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A transgender biological male from Utah posted a song to SoundCloud titled “Charlie Kirk Dead at 31” a month before his assassination. The person behind the SoundCloud project appears to use the name Skye Valadez and identifies as “she/her” on social media. Valadez also posted a song titled “Charlie Kirk’s Death Isn’t Enough for Me.” Photos of Valadez compared to the images of the shooter released by the FBI were posted to X by multiple people on Thursday afternoon. No suspects have been named or confirmed by the FBI. Valadez had a music project titled “God’s Finest Scalpel” and released...

Whoopi Goldberg isn’t planning on leaving The View anytime soon. In a new interview, the longtime co-host of the daytime talk show made it clear she has no intentions of retiring — and her reasoning was refreshingly candid. “I’ve gotta keep paying those bills, baby!” Goldberg, 69, told Entertainment Tonight on September 9. When asked if she’s considered “slowing down,” Goldberg admitted she has, but quickly added, “Who can afford to do that?” “If you don’t marry well, you’ve got to keep working,” the EGOT winner quipped

Dublin City Council is to give its decision on planning permission for a seven-story development featuring a mosque and apartments at Blackpitts, Dublin 8. The project, entitled Al-Bari Mosque and Apartments, is being tendered by Barrett Mahony Civil & Structural Consulting Engineers. The proposed development is on the site of a former warehouse owned by Independent Clothing Holdings and will involve the demolition of the existing two-story structure. The company is owned by Azhar Bari who is from Pakistan, and who was advised on the project by the Clonskeagh Islamic Center, which is currently closed after a series of controversies...

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the gruesome discovery of a body inside an impounded Tesla at a tow yard in Hollywood, and Eyewitness News has learned the vehicle is registered to singer D4vd. Officers responded to the 1000 block of N. Mansfield Avenue shortly before 12:30 p.m. Monday to a report of a foul odor coming from an impounded vehicle, according to LAPD. Police say the impounded car had been at the property for a couple of days, and that the body had been placed inside a bag. There's no immediate information about...

For decades, US firms have enjoyed a strong foothold in Germany, particularly in the country’s western regions, which were under the control of the Western Allies after World War II. In the immediate postwar years, US cigarettes were so highly prized on the German black market that they effectively served as currency. […] Today, however, the climate has shifted. The image of the US in Germany has taken a major beating, raising questions about how US companies can maintain their reputation. Some US firms are now actively marketing their products as “Made in Germany.” […] Coca-Cola, perhaps more than any...

Salinas police determined that a grenade that was donated a Salinas Goodwill was determined to be a fake. The item was donated to the Goodwill Central Coast Outlet at 1566 Moffett Street. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad was called to assist, and they detonated the potential explosive and determined it to be a fake. The parking lot was evacuated, but employees remained inside the building. No customers are being allowed inside. It is undetermined whether the store will be reopened. Police are at the scene gathering more details.

Three new species of snailfish show there's still plenty of mystery surrounding the deep sea. Not to be dramatic, but I would die for this snailfish. Photo courtesy of MBARI, © 2019 MBARI ====================================================================== In 2019, scientists spotted something strange thousands of meters below the ocean surface. There, they filmed a pink bumpy blob with cartoonishly big eyes and more pectoral fin-rays than you could shake a stick at. Now, they’ve been able to confirm that this was a new-to-science species. It’s a snailfish, and better yet, it’s one of three new-to-science species described in a new study. There are...

Gregory Washington, George Mason’s first Black president, runs a university that prizes diversity. That has made him a target of the Trump administration.Gregory N. Washington, the first Black president of George Mason University, remembers the tumult on campus as he began his new job in 2020.It was the era of Black Lives Matter, and students were protesting over the man the school is named after, a complicated Virginia historical figure and slaveholder. Demonstrators were demanding that a statue of Mason on campus be torn down, Dr. Washington said.Five years later, George Mason’s statue remains intact, and politics are once again...

Florida is host to a variety of invasive species, largely thanks to its history in the exotic pet trade. However, there’s one amphibian you may want to keep an eye out for, as it could prove dangerous. That’s the cane toad — also dubbed the “Bufo” toad — which was originally brought to Florida in the 1930s as part of a pest control program, according to the UF/IFAS. At the time, cane toads were used to eat beetles threatening sugar cane crops in the state, though the initial population didn’t survive this attempt. Instead, around 100 of these toads were...

Crafting a resume can be a stressful affair, and job seekers often rack their brains thinking of ways to stand out from other candidates. One TikToker, who goes by the handle Justcreatingmything, decided that the best way to apply for a job at F&B company BreadTalk would be to do a little arts and crafts. In a video uploaded last Monday (Sept 1), he showed how he had made a 'sponge cake' as his application for the bakery. "Everyone sends resumes... I sent BreadTalk a cake," he said in the caption. To create the 'sponge cake', he took a yellow...

Charlie Sheen is being accused of sodomizing a then 13-year-old Corey Haim on the set of the movie 'Lucas.' According to the National Enquirer, a now deceased Haim had told others about how he was allegedly raped as a minor by Sheen, who was 19 at the time, while filming the 1986 movie, including former actor, Dominick Brascia, who went on the record about what he says Haim told him. 'Haim told me he had sex with Sheen when they filmed 'Lucas,' Brascia, told the Enquirer. 'He told me they smoked pot and had sex. He said they had anal...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Harvard Scientist Avi Loeb are calling for NASA to monitor the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it passes the sun on Halloween Eve to ensure it does not drop off “mini probes” that could invade Earth. Luna (R-Fla.) and the Ivy league astrophysicist appeared together on a podcast and called for both the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Jupiter’s Juno probe to adjust their current courses and monitor the object that NASA has deemed a comet. “If we are visited by a technological object like 3I/ATLAS — it could either visit us or release some mini-probes...

Germany’s beer market is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by changing consumer preferences and the evolving tastes of younger generations. While traditional beer consumption is declining, the demand for alcohol-free alternatives has surged, signalling a shift in the country’s long-standing beer culture. In the first half of 2025, German beer sales fell by 6.3%, amounting to a reduction of around 262 million litres and bringing total consumption to roughly 3.9 billion litres. This represents the steepest decline in the domestic beer market since 1993, excluding non-alcoholic products. Economic pressures, rising prices, and shifts in social habits, particularly among younger consumers,...

I>She credited Carl Sagan with inspiring her beliefs. Alex OchoEmma Stone says she believes in aliens. The Oscar-winning actress made the confession on Thursday (Aug. 28) when she and director Yorgos Lanthimos appeared at the press conference for their new film Bugonia during the 2025 Venice International Film Festival. When asked by a reporter whether she believes in a “higher intelligence looking upon us,” Stone gave a surprising take on the matter. “I don't know about looking down on us,” Stone said at the one-hour, 24-minute mark of the video linked here. “One of my favorite people that has ever...

A mysterious manuscript hidden for centuries in Shakespeare’s childhood home has just been reattributed—and it wasn’t written by who everyone thought. =============================================================== Portrait Of William Shakespeare. Credit: Britannica | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel A centuries-old manuscript once thought to be the work of William Shakespeare’s father has been reattributed to his sister, Joan Shakespeare Hart, in a new peer-reviewed study published in Shakespeare Quarterly. The findings challenge longstanding beliefs about the Shakespeare family’s religious affiliations and offer a rare glimpse into the intellectual life of a woman previously all but erased from history. The research, led by Dr....

Charlie Sheen is done censoring his truth. The former “Two and a Half Men” star, 60, revealed he’s had sex with men, which began when he started smoking crack. “I flipped the menu over,” Sheen reveals in his upcoming Netflix documentary, “aka Charlie Sheen,” out on Sept. 10, about his same-sex bedroom experience. The actor revealed he’s done hiding his sexual encounters with men. Sheen revealed that his first encounter happened while he was using heavy narcotics, like crack, and he struggled to come to terms with his actions. These days, he’s owning it.

Even now, after all the progress that has been rammed down our throats, men who identify as women face the oppression of being “misgendered” — i.e., of being regarded as what they objectively are: (video on link, try not to laugh) They still expect us to feel sorry for them. That is the main weapon they wield against us to facilitate their relentless bullying.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: * Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. * Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils. * These human prints were surrounded by animals but not hunted animals, indicating humans were just thirsty. ======================================================================== A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say. The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric animal prints, are estimated to be 115,000 years old. Many fossil...

Forget your TikTok influencers and Ibiza super-clubs. Sweden’s hottest DJ is an 81-year-old great-grandmother who refuses to slow down the beat. Madelein Mansson, better known to her glitter-soaked fans as DJ Gloria, has become the unlikely star of Stockholm’s nightlife scene. She will not even spin a record unless you are over 50. Sweden’s nightlife revolution: proving the party doesn’t stop at 50 Sweden has long been famous for exporting pop powerhouses such as ABBA, Avicii and Zara Larsson, but DJ Gloria is proof that the nation’s music scene is not just a young person’s game. In fact, Stockholm’s ageing...

One of the writers of 2022’s Lightyear is doubling down on the decision to put a lesbian kiss in the Disney-Pixar animated film amid conflicting reports about whether or not rap icon Snoop Dogg apologized for his comments critical of LGBT content in children’s media. Lightyear, a failed Toy Story spinoff purporting to present the “real” movie on which Tim Allen’s iconic Buzz Lightyear was based (voiced in the 2022 film by Chris Evans), drew flak from family groups for featuring an on-screen kiss between two female “married” characters. The display of LGBT “representation” was largely relegated to just one...