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A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientist won a legal victory this week after losing his position following sexual misconduct allegations made by a female colleague. Dr. David Sabatini, a former MIT biology professor and prominent biomedical researcher, was awarded $6 million in damages Friday after a jury found that his former colleague, Dr. Kristin Knouse, had defamed him. SNIP In 2021, Sabatini lost his position at Whitehead following an internal investigation into allegations made by Dr. Kristin Knouse, a younger colleague who worked at the institute. The pair met in 2012 and began a sexual relationship in 2018,...

30 October 2026 Friday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St. Alphonsus R. C. Church, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, UK Readings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingPhilippians...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed over their controversial comments about Israel, declaring their positions “wrong” and insisting they don’t represent the Democratic Party in Congress. Pelosi, 86, delivered the rebuke during an appearance on Donny Deutsch’s “On Brand” podcast Thursday, after the Jewish host pressed the longtime California Democrat about growing concerns over antisemitism within the party. Deutsch specifically questioned how Jewish Americans could continue supporting Democrats when prominent members of the party have refused to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. “When...

America’s medical schools do not train enough doctors, creating a growing shortage of quality physicians. This shortage is widely recognized and lamented, but the cause of the problem is often misdiagnosed. Observers from all ends of the political spectrum blame Congress, which “capped” subsidies for medical residencies in 1997. In reality, there are simply not enough U.S. medical school graduates. Medical schools, not residencies, are the real bottleneck restricting the supply of quality physicians. After completing medical school, doctors are hired as residents, typically by hospitals, to complete the training that states require for licensure. But there have always been...

Democrats squirmed when Donald Trump accused them of fraud in the 2024 elections. It seemed almost comical that they would insist there were no irregularities, no cheating, no fraud. It was obvious, it was blatant, it was in your face. We saw pictures of men and women stuffing collection boxes with ballots. We were told not to believe our lying eyes. But people of the truth believe the truth, no matter how they find it. Perhaps it seems comical to them. Now, we have the Dan Sullivan fraud. They’re telling us not to believe our lying ears now. Perhaps we...

29 October 2026 Thursday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary | Linwood NJReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First...

As some of you may know, I live in Petersburg, AK. I’ve met Decoy Dan, the former music teacher at our K-12 school, once but I don’t really know him. Even though this is a very small town he’s just not in my circle of friends. Since the news broke the town has been invaded by reporters from major news outlets. They must have parachuted in because there are only two commercial flights a day passing through our airport and the only other way to get here is by boat. The radio station was contacted by the BBC. The local...

Has anyone besides myself wondered what qualifies for Front Page news nowadays?Apparently nothing has happened in the country, or the world in the last 30 days that warrants that status. And Breaking news is similar. The Sunday Morning Talk Show thread dominates with 6 of the top 9 subjects. Anyone know what's going on with this?

A Canadian transgender school bus driver who was fired after sporting a pink miniskirt to work has claimed he is the victim of discrimination under human rights legislation. The driver's schoolgirl outfit began circulating in June 2025 after parents took a video of the individual at St Michael the Archangel Catholic Elementary School in Woodbridge, Ontario, according to Reduxx. Angry parents confronted the driver and demanded to know why his bus was called the 'Lolita Line,' according to a piece of paper that they accused him of sticking to the vehicle's windshield. The name appeared to reference author Vladimir Nabokov's...

🚨 JUST IN: Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announces the arrest of child predator and former MICKEY MOUSE character at Disney who was "into diapers" — and tried having s*x with a minor "He had two backpacks full of diapers." "He had the high squeaky voice, too." "He wanted to put diapers on the children and do all kinds of nasty stuff, none of which we can talk about. TWO BACKPACKS FULL. He planned to have a great time." He was NO longer employed by Disney when this happened, thank GOD "He said, I'm a little naughty...he was very explicit...

The average journalist has nearly zero connection to the real world. A British pie shop owner, Paul Bowen, was interviewed on Good Morning Britain on Thursday after a new minimum wage law was announced. The clip was something else: Utterly heartbreaking. A must watch. https://t.co/K4W2sxKG4w— Mario Creatura (@MarioCreatura) October 29, 2026Me, as a family, as a director, I'm taking a 2% cut. So my family, my one year old girl, I'm taking a pay cut, the business is taking a pay cut. How - how - how is that breathing room? Where is my breathing space? John Healey, if you're...

Alaska Public Media is not just affiliated with PBS and NPR. When their federal funds were threatened, the Democrats put their CEO Ed Ulmer on the panel to testify before the House DOGE Subcommittee last year, as if the NPR and PBS CEOs weren't enough.The assumption might be that a remote red state so distanced from the continent isn't part of the Eastern media elite. Think again. They performed such absurd propaganda on behalf of embattled Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola (D) as to reach Soviet levels of the ridiculously unsubtle. What happened is they went through the motions of...

The EPA overturns a costly Biden rule on natural gas drilling. President Trump on Tuesday reminded Americans why they voted for him. “I’m officially terminating Biden’s expensive and unnecessary methane regulations to save consumers and energy producers $45 billion in costs,” he announced at a rally in Lubbock, Texas. More deregulation, fewer tariffs, please. The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is moving to rescind a suite of Biden rules that would have squashed small oil and gas producers. The Biden team generally required producers to invest in expensive equipment and capture natural gas that incidentally comes up alongside oil production because...

Apocalypse now? The end of the world is going down in just two weeks — at least if a certain dystopian study is to be believed. In a 1960 study in the journal Science, University of Illinois physicist Heinz von Foerster forecast that Doomsday would occur on November 13, 2026 (fittingly, Friday the 13th!) The Austrian-American scientist specifically believed that our population would increase exponentially to infinity. But rather than dying of starvation — the prevailing fear at the time — von Foerster believed the boom would culminate in a massive crowd crush of sorts. “At this date human population...

Kansas: Hamilton is ahead of Republican Sen. Roger Marshall 50% to 47% in an Emerson poll and 54% to 44% in a Washington post survey (updated Oct. 30).Texas: Democratic state Rep. James Talarico leads Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton 49% to 43% in a CNN survey and 49% to 47% in a Texas Southern University/YouGov poll (updated Oct. 29).Maine: Democrat Troy Jackson is ahead of GOP Sen. Susan Collins 49% to 45% in the CNN poll (updated Oct. 29).Michigan: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leads former Rep. Mike Rogers 49% to 42% in the CNN survey (updated Oct. 29).New Hampshire: Democratic Rep....

President Donald Trump will be rallying in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, as the rallies were originally scrapped to accommodate a significant amount of tele-rallies in the closing days of the midterm campaign, a source familiar told Townhall on Friday. “Rallies are BACK ON! President Trump loves his supporters, and in addition to nearly 20 tele-rallies, he will hold back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump!” the source stated. “The rallies were rearranged for scheduling purposes to accommodate dozens of additional tele-rallies...

ST. PAUL, MN — Voter turnout for the Minnesota midterms is expected to exceed 130%, sources said. Election officials believe a myriad of close races is attracting even more attention from voters than usual and it's very likely more people will vote on Election Day than is humanly possible. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said, "It shouldn't be possible for this many people to vote, but here we are. Frankly, I think this is a real win for Democracy." Early voting already accounts for approximately 90% of all legible votes, with more expected on Election Day from Somalis and...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to identify all states where it has pressured officials to comply with its efforts to prevent non-U.S. citizens from voting in the midterm election, inquiries that Democrats have challenged as an illegal power grab. Chief Judge James Boasberg said he intends to rule by Monday — the eve of Election Day — on a request by Democratic Party leaders to block President Donald Trump’s administration from attempting to undermine state election procedures next week. But the judge noted that the administration can “moot this process at any time” by filing a...

The latest migrant caravan, “Fe y Esperanza #2” is making very little progress in its trek to reach the United States-Mexico border. At least four members of the caravan have been injured in fights that broken out within the group. Although no serious injuries have been reported, the incidents required the intervention of police and emergency personnel. According to a report by La Jornada, a daily Spanish-language newspaper published in Mexico City, the caravan is currently moving toward Pijijiapan, Chiapas, having only managed to walk fewer than 90 miles over the last eight days. The group left the Mexican border...

1. Nasdaq in crash mode? Futures say yes: down more than 2.5%. Intel dashes hopes of a quick turn. Alphabet’s Gemini falls behind. Election Day data center fears. Plus, we are still far from a base. Crescendo of selling? Or getting ahead of Black Monday? Flight to safety stocks. 2. Intel is cratering more than 25% premarket. The chipmaker should have preannounced this terrible guidance, like what IBM did this summer. The story last night wasn’t about data center demand. Instead, Club name Intel positioned its PC business as a casualty of high memory prices, the same week as SK...