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Police have found the getaway car of a US military veteran who walked into a bar in the western state of Montana on Friday morning and fatally shot four people, but the gunman remains at large. The shooting happened at The Owl Bar in the city of Anaconda at around 10:30 local time, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation said. The bar owner told AP news agency he thinks the suspect just "snapped". Police said they have found the white Ford-150 pick-up truck that the suspect used to flee the scene, but no sign of the gunman. Authorities are now...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV Relativizes Miracle: Christ Invited Deaf-Mute to "Choose" to Speak AgainPope Leo XIV spoke at yesterday’s general audience about the man in Mark 7 who cannot speak or hear: "Just as it can sometimes happen to us, perhaps this man chose not to speak anymore because he did not feel understood; he chose to shut off every voice because he had been disappointed and wounded by what he had heard," Leo XIV said.He sounded literally like Francis: "Before anything else, Jesus offers him silent closeness, through gestures that speak of a profound encounter: He touches this man’s...

Jamie Lee Curtis knows Stephen Colbert has a crush on her husband Christopher Guest. And honestly, she’s “fine with it.” While visiting to The Late Show on Tuesday, the Freakier Friday star recalled witnessing sparks fly between the late-night host and her husband of 40 years during a Best In Show 25th anniversary panel at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. “Why were you at the 25th celebration of Best In Show?” Curtis asked, to which Colbert sheepishly replied, “Because I always wanted to meet your husband Christopher Guest. I always wanted to meet him, I’d never met him before.”...

The FDA is mandating new labeling for opioids to better inform patients and healthcare providers about the risks of addiction, misuse, and overdose associated with long-term use.The Food and Drug Administration will soon require drugmakers to place stronger warning labels on opioids to convey the risks associated with these medications.The labels will include clearer risk information about addiction, misuse, and overdose; stronger warnings regarding higher doses and their long-term risks; clarified use limits to prevent misinterpretation of long-term use; treatment guidance recommending long-acting opioids only if shorter options are inadequate; advice against sudden discontinuation for physically dependent patients; and information...

Summary Trump administration seeks to deport more migrants to third countries Critics ask why migrants can't be deported home instead Trump tactic stokes fear amid push for mass deportations WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Trump administration says that some serious criminals need to be deported to third countries because even their home countries won't accept them. But a review of recent cases shows that at least five men threatened with such a fate were sent to their native countries within weeks.President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and his administration has sought to...

In another display of a double standard, patriotic Americans are being blocked from wearing pro-Trump or conservative gear at public concerts and sporting events. Yet, Pride and trans flags are allowed to be freely displayed. At venues like NFL stadiums, pro-Trump shirts or MAGA hats have been confiscated or banned, with fans told that political attire isn’t allowed. Meanwhile, displays of Pride and trans flags are embraced—often part of official event branding or venue-supported inclusion campaigns. In a video posted to X, a man taped himself being kicked out of a St. Louis City game for wearing a MAGA hat....

Explanation: Taken on July 29 and July 30, a registered and stacked series of exposures creates this dreamlike view of a northern summer night. Multiple firefly flashes streak across the foreground as the luminous Milky Way arcs above the horizon in the Sierra de Órganos national park of central Mexico. The collection of bright streaks aligned across the sky toward the upper left in the timelapse image are Delta Aquariid meteors. Currently active, the annual Delta Aquariid meteor shower shares August nights though, overlapping with the better-known Perseid meteor shower. This year that makes post-midnight, mostly moonless skies in early...

How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?Predictably, the New York Times pooh-poohed the release of the classified annex to the Durham report. Charlie Savage wrote:Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and other Trump allies have declared that a newly declassified report on the Russia investigation provides “evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax.” The reality is almost precisely the opposite… The report shows that a purported email that Trump supporters have long tried to portray as a smoking gun is instead most likely a fake. Russian spies appear to...

We shouldn’t just stop at biological sex differences.In response to the Left’s assault on the reality of sexual differences and its subsequent promotion of transgenderism, the default tactic of many conservatives is to point to biology. Opposing gender confusion, conservatives have emphasized the reality that biological sex is innate and immutable, and males and females are distinguished by reproductive systems and XY/XX chromosomes. They’re right, but sexual differences encompass much more than that.One of the more culturally impactful responses to transgenderism, Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman?, concluded with the answer that a woman is “an adult human female,” the...

Rebukes by the Supreme Court and DC appellate court are not stopping Boasberg's quest to punish the Trump administration for alleged contempt. Now he's the target of complaints of misconduct. Jeb Boasberg is not giving up. Undeterred by recent smackdowns by the Supreme Court and the D.C. appellate court, Boasberg, the Obama-appointed chief judge of the D.C. district court, is preparing to mete out some sort of punishment against the Trump administration for allegedly defying one of his court orders back in March. During a hearing last week in the ACLU’s lawsuit related to the Alien Enemies Act, President Trump’s...

"What if I told you that the Supreme Court just dropped a bombshell that is about to obliterate the Democrat party's chances of ever coming back to national power again?"

Researchers studying prehistoric artifacts believe the earliest evidence of humans recording numbers may lie in simple bone markings made up to 20,000 years ago. The study, led by Lloyd Austin Courtenay and published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, explores how these marks could reveal the origins of numerical thinking. Simple marks, complex meaning The research examines “artificial memory systems,” or AMSs—objects engraved with repeated marks believed to store information outside the human mind. These marks are found on bones, antlers, and sticks dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period. Some artifacts carry hundreds of lines, carefully spaced and organized. Such...

Jeannie Seely, who was one of the longest-serving members in Grand Ole Opry history, died on Friday evening (Aug. 1.) A statement from the star's publicity team announced her death, which was the result of complications from an intestinal infection. The statement also reveals that she had been facing health issues for almost a year, and that those issues ramped up after her husband, Gene Ward, died in December. Seely underwent multiple surgeries for back issues in March 2025, and in April, she was hospitalized and underwent two abdominal surgeries. She subsequently spent 11 days in the ICU and endured...

Ladies and gentlemen the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad debate is over.I kid you not, Lizzo posted this on Instagram: Bro, I don't think she's far off! Though if a Harris administration had any impact on our culture you know that would've been a man in that ad and AE would've also been advertising tuck underwear here.Keep in mind, this is a woman who openly campaigned for Kamala Harris. Man, can you just imagine how dumb our country would be if we were still under Democrat rule?

Officials from the first Trump administration are alleging they received notices from Google shortly before they returned to office that they were being probed by the FBI under the Biden administration and the web giant was unable to tell them because of a court order. Dan Scavino, who is now White House Deputy Chief of Staff and assistant to the president, described the matter as "Biden lawfare" kicking in after he "patriotically and proudly" served during Trump’s first term. "Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related...

By Dr. John BergsmaTexts from the Old and New Testaments remind us that human happiness is not to be found in the accumulation of material goods. Riches are fleeting and empty. We are called instead to “store up treasure in heaven, where neither rust nor moth destroy, where thieves cannot break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19-21). 1. Our First Reading is Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23: Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must...

Stage IV patients paid over $700 more per month in the initial 6 months post-diagnosisA diagnosis of cancer brings substantially higher out-of-pocket costs (OOPCs) for privately insured patients, particularly those with more advanced cancer, researchers found. In a cohort of more than 46,000 patients, an incident cancer diagnosis was associated with a mean increase in OOPCs of $592.53 per month in the 6 months after diagnosis, reported Liam Rose, PhD, of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues. This finding "underscores the financial burden of cancer care on patients with insurance who are not yet...

Several millennia ago during the Trojan War, an army of Greeks built a massive wooden horse, feigned departure and left it as a “gift” outside the walled city of Troy. The Trojans brought the offering — filled, unbeknownst to them, with Greek soldiers — into their fortified city and unwittingly wrought their own downfall. At least that’s how the legend goes. So if an attack disguised as a gift is a Trojan horse, what do you call a gift disguised as an attack? One could argue that the attempted recall of Mayor Karen Bass inadvertently fits the bill.Back in early...

A famously liberal circuit court ruled in President Trump’s favor, authorizing a component of his sweeping effort to assert more control over the federal bureaucracy.A federal appeals court on Friday allowed President Trump to move forward with an order instructing a broad swath of government agencies to end collective bargaining with federal unions.The ruling authorizes a component of Mr. Trump’s sweeping effort to assert more control over the federal work force to move forward, for now, while the case plays out in court.It is unclear what immediate effect the ruling will have: The appeals court noted that the affected agencies...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans move to redraw legislative maps in red states to pad their narrow House majority in Washington, some Democrats are rethinking their embrace of a nonpartisan approach to line-drawing that now complicates their party’s ability to hit back before next year’s midterm elections.In many Democratic-controlled states, independent commissions rather than the state legislature handle redistricting, the normally-once-a-decade task of adjusting congressional and legislative districts so their populations are equal. Parties in the majority can exploit that process to shape their lawmakers’ districts so they are almost guaranteed reelection.Who controls redistricting in the statesCongressional redistricting after the...