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Credit: Wikimedia Commons A brutal beating in downtown Cincinnati that left two white individuals injured is now under investigation by police authorities. As WLWT reported, footage of the attack shows the moment a group of individuals start smacking around a bald white guy at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Elm Street. This is near the Cincinnati Music Festival. Videos captured by citizens show what appears to be a young black man suckerpunching the older white gentleman from behind. Others then join in to pound on him and send him straight to the ground while hooting and hollering. The…
The other day, I found my high school yearbook. My kids were flipping through it, laughing at old photos and hairstyles, and one of them paused, surprised. “You and your friends were in all these clubs?” Debate, theater, student council, wrestling—page after page of awkward group photos and teenage optimism. It made me smile. I hadn’t thought about that version of myself in a long time. I told them the truth: I joined everything, not because I had it all figured out, but because I didn’t. When you’re a kid, you need spaces like that—launching pads for connection, experiments in…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did not specify a cause of death. Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics in any…
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening sees a moment sometime in the cartooning future when “kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA” adding “Here’s how to do it. Delete Fox News.” Variety reports Groening made his forecast while musing on future content for shows of the Emmy-winning production and how they may meld into reality and predict the future, saying: The Simpsons’ predicts kids across America will liberate their Republican parents from the cult of MAGA. And here’s how you do it. Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list…
It’s hard to unseat an incumbent governor. But Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has a plan to try. The Democrat announced his campaign for governor on Monday, entering the race with just over 10 months to go until the primary. Once a recipient of food stamps and Medicaid benefits, Ford now plans to run against Republicans’ cuts to those same programs, which he says will deeply impact Nevadans. “It was Medicaid that enabled my son and me to have the health care we needed in order to be able to survive. It was food stamps that kept us fed,” Ford…
Bodybuilding friars, selfie-taking clerics, and Insta-famous dog dads to gather in Rome as church tries to win back the youth The Vatican has invited several influencers and missionaries, referred to as “hot priests” by fans and media, to an upcoming digital evangelism summit in a bid to reach younger audiences and address declining church attendance.The event kicks off on Monday in Rome and will bring together over 1,000 participants, including clergy, friars, and lay digital communicators. The Vatican is hoping to modernize outreach in the face of growing secularism, particularly in Europe.The guests include several priests who have gained followings…
DNC Chairman Ken Martin recently admitted in an interview with Fox News Digital that the Democrat Party has hit rock bottom after losing the White House, Senate control, and failing to regain the House in the 2024 elections. He optimistically stated, “When you hit rock bottom, there’s only one direction to go, and that’s up, and that’s what we’re doing,” framing the situation as a Democrat turning point for improvement. He called this shift in public perception “a damning indictment on our party brand.” For a rebound plan, Martin proposed leveraging opposition to President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” signed into…
U.S. President Donald Trump was ready Monday to greet his second official visitor on his five-day trip to Scotland as UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer flew into Turnberry for talks. The BBC reports the leaders will come together at the Trump-owned South Ayrshire golf resort in the morning, before moving on to to Aberdeenshire to visit the president’s other Scottish golf course. During his first term in 2019, Trump posted of his Turnberry property, “Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship!” The meeting comes a day after Trump announced an…
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) pushed an amendment to a defense spending bill this week that would increase the National Firearms Act tax on suppressors to $4,709. The NFA tax is currently at $200 but is set to fall to zero because of language in the recently One Big Beautiful Bill. The Truth About Guns reported that Murphy is pushing in the opposite direction, seeking to “raise the NFA tax stamp on suppressors and short-barrel rifles from $200 to $4,709.” Murphy also wants to increase the tax on “Any Other Weapons” (AOWs) from five dollars to $55. Guns.com noted the Brady Campaign…
Dozens more people have reportedly been injured in an incident involving a train carrying around 100 passengers At least three people have been killed in a major train wreck in the German southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg, the tabloid Bild has reported, citing the police. It was carrying around 100 passengers when it came off the rails in a wooded area some 50 kilometers west of the city of Ulm on Sunday evening.“Dozens” of people were injured in the crash, the regional interior minister, Thomas Strobl, told journalists. He added that everyone inside the train had been evacuated. Some people could still…