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Horoscope: Wednesday, July 15

Others experience your light as magical, though you are also doing practical work — sending signals, celebrating the season, attracting the exact right match for you. Aries (March 21-April 19) Waking up to: an internal voice that now has new maturity. It feels like empowerment. You have options that are like hidden doors you just didn’t see before, and now you can’t unsee them. Your next move is one that didn’t occur to you before. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Waking up to: Your power in a relationship. It can come in odd forms, like knowing what someone likes, embodying an ...

How would you score state’s budget?

Average Pennsylvanians juggle financial obligations every day. That doesn’t mean just earning money and paying bills. It means doing it in a timely manner. If that doesn’t happen, banks and bill collectors share the news. A credit rating can tank quickly. Credit scores, for all their digits and formulas, are not about math. Plenty of people with lower incomes have high credit scores. What the numbers evaluate is behavior, especially patterns. That’s because a credit score is a math problem that uses your financial numbers to determine your reliability. It’s made up of a ...

Who will win battle for future?

President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani each gave a speech in honor of America’s 250th birthday. If you removed the name, it’d have been difficult to guess they were talking about the same country. Start with this. Trump celebrated America’s history. He praised America’s military heroes and iconic figures like Davy Crockett, Wyatt Earp and Teddy Roosevelt. He applauded America’s innovators, like the Wright brothers. He celebrated those who settled the frontier and built the country. “Americans must never forget that we are a historic and heroic ...

Measure of a life: Remembering Graham

On Saturday, I lost more than a friend. It feels as though I’ve lost a member of my family. I have known Lindsey Graham since I was in my 20s. I will never forget those early days when he first began campaigning for public office. I took him to South Carolina State University, where I had served as Student Government Association president. He sat in the president’s box, met so many of the people who shaped my life, including my family and my brother Kent, who would later become a South Carolina state senator. From the very beginning, what impressed me most was not his political ...

Two shootings force suspension

BIDDEFORD, Maine — Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday. The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a ...

US restores blockade on Iran ports

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it has reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports in response to Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as the interim ceasefire deal unravels and concerns grow about a return to all-out war. The U.S. first imposed the blockade in mid-April and then lifted it in mid-June, a day after the signing of the interim deal aimed at permanently ending the war. The deal set a 60-day timeline to also negotiate an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, but talks have stalled as fighting over the strait has ...