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From Canada comes the story of a lost family heirloom finding its way home in the most bizarre series of circumstances. Kelly Brown, a member of the Aurora post of the Royal Canadian Legion, sat at her home last week in shock: staring at what appeared to be a black-and-white photograph of her grandparents smiling […] The post Woman Stunned to See Grandparent’s Wartime Locket on Facebook After Stranger Buys it in Thrift Shop to Help Find Owner appeared first on Good News Network.

News Elden Ring Alex Garland Will Direct A24’s Elden Ring Adaptation This image is not of us studying the Elden Ring lore, but it might as well be. By Molly Templeton | Published on May 23, 2025 Screenscot: Bandai Namco Comment 0 Share New Share Screenscot: Bandai Namco From Area X to the Lands Between: Deadline reports that Annihilation director Alex Garland has signed on for A24’s adaptation of Elden Ring, the award-winning, open-world game directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and based on a story by George R.R. Martin (who will also be a producer on the film.) Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, which players can explore freely—roaming around, exploring dungeons, fighting bad guys, you know the drill. Here’s the game synopsis, courtesy of publisher Bandai Namco: The Golden Order has been broken.Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the ELDEN RING and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between.In the Lands Between ruled by Queen Marika the Eternal, the ELDEN RING, the source of the Erdtree, has been shattered.Marika’s offspring, demigods all, claimed the shards of the ELDEN RING known as the Great Runes, and the mad taint of their newfound strength triggered a war: The Shattering. A war that meant abandonment by the Greater Will.And now the guidance of grace will be brought to the Tarnished who were spurned by the grace of gold and exiled from the Lands Between. Ye dead who yet live, your grace long lost, follow the path to the Lands Between beyond the foggy sea to stand before the ELDEN RING.And become the Elden Lord. On a 2022 list, USA Today ranked Elden Ring at #38 on a list of the 100 greatest video games of all time (one notch behind The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, the actual greatest game of all time according to this writer). It won a pile of awards, including Game of the Year from the Game Awards and the New York Game Awards. Garland will write and direct the adaptation; it’ll be his fifth film for A24. Meanwhile, an Elden Ring spinoff, Elden Ring Nightreign, is being released next week, on the 30th. At least you can play that while you wait for the film? One assumes it might take a while to bring a world this big to the screen.[end-mark] The post Alex Garland Will Direct A24’s <i>Elden Ring</i> Adaptation appeared first on Reactor.

Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday in response to the Department of Homeland Security revoking the school’s certification to host international students. The Trump administration had stripped Harvard of its ability to enroll foreign students earlier Friday, accusing the school of failing to heed the law. “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.   “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments,” Noem continued in a statement. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused.”   Currently, there are over 6,700 international students studying at Harvard, making up about 27% of the Ivy League school’s student body, according to the university.  Harvard is losing its “Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law,” according to Noem. “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”  DHS operates the Student and Exchange Visitor Program to ensure foreign students are in the country legally. Harvard President Alan Garber called the administration’s latest move part of a “series of government actions to retaliate against Harvard for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government’s illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body.”  The complaint filed in Massachusetts claims the administration’s actions “depart from decades of settled practice and come without rational explanation. And they were carried out abruptly without any of the robust procedures the government has established to prevent just this type of upheaval to thousands of students’ lives.”  Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that left 1,200 people dead and another 251 held hostage in Gaza, pro-Palestine demonstrations and student groups used antisemitic language that then-Harvard President Claudine Gay failed to clearly denounce.   In a letter at the end of March, Garber said he himself has “antisemitism directly, even while serving as president,” and vowed that the university would “continue to combat antisemitism and to foster a campus culture that includes and supports every member of our community.”   Over concerns that foreign students were generating antisemitism on campus, Noem in April “demanded Harvard provide information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus,” according to DHS.   Noem told Harvard that failure to cooperate with DHS would result in the university losing its ability to host international students. Harvard did not comply.   “Harvard University brazenly refused to provide the required information requested and ignored a follow up request from the Department’s Office of General Council,” according to DHS. “Secretary Noem is following through on her promise to protect students and prohibit terrorist sympathizers from receiving benefits from the U.S. government.”   The latest action against Harvard follows the Trump administration’s decision in April to terminate $2.7 million in DHS grants to the university over the school’s failure to combat antisemitism, and President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in federal funding to the university. The post Harvard Sues After Trump Administration Ends School’s Ability to Host Foreign Students appeared first on The Daily Signal.

One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity, and inclusion was its insistence that roughly 70% of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color.  In contrast, the other “diverse” 30% were de facto considered the victimized.  In such absurd binaries, the Left returned to the old “one drop” rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any nonwhite ancestry was a minority victim.  And once that Marxist-inspired dichotomy was institutionalized, a corollary was established that the self-declared racially oppressed cannot themselves be racist oppressors.  But human nature is universal and transcends race.  One lamentable characteristic of our species is that we are all prone to excess and crudity if not deterred, especially once civilizational restraint is lost.  We are now witnessing examples of what follows when antiwhite stereotyping and racism are given a pass—as long as the purveyors can claim their victimhood entitles them to bias.  Recently, WNBA basketball stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark got into one of their now-characteristic on-court rivalries. But this time around, Reese mocked Clark as a “White gyal (sic) running from the fade.”  Reese assumes that her status as a black star grants her immunity from backlash—a privilege unlikely to be extended if the roles were reversed.  Or is her crassness a simple reflection that 60 years after the civil rights movement, it is deemed cool or deservedly acceptable to use the word “white” derogatorily?  After all, loose cannon Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, in one of her accustomed racialist rants, recently went after her party’s big Democrat donors, who raised a record amount of money for Kamala Harris’ short-lived campaign.  Crockett played the race card when claiming that Democrat insiders were already backing the next party nominee as the “safest white boy.”  Her racist irritation is puzzling. After all, two out of the last four Democrat presidential nominees have been African Americans.  Yet it is certainly easy to see why Crockett, who endlessly spouts off about race in congressional sessions, used the pejorative “white boy.” She knows that there are no repercussions given her race and, to a lesser extent, her gender and left-wing ideology.  Recently, a past 2018 slur resurfaced from another House Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. She had falsely claimed, “I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths in this country.”  Omar’s stereotyped smear was not only racist but also factually incorrect.  The FBI’s 2018 data on perpetrators of murder, when the race of the offender was known, reveals that 54.9% of the nation’s murderers that year were African American, who constitute about 13% of the population.  And when the race of the murderer in rare interracial killings was known, blacks were more than twice as likely to murder whites as whites were to kill blacks.  During recent controversies over leaks at the Pentagon, former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, during the Obama administration, injected race by smearing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. She leveled a trifecta race/gender/sexual orientation slur—all irrelevant to the issue at hand: “Well, if you’re a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense.”  Rice still chafes that as a sometimes-official Obama administration spokeswoman, she serially and deliberately misled the country about the fatal 2012 terrorist attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi.  In all these cases, there was no fallout from racial categorization and demonization. Again, we apparently accept the pernicious idea that those identifying as an oppressed group cannot themselves voice illiberal stereotypes.  But while our political elites and celebrities seem fixated on using racial put-downs for career advantage and personal notoriety, the people increasingly ignore their entrenched and off-putting racism.  For example, in a recent Rasmussen poll surveying public attitudes toward President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, 62% of Hispanics voiced approval (higher than the 49% of whites). And 39% of blacks agreed.  One result of the 2024 campaign was that while Democrats seemed fixated on racial stereotypes, the public had moved on.  Voters increasingly see class considerations transcending race. That fact may explain why exasperated and flailing Democrats and leftists desperately seek to resurrect racial polarization instead of finding a popular middle-class agenda.  Historically, tribalism erodes a multiracial democracy.  It did when white leaders in the past expressed racist attitudes toward blacks. And it will again if black elites simply flip the paradigm and do the same.  (C)2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Are Some Racist Slurs OK?  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Major defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that it will phase out employee resource groups, which divide workers along racial, LGBTQ, and activism lines, after President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and after shareholders expressed concern about an anti-Christian double standard. “As we shared in January, Lockheed Martin took immediate action to ensure compliance with President Trump’s Executive Order 14173, encouraging merit-based talent management practices within U.S. companies,” Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO Jim Taiclet said in an email to staff shared with The Daily Signal. The executive order, issued Jan. 21, declared that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” efforts in the federal government, companies, the medical industry, higher education, and other places can violate federal civil rights laws, which bar discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The order directs federal agencies to encourage the private sector “to end illegal DEI discrimination and preferences.” In the order’s wake, Lockeed Martin “conducted a thorough review of our efforts to recruit, retain, and promote the best aerospace and defense talent in the world to ensure full alignment with the executive order and our core values—Do What’s Right, Respect Others, and Perform with Excellence,” Taiclet shared. He announced the results of the review and new policies. Lockheed Martin’s Changes Lockheed Martin reviewed its company trainings, “removed all goals and incentives based on demographic representation and affirmative action plans,” and altered its “social impact funding” to align with the order. Perhaps most substantively, the company announced it had removed employee subgroups based on race and political causes. Many companies maintain and fund “employee resource groups,” mostly for minority groups the Left claims are oppressed: racial minorities, women, people who identify as LGBTQ, and others. “After careful review, we have decided to permanently sunset our Business Resource Groups and Employee Networks organized around demographics, identities, or advocacy,” Taiclet wrote. “This is effective immediately. We will explore new employee engagement opportunities, focused on our mission and open to all team members, that support leadership development and talent recruitment and retention.” Lockheed Martin updated its Jan. 23 statement on the executive order. ‘Win for the Company’ Jerry Bowyer, an investment manager for Lockheed Martin shareholder David Bahnsen, celebrated the news. “I think it’s a win for the company, for sure,” Bowyer told The Daily Signal in a Thursday phone call. “Politically neutral is good for business.” Bowyer gave credit to Trump’s executive order but also noted that he advocated for removing the employee resource groups on Bahnsen’s behalf. “David was willing to do a proposal, the proposal started a conversation, and the company said they were dropping their DEI requirements for suppliers,” Bowyer said. He and Bahnsen thought the company was genuinely addressing DEI, so they decided to drop the proposal. “They were undergoing what we thought was a serious review of their employee resource group policies,” Bowyer explained. He celebrated the announcement as “terrific” and noted, “It’s kind of amazing that everyone doesn’t do that.” He criticized employee resource groups as divisive and unnecessary. “You come to work to work,” Bowyer said. “You don’t come to work to say, ‘Here’s who I have sex with.’” “Why in the world would we organize employees?” he asked. “Why would we cluster them by racial characteristics or sexual proclivities?” “A lot of money goes into these employee resource groups,” Bowyer noted. “You’re paying employees to be activists against management. You’re forming these little lobbying groups inside the company; they start advocating for political causes.” He then brought up what he framed as an anti-Christian double standard. “The president didn’t just have an executive order on DEI, but he also had an executive order on anti-Christian discrimination,” Bowyer said. Trump signed an executive order aimed at eradicating anti-Christian bias on Feb. 6. Lockheed Martin “had pride and LGBTQ resource groups but nothing for people of faith,” he noted. Companies have increasingly rejected DEI and pulled out of the LGBTQ activist Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index,” spurred on by conservative activists like Robby Starbuck, shareholders like Bahnsen, and Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom’s Viewpoint Diversity Score. Companies had been rejecting DEI before Trump’s election in November, but the president’s moves have accelerated this trend. The post Lockheed Martin Phases Out Key DEI Policy After Questions About Anti-Christian Double Standard appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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