She’s no Grinch about it, but Lynn Grewing is the principal who stole snow days. The early arrival of wintry weather in the Midwest this week gave Grewing an opening to test out a virtual class day at St. Cloud Cathedral high school in central Minnesota, having students whip out laptops or iPads and work from home. After a successful …

If you’re one of the many people that have a hard time swallowing pills, these two techniques can make things a lot easier for you. A recent study led by Dr. Walter Haefeli from the University of Heidelberg, and published in the journal Annals of Family Medicine, tested different pill-swallowing techniques on over 150 adults. Two methods, the “pop-bottle” and …

Members of the Obama administration received thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders, but first lady Michelle Obama appears to have received the most expensive gift last year — jewelry worth $71,468 from the queen of Brunei. The flower-shaped white gold earrings, ring and necklace, which Mrs. Obama received in 2013, were studded with yellow sapphires and diamonds, according …

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Monday said they had detected cesium 134—radioactive fallout from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown—about 100 miles offshore of the Northern California town of Eureka. But don’t freak out. “This Fukushima-derived cesium is far below where one might expect any measurable risk to human health or marine life, according to international health agencies,” …

Last year, all-American employer Walmart started its “Black Friday” sales in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner, which was a real treat for Walmart employees. This year, hell, why not just make it whole week? Of hell? Wal-Mart’s Black Friday Will Begin During Thanksgiving Dinner Capital idea! So this year Walmart will have a five-day-long “Black Friday,” chock full of great …

Kids often see the bright red and blue of laundry pods and mistake them as candy, and they’re heading to emergency rooms in alarming numbers. More than 17,000 incidents of children ingesting laundry-detergent packages had been recorded by poison-control centers across the nation between 2012 and 2013, according to a report in the journal Pediatrics. One child has even died …

As an outsider to Obama’s circle, she could be the right attorney general pick to get fast-track Senate confirmation—and then effectively execute the president’s goals during his final two years. The nomination of Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general of the United States perhaps displays as much presidential deftness as it does defiance. Clearly, in the wake of last …