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The Maumelle High School player wore the helmet for an hour before noticing movement underneath the padding. Thousands of high school football players across the country are taking the practice field, preparing to kick off the 2026 season in the coming weeks, but one young man in Arkansas recently had a practice experience unlike any other. With the Maumelle High School football team split into position groups during practice, a player noticed there was movement inside his helmet. Obviously, nothing is supposed to be moving inside a football helmet, but when he handed the helmet over to a defensive coach,...

Bill Gates’ “nepo baby” daughter Phoebe Gates, 23, has been accused of “cookie stuffing” at her multibillion-dollar startup, Phia – an illicit practice that comes with a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison, according to reports. Phia – a digital personal shopping assistant co-founded by Gates with fellow Stanford alum Sophia Kianni – reacted with shock in July following reports that it was dropping more web “cookies” than it should, taking undue credit for online sales at retail partners. The company released a statement that it had only learned of the issue “within the last 24 hours,” pledging...

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A former Southern Poverty Law Center finance officer was charged Wednesday for her role in secretly paying informants who participated in white supremacist groups over the past decade. Heidi Beirich made an initial appearance in federal court, according to her defense attorney Michael Proctor. CNN reported that she had been arrested earlier Wednesday. A 26-page superseding indictment naming Beirich, who was first unmasked by The Post in June, was later filed in the Middle District of Alabama. “There is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed at an unrelated news conference at...

When HMS Barham was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-331 in November 1941, a chain of events began that led to a medium being charged and imprisoned under the archaic Witchcraft Act of 1735. The Queen Elizabeth-class battleship had sunk quickly, resulting in the deaths of more than 860 officers and crew members – two-thirds of the ship's company. Following the sinking, during a séance in Portsmouth, Helen Duncan, known as Hellish Nell since childhood and the medium at the centre of this story, claimed to have spoken to the ghost of one of the sailors who perished that...

Republican members of the New Mexico House’s Epstein-related special subcommittee are blasting the panel’s process after they say a reference to Democrat gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland’s 2014 flight aboard an Epstein-connected aircraft was removed from the interim report without their knowledge or approval. Reps. Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis, and Bill Hall, R-Farmington, said Monday that they have “grave reservations” about Chair Andrea Romero’s handling of the panel’s first interim report, citing unilateral changes, shifting drafts, lack of notice to Republican members, and the unexplained removal of information they say all four members had agreed to include. The panel has repeatedly been...

James Talarico is running for Senate as a mainstream Texas Democrat. But a look at his past tells a very different story. After previously using his website to promote some strikingly radical positions and rhetoric, key language has since been scrubbed from the site. So what exactly did Talarico remove — and why? This week on Come & Take It, watch as Sara takes a closer look at James Talarico’s political past, the statements and positions that have disappeared, and then you decide whether he’s trying to rewrite his record as he seeks a bigger political future in Texas. Is...

Violence across two of the world’s most important shipping corridors escalated sharply this week after an attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels killed six people near the Red Sea and U.S. forces separately fired missiles at a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman. The incidents mark another dangerous turn in a conflict that is increasingly threatening global shipping and energy supplies. They also come as oil prices climb and negotiations aimed at restoring normal traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remain stalled. For investors and consumers, the stakes extend well beyond the Middle East. Continued disruption across the Red Sea,...

Today was Scarborough's gaffetastic turn. Praising David Crowley, winner of WI's Dem gubernatorial primary, he described him as coming from a family that had struggled. And that contrasted him with many DSA candidates and members, who, per Joe, come from "good families." So, struggling families, and in Crowley's case, a black family, are not "good families?" The horror! Echoes of Biden’s 2019 gaffe: “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” [snip] Mika closed the segment by promising more on “moderate David Crowley." This exemplifies the liberal media pattern of casting liberal Democratic candidates as...

During Henry’s Kissinger’s famous “Year of Europe” speech in 1973, the then Assistant for National Security affairs observed that, “our values, our goals, and our basic interests are most closely identified with those of Europe.” Indeed, while perhaps Kissinger’s remarks were accurate when taken in the context of Soviet repression and a shared continental commitment to containing the threat, the transatlantic consensus he described has since frayed. Have some East Asian countries moved to take Europe’s place as free speech protectors? Last September, five armed British police officers stood in London’s Heathrow airport, waiting for the arrival of Graham Linehan’s...

Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024 to wind down the much smaller US-led operations against the Islamic State jihadist group in the country. US troops pulled out of bases in most areas of Iraq last year but maintained a presence in the semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region. Bases there have regularly come under attack since the US and Israel launched the war with Iran on February 28. A US official confirmed that the US expects to complete its pullout by September 30, but declined to say how many troops remain in Iraq or where they would be redeployed “The United States,...

Explanation: It looks like a view from the Little Prince's planet. The featured image is a throwback to the 2024 Perseid meteor shower, surrounded in this projection by the Bieszczady Mountains in Poland. Visible in the sky is the arch of the Milky Way, along with several nebulas in red and over a hundred meteors pointing to the radiant. The Perseids are easily visible and quite popular in the Northern Hemisphere summer. (Watching meteor showers in the winter is less convenient for a good reason). This year they are expected to offer an even more dazzling spectacle than usual, because...

A top-ranking member of the Democratic Socialists of America refused to answer how rapists would be brought to justice if the party successfully abolished police and prisons. Dr Frances Gill, a delegate in the political committee, was asked by NBC Los Angeles anchor Conan Nolan what would happen if his daughter was sexually assaulted under a DSA regime, which seeks to defund the police and entirely end the prison system. 'If my daughter is assaulted and raped, is there any agency that would seek to find her assailant and bring him to justice?' Nolan asked. Gill responded that 'of course,'...

A teen sought by authorities after two of his relatives were found dead Tuesday in Acton, Massachusetts, has been charged with murder, and investigators say he was using artificial intelligence to make searches about the killing of his family, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan initially said Tuesday that authorities were looking for 17-year-old Arjun Aravind, who lives in the Martha Lane house and was unaccounted for after a woman and male teenager were discovered dead there just after 6:30 p.m. He was found early Tuesday morning and taken into custody in Wayland.

Residents of an affluent Utah community are furious over a proposal to dramatically raise property taxes just months after their new city was formed. The proposal has particularly angered residents because they voted to create Ogden Valley City after being told it could support itself without raising taxes. Nearly 68 percent of voters backed incorporation in November 2024, according to KSL, and the city officially formed on January 2. Ahead of the vote, an independent feasibility study commissioned through the Utah Lieutenant Governor's Office projected the city could maintain services with at least a five percent budget surplus and would...

With about three months remaining in the midterm campaign, it’s become time for the most desperate partisan gamesmanship, as our socialist-friendly media engage in helping the Democrats win. Do not recognize the “independent media” and the “independent fact-checkers” as the referees of this campaign. These elitists should be identified as uniformed players for the Democrat team, since the following are their apparent rules of campaign communication: 1. Republicans can’t call Democrats “communists.” This applies even if you make campaign appearances with someone like Hasan Piker, who thinks mass-murdering communist Mao Zedong is “one of the great leaders of this world."...

What if the Migrant Invasion of Ceuta Is Only the Beginning? Considering Spain’s late response and the EU’s vain squabbling, there is every reason to worry that the migrant invasion of Ceuta will happen again.When people saw the videos of a horde of North African migrants storming the Spanish-held peninsula of Ceuta, many immediately recalled a famous scene from the film World War Z where a horde of zombies mount a border wall and flood one of the last remaining uninfected cities. Here was a real-life violent invasion of heedless military-aged men stampeding through a small, vulnerable Spanish town, resulting...

The Ottoman Jihad - Turkey's Genocide: The Systematic Annihilation of 2.5 Million Christians (1914–1923) Between 1914 and 1923, successive Ottoman and Turkish nationalist regimes carried out a systematic campaign of extermination against the empire’s Christian minorities. Driven by an ethnonationalist ideology aimed at homogenising Anatolia, the authorities executed these campaigns through direct massacres, forced labour battalions, weaponised starvation, and brutal death marches. The collective human toll of these coordinated operations is estimated by international historical consensus to include approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000 Assyrians, and 750,000 Greeks: Armenians (1.5 Million): Representing the vast majority of the pre-war Armenian population, these...

South Carolina Republicans will return to the polls on August 25 for a runoff that will determine the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham. Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Darline Graham Nordone emerged from a crowded Republican field on Tuesday, with Graham Nordone finishing first and Norman advancing in second place. Graham Nordone received roughly 33 percent of the vote, while Norman finished with approximately 24 percent. The result sets up a two-candidate showdown and gives South Carolina Republicans another opportunity to decide who should represent the Palmetto State in...

Paramount boss David Ellison is considering moving CBS News out of the Big Apple as his legal battle with New York and California’s attorneys general is heating up, The Post has learned. One point of leverage for Ellison is potentially moving his news operations out of New York City as California AG Rob Bonta leads a coalition of 12 lefty states in an effort to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, people close to Paramount told The Post on Wednesday. Pulling CBS News from the city would mark a seismic change to the local media landscape —...