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Before I tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the White House—and how it elicited a very specific reaction, some 2,400 miles away, in Menlo Park, California—you need to remember the mayhem of that day, the exuberance of the mob as it gave …

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Will Sen. Tim Scott run for president in 2024? The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican has raised an impressive amount of campaign cash for his Senate reelection bid. It has many people wondering if the South Carolina lawmaker has his eyes on the White House. Fox News reports that Scott …

After a tragedy took place on the movie set where Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that fatally took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, many people sent condolences for all involved. Conservative pundit, Candace Owens. however, took the opportunity to lambast Baldwin because he was a constant critic of …

Post-pandemic, going to the movies just doesn’t carry the same thrill, says this essay’s author.Photo: Syda Productions (Shutterstock) Being the James Bond enthusiast that I am, I recently went to the movies to see No Time To Die (Daniel Craig is still the man, I might add). This wasn’t the …

Some cuckoos are born assassins. Within a day or two of hatching, the infant birds—still blind, pink, and featherless—will start to evict the other residents of their nest, hurling them over the edge and to their death. Technically, the evictions they carry out are from living quarters that aren’t even …

If you were born after say, 1995 and are not particularly keen on 20th century U.S. history, Gen. Colin Powell might be something of a floating question mark to you – a name that dominated headlines at the beginning of your week but seems a touch unfamiliar. You know you’ve …

Former Mount Holyoke Professor Rie Hachiyanagi has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for the 2019 attack of her work colleague Lauret Savoy. On Wednesday, Hachiyanagi was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in Massachusetts state prison for torturing Savoy for hours due to her co-worker not …

Prince performs on October 11, 2009 at the Grand Palais in Paris.Photo: BERTRAND GUAY/AFP (Getty Images) On Monday, Minnesota’s Congressional delegation introduced a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Purple One himself, the artist forever known as Prince. According to the AP, the award is one …

Getty Who can get pregnant? It sounds like a trick question. For centuries, English speakers have talked about “pregnant women” without a second thought, but a vocal and growing movement wants to replace that phrase with the more inclusive pregnant people. And because the United States hasn’t yet found an …