When the transgender fever fully subsides, it won’t be because of how celebrities like Kiera Knightley respond to idiotic questions about it. But it’s telling when celebrity windsocks no longer feel obligated to pay ritual fealties to social contagions, because social contagions rely on ritual fealties to survive. In a Decider interview published last week, Knightley — who voices a character in a forthcoming audiobook recording of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series — was asked if she was “aware” of the fury directed at Rowling and, by extension, the Potter franchise for Rowling’s “ongoing campaign against trans people.” (By this, the interviewer meant Rowling’s insistence that men cannot become women and should not be enabled to invade private women’s spaces.)...

Hamas defended the gruesome public executions it carried out against Palestinians earlier this week as the terrorist group says it has no plans to lay down its arms — throwing a massive wrench into the already tense peace negotiations with Israel. Hamas politburo member Mohammed Nazzal told Reuters that “exceptional measures” had to be taken when it carried out public killings in Gaza on Monday, which drew widespread criticism for their extreme violence. He claimed that those executed were criminals guilty of murder...

The Justice Department’s indictment of John Bolton, who was President Donald Trump's former national security adviser before becoming a vocal critic of him, marks a significant—and in one respect unprecedented—moment in U.S. legal and political history. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on October 16, 2025, the case accuses Bolton of mishandling classified national defense information in violation of the Espionage Act...

Record high levels of negative emotions are typifying the average American worker’s day-to-day. That’s according to Gallup, which has been measuring U.S. employee life evaluation over a number of years. In 2019, 60 percent of employees said they were thriving, but by 2024, that number had dropped to 50 percent...

In the late night hours of Oct. 11, the remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed Alaska's southwest coast, bringing hurricane-force winds and record flooding to numerous Alaska Native villages on the coast. Evacuees and rescuers describe massive destruction: utility poles snapped in half, boardwalks – the roads and sidewalks in many tundra villages – uprooted, houses floated off their foundations, some with families still inside...

Fox News employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according to legal filings. The employees’ statements were excerpted in a 771-page filing released last week, made public as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the network by voting technology company Smartmatic...

Drugmaker EMD Serono will reduce the cost of a common fertility medication through a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Thursday while also unveiling new federal guidance he said will encourage employers to offer fertility coverage. The new guidance will allow companies to offer fertility benefits separate from major medical insurance plans, like they do with dental and vision plans, Trump said. “We want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children and start the families they have always dreamed about,” Trump said...

Several Catholic bishops denounced the Trump administration’s effort to expand access to in vitro fertilization, commonly referred to as IVF. In a statement released Friday, three top bishops from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said they “strongly reject” IVF and other fertility treatments that “freeze or destroy precious human beings and treat them like property.” “Without diminishing the dignity of people born through IVF, we must recognize that children have a right to be born of a natural and exclusive act of married love, rather than a business’s technological intervention,” the statement said. “And harmful government,...

President Trump unveiled new steps Thursday that he said would dramatically reduce the cost of fertility treatments and in vitro fertilization (IVF) — saying it would mean “many more beautiful American children.” Trump, who vowed as a candidate last year to make IVF free through either an insurance mandate or government subsidy, announced two more modest initial steps to encourage employers to offer new supplemental fertility coverage while lowering the cost of the drugs involved. “Effective immediately, for the first time ever, we will make it legal for companies to offer supplemental insurance plans specifically for fertility — that’s never been done before,” Trump said in the Oval Office...

President Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately. Santos “was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.