BEAUTY QUEEN BIMBO: Pageant queen’s awkward onstage blunder at Miss Grand International goes viral

The blunder happened at the Miss Grand International 2025 | Grand Final A beauty queen found herself suffering an awkward blunder when one of her competitors accidentally stole her spotlight. A clip of the horrendous mishap has now gone viral as...

AI Took the Job, but Not Your Future: Finding Hope in Uncertain Times

Losing a job can shake a person’s very core identity. It brings fear, anxiety and often sleepless nights filled with uncertainty about the future. In a recent message, evangelist Perry Stone spoke directly to those struggling with job loss or...

Oct. 25 obituaries

Joshua Vaughn Staggs, 42 Joshua Vaughn Staggs, 42, of Tuscumbia, passed away on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. Visitation will be Fri­day, October 17, from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. at Morrison Fu­neral Home, Tuscumbia. The funeral service will immedi­ately...

John Feffer: America’s Disappeared

October 22, 2025 – The Trump administration aspires to deport a million people in its first year of office. The president has also spoken of the more ambitious goal of deporting 15-20 million undocumented people overall, even if that category...

Man shot by agents streams law enforcement activity

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man shot by federal officers while he tried to evade arrest Tuesday morning is a popular local TikTok streamer who documents police activity, immigration enforcement and daily neighborhood life. Carlitos Ricardo Parias,...

The Darién Gap Straddling Panama and Colombia is a Mass Migrant Graveyard that Exemplifies Injustice of Today’s Global Economy

[Source: greenmatters.com] MAGA warnings of an enemy invasion through the gap helps justify cruel policies targeting vulnerable people who have been victimized by U.S. foreign policy Known in Spanish as Tapón del Darién, the Darién Gap is a...

Faithful react to Pope’s call to love the needy

On the feast day of St. Francis, a beloved champion of the poor, Pope Leo XIV signed his first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te” (“I Have Loved You”). The exhortation, which was started by his predecessor, Pope Francis, calls on all Christians to...

Fearless NY father and daughter receive hero award for stopping knife-wielding man from killing wife

A brave Westchester father and daughter who stopped a man from stabbing his wife to death in a jealous rage — then saved her life with a makeshift tourniquet — were honored as “quick-thinking” heroes at an award ceremony Wednesday. “She survived...

Three Points Festival ticket fraud among recent KB police activity

Here is a summary of incidents and actions taken by the Key Biscayne Police Department during the period of October 13 to October 19. These incidents were taken from the department’s logs. October 13, 2025 A business alarm was reported from the 60...

5 Things To Know About The LA TikToker Shot During LA Immigration Stop

Carlitos Ricardo Parias — known as Richard LA on TikTok — has spent time in recent months documenting ICE activity in the Southland. Posted Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 5:18 pm PT LOS ANGELES, CA — On Tuesday, an influencer known for chronicling law...

New Cup on the Block: For Your Everyday Coffee Needs

Photo: Chloe Cornforth Like many people, I start my day with coffee. It’s become a ritual: I wake up, brush my teeth and make coffee. So when I was driving through town and noticed a new café called Everyday, the name automatically clicked. The...

How Brenda Coffee Turned Trauma into Triumph in Her Memoir Maya Blue

At first glance, Maya Blue reads like a fairytale. An ambitious journalist swept into the glittering world of invention, love, and promise. But as Brenda Coffee’s memoir unfolds, that sheen fractures into something far more harrowing and human....

Hidden rainforest camera proves humans and wildlife can peacefully coexist

A forest can look alive from above and still be silent, with no footprints, calls, or creatures. Scientists even have a name for it: an “empty forest.” But not all forests follow that story. In northern Guatemala, in the heart of the Maya...

‘You will never break Chicago’: No Kings Protest Returns

Thousands gathered in Chicago as part of the second nationwide “No Kings” protest, one of over 2,700 protests being held across all 50 states Oct. 18. The demonstration drew a wide range of participants including elderly Chicagoans handing out...

Los Angeles TikTok streamer shot by federal agents during arrest attempt

Popular LA TikTok creator Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot by federal officers during an attempted arrest on an immigration warrant. The 44-year-old is stable and faces charges of assaulting a federal officer after allegedly ramming his car into...

Cut the Ads: Dem Katherine Clark Says Her Party Is Leveraging Families’ Suffering in Schumer Shutdown

Give Democrats enough screen time and eventually the self-damaging truth will slip out. Democrat Whip Representative Katherine Clark just gave away how far her party is willing to go to get what it wants - they’re using your family's suffering as...

Was RFK Jr. Prophesying the Future? His 2022 Warning Is Coming True Before Our Eyes

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at the “Defeat the Mandates” rally on Jan. 23, 2022, in Washington, D.C., his warnings sounded like the words of a man deeply concerned about liberty. Nearly four years later, they sound like a roadmap for the...

Man shot by federal agents during arrest streams law enforcement activity on TikTok

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man shot by federal officers while he tried to evade arrest Tuesday morning is a popular local TikTok streamer who documents police activity, immigration enforcement and daily neighborhood life....

LA man shot by federal agents during arrest streams law enforcement activity on TikTok

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<![CDATA[What to expect at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting]]>

C. Stephen and Frances Foster Lecture “Bedside” to “Bench” and Back, 11:30 to 12:30 Jackson Memorial Lecture Using Genetics for Glaucoma Screening and Risk Stratification, 9:46 to 10:11 William F. Hoyt Lecture What Have We Learned from the...