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When Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris to become the Democratic nominee, Donald Trump confidently claimed she’d be even easier to defeat in November than Biden would have been. In reality, the vice president’s arrival in the race on a tidal wave of support from her colleagues and party donors creates a major headache for the Republican’s campaign, which, until Sunday, had been enjoying mutinous disarray among its Democratic opponents. Beyoncé Gives Her Approval for Kamala to Use ‘Freedom’ as Campaign Anthem Now, with Harris already claiming to have enough support to become her party’s nominee, reports suggest the Trump campaign...

Horror fiction fans are used to being disgusted, but the hate-filled words of one of the genre’s leading writers have left many feeling truly sickened this week. The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced it had decided to expel Thomas F. Monteleone, 76, who has written dozens of novels and edited the popular Borderlands horror anthology series since the 1980s. [M]uch of the outrage began when Monteleone posted on Facebook why he believed author Stuart David Schiff deserved his own Lifetime Achievement Award, writing: “Despite the last few LAA years looking very much like a very obvious DEI project, I am...

The military draft announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin sent hordes of fearful fighting-age men fleeing for the border, but even they couldn’t have appreciated the true horror of what those unlucky enough to be mobilized and sent to the frontline in Ukraine are having to face. Reports of drafted Russians being sent to fight with wildly insufficient training and “barely usable” equipment have abounded for weeks, but a new report suggests that recruits are resorting to pretending to be dead in the heat of battle to save their own lives. Independent Russian outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe spoke to the...