CULTURE

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Nearly 80,000 people have signed an online petition calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from attending events next month marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims recently launched a petition urging the...

Content Warning: Graphic Images and Descriptions (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Perez Hilton's family confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the celebrity blogger and entertainer was hospitalized after he appeared to self-harm during a livestream on a popular social media platform. Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, sparked concern on social media after...

(Headline USA) A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although no one observed the actual 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Like the lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates ordered by disgraced former COVID czar Anthony Fauci during the pandemic, the reckoning against Fauci himself is now having major reverse-ripple effects --- including vindication for NBA star Kyrie Irving. Following a Senate hearing last Wednesday in which Fauci...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A clip of Vivek Ramaswamy walking out on a libertarian youth convention tore through X this week, driven largely by a post from the account The Constitutionalist. The video catches Ohio's Republican nominee for governor watching a right leaning audience turn on him in the...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square) Michigan House Republicans say newly obtained records show Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson maintained ties to the recently indicted Southern Poverty Law Center after taking office. The records come amid ongoing scrutiny of Benson's relationship with the organization following a federal indictment announced in...

(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Plans to unite Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery into a film and television giant are on ice following a flurry of antitrust lawsuits. Paramount Skydance recently announced that it will delay closing its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to as late as...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A conservative-friendly studio faces backlash after the star of one of its soon-to-be-released feature films went on an unhinged, profanity-laced rant calling President Donald Trump a “rapist” and pedophile. Utah-based Angel Studios, founded by four Mormon brothers in the Harmon family, was once touted as a...

(José Niño, Headline USA) The U.S. Department of Education stripped disparate impact provisions out of its Title VI regulations last week, The College Fix reported, ending federal treatment of race neutral school policies as civil rights violations whenever the resulting numbers break unevenly along racial lines. The Office for Civil...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Some have called Christopher Nolan’s remake of The Odyssey an epic conquest for the ages; others call it a three-hour golden fleecing. To some conservatives, it may seem a siren song, beckoning its unwitting moviegoers to engage in cultural destruction due to its historical revisionism of...

(Headline USA) Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expanding the scope of the largest U.S. outbreak of cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak first tied to Taco Bell...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In a blow to free speech in America, a jury has found a Minnesota mom guilty of disorderly conduct for using a racial slur on camera after a Somali child took her property last year. The jury found the mother, Shiloh Hendrix, guilty on Thursday night after...