More than a week after the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos produced for in vitro fertilization were people with legal rights, upending fertility care in the state, the ruling is reverberating nationally, putting Republicans on the defensive. On “State of the Union” on CNN on Sunday, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican…
These are dark days for military recruiting. The Army, Navy and Air Force have tried almost everything in their power to bring in new people. They’ve relaxed enlistment standards, set up remedial schools for recruits who can’t pass entry tests, and offered signing bonuses worth up to $75,000. Still, this year the three services together…
“We can’t enter, we don’t understand the new system,” complained Wendy Perez Peña, 31, who left Venezuela in March to escape poverty. Jeison Rodriguez Jesus Salas, 27, shook his head in frustration. “They haven’t updated it well, they should have updated it better,” he said. Out of the group of 11, not one had been…
Like other parents, April Vazquez, a school nutrition specialist in Sioux Falls, S.D., is cutting coupons, buying in bulk and forgoing outings and restaurant meals. Still, a hot lunch in the school cafeteria for her three children is now a treat she has to carefully plan in her budget. The expiration of waivers that guaranteed…
Ms. Replansky’s poem “An Inheritance” reprises those years: Five dollars, four dollars, three dollars, two, One, and none, and what do we do?” This is the worry that never got said But ran so often in my mother’s head. And showed so plain in my father’s frown That to us kids it drifted down. It…
Mr. Biden seems to think he comes across as funnier than he does. “Not a joke!” he says again and again, four, eight, 10 times in a single speech. In San Diego last week, he told one audience that his remarks were “not a joke” a full 17 times — and threw in “I’m not…