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Q: We live in the suburbs of Chicago and drive a 2015 Dodge Caravan, for which it’s recommended to use regular gas rated at 87 octane level. We just completed a road trip to Seattle and the gas stations in the Western states showed the regular gas with…

Some parents, I have discovered, believe in the parenting slot machine theory. They hold fast to the notion that some parents are simply lucky, meaning that chance and chance alone determines whether one has easy children or difficult children. This pa…

House Democrats add child nutrition to legislative menuWASHINGTON — The House Education and Labor Committee is making a late-session push to renew child nutrition programs and incorporate changes made to cope with the pandemic, but disagreements could …

Spin your globe, fast as you can. Stop it with your hand, anywhere you want. This is probably the one week in your life when you will be able to look at whatever place on the globe is under your thumb — or closest to it — and feel like you know what th…

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime where we stop saying same-sex marriage. Where we just say marriage. Where a qualifier that points out the sex of two people in a union is so utterly, presposterously unrelated to t…

Senate Democrats to introduce pot decriminalization bill against oddsSenate Democrats introduced a bill Thursday that would federally decriminalize, regulate and impose taxes on cannabis products. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senators Cory Booker …

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group. (Reprinted from Publishers…

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 16, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group. (Reprinted from Publishers…

Q. We have a 2011 Insignia 720p plasma TV that has served us very well. We went with plasma for the superior off-center viewing qualities compared to the LED-LCD TVs available at the time. Over 50% of our TV watching is from a 40-45 degree angle. Given…

‘NOPE’ Rated R for language throughout and some violence/bloody images. What it’s about: A pair of siblings face off with a mysterious extraterrestrial at their desert ranch, hoping to collect evidence of the phenomena. The kid attractor factor: Teens …