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School director was ‘ringleader’ of child fight club
An Arkansas school director was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 120 days of house arrest with electronic monitoring and nine years of probation after prosecutors accused her of being the “ringleader” of a makeshift child fight club. Mary Tracy Morrison, 51, the owner and director of The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain and the Engage…
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Why the star of ‘PEN15’ had to stop talking to her father to finally hear herself
The morning after the 2019 Emmy Awards, Anna Konkle was driving to work when she got a concerning call from her father. He was calling to tell her that his prostate cancer had returned. Worse yet, the cancer had apparently traveled to his lungs. Despite being in the middle of writing the second season of…
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‘Kamikaze dolphin’ question throws off Pentagon officials during briefing on war
During a relatively subdued Pentagon briefing on the Iran War on Tuesday morning, both Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine were caught by surprise by a question about “kamikaze dolphins” being deployed in the Strait of Hormuz. During the question and answer segment following the opening statements, a reporter…
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‘Saved by the Bell’ actor weighs in on Dustin Diamond claim that dad mishandled money
One of Dustin Diamond’s former “Saved by the Bell” co-stars says the late actor’s claim that his father, Mark Diamond, mishandled his money seems very inaccurate. Ed Alonzo, who played the owner of Bayside High student hangout spot The Max from 1989-1992, exclusively told Page Six that Dustin and Mark seemed like “the best of…
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Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s becoming one. In a new essay for UnHerd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic’s Claude — or “Claudia,” as he starts to call “her” — becoming convinced that the machine is conscious. There was a spark…
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Solar ranch aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win
CHRISTIANA, Tenn. — From a distance, the small solar farm in central Tennessee looks like others that now dot rural America, with row upon row of black panels absorbing the sun’s rays, creating a flow of clean electricity. But beneath the panels is lush pasture, not gravel, enjoyed by a small herd of cattle that spends their…
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Hegseth lashes out when pressed on Trump ‘capitulating’ to Iran: ‘You started out nice’
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained Tuesday after a reporter pressed him on whether President Donald Trump had capitulated on his demand for Iran to unconditionally surrender, chastising the reporter for deviating from his initially “nice” remarks. “I want to first express my gratitude and admiration for the work you do and for everyone involved in…
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We re-created radical covers from High Performance, the L.A. magazine made for and by artists
In 1978, after eating LSD-laced garlic butter toast and while crouched under a piano during a performance, artists Linda Frye Burnham and Richard Newton decided to start a magazine. Called High Performance, it would become one of a handful of magazines in Los Angeles at the time that documented ephemeral art and functioned as an…
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‘Trump is on a tear’: Onlookers say president is ‘fritzing out’ as he re-shares old praise
President Donald Trump appeared to be reminiscing on Monday evening over his State of the Union address he delivered back in February, with onlookers baffled to see the president sharing several screenshots on social media of conservative commentators’ praise of his performance. As Trump’s favorability dips to historic lows amid his wildly unpopular war against…
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Hegseth insists cease-fire with Iran is ‘not over’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth insisted that the cease-fire with Iran is still intact despite a spike in hostilities from Tehran Monday. “Not over. Ultimately, this is a separate and distinct project,” Hegseth told reporters. “We said we would defend and defend aggressively.” Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing…