CULTURE

(José Niño, Headline USA) Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, spent years cultivating a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while running a startup she described as a "revolutionary porn company," according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.  The outlet reports that literary agent John Brockman connected Clark and...

(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) Jewish advocacy group and antisemitism tracker the Anti-Defamation League launched a new initiative Wednesday aimed at helping university students, faculty and staff combat antisemitism on their campuses. The initiative includes two reports tracking “less visible” forms of antisemitism at universities, a confidential reporting mechanism for...

(Headline USA) Weeks before voting ended in California's primary for governor, Los Angeles-based influencer Shaka Smith took to Instagram to tell his more than 700,000 followers whom he was voting for and why. “Healthcare shouldn't bankrupt you, housing should not feel impossible, polluters shouldn't pass their bill to us and...

(Johnny Edwards, The Center Square) A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments, an investigation by The Center Square found. A nonprofit called Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group openly touts puberty blockers and...

(Headline USA) Ben Jones, who played the good ol' boy mechanic in “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. He was 84. Jones had a heart attack in his home Sunday in Washington, Virginia,...

(Headline USA) A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money...

(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...