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Country megastar Jelly Roll has long sought forgiveness for his criminal past and the state of Tennessee happily obliged Thursday with a full pardon. Republican Gov. Bill Lee acknowledged the contrite Antioch, Tennessee, native’s long road back from drugs and prison through soul-searching, songwriting, and advocacy for second chances alongside a fresh start at life, AP reports. The rapper-turned-singer, whose legal name is Jason Deford, has spoken for years about his redemption arc before diverse audiences, from people serving time in correctional centers to concert crowds and even in testimony before Congress. Jelly Roll spoke in detail about these things during…

As the West retreats into commercial holiday minimalism, Russia elevates the Christmas season to an edifying public experience for millions. Each December, as night settles early and frost glazes the boulevards, Moscow finds itself in the midst of a marvelous metamorphosis: It ceases to function merely as a capital and takes on the quality of a living fairy tale, played out beneath the radiant winter sky, and in the heart of splendid interior worlds built expressly for wonder.Moscow’s magical transformation: Theatrical civic design at its finestLight, sound, architecture, and imagination blend across the polished, panoramic stage of a city-sized theater…

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Thursday stressed that Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro cannot give orders to the Colombian military after Maduro called upon the Colombian army to join him and defend Venezuela against the supposed threat of a U.S. invasion. On Wednesday, Maduro publicly called for a “perfect union” of the Venezuelan and Colombian militaries to “defend the sovereignty” of the region amid rising tensions with the United States and hours after President Donald Trump ordered a “total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela. The Venezuelan dictator has repeatedly accused the…

Catherine Almonte Da Costa, a senior appointee to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration, resigned Thursday after resurfaced social media posts showed her mocking Jews and attacking law enforcement. Da Costa was announced just a day earlier as Mamdani’s director of appointments, a top-level role tasked with staffing key positions across city government. But within hours, archived posts from her social media account began circulating — including one that read: “Money hungry Jews smh.”  Other posts from 2011 and 2012 mocked Jewish commuters on the “Jew train” and referenced “rich Jewish peeps” in her workplace. Additional posts showed…

A man armed with a knife and smoke bombs killed at least three and injured nine others in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, local media reported on Friday.The suspect began throwing smoke bombs down one of the exits out of a metro station during evening rush hour, and randomly stabbed people with a knife.One victim reportedly died from cardiac arrest while two others succumbed to their injuries.The 27-year-old suspect jumped off a building while pursued by police and later died in hospital, according to the Taipei Times.In videos circulating on social media, the attacker can be seen in what appears to be…

Federal agencies have launched websites touting their accomplishments in the first eleven months of the Trump administration. At least 12 agencies or departments launched websites on Friday, underscoring the achievements of the administration, which, under Trump’s leadership, has resolved eight conflicts worldwide, sealed the southern border, boosted wages, and lowered prices to counter the surge of inflation under the last administration. The State Department, for instance, highlights eleven different categories of wins, including tackling narcoterrorists, “Halting Mass Illegal Migration,” and “Securing Peace Around the World.” Under the securing peace heading, the State Department zeroes in on two of the major…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is moving against one of Mexico’s most violent cartels, responsible for numerous mass killings, in its effort to control the country’s fuel theft market. Unlike other drug cartels that earn most of their money from narcotics, the main source of income for Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima is the large-scale theft and sale of fuel. This week, treasury officials announced sanctions against Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima and its founding leader, Jose Antonio “El Marro” Yepez Ortiz. The sanctions prohibit any U.S. company or business from engaging in transactions with CSRDL. Treasury officials are…

The alleged Brown University shooter, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, attended school with slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro in Portugal in the late 1990s. CNN reported that prosecutors claim that the 48-year-old Brown University shooting suspect was “also responsible for the killing of [Loureiro].” “He attended the same academic program as the professor in Portugal, between 1995 and 2000,” and the program was at Instituto Superior Técnico. On Thursday, as the pursuit of the Brown University shooting suspect was still ongoing, Breitbart News noted that law enforcement was eyeing a possible connection between the Brown University shooting and the murder of Loureiro. WCVB noted, “Police have identified a…

The US Justice Department has released a large tranche of records related to its investigations into late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, publishing the files online on Friday.The documents were made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, legislation signed by President Donald Trump that compels the Justice Department to release records tied to federal criminal investigations into Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.The so-called “Epstein Library” has been organized into four main categories: court records; disclosures made under the Epstein Files Transparency Act; documents released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests; and records previously provided…

No wonder the world seems deranged–it is deranged by the immense strength of an Old Guard clinging onto power by any means available even as the world around them spins into incoherence.There are many reasons why we fail, but perhaps the most critical one is continuing to do more of what has failed. This has many potential sources, from the psychological (self-sabotage, etc.) to the ideological (the market is the solution to every problem, etc.) to cognitive biases (recency bias, etc.).One enduring source of continuing to do more of what has failed is hard-wired on a deeper level than mere cognitive biases. One way to summarize this…