CINCINNATI —In recent years, if you lived in the Queen City metropolitan area and your young child was severely ill, or dying of a terminal condition, chances are good that you encountered Ayman Soliman, who until recently was a Muslim chaplain at the renowned Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Whatever your faith …
Read More »Prosecutors Reveal New Details From Luigi Mangione's Alleged Notebook
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office filed an 82-page document in their case against Luigi Mangione at the New York County Supreme Court on Wednesday. In the document they provided images of what they say are handwritten notes Mangione wrote in the months leading up to the assassination of United Health …
Read More »Palm Springs Bombing Suspect Apparently Promoted Human Extinction
Guy Edward Bartkus, the 25-year-old man suspected of bombing a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California on Saturday in a suicide attack that injured four others, left behind what the FBI described as “anti-pro-life” writings full of “nihilistic ideations.” His apparent opposition to human procreation would seem to explain the …
Read More »Sugar Bowl Game in New Orleans Is Postponed in Wake of New Year's Attack
The anticipated Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and the Georgia Bulldogs has been postponed until Thursday following what authorities are describing as a terrorist attack that was carried out in the early hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans. The decision was announced at an afternoon press conference …
Read More »Taylor Swift on Vienna Cancellations, Terror Threat: Grateful to Be Grieving 'Concerts and Not Lives'
After canceling three concerts in Vienna, Austria, amid terror threats, Taylor Swift is speaking out. Following the conclusion of the European leg of the Eras Tour, the artist took to social media to share her gratitude to her crew, authorities, and fans. Swift thanked her team for being able to …
Read More »Twitter Let Terrorists Have Verification Checkmarks — Then Scrambled to Remove Them
Anyone active on X (formerly Twitter) since its acquisition by Elon Musk in late 2022 knows that hate speech, misinformation and extremism is rampant on the platform. At this point, such toxic content is simply the price of admission. But a new report from the Tech Transparency Project, a digital …
Read More »Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Finds the Humanity in Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
In HBO’s The Insurrectionist Next Door Alexandra Pelosi comes across as a charming and sympathetic bull in a china shop, eager to understand, find common ground with or at least provide a platform for people with whom she agrees on very little. That would be nearly everyone she talks to …
Read More »'Hijack' Is Apple TV+'s Version of '24' With Idris Elba as Jack Bauer
Imitation is the sincerest form of television, but some aspects of hit shows are easier to imitate than others. Fox’s 24, for instance, inspired other dramas built around international intrigue, most notably Homeland (which shared several producers). But nobody else attempted to set an entire series in real time. Oh, …
Read More »'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Is the Hottest Date Movie of the Season
“We found love in a hopeless place,” Rihanna famously sang. And there’s nowhere quite as hopeless as the anthropocene — our current geological era, in which humans have begun to have an adverse impact on Earth’s climate. Fatalism about the future of our planet can certainly kill the mood, but, …
Read More »'American Taliban' Was Ordered Not to Meet With Extremists. He Did Anyway
When ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh stepped out of prison in 2019, he agreed to a host of conditions as part of his supervised release. Lindh, who reportedly maintained his support for Islamist terrorist groups while in prison, was told not to associate with known extremists until he was officially …
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