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Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico made a surprise appearance at the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival on Friday, ending nearly two weeks of speculation about his whereabouts after a flu diagnosis kept him off the campaign trail and sparked ridicule from Republicans, including President Donald Trump and GOP rival Ken Paxton. The Texas Democrat, who is running against Paxton for U.S. Senate, returned after Republicans spent days mocking his absence from the campaign trail, with Trump declaring Talarico "MISSING IN ACTION" and demanding he debate the GOP nominee.

Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle begged a major MAGA donor to pay her $100,000 credit card bill days before her confirmation hearing to be ambassador to Greece, stunning text messages show. “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” the 57-year-old ex-Fox News host implored former Kentucky congressional candidate Eric Deters in a July 3, 2025, Signal message reported by The Wall Street Journal. Guilfoyle followed that up with a praying hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from the credit card giant. “You could just send it here,” she told Deters. “It...

Seven fake journalists. Nearly 100 articles. At least 20 publications. How an Iranian influence operation turned fabricated writers into published, searchable voices in the American press... ...Seven Journalists Who Weren’t Journalists OpenAI identified seven fabricated identities: Ervin B. Hoskins, Noah Lamington, Sophia Gonzalez, Michael Harrison, Ericka Feusier, Jenny Williams, and Alice Johnson. Their biographies described Western freelance writers and analysts interested in foreign policy, international affairs, human rights, and the Middle East. Most supposedly lived in the United States, while Lamington was presented as a writer based in New Zealand.

A Cedar Rapids woman believes police targeted her and another protester last week. Annya Mari said she's been protesting ICE for the past 20 years and was slammed to the ground by the Cedar Rapids Police Department outside the building where ICE check-ins are held. She was charged with harassment of a public official and interference with official acts. (snip) Mari said she was just there to accompany migrants to their check-ins and document cars coming in and out of the building. Video of the interaction shows CRPD claiming the advocates were obstructing government vehicles. Those standing around deny that...

Voices From Vietnam@VoicesfromNam·1hFebruary 24, 1969. Night. An AC-47 gunship, call sign Spooky 71, is circling over Long Binh, firing on Viet Cong attacking the Army post below.In the back, 23-year-old Airman First Class John Levitow is filling in for the regular loadmaster. His job is to arm magnesium flares, 27-pound canisters that burn at 4,000 degrees, and hand them to the gunner to throw out the open cargo door.The gunner is holding one with his finger through the pull ring when an 82mm mortar shell hits the right wing and explodes.Shrapnel rips through the cabin. Everyone in the back is...

A new poll released by the group Interactive Polls shows the Republican candidate leading in nine of the key 2026 Senate races that will decide which political party will have the majority next year in the upper chamber. The group, a non-partisan aggregator of polls, news, prediction markets & election results, shows in its poll released Thursday: Incumbent Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall leading by 5 pointsIncumbent Nebraska GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts leading by 5 pointsIncumbent Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan leading by 2 pointsIncumbent Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins leading by 2 pointsIncumbent Ohio GOP Sen. John Husted leading...

La Brújula Verde reports that a camp used by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers has been found just underneath artifacts left by the first farmers of the Neolithic period in intact archaeological layers in Tina Jama, a mountain cave on the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Federico Bernardini of Ca’ Foscari University, Elena Leghissa of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and their colleagues suggest that farmers arrived in the region some 7,500 years ago. Prior to the arrival of farming in the region, hunter-gatherers built a hearth in the most sheltered part of the cave. They also closed off the...

Former professional boxer Mike Tyson popped up at the White House on Friday, briefly speaking to reporters in the West Wing briefing room and pledging support for President Trump. Tyson told reporters he was asked by the White House to travel with Trump to Syracuse, N.Y., for a rally the president is slated to host there. The boxer laughed when journalists in the briefing room asked him what he and Trump planned to talk about and prompted a White House staffer to jokingly interject “no tough questions,” as people in the room laughed. Asked how Republicans would fare in the...

According to a report in La Brújula Verde, a bronze signet ring engraved with an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria has been recovered from the submerged island of Antirhodos, in what was Alexandria’s Eastern Harbor, by a team from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology. The ring could have been used to press a raised image of the lighthouse into wax or soft clay in order to seal letters or amphoras, or to validate documents. Hisham El-Leithy of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the image of the lighthouse resembles depictions of...

TULSA, Okla. - The Ella Langley concert scheduled for Friday night at Tulsa’s BOK Center has been canceled after Langley’s team called off the show following a false bomb threat call, according to Tulsa police. Officers said they conducted a preliminary sweep with K-9 officers and found no indication of a threat. Tulsa police said they did not advise the BOK Center or the artist’s team to cancel the concert. “We could not find anything that would make that a credible threat,” Tulsa Police Department Captain Richard Meulenberg said. “So we advised the concert folks here, not the BOK, but...

As Russia's attacks on Ukraine's cities intensify and autumn's cooler temperatures hint at another tough winter to come, Ukrainians are wrestling with how to meet the twin challenges ahead: Russian drone and missile strikes and the biting cold. "It was a very difficult winter last year in Kyiv," says mother of two Mariia Shostak, who is now packing her bags and leaving her small flat. With prolonged periods of sub-zero temperatures and frequent power cuts brought about by Russia's attack on the country's power grid, last winter was one of the hardest so far. "There were some days and weeks...

Being raped by an asylum seeker, German women?Well, try this: Just yak! That'll get the Third World rapist off you!This story is out of the northern German city of Bremen.From ZeroHedge:Franka Haedke, a spokeswoman for the Bremen police, said the guidance is part of broader self-defense instruction offered by the department's Central Police Prevention unit.'In an emergency, such as attempted rape, defend yourself with all available means,' Haedke told the Kreiszeitung newspaper. 'Vomiting can also be an effective way to ward off a sexual offense.'Seminar instructors tell participants they can trigger a gag reflex by placing a finger down the...

Trade between Russia and Iran grew by more than 21 per cent in 2025, with positive growth continuing in the first seven months of 2026, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Putin said this during a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Turkmenbashi, where the leaders discussed bilateral cooperation under their strategic partnership agreement. He said the agreement, signed in early 2025, provided a framework for expanding cooperation across various sectors and strengthening economic ties between the two countries. Putin also highlighted growing humanitarian ties, including cultural exchanges and other joint activities organised in both countries. Pezeshkian reaffirmed Iran’s...

That spending increase was primarily driven by entitlement programs, the military, and interest payments on the national debt. The CBO notes that Social Security spending increased by 5 percent last year due to "increases in average benefits and in the number of beneficiaries." There was an 8 percent increase in spending on both Medicare and Medicaid, while military spending increased by 5 percent.

A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie’s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of £300,000–£500,000 ($396,000–$661,000). The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soames, who then donated it in 1995 to the Churchill Fellowship. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support Churchill Fellowship’s “Making Space for the...

The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located. Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France’s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these “two paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city’s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their recovery is a tremendous relief for the people of Cagnes-sur-Mer and for everyone who cares deeply about our museum.” Related Articles...

Mike Ditka, the legendary former Chicago Bears coach and first tight end ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 86, his family announced Friday. Ditka rose to national prominence leading the 1985 Bears, a team that boasted arguably the greatest defense in NFL history, to the franchise's only Super Bowl title. "It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka," his family said in a statement. "While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican theologian urges ‘new ways of being’ family, Church at Amoris summit Professor Vincenzo Rosito of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences praised the 'spirit' of Amoris Laetitia and the 'changes' within the Church and family. Professor Vincenzo Rosito, the Vice Dean of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, asked attendees in an address to the ongoing Amoris Laetitia Summit, which praised the 10-year spirit of Pope Francis’ 2016 document, to ponder what is needed to learn new ways of “being a family” and “being a...

The alleged Flydubai hijacker had planned to crash the plane into Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and was inspired by the 9/11 attacks, a preliminary investigation has found. Hamam al-Hammami, the suspect in the hijacking attempt and co-pilot on board last week’s flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, wanted to carry out a similar attack to September 11, 2001, which led him to pursue an aviation career, according to a statement from the United Arab Emirates’ Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi shared by Emirati state media. “The idea of carrying out a similar operation using an aircraft became...