JOHN ADAMS

Starting practice at the hottest time of year, football players face dangers from the heat. Georgia high school heat rules have turned the state into a national model.

With the death this week of David McCullough, we lost an author who understood how to find the stories that made history feel relevant and real.

McCullough died Sunday in Hingham, Massachusetts, less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.

McCullough died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.

All 10 people found dead after an early morning fire in northeastern Pennsylvania last week died of smoke inhalation, authorities said Monday.

Obit David McCullough FILE - Writer and historian David McCullough appears at his Martha's Vineyard home in West Tisbury, Mass., on May 12, 2001. “David McCullough was a national treasure. A joyous and tireless student of the past, McCullough dedicated himself to sharing his own passion for history with the general public. Upon his 80th birthday, his native Pittsburgh renamed the 16th Street Bridge the “David McCullough Bridge.”McCullough also was a favorite in Washington, D.C. “To replace what we have with plastic, contrived history, mechanical history is almost sacrilege.”Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.

This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” with inflation now hitting over 9%, we have a string of guests to talk about the state of the American economy as experts fear a recession is coming. Plus, more on the subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service sent by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol with member Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

Today, Americans spend over 1.5 billion dollars each year on July 4th fireworks.

Today, Americans spend over 1.5 billion dollars each year on July 4th fireworks.

History marches energetically onto Boston stages with a reimagining of the 1969 musical and a second play, ‘Common Ground Revisited,’ that examines the city’s past racial strife.

Election 2022 Indiana A voter casts her ballot at the City-County Building in the final hours of early voting in the primary election in Indianapolis, Monday, May 2, 2022. DeWine faces test of far right's swayIndiana GOP lawmakers resisting many hard-right challengersIn Ohio, US House rematch again tests progressive clout2022 midterms: What to know about Ohio, Indiana primariesTrump's bid to shape GOP faces test with voters in May races___COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Republican Gov. DeWine on Tuesday topped three far-right opponents, including former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, who painted the governor as a moderate not aligned with former President Donald Trump. ___COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has won the state’s Republican primary over a conservative challenger who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election results. Two candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump are favored to secure GOP nominations for open House seats elsewhere in Ohio.

LaRose also brings the strength of incumbency to his campaign and adopted some of Trump's talking points about voter fraud ahead of Trump's endorsement. Lawmakers ultimately set a new, almost exclusively mail-in primary election for April 28, 2020, over LaRose's wishes. In the weeks after the 2020 presidential election, LaRose said, “Elections are run better and more honestly than really I think they ever have been." Months later, he said in an interview what has proved true in state after state — that voter fraud is rare. No way.’”Adams also criticized LaRose for his role in postponing the March 2020 primary.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has won the Republican nomination for his second term in office, defeating conservative challenger John Adams, who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose won the Republican nomination for his second term in office on Tuesday, defeating conservative challenger John Adams, who had questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. LaRose will face Democrat Chelsea Clark, a suburban Cincinnati City Council member and businesswoman, in November’s general election. Despite Adams' open questioning of the 2020 results, former President Donald Trump had endorsed LaRose in the race.

The first multistate contest of the 2022 midterm election season takes place Tuesday.

Add one more group of contests to the white-hot races for Congress and governor that will dominate this year’s midterm elections: secretaries of state.

NEW YORK — (AP) — American soprano Renée Fleming is to make rare operatic appearances as Pat Nixon in a new production of John Adams' “Nixon in China” at the Paris Opera next season. The opera is to be given eight performances at the Bastille from March 25 to April 16, 2023, the company said Wednesday. Music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct a cast that includes baritone Thomas Hampson as Nixon and soprano Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao. Fleming returns to New York's Metropolitan Opera for the staged premiere of Kevin Puts' "The Hours," which opens Nov. 22 in the first of eight performances through Dec. 15. Soprano Anna Netrebko, dropped by the Metropolitan Opera for failing to repudiate Russian President Vladimir Putin, is to sing Leonora in a revival of Verdi's “La Forza del Destino” on Dec. 12 and 21 at the Bastille.

American soprano Renée Fleming is to make rare operatic appearances as Pat Nixon in a new production of John Adams’ “Nixon in China” at the Paris Opera next season.

Jesuits have worn many hats: missionaries, educators and preachers; writers and scientists; and they've courted controversy for centuries.

If the old adage holds that wanting something done right means doing it yourself, and you feel your county, state or federal lawmaker does not reflect your values, why not try and run for office?

SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — John Adams’ version of “Antony and Cleopatra” will have its world premiere on Sept. 10 on the opening weekend of the San Francisco Opera’s 100th season. The opera will travel to Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Sicily, and New York’s Metropolitan Opera. The new Met at Lincoln Center opened in September 1966 with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s version of “Antony and Cleopatra” with a libretto by Franco Zeffirelli, an opera greeted with negative reviews. San Francisco presented the premieres of Adams' “Doctor Atomic" in 2005 and “Girls of the Golden West" in 2017. Adams' most well-known operas are “Nixon in China" from 1987 and “The Death of Klinghoffer" from 1991.

The bass-baritone’s daring recitals feel almost like compositions in themselves.

The founders agreed on the notion that circumstances emerge that require public officials to pass acts that abridge individual freedoms.

The Cleveland Indians won their last home game before they become the Guardians, beating the Kansas City Royals 8-3 to close a run that started in 1915 and will continue in 2022 with a new identity.

It's Freedom Fest all day, for free, at the county airport fireworks in Palm Coast's Central Park at 9 p.m.

Adams is the founder of Streetside Showers of Florida and nearly every Saturday morning you can find him on the side of Port Malabar Blvd. setting up his two stall shower trailer.

Patrick Carney wasn’t nervous before his first live drumming gig in more than a year, just honored.

The inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)Things have changed quite a bit since the first presidential inauguration in 1789. Illustration of American general and politician George Washington (1732 - 1799) receiving the news of his election as the first American president, 1789. While emphasizing the public good, Washington addressed the need for a strong Constitution and Bill of Rights. He also said he would be declining pay beyond what the public good thought was required.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams also opted not to participate in a tradition that began with George Washington. The White House Historical Association points out that John Adams was never formally invited by his successor, Thomas Jefferson, to the event and perhaps didn’t want to impose. He did not call on Adams, nor did Adams invite Jackson to the White House. Some four decades later, President-elect Ulysses S. Grant refused to ride with President Andrew Johnson from the White House to the Capitol for the ceremony. Rather, Ford was administered the oath of office in the White House East Room shortly after Nixon had tendered his resignation to avoid impeachment.

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 1992, file photo, President George H.W. Bill Clinton won the 1992 president election. Most concessions are gracious — less about the loser and more about closure for the country. “Just moments ago I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. President John Adams was glum, too.

Barrett’s dogmatism should not be, though conveniently for her choreographers, the election-year politics of her appointment have obscured her subservience to regression. Except that when Thomas was appointed the court was still fairly balanced and not yet a vassal to the religious right. It was not a flattering association–not if the last 60 years’ advances in women’s rights, civil rights, marriage and gender equality mean anything. We don’t have to imagine what Barrett’s jurisprudence will look like regarding gay rights, abortion, women’s rights, sex discrimination, even human rights and the separation of church and state. What a happy day that will be.” The ground around his oval Hades in Lynchburg must’ve raptured when news of Barrett’s nomination sank in.

MELBOURNE, Fla. A man who was apparently upset about being arrested repeatedly flushed the toilet in his cell until it flooded the area then made a death threat toward the officer who took him into custody, according to the Melbourne Police Department. Police said a man flagged them down Wednesday on Longwood Boulevard to let them know that a man later identified as John Adams, 40, had just stolen his Schwinn bicycle from his garage. Police said they located Adams nearby and took him into custody. Once placed in a cell in the booking area, Adams became extremely irate, started banging on the cell doors and then flushed the cell toilet repeatedly until the booking room flooded, according to the affidavit. As Adams was being taken to the Brevard County Jail, he berated the officer with racial and homophobic slurs.

Ron DeSantis banned vacation rentals on March 27 in an executive order aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. On Friday, DeSantis announced that vacation rentals could soon roll out the welcome mats again if county and state officials give the go-ahead. Vacation rentals account for 87 percent of South Waltons total lodging inventory, Chapman wrote to the governor on Tuesday. State Rep. Jayer Williamson, R-Pace, was among the many officials who pressed DeSantis to allow vacation rentals to start doing business again. For us to be micromanaging vacation rentals, I am not sure that is the right thing to do, DeSantis said in February.

Ron DeSantis banned vacation rentals on March 27 in an executive order aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. The move, kept in place in subsequent edicts, sparked intense pushback from property owners, management companies and some local government officials, especially in the Panhandle. While the request for a temporary restraining order was denied, Merryday allowed the lawsuit to proceed.At least part of the outcry over the vacation-rental ban came from Republican strongholds. A proposed deal was scrapped after DeSantis appeared skeptical.We have 22 million people almost. For us to be micromanaging vacation rentals, I am not sure that is the right thing to do, DeSantis said in February.

America's Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th. John Adams, our second President and one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, refused to celebrate the day. Why? Charles Osgood explains.