Month: April 2021

Preemie Twin Who Lost Her Brother at Birth Survives, Heads Home After 408 Days in Hospital

A premature baby girl who lost her twin brother just hours after being born has proved to be a fighter. Having survived, she’s heading home with her mom and dad after 14 months in the hospitals. Baby Ada Laurel Mesnard weighed just 1 pound (approx. 0.45 kg) when, at just 23 weeks, she was delivered at New…


Creative Mom Comes Up With a Genius Hack to Get Her Son to Eat Fruits and Vegetables

A creative mother has come up with a genius way for making her son eat his vegetables: by turning them into food art. Diana Gonzalez, 36, her husband, Paul, 40, and her son George, 4, are from Mexico but have been living in Lancashire, England, for the last one year, after going over to visit family…


Accused Colorado Mass Shooter Faces Additional Charges

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 21-year-old man accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket last month with nearly four dozen additional counts of attempted murder, assault, and weapons offenses, court documents showed. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was already charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder stemming…


On Rainy Spring Days, Make Korean Pancakes

When I was little, I always looked forward to the rain. Rainy days meant one thing to me: pajeon, a crispy Korean scallion pancake, often loaded with meat or seafood. My mom would get out her old, dented, red electric griddle pan, plug it in, and drizzle it generously with oil. She would crank up…


Democrat Senators Urge Biden to Reimburse Arizona for National Guard Troops at Border

Two Democrat senators on Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to reimburse their state for sending National Guard personnel to the border to help deal with the immigration crisis. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, announced this week he is sending up to 250 Guardsmen to the border to deal with the surge in illegal…


The ‘Strings’ Inside Bananas Have a Name and Are as Healthy as the Fleshy Fruit

It’s common practice for many people to peel off the dangling strings from the flesh of a banana before eating one, but this could be a mistake. Did you know that they’re safe to eat, and healthy too? The fibrous, pale yellow strings that run vertically along the fruit have a name—phloem bundles. They play…


Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Effective, Even Against Variants: Trial

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine helps protect against moderate to severe illness, newly published clinical trial results show. The jab was 67 percent effective in protecting against moderate to severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, at 14 days after vaccination, according to research published in the New England Journal of…


Stunning Portraits of 500 Women Around the World Celebrate Beauty of ‘Our Differences’

Inspired by a trip to Ethiopia in 2013, a Romanian photographer spent the next four years traveling the globe in search of female beauty. The more she found, the more boundless her concept of beauty became. Mihaela Noroc compiled 500 stunning, diverse portraits of women from 50 different countries in a 352-page book, “The Atlas of…


Couple Married for 7 Decades Reveal Their Secret to a Happy, Long Relationship

A couple who have been married for 70 years revealed the secret to their long marriage: “having a laugh” together. Davie and Margaret Hunter met when they both worked for Schweppes fizzy drink factory, 71 years ago. Davie, 93, worked with lorries while Margaret, 89, was an operator. During their courtship days, Davie would miss his bus…


VIDEO: Fishermen Spot Sea Turtle Caught in Jaws of Tiger Shark, and Rescue It to Safety

Extraordinary footage taken by fishermen in the Bahamas shows a sea turtle’s extremely perilous encounter with a tiger shark on the hunt. While on an excursion on Nov. 22, the fishermen set out in the early morning hoping to catch some wahoo fish, according to Fox News. They caught a lot more than they bargained…