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The superstar, 36, made history after grossing a record $2billion in ticket sales for her career-spanning, 21-month Eras Tour - which consisted of 149 shows in 21 countries. As a reward to her team, Taylor is said to have handed out more than $197million in bonuses to everyone working on the tour. The Lover singer is notably a benevolent boss, and the moment she gives the mammoth bonuses to the performers and crew, complete with personal notes, is shown in her new Disney+ docuseries, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour/The End of an Era. Those who received a bonus included truck...

Click on the title for a link to the new Supergirl movie trailer. Watching the first 20 seconds I thought it was a spoof. Apparently not.

Explanation: Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal constellation of Cepheus. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, these ghostly apparitions lurk along the plane of the Milky Way at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over two light-years across and brighter than the other spooky chimeras, VdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula, seen across the middle of the featured image. Within...

It’s a tale of two investigations. In one version – based on past comments by former FBI Director Christopher Wray – the arrest last week of Brian Cole Jr. as the individual who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee on Jan. 5, 2021, was the culmination of a dogged, five-year effort by the bureau. In another version, suggested by Dan Bongino, the bureau’s deputy director, FBI agents revived a long-dormant case a few months ago, quickly tracking down Cole through an existing body of evidence, not from new...

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — Bucking years of tradition, a family new to the California area has failed to build a single gingerbread house this Christmas season due to a backlog at the permit office. "We're still waiting for the appropriate permits to build our gingerbread house," said Mona Riggs. "Baking gingerbread houses is a fun tradition we do every year, but at this point we'll be lucky to have one put together by the end of the decade." According to sources, the January Pacific Palisades fire and its resulting destruction caused a significant logjam of processing permit applications. The city...

They are warning people not to smoke while using oxygen - D-oh! Windsor Fire and Rescue Services says a long-term care home resident is in critical condition in hospital after her supplemental oxygen triggered a fire while she was trying to smoke. The service is reminding people not to smoke while using oxygen. “We highly recommend that you do not smoke while your oxygen is connected anywhere near an open flame,” Chief Fire Prevention Officer John Smith told CBC. “Oxygen will intensify that fire.” The incident occurred at around 3:30 a.m. on Friday, Smith said. The fire service responded to...

Nicki Minaj has officially taken her political timeline into uncharted territory. The rapper sparked a firestorm this week after showering Vice President JD Vance with unexpected praise—while firing not-so-subtle shots at California Governor Gavin Newsom. The posts, which appeared across Minaj’s X account, pushed her increasingly vocal political leanings into the spotlight yet again. It all began when Vance chimed in on the long-running feud between Minaj and fellow rapper Cardi B. The 41-year-old Vice President didn’t tiptoe around his position. Instead, he jumped directly into pop-culture warfare with three simple characters: “Nicki > Cardi.” His post instantly lit up...

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MAGA Republicans are going to prevail in the next two national elections. We are going to applaud so much that our hands will hurt. This is going to come about for a composite of reasons, the most obvious being the Democrats’ complete lack of available talent. Their most marketable candidate is California’s Governor Hair Gel, but the reality of his state’s decline during his watch is an enormous albatross hanging around his neck. He’s soon to be termed out and will then be condemned to spend over a year wandering in the wilderness, preaching to the choir. Other than Newsom,...

Extraordinary video has emerged from the Bondi Beach terror attack showing a hero creeping up behind one of the gunmen and successfully wrestling his rifle off him. Twelve people are dead after two gunmen opened fire at Bondi Beach on Sunday evening where a Jewish Hannukah celebration was underway. Video obtained by the Daily Mail shows a heroic man creeping up behind one of the gunmen via the carpark at the north end of the beach, and then wrestling him to the ground. The hero then waves a rifle in the man's face. The gunman then walks away and the...

During the Christmas season, some family traditions include watching many of the different movie versions of Charles Dickens’s novel, “A Christmas Carol”. Comparing the original book to the movies, some movies are fairly accurate and entertaining, while others have so vastly missed its essence that one begs the question, “Did they read the book?” Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” tells the story of the ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge’s former business partner and “good friend,” Jacob Marley, who temporarily returns from hell to warn Scrooge to turn from his wicked ways. Marley explains that “Three Spirits” will visit Scrooge, with the...

There are so many lies and liars, it’s hard to know where to begin, but here are my takes on this week’s unveiling of them. Let’s begin with science. Seems like just yesterday Dr. Fauci and his crew were promoting “follow the science.” Well, I follow what passes for it, and if you follow the direction it’s been heading in recent decades you’ll be trapped in a remote ditch. SCIENCE1) NeuroscienceDo you remember reading articles and books by Oliver Sacks? Perhaps the best known were Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. From 1992 to 2024,...

Israeli researchers have reported a new treatment for advanced‑stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma (a type of cancer of the white blood cells) that achieved a 100% one‑year overall survival rate in a large cohort of patients participating in their program. Israeli researchers have unveiled an innovative treatment for advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma that they say resulted in a one-year survival rate of 100 per cent, representing a “true revolution” in caring for people with the disease. While traditionally the management of patients with advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma has relied exclusively on chemotherapy, the new treatment combines advanced chemotherapy with targeted biological therapy....

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — Budweiser is rewarding adults who have received the COVID-19 vaccine with a free round of beer. Budweiser sat out of this year’s Super Bowl to reallocate funds for COVID-19 vaccine education and awareness. Now the “King of Beers” continues to drive that message by rewarding those who rolled up their sleeves for the vaccine. How can you get a free round of beer: * Budweiser is rewarding people 21 and older who show they’ve been vaccinated with a free round of beer. * Consumers can upload proof of vaccination (i.e. a selfie with their vaccination sticker)...

The commission that oversees public television in Arkansas voted Thursday to sever ties with PBS, making it the first state to end its contract with the broadcast giant that provides popular television programs such as "Sesame Street," "Nova" and "Antiques Roadshow." The eight-member Arkansas Educational Television Commission, made up entirely of appointees of the governor, announced in a news release Thursday that it planned to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, citing annual membership dues of about $2.5 million it described as "not feasible." The release also cited the unexpected loss of about that same amount of federal funding from...

Criminal illegal alien Somalis are starting to get awfully scared now that the Trump Administration is laying down the law, after their grift made national headlines. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this week, ICE has already begun making arrests in what locals call “Somali-land Minnesota,” a region with one of the largest concentrations of Somali immigrants in the United States. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that during Tuesday’s press conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara warned residents that masked individuals detaining people in Somali neighborhoods were “possibly kidnapping people,” urging the city’s enormous Somali enclave to dial 911 if...

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has revealed that his health has taken a turn for the worse, though there is still hope he could recover with the help of doctors. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Adams announced earlier this year he had stage 4 prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones back in May. “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said at the time. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones. I’ve had it longer than he’s had it – well, longer than admitting that he’s had it, so my life...

On Saturday morning, The Gateway Pundit reported on the tremendous progress of Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24. Wolfe was patrolling alongside Spec. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, when a gunman opened fire on them. Beckstrom succumbed to her injuries the following day. Last week, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey noted, “His parents report that his head wound is slowly healing and that he’s beginning to ‘look more like himself.’” On Friday, the West Virginia National Guard provided an update on social media, noting that Wolfe is reaching new milestones in his recovery, including being able to breathe on his own. His move...

Abortion Free New Mexico (AFNM) is sounding the alarm as abortion tourism into New Mexico reaches unprecedented levels, driven in large part by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and other state leaders who have aggressively expanded abortion access while dismantling safeguards, oversight, and accountability. As a result, New Mexico has become a national destination for unregulated, high-volume abortions, drawing women and minors from across the country—often without parental knowledge, without medical transparency, and without any meaningful state monitoring to ensure patient safety. Click Like if you are pro-life to like the LifeNews Facebook page! A Crisis of Oversight New Mexico is...

In early 2020, the University of California set the tone for the rest of the country when its regents voted to drop SAT and ACT admissions requirements through 2024. That decision, initially framed as a pandemic necessity, quickly reshaped admissions nationwide. By late 2022, roughly 1,750 schools, or about 80 percent of U.S. universities, had adopted test-optional policies, according to Forbes.“It’s a sea change in terms of how admissions decisions are being made,” Robert Schaeffer, of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, told NBC News.“The pandemic created a natural experiment.”Five years later, the results of this “natural experiment”...