When Hurricane Helene tore through the western corner of the state of North Carolina in late September, resident Chris Heath was one of the fortunate whose homes remained unscathed. But after three days with no power or water – and no relief in sight – he and his wife packed their three children into the […]

Right-wing figures are latching on to an outlandish claim that Kamala Harris used a teleprompter to answer audience questions during a Univision town hall Thursday. Fox News’s Sean Hannity, pro-Israel violence-funding billionaire Bill Ackman, and allegedly unwitting Russian propagandist Benny Johnson are among several MAGA pundits and influencers who have begun to claim that Harris […]

On the afternoon of October 10, author and influencer Caroline Calloway texted me “I lived bitch.” She posted a screenshot of the same proof-of-life selfie and message on her Instagram story that morning after Hurricane Milton made landfall.  We’d spoken one day earlier about Calloway’s decision not to evacuate for the monster of a storm, […]

Early in his feature filmmaking career, the director Steve McQueen asserted himself as a master of extremes. He showed audiences the terrible withering of a hunger strike, the clench of sex addiction, the daily horrors of American slavery. He moved on to somewhat breezier climes for the dramatic thriller Widows, then to the loveliness and […]

Uprising, Netflix’s new Korean action-war epic, spans decades as it follows the fraught friendship between Cheon-yeong (Broker’s Gang Dong-won), a nobi slave with a knack for swordsmanship, and Jong-ryeo (The 8 Show’s Park Jeong-min), the son of a noble family struggling to reconcile his ideals with his privilege. The two men grow up in the […]

Two peacekeepers with the multinational United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, were when Israeli forces shelled an observation tower at the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura earlier this week. Less than 48 hours later, the UN reported two more injured peacekeepers in Naqoura.  Already in April, an explosion injured three UN observers as well as […]

As SailGP approaches its fifth season of racing, this professional sailing league is finally flying on its own two foils. For the first three seasons of the racing series, one team dominated the championship title and the seven-figure prize. However, a surprise win in the fourth season championship demonstrated that SailGP’s talent pool is increasing, […]

A 2024 novel by Nicholas Sparks named ‘Counting Miracles’ details the central North Carolina city of Asheboro. The novel was released on September 24, 2024, and many netizens are claiming that the author had predicted the hurricane that devastated western North Carolina starting September 27, 2024. View this post on Instagram A post shared by …

Thomas ‘TommyInnit,’ a prankster, is widely known for his unorthodox and cheeky behaviour and gained much notoriety for his pranks since his time on the DreamSMP server. His latest act was to launch a parody vape brand called ‘Vapely,’ which makes fun of YouTubers such as KSI, Logan Paul, and MrBeast’s Lunchly product. But is …

Joseph Malinowski, a.k.a. Lieutenant Dan, the TikTok sensation who refused to evacuate from his sailboat amid the Hurricane Milton warning before being evacuated, has a sordid past which involves criminal charges of boat tags, docking, and traffic violations. He was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia in Broward County in 2019 but did not …