the cultivation of critical crops—namely, sugar—that would soon come to be developed using enslaved...

Published study reveals impact of 2023 heat waves in PR learning environments

The Caribbean Collaborative Action Network (CCAN) team is celebrating the publication of a new study in the Journal of Climate Health and Change that analyzed the effects of extreme heat on learning environments in Puerto Rico. Conducted during...

Tropical Storm Melissa On Path To Become Major CAT-4 Hurricane | Sunny in Central Florida

Tropical Storm Melissa On Path To Become Major CAT-4 Hurricane Tropical Storm Melissa On Path To Become Major CAT-4 Hurricane CAPABLE OF DOING. I’LL PASS AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. LET’S TURN NOW TO OUR FORECAST. MORE SPECIFICALLY, LET’S TALK ABOUT THE...

PDP mayors present 5 proposals to mitigate loss of Equalization Fund, Inventory Tax

The Puerto Rico Mayors Association estimates that implementing the five proposals would generate more than $600 million annually to offset the elimination of the Equalization Fund and the freezing (and possible elimination) of the Inventory Tax....

American Racism: A Tragic Legacy Still Impacting Today

By Remo Butler and Robert Bruce Adolph There are few more important topics than the absurd notion, accepted by far too many, that skin color is determinant of character or capability. Geneticists have scientifically proven that homo sapiens...

Chick-fil-A opening new northern Colorado location

The new restaurant joins more than 40 other Chick-fil-A restaurants serving the Denver area. FIRESTONE, Colo. — A new Chick-fil-A has opened in northern Colorado. The new restaurant officially opened on Thursday at 4405 Firestone Blvd. in...

A timeline of U.S. military strikes on boats off South America and what Congress has said

WASHINGTON (AP) — In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed at least 37 people in nine strikes against drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean....

‘You Can Do This’: Becoming a Nurse Practitioner at 49

For Elena Prendergast, DNP, APRN, the path to becoming a palliative care nurse practitioner wasn’t straightforward, and she didn’t get there until a month before her 49th birthday. She doubted herself during her training, she told Medscape Medical...

Eugene K. Pettis Elected Regent Of The American College Of Trial Lawyers

By Carrie Carrie T. Cox Eugene K. Pettis, a Co-Founder and Senior Partner at Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm, has been elected to the 15-member Board of Regents of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). He will represent Region 7,...