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Our low-budget Pittsburgh Pirates have locked themselves in to their first 50% win season since 2018 . . . with three games to go. Even though they are out of the playoffs, they could actually finish the season better than two American League teams still contenting for a playoff spot. Isn't this progress?

Hundreds of La Verne residents under evacuation orders Thursday may be out of their homes for several more days as crews work to stabilize two lithium-ion battery storage systems damaged in a fire earlier this week that remain dangerously hot. Barricades to allow emergency vehicle access have been placed around parts of the evacuation zone, which spans Moreno Avenue to the west, Foothill Boulevard to the north, B Street to the east, and Paseo Drive and Kendrick Drive to the south. Firefighters said Thursday that they are making significant progress on the incident, but there is still the potential for...

Reelin’ In The Years Productions has available for licensing over 20,000 hours of music footage spanning 90 years. Additionally, we have more than 5,000 of hours of in-depth interviews with the 20th century’s icons of Film and Television, Politics, Comedy, Literature, Art, Science, Fashion and Sports. To search for footage please visit ‪our online database at http://reelinintheyears.com. Note: these clips are available on YouTube for producers, directors, researchers and clearance companies for potential use in their projects. Our website on the screen is to protect the footage from being used without our consent and so industry professionals can find us...

Move over Little Italy and Chinatown. Manhattan has just changed a piece of its street map, and the story behind the return of Little Spain is one that anyone passionate about their roots will appreciate. Growing up on stories of Calle Catorce Michelle Miron grew up in Brooklyn hearing about a Spanish corner of Manhattan that barely exists anymore. Her Galician father used to tell her about the dances, the restaurants and the community feel that once filled West 14th Street, a stretch that locals nicknamed “Calle Catorce”. At its peak, roughly 30,000 Spaniards called this small patch of the...

A widely held belief that women have more emotional intelligence than men does not hold up under scrutiny, according to a large study of research spanning three decades.The analysis combined 1,279 academic papers and data from 609,278 people in 76 countries. It found that women score higher, on average, at recognising and understanding emotions. But when it comes to regulating emotions, the picture shifts: men and boys tend to score higher on tasks that involve managing their own feelings, while women score higher on tasks that involve managing other people’s. The results also depend on how emotional intelligence is measured....

Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe and laid off 900 non-retail employees. In a letter to employees, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams said the locations targeted either aren’t delivering acceptable financial results or can’t provide the kind of experience that Starbucks wants for customers and employees. The company didn’t say Thursday which coffeehouses will close or how many are located in...

Pine View is the public magnet for gifted students in Osprey. Uthmeier’s Office of Parental Rights wrote in a letter on Monday that Ballard “routinely discusses political topics” and that the student told her his parents “expressly forbid” him from those debates. The letter states Ballard "harassed, disparaged and deliberately tried to ‘cancel’ an eighth-grade student for his conservative views." I sent a letter to Sarasota Schools after a Pine View teacher allegedly labeled an 8th grader a “misogynist” based on his political affiliation, ignored his parents’ wishes, and disparaged the child’s father. If true, she should be fired and...

Explanation: The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled together, in the constellation of Auriga (the Charioteer). From left to right, the five supernova remnants visible across the field are G181.1+9.5, G182.4+4.3, G179.0+2.6, G180.0−1.7 (Sh2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula), and G178.2−4.2. They are highlighted in the annotated image, together with open cluster M37 and the Tadpole Nebula. As each explosion expanded into space, it created a growing shell...

1. Hopium Last week Tim talked with Jesse Lehrich, who walked through a scenario where the D’s wind up with 54 Senate seats a few weeks from now. 54. That’s crazy. But not as crazy as it sounds. There is a path. All Dems have to do is run the table on the Big 5 races,1 win a gettable Iowa, and then luck into Kansas. Hell, if you want an even bigger hit of the dragon, you can get to 56 seats if there’s a backlash to Darline Graham in South Carolina and Dan Osborn overperforms in Nebraska. What would...

A female Tennessee death row inmate has asked that she be killed by an all-female execution squad after she was convicted for murdering her classmate more than 30 years ago.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The NFL fined San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk $14,926 on Thursday for "engaging in offensive demonstrations." According to the league, Juszczyk violated Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, when he did an "imitation of chugging a beer" with just under eight minutes left in the third quarter of the Niners' win against the Miami Dolphins. The fine notice went on to say that "players are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that reflects positively on the game and is consistent with NFL standards of sportsmanship." It added that further offenses will result in an...

Many decades ago (or so it seems, it was actually January 2023, but things move fast in AI-world) I wrote a Spectator piece claiming that The End of Writing was coming, thanks to AI. In return for this favour, I got large amounts of angry and derisory scorn, mainly from writerly types, who banged on about the uniqueness of human creation, but also from techy people, who pointed out that as a mere hack I could not possibly know anything about AI, and anyway AI was just a glorified next-word-predictor. Now, I’m not the sort of cheap, mean-minded person who...

Deep in the Sahara desert lie hundreds of phenomenal stone circles known as corbeilles. Dating back over 6,500 years, these monuments hold clues to prehistoric rituals, ancient cattle sacrifices, and the communities that once thrived in what is now barren desert. In this video, I dig deeper into the Messak Plateau, investigate what archaeologists found inside these stone structures, and uncover why they were potentially built. Now, the joke in archaeology is that when you don't know what a structure is, you just call it ritual. All right, stop. That's all. The 6,500-Year-Old Stone Circles of the Sahara | 10:17...

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin sensationally claimed on-air that she was the lone holdout juror who forced a notorious NYC cannibal killer to be found not guilty by reason of insanity — but multiple sources from the time directly refute her story, The Post can reveal. “Several jurors questioned afterwards said one holdout juror was principally responsible for preventing them from returning a guilty verdict,” Hostin read aloud from a New York Times article from the 1991 trial on Tuesday. “That was me,” she asserted. SNIP But 35 years ago, jurors told The Post, Newsday, the Daily News and the...

A Pennsylvania man who survived gunshot wounds during President Trump's Butler campaign rally two years ago has died, sources confirmed. James 'Jim' Copenhaver, 76, died on Wednesday after surviving the terrifying rally that saw Trump shot in the ear on July 13, 2024. Copenhaver endured permanent 'life-altering' injuries after he was shot twice at the infamous rally; once in his left arm and again in his abdomen. The native of Moon Township, around 20 minutes from Pittsburgh, was in critical condition at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh before he was left numb from his knee to his hip. Joseph Feldman,...

After spending months harping on the nation’s affordability “crisis,” Democrats have recently let slip that their real goal, if they get a majority in Congress, will be to impeach as many Trump administration officials as time allows over the next two years. They will market it as “holding the administration accountable,” but the goal is far more sinister – to purposefully cripple the administration, regardless of the danger it poses to the nation. In the past few days, articles in the Atlantic and MS NOW – two eminently reliable mouthpieces of the Democratic Party – said the party is considering...

...Critics asked whether we are in a “Constitutional crisis” and others slammed the president for defying the court’s order while they wondered what will happen next in this increasingly tense standoff. “The WH has generally avoided defying court orders but appears to have done just that this morning,” veteran journalist Brit Hume wrote on X in reaction to the White House committing to its media ban. “When do we start calling this a Constitutional crisis?” media reporter Edmund Lee asked.

The American dream now comes with upgrade feesSafe neighborhoods, good schools, space, and reliable services increasingly look less like the baseline and more like premium add-ons.Over the last few decades, many industries discovered they could grow their customer base and profits by selling a cheaper, inferior version of their product while degrading the experience for everyone. Air travel and theme parks are obvious examples. Both learned that the advantages of scale could outweigh the obligation to deliver a high-quality experience.That philosophy did not remain in the realm of economics. It spread slowly but surely into American public life. The United...

Trump Uses Executive Order to Expand Hunting and Fishing OpportunitiesPresident Trump signed an executive order Thursday expanding the amount of federal land available for use by hunters and fishermen and removing years of anti-hunting regulations.The White House noted that the order erases years of regulatory actions that targeted lead ammo and fishing tackle.... Link to the EO itself:https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reinvigorates-americas-hunting-heritage/"...The Order directs the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Commerce to propose changes to polices that prevent access of public lands for recreation, infrastructure repair, and wildlife management, as well as to...

Why did the world's most powerful empire almost never use archers in battle? The Romans had access to bows. They trained archers. Yet they refused to make them central to their military strategy -- even as enemies surrounded them with arrows. It wasn't ignorance or cowardice. It was a deliberate choice rooted in Roman military philosophy, engineering, and culture. The Romans built their empire on heavy infantry, disciplined formations, and controlled violence. Archers -- with their unpredictability, distance, and dependence on open terrain -- threatened everything Rome's military system was designed to achieve. In this video, we uncover why the...