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LOS ANGELES—Spencer Pratt knows he doesn’t need to be universally liked. At an annual tennis invitational and white party at a billionaire’s Beverly Hills mansion last weekend, the reality TV villain and mayoral hopeful marveled at his potential path to victory. “It’s pretty incredible you can become the mayor with only 51% of people liking you. I’m like, ‘I can do that,’” Pratt told the crowd. The 42-year-old rose to millennial fame as the dark prince of “The Hills,” playing the love interest of his now-wife, Heidi Montag. He provoked conflict with fellow cast members and was seen by fans...

The Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions from the October 2025 this morning at 10:00.Scotusblog will be liveblogging the release and we will be following along.There are 33 decisions pending for this term and we expect all opinions will be released by June 30th. You can find a list of the cases here. Note: The word "held" after the case name indicates the Opinion has already been released. The word "Issues" indicates the questions to be be resolved by the Court.There are several big cases on which we are awaiting decisions. Trump v Slaughter.(1) Whether the statutory removal protections for...

Federal prosecutors have filed the first criminal fraud case connected to Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program against a woman already charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Fahima Egeh Mahamud now faces one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States after she allegedly received millions in CCAP funds without collecting required co-payments from parents. In February, Mahamud was charged with wire fraud for her alleged involvement in the $250 million Feeding Our Future meal fraud scheme. According to charging documents, all of Mahamud’s purported fraud activity came through her business, Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis. During...

These figures are based on annualized data from January to November 2025, compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and reported by Visual Capitalist and other sources. The United States is the world’s largest oil producer, followed by Russia and Saudi Arabia, with the top 10 countries supplying over 70% of global crude oil.United States 16.1%Russia 11.7%Saudi Arabia 11.3%Canada 5.9%Iraq 5.2%China 5.1%Iran 5.0%United Arab Emirates 4.5%Brazil 4.4%Kuwait 3.1%

After 40 years, police made an arrest in the rape and stabbing death of Roberta Walls. Charles Randall Berry, the 66-year-old suspect, was arrested Monday in Newington, Connecticut. Virginia Beach police said advancements in technology combined with investigative work helped detectives solve the case. ... In the spring of 1986, the body of Walls, a 22-year-old volunteer at the Bayside Area Library, was found on a baseball field behind Old Donation School, near Independence Boulevard north of Town Center.

The flavanols (a type of polyphenol) in this type of cacao are shown in studies to improve heart health, lower blood pressure, boost blood flow throughout the body, improve blood sugar, and even improve your gut health by diversifying your microbiome. (Earth Echo Foods ) ============================================================== There’s an indigenous group of people called the Kuna in Panama that are a fascinating story in longevity as well as stellar cardiovascular health, and lack of metabolic diseases like diabetes, etc. The Kuna people drink an average of 5 cups of a type of cocoa every day, and they have 9x lower rates...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson went after all eight of her judicial colleagues Monday over the Voting Rights Act case of Louisiana v. Callais. She suggested that the court acted politically by speeding up the case’s final ruling so that Louisiana would have time to craft a new map for the upcoming midterm elections. “It can so easily be perceived that the court is doing something political,” the Biden appointee said while speaking at the American Law Institute, according to ABC News. “In my view, we have to be really, really careful in this environment when we’re dealing with...

The co-director of Camp Mystic Guadalupe River, where 27 campers and staffers died in last summer's flooding tragedy, has had her nursing license suspended as a result of her alleged actions. According to the document temporarily revoking her license, Mary Liz Eastland is charged with numerous infractions, including abandonment of children. Camp Mystic nursing license revoked What we know: Eastland, who co-directs the riverside portion of the camp with her husband, Edward Eastland, has temporarily lost her ability to practice as a registered nurse after an order was handed down by the Texas Board of Nursing on Tuesday, May 19....

Radical Democrat Mayor Karen Bass just admitted on camera that she’s willing to hand voting rights to non-citizens in Los Angeles. Bass responded to a question about far-left Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez’s push to let non-citizens vote in local elections by declaring: “Well, I think we need to explore it.” The exchange, which took place during a Politico California Playbook discussion, laid bare the Democrats’ desperate endgame. Soto-Martínez, who has endorsed Bass, wants to rewrite the city charter to allow non-citizens – including those here illegally – to cast ballots in city council and school board races. Bass didn’t shut it...

21 May 2026 Thursday of the 7th week of Eastertide St Godric, Durham City, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingActs 22:30,23:6-11'You have borne witness in Jerusalem: now you must do the same in Rome'Since the tribune wanted to know what precise charge the Jews were bringing, he freed Paul and gave orders for a meeting of the chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin; then he brought Paul down and stood him in front of them. Now Paul was well aware that one section was made up of Sadducees and the other of Pharisees, so he called out...

Trump understands finance and economics. Trump knows that China is doubling down on their path to economic doom. I’ve come to believe that he is humoring the Chinese to get good trade deals for America, knowing that China is struggling to stave off their coming financial crash. We have read about China building, and sustaining, its rapidly growing economy with huge spending on government financed projects. These projects are often large infrastructure and urban housing projects. All governments do this. China’s mistake is doing it on a gigantic scale by continuing to print money it doesn’t have. This creates a...

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In an interview today with Chris Marcus of Arcadia Economics, Money Metals Exchange CEO Stefan Gleason deplores the superficiality with which the issue of auditing the U.S. gold reserve at Fort Knox continues to be treated by the Trump administration and financial news organizations. The audits claimed to have been done by the U.S. government, Gleason says, have not really been audits at all but just a review of paperwork that itself has been improperly altered from time to time. In any case, Gleason says, much of the U.S. gold reserve is impure metal,...

Remember "Bad moon rising" or that song by CCR. I had the 45, so that tells you how old I am. The lyrics go like this: I see the bad moon a-rising I see trouble on the way Of course, John Fogerty was not talking about the 2026 Democrats back then but the message may apply. In other words, maybe the Democrats need to check their extreme impulses or face skeptical voters in November. Let's check out what Thomas Edsall warned about in the New York Times: Despite the collapse of support for President Trump -- whose unfavorable ratings have...

An illegal immigrant truck driver was arrested Tuesday after allegedly causing a deadly multi-vehicle crash in California and attempting to flee the scene, federal officials said. The undocumented immigrant from India, Manvir Singh, instantly killed two people near Lodi, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleged.

Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country's near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian sources said, hardening Tehran's stance on one of the main U.S. demands at peace talks.Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's order could further frustrate U.S. President Donald Trump and complicate talks on ending the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli officials have told Reuters that Trump has assured Israel that Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, needed to make an atomic weapon, will be sent out of Iran and that any peace deal must include a clause on this. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

At 0.016 seconds after the atomic detonation, the fireball was already hundreds of meters wide. The tiny squares to the left and right in this image are billboards 200 meters from the center of the explosion. Los Alamos National Laboratory.Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a gloomy stretch of desert in the Jornada del Muerto...

A A Reset The twelve apostles included "Thomas" (Matt. 10:3). Jesus can replace your doubts with hope. When Jesus was crucified, Thomas was shattered. He loved Jesus deeply and wanted always to be with Him. He was willing even to die with Him, but now his greatest fear had been realized: Jesus was gone. Thomas was not with the other disciples when Jesus appeared to them after His resurrection. John 20:25 says, "The other disciples therefore were saying to [Thomas], 'We have seen the Lord!' But he said to them, 'Unless I shall see in His hands the imprint of...

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The High Court of Justice ruled unanimously on Wednesday against a petition by an association of 19 international aid organizations against new security regulations imposed by the government, asserting that state agencies are entitled to require strict security checks to ensure foreign organizations are not connected to terror groups. Thirty-seven organizations refused to comply with the new rules, saying doing so would endanger their employees and violate international law. The licenses of the organizations were subsequently revoked earlier this year. Among the 37 organizations are multiple branches of Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam, the Danish and Norwegian Refugee Councils, Caritas...

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