America: A journey, not a destination |
🗽Next year, we'll all commemorate 250 years of this incredible, vexing and unique experiment we call America. But we at USA TODAY know that there is far too much history, diversity, conflict, beauty, bust and boom to fit it all in one year. |
Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page kicks off our series , Journeys Across America, with a look at the American experience and how it's changed, and continues to do so. "Through it all, the debates over what defines the United States have been fierce and sometimes violent," Page writes. "What rights? Whose rights? Who decides?" | Visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda take in the sights near the painting depicting the moment on June 28, 1776, when the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was presented to the Second Continental Congress on Oct 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. Joe Raedle, Getty Images |
Tuesday's assignment: Vote |
✅ 🗳️ Tomorrow is Election Day, and there are races in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City, as well as a crucial ballot question in California, that may be bellwethers for the 2026 midterms and even the 2028 Presidential election. Follow all our coverage, starting here. | A child peeks from under a voting booth while her father votes at a polling center on Election Day in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., November 5, 2024. Maye-E Wong, Reuters |
They belong to a sisterhood none of them asked to join: Hundreds of women who said they were groomed and abused by convicted sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are again pushing for justice, accountability and transparency. And now, they're going public. |
"I would like to announce here today us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list," one of them, Lisa Phillips said. "We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know." | Danielle Bensky, left, and Anouska De Georgiou, hug one another during a news conference along with House members and other alleged victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Washington, DC, on Sept. 3, 2025. Josh Morgan, USA TODAY |
Sandwiched between caregiving obligations |
As baby boomers age, they're starting to require more care, but often they and their families aren't prepared to give it. Adult children are often still working full-time and raising their own children. Something has to give. |
"My brother and I did a really good job of recognizing that we love our father, we love our dad, we want the best for him," Kathleen Korpela, a caregiving consultant told USA TODAY. "But we need to be able to support our own livelihoods, support our own families and take care of ourselves." Here's more advice from experts. |
Phaedra Trethan is a national correspondent at USA TODAY. She'd love to hear from readers about The Short List, story ideas from across the nation and how you envision America's past, present and future. Email her at ptrethan@usatoday.com. | | The NFL trade deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. ET. Which teams will take advantage of the last window to transform their outlook for 2025? | | Kimberly-Clark is buying Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, after months of controversy around whether the medicine is linked to autism. | | | | Laura Dern has announced the death of her mother, Golden Globe-winning actress Diane Ladd. "She is flying with her angels now," Dern said. | | | | Trump's crackdown in the name of addressing illegal immigration and violent crime has divided Americans and launched a series of legal challenges. | | | | The federal government brought criminal charges against two Michigan men, alleging they plotted to carry out a terror attack over Halloween weekend. | | | | Anita Avers, 80, was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead after officers found her with multiple stab wounds at her home in Wichita, Kansas. | | | | Donald Trump's team has been on a boat strike spree, hitting boats he says are carrying drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific. How many people died? | | | | Victor Conte, the mastermind of the BALCO steroids scandal that erupted in 2003, died at 75 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. | | | | A federal judge in Portland extended her block against Trump's National Guard deployment. | | | | As the shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history, will air traffic controllers again bring it to a close? | | | | | Brighten your day with one of our games. | | | | |
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