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New research finds that hostile attitudes toward women are a leading predictor of extremist sympathies among young Australians. The pattern held across ideological categories. Researchers say prevention programs should address the attitudes directly.

CNN employees are bracing for a possible plan by Paramount's chief executive to install an editorial board overseeing the network. Staffers fear it would shift coverage direction from the newsroom. Paramount has not confirmed the plan.

Rep. Nancy Mace showed off new tattoos and announced a YouTube channel as she raises her public profile. The move blends personal branding with her political ambitions in South Carolina. Colleagues have reacted with a mix of amusement and criticism.

The Christian satire site The Babylon Bee sued New Mexico officials over a new state law requiring warning labels on AI-generated political satire. The suit argues the mandate compels speech and burdens protected parody. State officials have defended the law as a disclosure measure.

A new HHS report says Biden-era policies pressured hospitals to move children into medical gender transition, turning them into what the report calls lifelong 'captive patients.' Detransitioners quoted in the report say underlying problems were never addressed. Clinicians who supported the earlier guidance dispute the findings.

Opening statements began in a Las Vegas courtroom in the trial of Duane 'Keefe D' Davis, the 63-year-old man prosecutors say was the 'shot caller' in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. Fans lined up outside the courthouse for the start of weeks of testimony. The case revisits one of the most scrutinized unsolved killings in music history.

Greg Gatwood and Judy Gittelsohn discovered a large limestone bust buried on their San Francisco property in May. They have spent months trying to trace who carved it and how it got there. So far no one has claimed it.

Newly uncovered documents reveal that David Maltbie, a Connecticut teenager, relayed intelligence to the patriots in 1776 and narrowly avoided execution as a spy. His mission succeeded where Nathan Hale's famously did not. Historians say the record fills a gap in early Revolutionary intelligence.

An analysis argues that litigation risk, not conviction, is what keeps diversity programs embedded at large companies even after public retreats. Legal departments treat the structures as insurance against discrimination claims. Critics say the incentive keeps the policies in place indefinitely.

After winning a million euros, a woman in southern Italy accidentally threw her lottery ticket in the trash. The local sanitation company launched an hourslong search through an entire truckload of garbage. The workers found it.

An examination of the American divorce process argues that legal cost and complexity trap people in dissolved marriages. Some states have piloted simplified filings. Family law reformers say the paperwork itself is often the barrier.

A writer describes broad support for school choice among Black pastors he encounters, driven by frustration with local public schools. The position cuts against the alignment of many of their congregations' political leaders. Pastors frame it as a question of children's futures.

Scholars trace how questions about The Passion Translation's rendering of Scripture went largely unexamined as the paraphrase spread through churches. Critics say added phrasing is presented as translation. Its publisher has defended the work as devotional.

Transgender activists confronted a Democratic candidate at a campaign event, telling him to 'shut up and listen.' Video of the exchange spread online. The candidate has not changed his stated positions.

For a decade a Catholic-run home in Washington offered young women affordable housing alongside the sisters who ran it, as they studied and started careers. Residents describe an unlikely community built across generations. The house is now closing and the community is saying goodbye.

Newly surfaced messages involving Dr. Anthony Fauci on vaccines and pregnancy are being cited in the ongoing legal fight over the abortion pill mifepristone. Advocates on both sides say the documents bear on how federal agencies weigh safety data. The litigation continues in federal court.

Emma Kessler, 22, was anxious about her first half marathon when her boyfriend pulled running shoes from the trunk and joined her at the start. He had trained in secret for two months. The pair finished all 13 miles together.

Thalles DeSouza, who grew up in a violent neighborhood near Rio de Janeiro and later worked at a Wendy's on Cape Cod, is headed to Yale after his managers created a scholarship to fund his education. Coworkers and the franchise owners rallied behind him. He plans to study at the university this fall.

A rescued foal that was calmed by music has learned to trigger instruments and is featured on an album debut. Handlers say the sessions helped the animal settle. The recordings are being released to support the rescue.

Jason Arday, who became one of Britain's youngest Black professors before facing plagiarism accusations that collapsed his career, has been found dead. The prime minister called the death "a tragedy on so many levels" and urged reflection on how the public pile-on unfolded.

Justice Clarence Thomas said that a prestigious institution he once considered part of his own story has effectively become closed to him because of his jurisprudence. "That's the world we're in," he told an audience.

Reporters who went looking for reaction to the vice president's new memoir in the Ohio town he made famous found mostly silence. Residents say they are tired of being a symbol in someone else's argument.

A New Jersey beach town imposed an emergency curfew after repeated nights of large, unruly teenage crowds on the boardwalk. Business owners backed the move while civil liberties groups questioned its reach.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reversed plans for Islamic ritual foot-washing stations after the governor threatened to pull state funding over the accommodation. The fight has become a test case for how far public facilities may go in tailoring amenities to a single faith.

Sixty years after he earned his own degree, a 97-year-old physician sat in the audience as his great-granddaughter walked at the same medical school. The family called the moment overwhelming, a full circle drawn across three generations.

The beer that once made Milwaukee famous has stopped flowing in Chicago after 177 years, closing a chapter of Midwestern industrial and cultural history. Its legacy runs far past the pint glass, into labor, advertising and city identity.

The National World War II Memorial was defaced with red graffiti reading 'Clean Hands Dirty $,' and soap dumped into its fountain filled the basin with bubbles. The Interior Department has opened an investigation and authorities blocked off the fountain.

The Department of Health and Human Services warned Children's Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern that they cannot withhold life-saving treatment from an infant named Gabriel on the basis of his heart defect.

Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama each put a prisoner to death on the same day, the first time three executions have been carried out in a single day in the United States in fifteen years. The rare scheduling underlines a renewed appetite among states for capital punishment.

After a court ruling reversed decades-old restrictions, members of Gun Owners of America completed the first silencer transfers without National Firearms Act registration since 1934. Gun rights groups called the moment monumental.

The Supreme Court is being urged to take up a religious liberty case brought by a Korean spa in Washington state that wants to remain female-only, a dispute that drew national attention over a judge's crude description of the anatomy at issue.

The Kennedy Center's board voted to inscribe President Trump's name on the building again and to add a 'Trump Plaza,' while also voting to close the Washington arts complex's main campus for a $250 million renovation. The closure vote comes three months after a federal judge temporarily blocked a similar plan, and a smaller addition will stay open in response to the court order.

Newly disclosed records show the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents into meetings and infiltrated the group chats of prominent leftwing organizations and protesters opposing the administration's immigration crackdown.

One of California's most famous surfers has four legs and a tail. Rippin' Rosie, a 5-year-old golden Labrador retriever with nearly 340,000 Instagram followers, led the field at the World Dog Surfing Championship.

The biological parents of a baby boy born via surrogate are fighting for custody after the gestational carrier refused to have an abortion when a serious heart defect was found at 20 weeks.

Abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved a step closer to becoming the official position of the Democratic Party, a shift that would hand the party's socialist and far-left wing a major beachhead in its campaign to take over the party's direction.

A district attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used the internet and AI tools to search for fantasy stories about killing his family before the deaths of his mother and younger brother. The Massachusetts teenager is being held without bail.

The State Department announced an overhaul of its diplomatic personnel system, scrapping protocols built around concepts such as 'microaggressions' and 'allyship' that it described as ideologically extreme and discriminatory.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said liberty was never meant to be 'liberation from man's duty to family, nation and God,' pointing to the Church as one of the institutions that has held the nation together for 250 years.

Curtis Sliwa told relatives of 9/11 victims who want Mayor Zohran Mamdani kept away from this year's Ground Zero commemoration to 'stop being sore losers,' arguing they should respect the office even if they reject the man.

More than 200 golden Mozart statuettes were stolen from a public art installation in Salzburg, months after the composer's 270th birthday. It is not the first time miniature statues of composers have been taken.

After a league-wide meeting, the WNBA said there are 'no immediate eligibility matters' affecting the league and denounced what it called bad-faith efforts in the debate over trans-identified males competing in women's sports. The statement follows weeks of pressure that began when Sophie Cunningham voiced support for keeping men out of women's sports.

A mechanical failure set a five-story apartment building near Salt Lake City ablaze within minutes. Residents and their pets were evacuated, and a cat named Toast survived the intense heat by hiding in a closet.

Flock says it will lock out officers who use its license plate reader network to stalk ex-partners, but experts say agencies can still hide abuse and that the company cannot engineer its way past the problem. The debate has renewed questions about whether Flock's surveillance network is worth the privacy trade-off.

Instagram's redesigned wordmark drew immediate criticism, with one widely shared opinion piece arguing the new logo is accidentally, perfectly awful and the ideal embodiment of AI slop.

Bryan Newton, who works for Rhino Sports and Entertainment Services at Virginia Tech, started sculpting a mini warrior rhino as part of a guessing game. Now he makes a new miniature statue for every campus event and gives them away free.

Theme park fandom has split along familiar lines, with women's enthusiasm for rides and lore mocked as obsession while men's is treated as expertise. The fight has spilled into ticket policies and influencer economics. Parks are quietly courting the audience being ridiculed.

Following Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, the Vatican is launching an art triennial devoted to human creativity and empathy in an age of machine-made images. Organizers say the point is to insist that art comes from persons. The first edition will fill several Roman venues.

A grieving golden retriever stopped eating after losing his companion, until a rescued duck attached itself to him and refused to leave. The pair now share a bed and a routine. The owner filmed the recovery almost by accident.

The boogie board began as a garage experiment by a surfer who wanted something small enough to carry down a cliff. Within a decade it was outselling surfboards many times over. Its history is a case study in how a cheap object conquers a coastline.