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Plus, Charles Manson’s granddaughter crashes a courtroom and the brains behind the futuristic 'Megalopolis' cityscape.Shazam! Star Commits “Career Suicide” — Or Does He?When Zachary Levi stood onstage at a Sept. 28 rally in Michigan and endorsed Donald Trump, he declared it an act of “career suicide” that would end his chances of working again in “very, very liberal” Hollywood. The crowd ate it up, applauding the 44-year-old Shazam! star for his sacrifice to the MAGA cause. But in L.A., there was more than a little head-scratching. Not because Levi was endorsing a convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender — the...

The Virginia governor’s office is hitting out at what it says is an "unprecedented" lawsuit by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. The DOJ is claiming that Youngkin violated the National Voter Registration Act with an executive order that required the election commissioner to regularly update the state’s voter lists to remove individuals who have been "identified as noncitizens" and had not responded to a request to verify their citizenship in 14 days. Virginia has announced that it has removed more than 6,000 individuals between Jan 2022...

Finch's tales of bone cancer and other harrowing medical issues are now the subject of the Peacock docuseries 'Anatomy of Lies.'Former Grey’s Anatomy scribe and co-executive producer Elisabeth Finch is copping to having “lied about so much” on the same day that a docuseries about her Hollywood rise and fall is dropping on Peacock. In a statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday afternoon, Finch apologized for what she described as multiple falsehoods that affected friends, family and others close to her. Admitting that she had “given no one any reason to believe a word I say,” Finch said, “‘I’m sorry’...

Election Day is rapidly approaching, bringing with it the possibility that one Orange County city will soon allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Measure DD, which is on the Nov. 5 ballot in Santa Ana, would allow “noncitizen City residents to vote in all City of Santa Ana municipal elections” beginning in November 2028, the city says on its website.

A campaign ad produced by the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee, Randall Terry, recently aired on national television, drawing media attention for its use of graphic imagery related to abortion during a commercial break on The View. The ad, titled “Stupid Celebrities, Lying Journalists,” reportedly aired on national television last week. It is one of nearly a dozen 30-second spots first produced by the Terry campaign earlier this year, covering topics such as abortion, the Black community, and criticisms of the Democratic Party, among others. “I’m so sick of stupid celebrities and lying journalists,” Terry says in the ad, which opens...

The Democratic National Committee has launched attack ads targeting Green Party nominee Dr. Jill Stein in several key swing states, accusing her of being a “spoiler” who could tip the election in favor of Republican Donald Trump. “Today the DNC is releasing its first-ever ad focused on third-party candidates,” Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison posted on X on Friday. “Trump ‘likes’ that Jill Stein is in this race—because Jill Stein can’t win, but she can help Trump win.” The 30-second ad shared in Harrison’s post opens with a photo of Stein that gradually morphs into the face of Trump,...

Some experts say the incidents cited by a critic are modest and may not reflect an intentional effort to take credit. Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign Tuesday rejected claims that she and a co-author had plagiarized a handful of passages in a 2009 book on fighting crime, arguing that the allegations amounted to a partisan attempt to weaponize a 15-year-old work. The claims arose this week when Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist, listed five instances in the book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” saying Harris and co-author Joan O’C. Hamilton used language that was...

Former President Donald Trump’s support in the Arab American community is growing, as the owner of a popular restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan, posted a full endorsement of the former president. The endorsement came from a man who said he is part of the “Sheeba restaurant family” in the city of Dearborn, explaining that they “all have a voice to use, and it’s so, so important for us to use that voice, especially in elections this critical” “We’re encouraging everyone to go out and vote. Your vote does really matter. We believe that your voice matters in our community, and that...

[Catholic Caucus] Largest ever survey of US Catholics shows faithful want an end to Communion in the handThe largest survey of Catholics in the United States ever conducted found that the faithful overwhelmingly say that receiving Holy Communion in the hand has led to loss of faith in the Eucharist and that they want a restoration of traditional liturgical practices.The largest survey of U.S. Catholics ever conducted shows that the faithful want reverent, solemn worship and an end to distributing Holy Communion in the hand and the use of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion.On Tuesday, the Real Presence Coalition (RPC)...

In her recent interview on The View, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked what differentiates her from President Joe Biden. The question suggests that for Harris to win she must show how she is different from Joe Biden. We believe that she can win over Donald Trump’s falsehoods by forcefully articulating the true triumphs of the Biden-Harris Administration, starting with the economy. To date, she has proudly call herself a “capitalist” promoting programs that champion business growth, from small businesses to global dynamos, in addition to proposing tax cuts for start-ups, preserving sensible trade policies, and promising independence of the...

Fulton County DA Fani Willis sent a scathing letter to the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee demanding that her lover, Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to spearhead the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Georgia RICO charges, should not have to answer certain questions before Congress, because the proceedings could compel Wade to "improperly divulge confidential information." Willis contacted the committee's chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), ahead of Wade's deposition slated to take place Tuesday, arguing that it could interfere with the Trump case. On X, the House Judiciary GOP posted a copy of the Democrat DA's letter addressed...

It’s not every day that humans launch a space mission of such potential as it was done on Monday in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket was launched on a quest to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. The mission will take the spacecraft Europa Clipper five and a half years to reach Jupiter, orbit around the Solar system’s largest planet and sneak close to its fourth largest moon, Europa. Associated Press reported: “Scientists are almost certain a deep, global ocean exists beneath Europa’s icy crust. And...

A proud dad posted a TikTok video bragging about his 10-year-old ‘trans’ son going on a date in a mini-skirt, and suffice to say the reaction on X wasn’t very enthusiastic. “(This is) my daughter Edie and today is a big day because she’s going on her first date,” states the dad. The child then twirls in a mini-skirt and explains how he has bought his date some gifts, including four Stranger Things Funko Pop toys. “I also got him this iPad so he can face time me, I’ll also be keeping this if the date isn’t going well,” says...

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Prof. Jianwei Pan, Qiang Zhang, and Kai Chen, in collaboration with CHEN Jingling from Nankai University, has achieved the loophole-free test of Hardy's paradox for the first time. The team successfully demonstrated Hardy's nonlocality, closing both the detection efficiency loophole and the locality loophole...Hardy's paradox, introduced by Lucien Hardy in the 1990s, offers a simplified test of local realism—the classical idea that physical properties exist independently of observation and that no signals exceed the speed of light. This...

While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel --and possibly ethical rules -- with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News. Cheney’s Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry...

Discoveries made during excavations in Oxford have confirmed the original defensive perimeter of the then Anglo-Saxon town.An area around Oriel College was investigated by Oxford Archaeology during refurbishment works on its bar and kitchens.Experts found the remains of a ditch, indicating where the defences originally stood, confirming that Oxford in about 900AD was much smaller than the medieval town it went on to become...Excavations outside the Bodleian Library in 1899 previously revealed a section of wall thought to be the original town's north-eastern corner...Oxford Archaeology said it gave "credibility" to theories that the early fortified Oxford was smaller and had...

Republican Senate candidates have the edge in three critical states where they can flip blue seats red, while several other races are either on a knife’s edge or show Republicans within striking distance, according to a National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) polling memorandum. The memo, first published by Politico on Tuesday, shows Republicans ahead in Montana, Ohio, and Wisconsin against three Democrat incumbents. This is a major development considering Democrats currently hold a 51-49 seat majority in the Senate. If West Virginia’s senate race breaks for Republicans, as expected, and GOP incumbents successfully defend their seats while bringing home these...

HOUSTON, TX — As the world still celebrated the astonishing accomplishment of SpaceX catching its returning Starship, NASA officials were baffled at how Elon Musk managed to succeed without as many gay non-binary Muslim dwarfs of color as they have. SpaceX's historic achievement occurred despite not making diversity and inclusion its top priority, leaving NASA in awe that such a feat could be pulled off without the mandated involvement of underrepresented people groups. "Not a single transgender dwarf of color on the team! How does this guy do it?" one high-ranking NASA official marveled. "We devote all of our time...

Time and time and time again, “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” and other similar words are being used as excuses to dumb down educational standards.Here are 24 examples:1) The New York Times wrote, “The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”Original: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html?_r=0Archive: https://archive.ph/GzyQM2) The New York Times wrote, “A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher...

The star of a controversial new film about Donald Trump has said the former president "should be grateful" that it provides a "complex, three-dimensional take" on his life. US actor Sebastian Stan portrays Trump in The Apprentice, which focuses on Trump's younger years as a real estate tycoon in New York. The former president has threatened to take legal action against producers, describing the film as "fake and classless" and saying he hoped it would "bomb" at the box office. The film struggled to find a distributor in the US and its director has described the process of making and...