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'Love & Hip-Hop: New York' star Sidney Starr has been arrested and charged with numerous felony offenses 'related to an alleged sexual assault involving a juvenile.' Starr, 37 - real name Sidney Favors - has been charged with sexual battery against a child under 16, aggravated child molestation, and sodomy, according to jail records. She was arrested on August 2 after police conducted an investigation into an 'incident' at the Embassy Suites in Hapeville, Georgia and remains in custody. In a statement obtained by The Daily Mail, the Hapeville Police Department refrained from sharing further details about the case due...

In the autumn of 1982, a particularly recorded single appeared that projected the optimism of the 1950s into the future with an ironic gaze. “I.G.Y.” by Donald Fagen referred to the International Geophysical Year, a scientific collaboration project of sixty-seven countries that ran from July 1957 to December 1958. While most artists in that period embraced the synthesiser era with flashy new wave and electronic disco, Fagen chose a polished, jazz-inspired production that offered a reflection on lost dreams. The title stood for International Geophysical Year, but mainly imagined a world in which technology would solve all problems. The single...

A majority of Americans still support same-sex 'marriage,' but a new poll reaffirms a notable decline over the past few years.

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Sarah: Liturgy wars ‘a true and proper sin’ 'No one has authority over the rites, which are born from the centuries-old history of the Church,' said Cardinal Sarah in a new interview.Cardinal Robert Sarah has said that divisions over the liturgy are “a true and proper sin” and called for co-existence of the Novus Ordo and the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM).In an interview with Matteo Matzuzzi, editor-in-chief of Il Foglio, Sarah said that the Catholic Church in the West is going through “a time of great difficulty, even of confusion” and called for a liturgical peace like...

What Abdul El-Sayed proposes is a single-payer system nothing like the program for the elderly. A friend recently observed that many young, relatively affluent people in his New York City neighborhood—which voted heavily for Zohran Mamdani—dress like hobos and sport Carhartt workwear. Call it socialist chic. The sartorial style is also an apt metaphor for patrician progressives who feign solidarity with the proletariat. Consider Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing front-runner in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary this Tuesday. Mr. El-Sayed has surged to the lead against Rep. Haley Stevens by presenting himself as a man of the people. He has called for...

[Catholic Caucus] More Extraordinary Gaslighting: Cardinal Roche on the Traditional Latin Mass Yet AgainAn analysis of the Cardinal’s spurious claims made in the new London Tablet interviewVATICAN CITY, 31 July 2026 — Repeating a lie may convince a man of what he wishes to believe, but it doesn’t make it any more true.In a new widely circulated interview with The Tablet, Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has once again claimed that the traditional Roman liturgy is readily available for Catholics who wish to attend it, and that if anyone...

The sea between Cuba and Florida has been more than a geographic dividing line—it’s been a graveyard for untold lives escaping communism. On one shore were families who had little more than hope. On the other stood a nation founded 250 years ago on the principle that government derives its just powers from the consent of the people. That promise endured because the founders understood that declaring liberty was not enough. Liberty had to be protected from those who govern. From that wisdom came the Constitution: divided powers, independent courts, competing branches, lawful elections and rights no temporary majority could...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — A new Pennsylvania law will eliminate felony charges for prostitutes who knowingly had HIV at the time. Rep. Ben Waxman (D-Philadelphia), who co-sponsored the legislation to change the law, described it as "outdated" and "inhumane." "Today, HIV is a manageable condition that can be treated and controlled with medication," Waxman said in a release. "With a regimen of antiretroviral therapy, people with HIV can live long, productive and healthy lives and reduce transmission. We cannot criminalize anyone for their health status; it’s simply inhumane." The old law was able to elevate a misdemeanor prostitution charge to...

Airlines have been warned the UK's second largest airport is facing a fuel shortage, sparking fears of severe disruption during the summer holidays. Gatwick Airport issued an alert to pilots instructing them to load up fuel at other airports where possible while en-route to the airport. The memo sent out to carriers stated, "Gatwick has a shortage of fuel for the next two days" and added, "Please uplift max possible fuel at outstations", The Sun on Sunday reports. Elsewhere, a second "emergency" alert told airline chiefs of "potential disruption to the Gatwick fuel supply". It is understood the warning is...

Aaron Rodgers unleashed at 'coward' and 'criminal' Anthony Fauci in a no-holds-barred appearance on Pat McAfee's ESPN show on Monday. Rodgers, who has long been a vaccine skeptic and was extremely outspoken about the Covid-19 pandemic, didn't hold back as he eviscerated Fauci in the wake of his decision to continuously plead the fifth amendment in a hostile senate hearing. As he arrived on set, Rodgers appeared to ask how long the broadcast had left on ESPN, with McAfee responding that they had 'a hard out' after just eight minutes. That, seemingly, was all the fuel Rodgers needed as he...

It's been eight days since two gunmen opened fire at the Bite of Seattle food festival on July 26, killing two and injuring four others, including a toddler. In the immediate aftermath, serious questions were raised about the city's response to the attack, specifically about the fitness of its socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, and the whereabouts of its AWOL police chief, Shon Barnes. From RedState's coverage last week: As RedState has previously reported, crime is so bad under Wilson's watch that residents have begun putting up walls and other kinds of barriers to keep criminals out of their neighborhoods. And...

Since her days as a public defender in Utah, Noella Sudbury has been obsessed with solving a problem: How do you help someone with a criminal record get a job? ... That led to an idea. What if she could access all of the information the background check companies use? "Could I build an app? Could I use technology to reduce my time?" she remembers thinking. "I just believed it was possible." Speeding up record clearance to help secure jobs Now, amid a barrage of news about AI-related layoffs at tech companies like Uber and Meta and widespread fear that...

Key Takeaways 1 California is now importing 20% of its gasoline from Asian refineries as it continues to close refineries in the most populous state. 2 In just seven months, California has lost about 17% of its refining capacity with the closure of two refineries, and product imports are up 38% this year. 3 Gasoline prices are about $1.60 per gallon higher than the national average because of state taxes, fees, and other penalties, but the situation could get worse, as Asia is particularly dependent on Middle East oil, which is sidelined due to the Iranian conflict. 4 A domestic...

Aaron Rodgers is playing under head coach Mike McCarthy, with whom he won a Super Bowl as members of the Green Bay Packers. Only this time, Rodgers and McCarthy are employed by the Pittsburgh Steelers. From there, things went off the rails. "I'm going to plead the Fifth," Rodgers responded, referencing former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth over 100 times in a recent congressional hearing. "That absolute coward, Tony Fauci," Rodgers went on. "Absolute coward. Yeah. Are you kidding me? "You got a pardon and you pleaded over 100 times...

President Donald Trump said Monday that ExxonMobiland Chevron made “too much money” on rising curde oil prices due to the Iran war.“They’re making too much money based on a shortage,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I don’t like it.”

A Canadian nonprofit’s website that mails abortion pills to women worldwide will stay blocked in Korea after a Seoul court ruled that the government’s ban was not unlawful, according to legal sources on Saturday. The Seoul Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Women on Web against the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), seeking to overturn the regulator’s corrective order ㅑon June 12. The block is “hard to see as unlawful because Women on Web’s provision of abortion pills that were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea violated the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act,” the court said. It therefore...

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Iranians have adopted a new sport in the past few years: knocking the turban from a passing cleric’s head. There are points for technique and for how high and how far you can get their headgear to go. These are small acts of revenge against a hated religious elite who came to power on a wave of arrests and torture and who, as recently as January, ordered thousands of peaceful protesters to be shot in the streets. It’s also a symptom of something larger. Political Islam is in retreat across the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. “The strange...

Last week, I was invited to join a program hosted by an independent Iranian media platform called Azad, which specializes in facilitating debates between policy experts in Iran and further abroad. My debate was with Majid Shakeri, who gained prominence as a foreign policy advisor to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (the current speaker of the country’s parliament) during Ghalibaf’s most recent presidential campaign. Shakeri was also part of the negotiating team that went to Islamabad earlier this year to hammer out the (now-moribund) MOU with the United States. These days, when you listen to Shakeri’s interviews, you will hear him insist...

Colorado citizens legalized assisted suicide by approving Proposition 106 in 2016 which came into effect in 2017. In 2024, Colorado passed assisted suicide Bill SB 068 expanding their assisted suicide law by: permitting non-physicians to prescribe the assisted suicide poison, reducing the waiting period from 15 days to 48 hours and allowing the 48 hour waiting period to be waived if the presciber believes that the person is imminently dying. The 2025 Colorado assisted suicide report states that: In 2025, 580 patients received prescriptions for aid-in-dying medications under the provisions of the Colorado End-of-Life Options Act. This represents a 12.4%...