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‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Crew Member Injured During Production
A crew member working on Universal’s “How to Train Your Dragon 2” suffered an injury this month in an off-set workshop incident involving a saw that severed their fingers. The individual, whose identity remains unclear, is a special effects technician working on the blockbuster sequel. While working in a workshop at Sky Studios Elstree in
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Petitions calling for Iranian alleged pro-regime ‘apologist’ profs to be removed keep getting pulled down: Watchdog
Anti-Iranian regime dissidents have been exposing regime-backed professors across the US, but recently the progressive Change.org platform has been deleting petitions they set up to call for them to face justice, they claim. The Alliance Against the Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists (AAIRIA), said Change.org blocked a petition against Sina Azodi last week, who they
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Becerra sees momentum, money and movement in the polls in governor’s race
Xavier Becerra, a former Cabinet secretary in President Biden’s administration, appears to be surging in the curiously unsettled California governor’s race. Until recently, the former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary had been mired in the single digits in polling to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom and lead the nation’s most populous state. But after
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Trump squanders ‘slam dunk’ win with ‘colossal misreading’ of MAGA base: columnist
President Donald Trump misunderstood what drove voters to reelect him as his MAGA base fractures, an analyst explained on Tuesday. The Guardian‘s Moira Donegan described how Trump’s most recent publicity stunt revealed how his “fixation on culture-war grievances is a colossal misreading of voters who just want prices to come down.” In a recent moment
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Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities
Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the brains of students while they were writing short, deliberately open-ended essays. They split the 54 participants into three groups: one was told to use ChatGPT, one could search for information on Google (minus AI-generated summaries), and another
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Her kidnapped son was killed in a Gaza tunnel. A new memoir gives a searing account of her grief
JERUSALEM — When Hersh Goldberg-Polin was in the tunnels in Gaza, fellow hostages say he often quoted a line from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’” Through his long months in captivity, family and friends hoped that, like Frankl, he would come back with a message
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FBI hit with 20-day deadline to fork over docs related to Kash Patel’s alleged drinking
In a public records request filing submitted on Tuesday, the nonprofit watchdog group Democracy Forward gave the FBI 20 days to produce internal records as part of its investigation into FBI Director Kash Patel, who’s been accused of frequent bouts of “excessive drinking” and “unexplained absences.” Last week, The Atlantic published a bombshell report that
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Alan Osmond and wife Suzanne Pinegar beam in sweet final photo before his death
Alan Osmond and his wife, Suzanne Pinegar, were all smiles in the final photo of the singer before his death. The selfie of the couple standing outside a church in Utah was shared on Alan’s Instagram on July 23, 2025. Alan had on a suit and tie as he cheesed for the camera alongside Pinegar,
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The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars and turn it into a parody platform
The satirical news outlet the Onion is back with a new plan to take over the Infowars platforms of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as his company faces liquidation over more than $1 billion in defamation judgments owed to relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Under a proposal submitted Monday to a
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Senator rips election-denying lawyer protecting Trump: ‘You assert privilege willy-nilly’
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called out former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark after Clark insisted that details surrounding a letter aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election were legally privileged. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Whitehouse questioned Clark about the letter he had drafted while working for the Justice Department, which he suggested