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On August 25, 1976, Boston released its self-titled debut album. The band’s founding members who toured to support Boston were Tom Scholz, Brad Delp, John ‘Sib’ Hashian, Barry Goudreau, and Fran Sheehan. However, the legendary album was mostly recorded in a home studio by musical mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Scholz and lead vocalist Delp. The record featured several hit songs that became radio staples, including “More Than a Feeling,” “Peace of Mind,” “Foreplay/Long Time,” and “Rock & Roll Band.” Still, Boston is often highlighted as an album that is fantastic from start to finish for good reason. Brad Delp’s powerful voice,...

Multiple people were killed, including children, after a madman opened fire at a house in Montana before setting the property ablaze. Cops were called to the house in Billings just after 6 p.m. Sunday after reports of a shooting and a family disturbance, reported the Billings Gazette. Officers arrived some 10 minutes later and heard gunfire from the back of the house, according to police. They saw a man in the backyard of the already-smoking house, and then heard more gunfire. Just three minutes later, the home was engulfed in flames, severely hampering rescue efforts, according to Billings Police Department...

The Norman Cathedral in Peterborough, known in part for being the resting place of Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, has announced a voluntary £6 entry donation, due to fears it could "go bust". "Visitors are welcome to give whatever they can - or nothing at all. The cathedral remains open to everyone, regardless of their ability to donate," a spokesperson has said. The news received a mixed response. Some visitors support the idea to "help with the upkeep and preserve it" for the future, while others believe the amount could discourage others from visiting. But what...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is pushing to radically rewrite his state’s health code to give his administration authoritarian police powers as he seeks re-election. The Democrat’s proposed change would give Pennsylvania’s Department of Health centralized police powers under the guise of “disease control measures,” including the ability to enter homes and schools without a warrant, access confidential medical records, and impose statewide school mask mandates for disease prevention. The Department of Health reports to the governor’s office, meaning this change would give Shapiro — and his successors — the ability to single-handedly implement draconian policies across the state. “The administration’s...

Lansing—Democratic members of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted Monday against certifying the Americans for Citizen Voting initiative, leaving the proposed constitutional amendment to require proof of citizenship off the November ballot after a contentious debate. The four-member board deadlocked 2-2, with Republican members Chair Richard Houskamp and Paul Cordes voting to certify the petition and Democratic members Vice Chair Mary Ellen Gurewitz and Heather Cummings voting against certification. Since the Board has four members in order to have a petition certified there must be at least three members who vote for it. The initiative needed 629 valid signatures...

The two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is reportedly “planning” her husband Bill’s funeral as the former president struggles with his health. Hillary, 78, has allegedly started making plans for an elaborate memorial service for her husband, who turned 80 on August 19. Indeed, the massive service will take place at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Insiders say that it will have a traditional funeral mass. “All current living presidents have plans in the works for a state funeral,” Elizabeth Hargrove, a spokesperson for the church, told Radar Online. Bill will then be buried at the William J....

Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has released explosive security footage that he says shows longtime Elections Office employees deliberately bypassing badge readers to enter secure election rooms without leaving their names in the official access logs. Now, instead of aggressively investigating the alleged security breaches, county bureaucrats have publicly rebuked Curtis, employee unions have issued votes of no confidence, and the embattled election official is facing demands that he resign. According to reporting by Elisa Ballard of Shasta Unfiltered, the footage, presented by Curtis during an August 19 appearance on Catherine Engelbrecht’s True the Vote podcast, shows one...

Summary Company Announcement Date: August 22, 2026 FDA Publish Date: August 22, 2026 Product Type: Food & Beverages Reason for Announcement: Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) Company Name: Everything Sprouts, LLC Brand Name: Everything Sprouts, Calco Product Description: Alfalfa Sprouts Company Announcement Everything Sprouts, LLC, based in Minneapolis, MN is recalling certain lots of Alfalfa Sprouts because it has the potential to be contaminated with Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) or Salmonella bacteria. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are organisms that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly...

More than half (58%) of Generation Z and Millennial participants with 401(k) plans expect their personal retirement accounts to be their main source of income in retirement.

Americans for Citizen Voting Chairman Paul Jacob: 'You can't cheat the people of Michigan and get away with it' =================================================================== Lansing—Democratic members of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted Monday against certifying the Americans for Citizen Voting initiative, leaving the proposed constitutional amendment to require proof of citizenship off the November ballot after a contentious debate. The four-member board deadlocked 2-2, with Republican members Chair Richard Houskamp and Paul Cordes voting to certify the petition and Democratic members Vice Chair Mary Ellen Gurewitz and Heather Cummings voting against certification. Since the Board has four members in order to have...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responded to questions on whether he wants to replace the 2nd Amendment by saying that people are more worried about healthcare before saying he’s “perfectly okay with people having their hunting rifles.” Host Jesse Watters asked, “You also said this: You want to replace the right to bear arms with the right to healthcare. You don’t want to replace the 2nd Amendment, do you?” El-Sayed responded, “Well, look, man, I think more people are more worried about whether or not they can see...

Back in June, the Justice Department approved the Paramount deal to buy Warner Bros., a merger that would give David Ellison control over not just Warner Bros. but CNN and HBO Max, too. The merger is happening because Warner Bros. cannot stand on its own anymore, but the Left isn't happy about this. They think Ellison, who has worked with President Trump in the past, will allow some sort of weird MAGA influence over the network. Advertisement In July, 12 states moved to block the merger, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, citing concerns about a "reduction in competition" and...

A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the US Capitol while calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was officially criminally charged Monday for his comments, according to a charging document his attorney shared with CNN. Maj. Jason Watson faces the following charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the document: three violations of Article 88 for alleged “contemptuous” remarks about Trump, five violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders and two violations of Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer. The rare Article 88 charges are connected to...

It's almost too easy to take a swipe at the hypocrisy of the Democratic Socialists of America. I'm not kidding about that. I seriously debated with myself about whether it is even worth it to write about how just about every DSA leader turns out to be a nepo-baby cosplaying as a working-class person before going home to their parent-purchased or subsidized luxury home. f the DSA had remained an obscure political party with little relevance, I wouldn't have written about this phenomenon, but the line between the DSA and the Democratic Party is blurred. The DSA may see itself...

The NYPD on Monday said no busts have yet been made involving the “mole people’’ who climbed from a manhole just feet from the main entrance to Penn Station last week — terrifying the public. “I just immediately thought, reconnaissance, 9/11,” said an Arizona tourist named Mark to The Post in packed Herald Square in Manhattan. “If you’re an Iranian soldier, you need to cripple New York City? Under Penn Station? Under Madison Square Garden? Aren’t all the train lines crisscrossing here?” A trio of underground scofflaws was caught on video around 4:20 a.m. Aug. 18 wearing headlamps and overalls...

MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. military transport plane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport ​on Tuesday, data from the flight ‌tracking service Flightradar24 showed. The large Boeing Globemaster with the U.S. registered tail number 07-7181 had flown ​direct from Riga, in Latvia, and ​landed in Moscow at around 0700 ⁠GMT. The Kremlin said ​it had no information on the plane. The aircraft had arrived in Riga on August 23 from the ​U.S. Camp Springs airbase near Washington DC, ​data from Flightradar24 showed.

President Trump floated the possibility of rebranding Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” in a shot across the bow against Canada’s most populous province — whose premier threatened to cut off electricity and minerals to the US. “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump declared on Truth Social Tuesday. On his very first day back in the Oval Office last year, Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America,...

President Donald Trump floated renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Tuesday as the U.S. and Canada’s trade dispute continued to escalate after negotiations with his administration collapsed. “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Shortly afterward, Trump also denied rumors that he would interfere with Canadians speaking French. “I would never interfere with Canadians speaking French! In fact, I have never even thought of doing such a stupid thing,” he wrote. “This...

LGBTQ officers in the intelligence community who claimed to have been “silenced or purged” by the Trump administration are seemingly plotting their return to intelligence roles, according to HUMINT founder and intelligence correspondent Sasha Ingber. Ingber wrote in the Substack post that she recently attended a “resignation party soiree” at a gay karaoke bar in Virginia, which was partly celebrating former CIA analyst Julia Curlee. Curlee previously was the first-ever CIA officer to openly transition and remain serving in the role until she was laid off earlier on in President Donald Trump’s second term, PBS News reported. The invitation for...

"Appellant and some amici argue that the woman's right is absolute and that she is entitled to terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever way, and for whatever reason she alone chooses. With this we do not agree." — Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe, in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), there has been much discussion about "codifying Roe" in state law. But the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, signed by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Aug. 12, goes far beyond what the Supreme Court...