Jimmy Kimmel just announced that Rosie O’Donnell is going to fill in for him on his ABC show this summer, and that tracks. Because Rosie is channeling the same conspiracy theories about Trump stealing the 2024 election and canceling the 2026 election that The View specializes in – as she…
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I don’t recall exactly when it was that I learned that it took a bit more than eight minutes for the sun’s light to reach us here on Earth. Sometime before high school, I think. Anyway, that pedestrian fact made a deep impression on me. I knew that light traveled…
John Staddon, professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, brings unusual precision to a subject that has long been governed more by social convention than by rigorous inquiry in his work, Inevitable Differences: An Inquiry into Human Variation (Academica Press, 2026). His background in experimental psychology and quantitative…
When it comes to dealing with hostile, intractable states like Iran, Washington’s foreign policy establishment too often finds itself trapped in a paralyzing binary. On one side are the isolationists and appeasers who believe we must simply manage American decline and tolerate the aggression. On the other are the neoconservative…
Co-host Jonathan Capehart opened Saturday’s The Weekend on MS NOW show by branding Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon as a “roadblock to a permanent peace deal with Iran.” Capehart highlighted Lebanese casualties from strikes that came “just hours after a ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah.” MS NOW contributor…
Nothing says major self-unawareness quite like Amanda Seyfried choosing to double down on her distortion of Charlie Kirk’s character after his assassination (she called him “hateful”) and casting herself as the victim in a recent British GQ interview . Shortly after Kirk’s assassination, Seyfried commented on an Instagram post that…
Here’s California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom back when he first ran for governor. Incoming California Gov. Gavin Newsom will put his businesses in a blind trust and will release his tax returns every year, he announced Thursday. Newsom, who takes office Jan. 7, has made millions of dollars from his wineries,…
Negotiating with Islamic terrorists in general is a humiliation ritual. The moment you agree, you’ve lost face, shown weakness and it is now their mandate to humiliate you as much possible in order to extract maximum advantage while failing to keep any promises that they make. Our leaders still haven’t…
The latest inquiry into the Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs found that there had been over 250,000 victims across 70 years in the United Kingdom, and it pointed the finger at, among others, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer noting that “while Sir Keir Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions, it…
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Entertainment Editor Sunday, June 21, 2026Seth Troutt | Courtesy of Seth TrouttAbout three years ago, Seth Troutt received an unusual invitation. A church with a large college population was grappling with a growing problem: young Christian men were embracing messages about power and masculinity from influencers…
Every recent foreign policy disaster in the middle east seems to start with Qatar “helping us”. There was Qatar “helping us” negotiate with the Taliban, helping us negotiate with Hamas and then helping us negotiate with Iran and find lots of cash for it. Some cynical conspiracy types might say…
By Tim Clinton, Op-Ed Contributor Sunday, June 21, 2026Getty Images “A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” — Billy GrahamNew research gives hope that a shift is happening in the masculine landscape as new fathers…
In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and Presidency. This thread will refresh daily and appear above the…
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By Thom S. Rainer, Op-ed Contributor Sunday, June 21, 2026(Photo: Unsplash/Jonathan Meyer)A church can sit on the same corner for decades and still be largely unknown. The building is visible. The people inside are faithful.But to many in the community, the church is invisible. They pass by without noticing. They…
By Joseph Mattera, Op-ed Contributor Sunday, June 21, 2026Unsplash/Papaioannou KostasWe are living in a cultural moment where manhood is under assault. Masculinity is mocked, fatherhood is diminished, and spiritual leadership is portrayed as unnecessary — or even oppressive. Society is attempting to emasculate men by shaming strength, belittling responsibility, and…
Vice President JD Vance was ready to fly. His staff had gathered at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington. Journalists were standing by. Then the trip was called off, abruptly and without a firm reschedule date, after Iranian officials refused to travel to Switzerland for the first round of technical nuclear…
President Donald Trump rolled out a converted Boeing 747, a gift from Qatar’s royal family valued at roughly $400 million, as the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Friday, declaring the aircraft “the world’s most luxurious plane” and announcing it would lead a flyover of Washington, D.C.,…
Italy’s deputy prime minister pulled out of a scheduled trip to the United States on Friday after President Donald Trump told an Italian television outlet that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had “begged” him for a photograph at the G7 summit. Meloni fired back publicly, calling Trump’s account “completely made up”…
A Mississippi real estate firm fired an employee this week after he went viral for confronting a father who brought his two young daughters into a women’s restroom at an Alabama gas station, and then called police to report it. The officers who responded told the father he did nothing…
Bunnie Xo went on her Dumb Blonde podcast last week and did something she had never done publicly: she laid out the full toll of her IVF journey with Jelly Roll, including four lost embryos, a year and a half of physical and emotional decline, and a marriage that buckled…
Joint Task Force Southern Spear struck a drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on June 18, killing three men the military described as narco-terrorists, the latest in a monthslong campaign of lethal operations that has now claimed at least 211 lives since September.U.S. Southern Command confirmed the strike in an…
Theodore Gillibrand graduated from Stanford University on a Sunday. By the following week, the 22-year-old son of Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York had secured $30 million in venture capital for a derivatives exchange startup valued at $300 million, a trajectory that would be remarkable for any seasoned entrepreneur,…
Tulsi Gabbard used her final day as Director of National Intelligence to publish hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed documents that she says prove Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress, steered intelligence agencies away from the lab leak theory, and directed U.S. taxpayer money toward gain-of-function coronavirus research at China’s…
The alleged ringleader of a foiled mass casualty attack targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn is a 31-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who overstayed his visa more than two decades ago, and was later shielded from deportation under the Obama administration’s DACA program, the…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, once considered President Trump’s closest ally in Europe, called his claim that she “begged” him for a photo at the G7 summit “completely fabricated” and fired back with a blunt declaration: “Italy and I do not beg.”The public rupture between two leaders who once stood…
Please Follow us on Truth Social, X , Youtube , Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab, Instagram By Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute The cacophony for and against vaccines – even what is a vaccine is in broad dispute – has reached new level of deafening absurdity. There isn’t just one rabbit hole but hundreds. …
Oscar-winning actor, filmmaker and vocal Trump critic Sean Penn will direct a new movie inspired by the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, with Bradley Cooper in talks to take the lead role.Warner Bros. Pictures announced Tuesday that Penn will write and direct the currently untitled project, which will be based…
Tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents gathered Saturday in Paris for a demonstration that was supposed to be filled with historic symbolism: a city synonymous with revolution and resistance hosting a massive call for the oppressive regime in Iran to be toppled.Instead, French authorities banned the march. The result was…
President Donald Trump has decided to endorse a second GOP candidate for the open South Carolina governor seat, after his original pick, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, was the top vote-getter in the June 9 party primary but appears to be losing ground to Attorney General Alan Wilson as they head…
The COVID-19 vaccination rate ranges from 1-in-10 for children and pregnant women to 1-in-6 for adults, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, suggesting the heyday has long passed for jabs known immediately by President Biden’s CDC to not completely stopping infection or transmission and yet portrayed as bulletproof the next…
Most Americans say they do not trust artificial intelligence to provide accurate and unbiased information about politics and current events, according to a new poll.The Center Square’s Voters Voice Poll, conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, found 57% of American voters either trust AI “not very much” or “not at all”…
Illinois state Rep. Chris Miller says Gov. J.B. Pritzker should address the political motivations behind a Grant Park cross burning after the University of Illinois Chicago student accused in the incident said it was intended as a protest against the Trump administration.Pritzker condemned the June 10 incident on social media…
Newly introduced legislation to ban members of Congress from betting in prediction markets should be expanded to include members of all three branches of the federal government, a government accountability group said.Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, which allow people to trade on the outcome of real-world events, have become…
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Screencap of Twitter/X video. Every once in a while, liberal TV host Bill Maher gets something right. Now is another one of those times. On his HBO show on Friday night, Maher slammed Obama’s hideous new presidential library, for its looks, the cost of the project, and more. Maher even…
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What is that old saying? Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. That certainly seems to be the case with Jasmine Crockett, who has apparently still not gotten over being passed over by her party in the Texas Democrat primary for U.S. Senate, instead opting to go with James…
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after it was repaired and repainted in Washington on June 16, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesPresident Donald Trump, on June 20, said the U.S. Park Police have arrested multiple people for acts of vandalism against the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool he recently ordered renovated.“Who would…
The sky is filled with smoke from a warehouse fire in Los Angeles on June 17, 2026. Jae C. Hong/AP PhotoLOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared an emergency Saturday to ensure the city gets the resources it needs to fight a large warehouse fire that has sent large plumes…
Screencap of YouTube video. James Burrows has died at the age of 85. He was the co-creator of ‘Cheers’ but had a long career that involved him in countless other classic American TV shows. In fact, if you have watched television over the last fifty years, you have probably watched…
Kentucky law shields pesticide companies; critics warn of preemption on cancer warnings A new Kentucky law, SB 199, shields pesticide companies from lawsuits if their labels are EPA-approved. The law takes effect July 15, overriding Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto with Republican legislative support. Critics argue it preempts state health warnings,…
Ukraine launched nearly 200 drones at Moscow on June 18, 2026, in what officials described as the largest aerial assault on the Russian capital since World War II, according to local authorities [1]. The attack killed an eight-year-old girl in the city of Zhukovsky and wounded at least 17 people,…
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday, June 19, that he approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran despite having a “different view” on the deal, according to a statement posted on X. Khamenei attributed the decision to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and…
UK government to ban social media for children under 16, citing the need to protect them from online dangers On June 15, the United Kingdom government announced that it will ban social media for children under 16, with legislation expected to be brought before Parliament before Christmas 2026. Prime Minister…
French Domestic Intelligence Agency to Replace Palantir Software With French-Made Alternative French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced Tuesday, June 16, that the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) will replace software from U.S. defense tech giant Palantir with a system from French firm ChapsVision. “We cannot rely on tools developed…
Cognitive changes such as increased forgetfulness, trouble concentrating, and irritability may be among the first signs of sleep deprivation, according to sleep specialists. Approximately 50 to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders or insufficient rest, according to a report published by NaturalNews.com[1]. Many individuals dismiss fatigue as a minor…
Omega-3s and menopause: Separating hope from hype in the search for symptom relief The evidence is mixed. Some studies suggest omega-3s may slightly reduce night sweat intensity, but others show no improvement in hot flash frequency compared to placebo, and they are not considered a proven treatment for vasomotor symptoms.…
Asbestos-Linked Cancer Deaths Higher Than Three Decades Ago Despite Declining Rates, Study Finds Global deaths from asbestos-related cancer have increased compared to three decades ago, even as per-capita rates have declined, according to a new study analyzing mortality data from 1990 to 2019. Despite falling use of the fibrous mineral…
A review published in Frontiers in Nutrition has found that vitamin D deficiency affects between 30% and more than 90% of healthcare workers, depending on the study and geographic region, according to the study authors. The review identified indoor work environments and limited sun exposure as key risk factors. It…