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Defense attorney Brian Karalus absolutely unloaded on the media outside the courtroom late Thursday night after a Minnesota jury returned a split verdict in the case of Shiloh Hendrix, the Rochester-area mother whose viral playground confrontation last year ended up with a disorderly conduct prosecution. Hendrix was found not guilty of the misdemeanor count tied to her interaction with an 8-year-old Somali boy at Roy Sutherland Playground in Soldiers Field Memorial Park in April 2025. She was convicted only on the second count involving the adult bystander, who has previously been charged with a sex crime against a minor, and…
There are “a lot of common mistakes” college applicants make that are “often not obvious until it’s too late,” says admissions expert Lauren Lynch.gettyChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has put an epic journey back home on movie screens. If you’re a high school student searching for an educational home away from home, the college application process can feel like an odyssey of its own. At the start of that journey is the Common App, which opens August 1st for students applying to enter college in fall 2027. It allows you to use one core application to apply to as many as…
Major automakers are raising vehicle prices due to an ongoing shortage of memory chips, with the impact of AI-related demand now extending beyond computers and consumer electronics into the vehicle sector. Tom’s Hardware reports that General Motors and Chinese automaker BYD have announced significant price increases attributable to the current memory chip shortage, marking a troubling expansion of supply constraints that have primarily affected the technology sector. GM has revised its 2026 forecast, now expecting new vehicle prices to rise this year, a departure from previous projections that anticipated stable or slightly lower costs. During the company’s recent earnings call, GM…
During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said that congressional oversight includes seeing how much spending “is being funded for the Iranian situation and where is the endgame”, which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was “vague on” and said that the timeline for “a promised shorter endgame” in Iran has “been exceeded.” Capito said, “I do think that the American public’s growing weary. Sen. Justice (R-WV) and I represent the same folks. We can feel that in our local conversations, and I do think a promised shorter endgame has now been —…
Mary Kate Golding — a set designer for TV shows, including Amazon Prime Video’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series — died Tuesday at the age of 34 after she was fatally stabbed in New York City. Golding — who also decorated the set of the 2023–2025 show, Goosebumps, and the 2024 series, Mr. & Mrs. Smith — was fatally stabbed at her apartment in Queens, New York, according to multiple reports. Police responded to a 911 call regarding an assault at the residence just after midnight. “Upon arrival, officers observed a 34-year-old female victim with a stab wound to the back. EMS responded and pronounced the victim…
The UAV was tracked from the Black Sea and destroyed over an “unpopulated area,” according to the Romanian Defense Ministry A Romanian F-16 fighter jet has shot down a drone that entered the country’s airspace, President Nicusor Dan has said. The drone incursion has not yet been blamed on any foreign military.In a post on X, Dan said that the drone was intercepted around 11 am on Friday, and that an investigation has been launched. The Romanian Defense Ministry said that the drone was picked up by radar over the Black Sea earlier on Friday morning, and was tracked as…
Saxony Premier Michael Kretschmer – Wiki Commons No more exclusion, calls Kretschmer. In the run-up to the September elections, failing German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is promoting a reshuffle in his government, trying to get things on track to face the growing danger of the right-wing Alternative for German (AfD) party. In the meantime, a key Merz ally has kicked off a major controversy by suggesting that the establishment conservatives should break the ‘firewall’, and cooperate with the country’s most popular party AfD. Politico reported: “Michael Kretschmer, premier of the eastern state of Saxony and a member of the chancellor’s center-right…
Your News to Know rounds up the most important stories about precious metals and the overall economy. What gold’s ominous “death cross” actually tells us Why UBS is bullish on gold – but hardly alone What central-bank gold buying and China’s new digital yuan experiment have in common Gold’s “death cross” is real – but it’s not an obituary I have never cared much for financial jargon. Sometimes a complicated term describes a genuinely complicated idea. Other times, it makes a fairly simple observation sound like knowledge delivered from the mountaintop. “Death cross” lands somewhere in between. Business Insider recently reported that gold ended…
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) said that it appears that “we’re a long way away” from achieving our goals on Iran’s nuclear program and so there will be higher prices. He also stated that the IRGC is, “by so many accounts, really in charge of the country” and getting into their heads might help. Young said that “the number one goal of this conflict, we can’t lose sight of, and that is to secure the nuclear materials, remove them if possible, and then establish a verifiable enforcement regime for whatever political settlement might…
A new wave of U.S. tariffs targeting 60 trading partners took effect on Friday, replacing an expiring global duty rolled out by President Donald Trump earlier this year. The levies, which range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent and impact major economies like China, India and the European Union, sparked protests from Beijing and other targets. “The United States has had a forced labor import ban for nearly a century, and rigorously enforces it; it’s well past time for our trading partners to do the same,” said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. He earlier said that the targeted economies represent…