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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ve been the giver so long that receiving might feel awkward, like you have to earn it. But worth isn’t something to overdeliver for. Spend time with people who hold success with ease. Their confidence will help shift yours. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). When you speak positively and confidently about your goals, ideas and work, you attract support and create momentum. You might not even realize who’s listening, but the right person at the right moment can become a catalyst. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’re bringing the thunder today. It’s like ...

Today in History

Today is Monday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2025. There are 212 days left in the year. Today in history: On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at age 27 at a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. Also on this date: In 1886, 49-year-old President Grover Cleveland became the first president to get married in the White House, wedding 21-year-old Frances Folsom. In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, the Indian Citizenship Act, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all ...

China’s power is a virus

When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do? More than 1.2 million Americans died as a result of a plague that began in China. Those staggering global and U.S. figures are the numbers reported to the World Health Organization. They make the COVID-19 pandemic arguably the deadliest event the human race has suffered since World War II. The presence of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the city where the scourge originated raised suspicions from the start — was this an unnatural disaster? China was studying ...

Latest results from 2025 Pa. primary

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Democrats and Republicans elected which judicial and municipal candidates they want to advance to the Nov. 4 general election. Commonwealth Court There is one vacancy on Commonwealth Court, one of Pennsylvania’s two intermediate appellate courts. Commonwealth Court presides over civil actions brought by and against the Pennsylvania state government and hears appeals primarily in cases involving state departments and local governments. Superior Court handles criminal, family, and civil cases that are appealed by county Courts of Common Pleas. The person ...

Races for Philly DA, Pitt mayor take center stage

HARRISBURG (AP) — Voters on Tuesday will choose new candidates to run for some of the top jobs in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with the winners of the Democratic primaries all but assured of victory in November in the two heavily Democratic cities. In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner is seeking a third term as district attorney of the nation’s sixth-most populous city. The longtime civil rights lawyer has, at times, come under heavy criticism as a prosecutor but has thus far a survived efforts to oust him that successfully removed some other progressive district attorneys, including ...

Immunity to rubella is not immunity to measles

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read a recent column of yours in which you said that everyone who is my age can assume we’ve had measles. I remember having measles when I was in the second grade but have a vague memory of my parents calling it German measles, which I believe is rubella. If a person has had either, do they have immunity to both types of measles? –– S.F. ANSWER: If you were born before 1957, you are likely (but not 100 percent sure) to be immune to measles (sometimes called red measles) and mumps. However, rubella (German measles) is a different disease, and immunity to one does ...