“What I miss most is the smell of my son when I kiss him, the smell of my wife’s body,” says Jean-Michel Maillard. Anosmia — the loss of one’s sense of smell — may be an invisible handicap, but is psychologically difficult to live with and has no real treatment, he says. And it is […] Read more

At least 11 people were detained in Turkey for social media postings that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s daughter and son-in-law after they announced the birth of their fourth child on Twitter, police said Wednesday. Erdogan vowed to tighten the Turkish government’s control of social media following the tweets directed at his family members. […] Read more

Country Garden, a property developer in China, revealed that its subsidiary Qianxi Robot Catering Group (Qianxi Group) opened a restaurant complex operated completely by robots. Located in Shunde, which is a city in China’s Guangdong province, the restaurant eliminates most human-to-human contact and may be a harbinger of how businesses plan to handle the aftermath […] Read more

During difficult times, leadership and culture make or break a business. The pandemic has forced many businesses to begin operating remotely, and many of these businesses have never existed outside of a physical location before. There is a learning curve for management and employees alike. But what we are learning is that we are capable […] Read more

Presidents make mistakes. It comes with the territory. President George W. Bush made more than most in his two terms, but arguably the biggest mistake he made was appointing John Roberts to the level of Chief Justice. He is not an originalist. He is not conservative. He’s an activist judge who wields his power like […] Read more

The novel coronavirus can be a killer – or no big deal. It can put a person in the intensive care unit on a ventilator, isolated from family, facing a lonely death – or it can come and go without leaving a mark, a ghost pathogen, more rumor than reality. Six months into a pandemic […] Read more

It’s not just humans who are packing on the pounds during the coronavirus quarantine — so is man’s best friend. About 33 percent of pets have beefed up since the lockdown started in March, according to a new survey conducted by Wakefield Research for Banfield Pet Hospital. Of the 1,000 animal owners surveyed in May, 25 percent of participants say their pet only […] Read more

Bad weather has postponed a SpaceX rocket launch, which was set to be the first time a private company sent humans into orbit — and the first time in nearly a decade that the United States launched astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil. Veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were set to launch from Kennedy […] Read more

Less than half of Americans know the true meaning behind Memorial Day, according to a new survey. The survey of 2,000 Americans revealed just 43 percent were aware it’s a holiday honoring those who died in service while in the US Armed Forces. Twenty-eight percent mistakenly believed Memorial Day was a holiday honoring all military […] Read more

There is no more somber day in America than Memorial Day. It is on this day that Americans pause to reflect on the service and sacrifice of the men and women who wore the uniform and were killed in the name of freedom. Memorial Day will be different this year. The coronavirus remains among us […] Read more