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One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns.

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married for 35 years. The week we were to celebrate our 34th anniversary, he invited a female friend to our vacation home for an overnight rendezvous. He was unaware that our adult ...Read more

Q: I'm not proud of the fact that I was pretty wild in my younger years. Now my teenage son is asking questions about my past. How open should I be about things I regret?

Jim: This is a common question -- and dilemma -- ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I am estranged from my father and have been since I was 12. (I'm currently 26.) He was emotionally, psychologically and physically abusive to me, and cutting ties with him has been good for my well-being.

My ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Public prayer seems to be more widely accepted than in past generations, but the results don’t seem too reassuring. Are there steps to praying effectively? – P.P.

A: The ...Read more

As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves — offering the clearest picture yet of one of the disease’s ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration may revoke the temporary protected status of 350,000 Haitians.

This is not the first time a legal challenge to TPS has held Haitians�...Read more

Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived. It came as a shock when she was denied an abortion in 2021 because of gestational limits to the procedure in ...Read more

On July 4, we will celebrate American independence from kings who ruled over both church and state. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the founders of this country put forward a bold and radical idea: that religious freedom ...Read more

Long ago, when most Americans left the house for mass entertainment, they flocked to carnivals that crisscrossed the country to delight small towns and big cities. Shows typically included a barker whose steady stream of ...Read more

I tend to get a bit overenthusiastic about decorating for holidays. And the proof of that addiction is found in a big closet downstairs in our house.

This year's special Fourth of July celebration has drawn out red, white...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Monica Carter, a nurse practitioner specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, appears on a TikTok screen, saying she is seeing so much “trich” in her clinic.

Trichomonas is a sexually ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: I've been a widow for nine years and just got engaged. When I asked my fiance if I could put a picture of my late husband in our new home, he became upset. He said he shouldn't have to walk into his own home and...Read more

DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a 62-year-old woman in fairly good health. I'm currently on Wellbutrin, carvedilol, Farxiga, Entresto and spironolactone, and my blood pressure is very well-controlled. I also recently started Zoloft....Read more

Colon cancer is now the number one cancer killer in the U.S. of people ages 50 and younger, and yet many folks (at any age) are reluctant to get a colonoscopy -- the gold standard for detection of precancerous polyps and ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: A friend of mine described me as a carnal Christian. I’m not sure if she was putting me down or giving me a compliment. When...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, local leaders and Haitian immigrants condemned a Supreme Court decision on Thursday allowing the Trump administration to end deportation protections under Temporary Protected ...Read more

Pennsylvania health officials have now detected measles cases in York and Northumberland Counties as cases in Lancaster County, the center of an ongoing outbreak, continued to rise.

And the state health department is now ...Read more