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South African innovator manufactures off-road wheelchairs

South African innovator manufactures off-road wheelchairs

An invention by a young entrepreneur in South Africa is helping improve mobility for wheelchair users. Ernest Mongezi Majenge is known as the wheelchair doctor. He refurbishes old wheelchairs and turns them into stair friendly,…

Meet Kyrsten Sinema, Former Democrat of Arizona

Meet Kyrsten Sinema, Former Democrat of Arizona

The ConversationCredit...Michael Reynolds/EPA, via ShutterstockSend any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I hope I’ve succeeded in turning…

Fortunate Day Lotto ticket value $450,000 bought in Oswego

Fortunate Day Lotto ticket value $450,000 bought in Oswego

A Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $450,000 in last Friday’s drawing was purchased at Meijer Express Gas Station at 2720 Route 34 in Oswego.The ticket matched all five numbers in the Friday evening drawing to…

Familia honra a abuelo tras encontrarlo muerto y crean conciencia sobre el Alzheimer: Cuida a tus mayores

Familia honra a abuelo tras encontrarlo muerto y crean conciencia sobre el Alzheimer: Cuida a tus mayores

En los años previos a perder la memoria, José Arévalo, de 83 años, aún dedicaba algunas de sus melodías norteñas favoritas a su esposa.“La Prieta Linda”, comentó su esposa, Berta Ruiz, de 64 años, con…

Column: Mary Ellen Vanderventer’s profession of deeds is one for the data

Column: Mary Ellen Vanderventer’s profession of deeds is one for the data

For the first time in nearly three decades, Mary Ellen Vanderventer was missing -- but not AWOL -- when new and reelected Lake County officials were sworn into office last week. Her last day on…

Evanston boosts makes use of property gross sales taxes to spice up reparations fund

Evanston boosts makes use of property gross sales taxes to spice up reparations fund

Evanston’s Reparations Committee is searching for new revenue sources to bolster the reparations fund after cannabis tax collections failed to meet it’s $10 million goal.State statute 35 ILCS 120-11 doesn’t allow the city to reveal…

Kenya celebrates 59th anniversary as a republic

Kenya celebrates 59th anniversary as a republic

Kenya celebrated 59 years of independence from British colonial rule on Monday (Dec. 12). Kenya's fifth president, William Ruto, paid homage to those who helped free Kenya from British colonialism nearly six decades ago as…

Christmas show on Lehnertz Avenue a vacation staple in Aurora for greater than 70 years

Christmas show on Lehnertz Avenue a vacation staple in Aurora for greater than 70 years

For Javier Contreras, 19, of Aurora, coming to see a holiday display offered annually in a neighborhood nearby never gets old.“I’ve been coming here since I was very young,” he said as his mother Rosanna…

Matt Palumbo’s ‘Reality-Checking the Reality-Checkers’: How We Know Politifact Is Biased

Matt Palumbo’s ‘Reality-Checking the Reality-Checkers’: How We Know Politifact Is Biased

This article is an excerpt from Matt Palumbo's 'Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers': How The Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry  The existence of bias at PolitiFact has been studied and analyzed many times over the…

Posobiec at TPUSA: New Proper Should Give attention to ‘Preserving Our Rights’

Posobiec at TPUSA: New Proper Should Give attention to ‘Preserving Our Rights’

On the Sunday Special episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec posted a speech he gave to the Turning Point USA Chapter at the University of Central Florida where he spoke on the power…

Tackling gender inequalities in well being: a key to reaching common well being protection in Ghana

Tackling gender inequalities in well being: a key to reaching common well being protection in Ghana

Accra, Ghana - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 5 on Gender equality and SDG 10 inequalities are critically interlinked social determinants that have the potential to reverse health gains or even halt progress…

Harnessing the facility of crypto investments to struggle inflation

Harnessing the facility of crypto investments to struggle inflation

Across the continent, inflation rates have been steadily rising. Nigeria’s inflation rate has been hovering around the 20th percentile since the second half of the year and in October the rate rose to 21.09%, the…