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The Weeknd’s House of Balloons, his first mixtape, breaks back onto a pair of Billboard tallies this … [+] frame, becoming a strong performer again. CHICAGO, IL – AUGUST 04: The Weeknd performs on stage during day two of Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 4, 2012 in Chicago, United States. (Photo by Daniel Boczarski/Redferns via Getty Images)Redferns via Getty Images Last week, The Weeknd scored a brand new No. 1 album with Hurry Up Tomorrow, his highly-anticipated new project. The set debuted in first place on six different Billboard tallies, and though it’s started to decline, the title remains…

The Pentagon is preparing to fire more than 5,000 probationary workers from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) civilian department, according to several reports. Jeff Seldin, a national security correspondent with Voice of America News, shared a press release from Darin Selnick, the acting undersecretary of defense, on X, in which it was revealed that the DoD was “re-evaluating” its “probationary workforce,” and was anticipating “reducing the Department’s civilian workforce by” five to eight percent, and that 5,400 probationary workers were expected to be let go. “As the Secretary announced yesterday, the Department of Defense is re-evaluating our probationary workforce, consistent with…

President Donald J. Trump/Image: The White House from Washington, DC, Wikimedia Commons This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire By Guy CiarrocchiReal Clear Wire Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania victory was a story within a story. He not only won the state but also changed the GOP path to winning it. His 2024 county map looks nothing like the 1988 winning map of George H. W. Bush, the last Republican to win here before Trump did in 2016. Trump’s 2024 map barely resembles the near-miss 2004 map for George W. Bush, or even the maps of local GOP winners Gov.…

A giant baseball sculpture sits outside Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins baseball team, in … [+] Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved The theme of the Minnesota Twins offseason was waiting for something that never arrived. The wait will continue indefinitely as the anticipated sale of the franchise has fallen through according to The Athletic’s Jon Greenberg. Justin Ishbia, the founder and managing partner of Chicago-based private equity firm Shore Capital Partners, was working to complete a sale of the Twins for an unspecified amount. With an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion,…

State Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) has proposed legislation that would require insurance companies to cover 100% of the losses to personal property in fires without requiring customers to fill out details lists of possessions. Allen’s bill, called the “Eliminate ‘The List’ Act,” seeks to alleviate the trauma and logistical difficulty of compiling a list of possessions that are lost in a fire — which the New York Times recently described as a major source of stress. Existing state law requires insurance companies to provide customers 30% of the value of their policies for property losses without providing an itemized list. California…

LGBTQ+ identification in the United States has spiked to 9.3 percent — an increase driven by Generation Z adults, a poll has found. The percentage of U.S. adults who say they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual has nearly doubled from 2020 and is up from a mere 3.5 percent in 2012, according to the Gallup survey. “In the 12 years that Gallup has been tracking LGBTQ+ identification, it has nearly tripled, as those becoming adults during that period have been far more likely than their elders to say they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender,” Gallup…

The alleged anti-Semitic attack on a tourist in Berlin reveals an often misunderstood ideological world of the perpetrator, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany said on Saturday.”Contempt for the memory of the Shoah and hatred of Jews go hand in hand with the fundamental denial of our Western values and are often the ideological core of Islamists,” Josef Schuster, the president of the organization, said.He called the attack a terrible act.On Friday evening, a 19-year-old Syrian man who had been granted asylum had reportedly attacked a Spanish visitor to the Holocaust Memorial with a knife from…

President Donald Trump said on Saturday he’d like to see Elon Musk “get more aggressive.”Musk is the face of DOGE, which has upended Washington with its budget cuts and layoffs.Musk responded to Trump’s comment a few hours later. Then, federal workers started receiving emails.As far as President Donald Trump is concerned, Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t cutting enough.On Saturday, Trump praised Musk’s efforts to streamline government operations and reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and then called on his ally to do even more.”Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive,” Trump…

Feb. 22—GRAND FORKS — A man was sentenced Thursday, Feb. 20, to 10 years, first serving three, for various criminal charges arising from the theft of a semi that he damaged while evading law enforcement.Mark Steven Crompton, 44, pleaded guilty to six crimes: four felonies and two misdemeanors.The charges are Class A felony theft worth more than $50,000, Class B felony criminal mischief causing more than $10,000 in damage, two counts of Class C felony unlawful entry into a vehicle to commit a crime, Class A misdemeanor theft between $500 and $1,000 and Class B misdemeanor refusal to halt.Crompton had…

Vladimir Zelensky believes he is still backed by the ‘Deep State’ and seeks to fight the US president, Andrey Telizhenko has told RT The relationship between the US and Ukraine is now undergoing “total destruction,” with Vladimir Zelensky trying to fight President Donald Trump on behalf of America’s ‘Deep State’, Andrey Telizhenko, former 3rd Secretary at the Ukrainian Embassy in the US, told RT. The ‘Deep State’ itself, however, appears to be falling apart as well, he warned.Washington and Kiev have recently engaged in a bitter spat, with Zelensky and Trump, as well as other top officials, publicly trading accusations.…