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Marriage in the United States has been changing in many ways over the past several decades – but the tradition of women taking their husband’s last name is still going strong. In a new Pew Research Center survey, we asked married people whether they changed their last name after marriage.How we did thisPew Research Center asked 2,437 U.S. adults in opposite-sex marriages whether they changed or kept their last name when they got married. We also asked 955 U.S. adults who have never been married what they would do if they got married. The questions used in this analysis are...

“…a system that has been hollowed out by a string of cascading failures runs into one more crisis than it can tolerate, and implodes under the weight of its own absurdities. We are much closer to such scenes in North America and Western Europe right now than I think most people realize.” —John Michael Greer Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss was a bigger shock to the Washington DC deep state Blob than Donald Trump’s victory. But the dynamics of this trauma operated at many levels. At the most superficial level was the hysterical response of Democratic Party rank-and-file women who regarded...

Vladimir Putin has been seen bizarrely twisting his foot and apparently struggling with a twitching leg in a meeting with Kim Jong Un, further adding to rumours that the Russian despot has health struggles. As the leaders sat down at a Russian space base for talks, video footage shows Putin repeatedly raising and lowering his left foot as his knee collapses inward. Putin later adjusted his position in the chair but his left foot appeared to continue erratically flexing as the North Korean leader told him he was fighting a 'sacred war' with the West and their two countries would...

A suspected overnight Ukrainian missile and drone attack on the Crimean port of Sevastopol has reportedly damaged a landing ship and submarine belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in what appears to be the latest blow inflicted by Kyiv against Moscow's navy. The Russian state-run Tass news agency reported that the overnight attack injured 24 people in Sevastopol, with Moscow-installed city governor Mikhail Razvozhaev blaming a "missile attack." Photos and videos of the port showed a series of explosions and fires raging around the docks. The first strikes were reported at around 3 a.m. local time. Tass reported witnesses...

FORTRESS MONROE, Saturday, Sept. 12. The United States steamer Massachusetts, Capt. WEST, arrived here this morning, from Charleston bar on the evening of the 9th instant, bringing the following intelligence: On Tuesday, the 8th instant, the Weehawken sent a 15-inch shell into one of the magazines of Fort Moultrie, exploding it. The Ironsides sent a shell into Moultrieville, setting it on fire and destroying half of the town. The Monitors and Ironsides bombarded the Sullivan Island forts for four hours, doing extensive damage. The Weehawken grounded near Cumming's Point, but soon floated off, receiving no damage. At 11 P.M. on...

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GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert was tossed out of a musical over the weekend over ‘unruly’ behavior throughout the show, according to a report. Boebert, 36, was attending “Beetlejuice: The Musical” at the Temple Hoyne Bell Theater in Denver Sunday evening along with an unidentified male after fellow audience members complained the two were being loud. Theater employees accused the two of “vaping, singing, recording and ‘causing a disturbance’ during the performance,” The Denver Post reported.

The actions Trump took — efforts to overturn the 2020 election and calling on his supporters to march to the Capitol Building to “stop the steal” — were largely carried out in the public eye and the fact that he’s now been indicted both federally and in Georgia for those same actions may help make plaintiffs’ cases.

"Mental health" has become a catchphrase of our time. In 1976, Raymond Williams, the British literary scholar, published Keywords, in which he analyzed nearly 200 words that, in his view, comprised the core vocabulary of modern Western societies. Among the terms that Williams identified were “democracy” and “capitalism,” “utilitarian” and “unconscious,” “reform” and “revolution.” If a new edition of Keywords were to appear, it would almost certainly include an entry on “mental health.” The term “mental health” seems to have become mainstream after the Second World War, when the first International Congress on Mental Health was held in London in...

Nora Fanfalone, 28, a management consultant, said she now uses the service entrance to her downtown apartment building to avoid being shoved by an aggressive man again, or witnessing a gunfight on her doorstep, as happened recently. 'I'm like, 'How did I get this wrong? I live across from the Smithsonian and there's an Hermès store two blocks away,' she told the paper. 'It's very surprising that public safety is an issue in a neighborhood with such high traffic and major attractions.' Ronald Moten, 53, who lives in Ward 7's Hillcrest neighborhood, said he now avoids going to the gas...

Why is everything about race? Remember when everyone was just called an American? You remember that time when everyone was treated as an American. Why can’t we stop living in the past? The US fought a Civil War to end slavery and put race behind it. Racism was a thing of the past until President Barack Hussein Obama used race to divide the country. Racism was basically non-existence until he became president. They are always playing the race card. They created the race card and they used it all the time. They are obsessed with race........ When President Obama was...

A Mexican ufologist might have just made one of the biggest discoveries in human history - he reportedly unveiled two 'alien bodies' at a gathering of the Mexican congress. The special event was held as part of the Mexican Congress' hearing regarding UFOs. Jaime Maussan, a Mexican journalist and ufologist, unveiled the two 'alien bodies' in front of the Congress, claiming that carbon dating had put their age as 'at least 1,000 years'.

The Biden administration has been blasted over plans to send out a letter to many of the major news organizations across the country demanding they probe the 'lies' of the House GOP's impeachment inquiry. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an official impeachment inquiry on Tuesday over allegations of corruption and involvement in son Hunter's business dealings, setting off fiery reactions from Democrats. Ian Sams, a special assistant to the president and senior advisor to the White House Counsel's Office, penned a letter to both conservative and liberal-leaning outlets, slated to be distributed Wednesday in an apparent attempt to influence their...

A member of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who has previously participated in Drag Queen Story Hour was arrested after witnesses alleged he masturbated in public for an hour. Clinton Monroe Ellis-Gilmore, 53, is a member of the group, which created a stir after it was disinvited - and then re-invited - to the Los Angeles Dodgers' Pride Night over protests from conservatives and Catholics. Ellis-Gilmore was arrested at Table Bluff County Park in Loleta, California, on August 12 after police had received reports of a man 'exposing himself in the driver's seat of a parked vehicle.'...

New bodycam footage has revealed the moment a Seattle police officer callously laughed and said that the life of a Northeastern University student who was mowed down by a cop car had 'limited value.' Jaahnavi Kandula, 23, was run down by a speeding Seattle Police Department SUV as she was crossing a heavily marked crosswalk near her campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood on January 23. Detective Daniel Auderer - who was not in the car that hit the student, but was responding to the scene - said that police can just 'write a check' after killing masters student...

A DoorDash customer got a side of saliva with his takeout after the deliveryman was caught spitting on the food as revolting revenge for a 'small tip.' Elias Crisanto, 13, ordered food for himself and his mom to be delivered to their Miami apartment. The teenager left his DoorDash deliveryman a $3 tip, which he thought was 'good' for the half-mile journey for the driver. Crisanto watched the delivery happen in real-time through the Ring doorbell camera, and it seems normal at first. The deliveryman, a man wearing a casual outfit of flip-flops and shorts, approached the door and put...

“We are not called to be like the world,” he insists, “and the world does not need us to be like the world.”We have something better to say because we have someone better to follow. That means the call of Christ to you and me is both greatly exciting and deeply challenging. The call is not to be comfortable but to be Christ-like—to discover the surprising means of experiencing real blessing, and in doing so to point others the way to it too.

Reviewer: Lou is correct…this is literally the best explanation of what is going on. And why they hate Trump! It is only 5 minutes.

Red fire ants are one of the world's worst and costliest invasive alien species - and they're making Italy their home. One of the world’s worst invasive alien species has arrived in Europe for the first time, a new study reveals. The red fire ant has formed a mature population in Sicily, Italy, according to research published in the scientific journal Current Biology. The study warns that, with the help of global warming, the ants could spread across the continent. The climate in half of Europe’s urban areas is already suitable for the species. This could have devastating and costly...

Amonth from today, I go on trial on Mickey Mouse charges in Victoria, Australia, as a result of praying with an Aboriginal man and of insistence that Shane Andrew Patten be investigated for his crimes. After assaulting me, police took me to the Cathedral's side and asked me my name. I told them I would give my name if they gave me an event number for a police investigation into Patton's culpability in the false imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell. I did my best to impress on those officers willing to listen to me, that Patton's crimes are much more...