Conventional wisdom holds that Halloween is essentially a secular and pagan holiday, the result of the Christian Church appropriating an ancient Celtic harvest festival. But one strain of critical opinion tends to the view that the holiday wasthoroughly Christianfrom the start. In the church calendar, Halloween (All Hallows' Eve) is the beginning of a ...

The Utah County in-person hearing scheduled Thursday for Tyler James Robinson, 22 - charged with aggravated murder in the death of conservative leader Charlie Kirk - has been postponed to January. The post Tyler Robinsons In-Person Hearing Delayed to January first appeared on The Ohio Star.

Since joining the country music bandwagon over 20 years ago, I quickly learned that a lot of country music evolved from bluegrass. I also learned that bluegrass musicians are some of the most talented instrumentalists in the world. Calamity Jane also hails from that genre with a more modern twist affectionately labeled "Newgrass." Violinist Lucy Cantley and ...

For years, Big Pharma stood together,warningthat President Donald Trumps Most-Favored-Nationexecutive orderwould stifle innovation and that the policy is irresponsible and unworkable. The post Commentary: Big Pharma Resistance to Trumps Push for Most Favored Nation Status Is Starting to Crack first appeared on The Ohio Star.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rebuffed calls from major U.S. airlines to get behind a clean continuing resolution and end the 30-day shutdown on Thursday. The post Hakeem Jeffries Digs in His Heels Further as Major Airlines, Unions Call for End to Schumer-Caused Shutdown first appeared on The Ohio Star.

The Department of Education (ED) on Thursday updated a rule on public service employee eligibility for student loan forgiveness, disqualifying any who work at organizations that advocate for sex change operations for minors, or which aid illegal aliens. The post Education Dept to End Loan Forgiveness for Organizations Who Want to Trans Kids, Aid Illegals ...

A Moms for Liberty activist in Wisconsin described a onetime "social justice coordinator" in the local high school as a "white savior" and "woke" woman with a "god complex." The post Moms for Liberty Activist Beats Defamation Suit by DEI Employee over Woke, White Savior Jabs first appeared on The Ohio Star.

The Federal Reserve announced its second interest rate cut of the year on Wednesday, reducing the benchmark rate by a quarter-point to lower the target range to 3.75%-4.00%. The decision, made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) after a two-day meeting, follows a quarter-point reduction in September. The move comes amid softer labor market ...

Democratic Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson on Tuesday blocked his partys effort to redraw congressional maps, halting plans to target the states only Republican lawmaker. In a three-pageletterto his Democratic colleagues, first obtained by Politico, Ferguson said he would not support holding a special session to redraw the maps and warned that a ...

Zohran Mamdanis father Mahmood a prominent leftist in his own right penned a book in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 where he argued that there was a moral equivalence between the United States and al-Qaeda, compared the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, blamed the U.S. for 9/11 and al-Qaeda, ...

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced that states that do not comply with Justice Department requests to examine voter rolls face lawsuits, eight of which have already beenfiled. "We've been asking states to produce the data of their voter rolls, to be able to make sure that they only have citizens on the rolls and that they ...

Americas labor market is flashing red, and the Federal Reserve is watching the light change instead of hitting the brakes. Job openings have fallen to7.26 million, the lowest level in 4 years. Private-sector hiring has turned negative, withSeptembers ADP data showing -32,000 jobs after August was revised down to -3,000. Employers plans to add workers have ...

CBS News   The U.S. military on Monday struck four more vessels that were allegedly trafficking narcotics in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 14 and leaving one survivor, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethannounced on X. The four vessels were hit in three different strikes, Hegseth said. The strikes bring the total death toll in President ...

The Hill   Rep.Elise Stefanik(R-N.Y.) is leading incumbent New York Gov.Kathy Hochul(D) in the New York gubernatorial race, according to polling. In apoll released Tuesday, the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, finds Stefanik getting 43 percent support compared to Hochuls 42 percent a statistical tie that still gives the House Republican a ...

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the House-passed government funding bill in the chamber's 13th vote on the measure, ensuring the government shutdown continues. The bill would fund the government through Nov. 21 if passed with 60 votes. The measure failed by a 54-45 vote,The Hill news outlet reported. The government shutdown has reached its 28th day. The ...

California will deploy its own observers to watch U.S. Department of Justice poll monitors during the state's election next week, state Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta said. Theyre not going to be allowed to interfere in ways that the law prohibits, Bonta said on Monday during a virtual news conference,NOTUS reported. We cannot be naive. The ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Tuesday announced that his office has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for "deceptively marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers." Thelawsuitwas filed Monday against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue for marketing the drug to pregnant mothers "despite knowing that early exposure to acetaminophen, Tylenols ...

When I met Billie Jo Jones earlier this year at CRS, I learned that she would be on a TV show and that her sophomore album would be released this fall. I promised her I would do a full feature on her when the album came out. Jones is from Texas and was born to a mother who had and still has an addiction, so her grandparents raised her. Because they raised ...

In the late 1850s, Bleeding Kansas was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-be Confederacy fought each other over whether Kansas would be admitted as a free or slave-owning state. As the assaults and killings increased, radicals set the agenda. The logical next step was the nightmares of Fort ...

Breitbart   China and Russia have reportedly been sending attractive women to the United States to seduce Silicon Valley tech executives and steal their secrets. Female spies from China and Russia are engaging in sex warfare inSilicon Valley, with some of the women even marrying and having children with their targets, an industry insidertoldtheTimes of… ...

Washington Examiner   The largestunionrepresenting federal workers is calling onCongressto end theshutdowntoday, siding with Republicans in their demand that lawmakers pass a clean, short-termfunding bill. Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, released a statement on Monday arguing that both parties have made their ...

CNN   Air traffic controllerstaffing shortagesworsened over the weekend as the nationsgovernment shutdownhit its fourth week, leading to delays and anxiety, and experts say it wont get better until air traffic controllers get paid. More than 50 staffing shortages have been reported since Friday morning, causing delays from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, ...

The Hill   Former New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo(D), whos running as an independent for mayor of New York City, has cut Democratic nomineeZohran Mamdanislead in half, according to apoll releasedeight days before Election Day. In the latest Suffolk University poll, conducted over the past four days, Mamdani leads Cuomo by 10 points 44 percent… The post Cuomo ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signaled on Sunday that he would seriously weigh a presidential run after the 2026 midterm elections take place. Newsom was asked whether he would give serious thought to a White House campaign once the nations attention shifts beyond next years contests. The post Newsom to Consider Entering 2028 Presidential Race After 2026 ...

The FBI has arrested what the bureau alleges is an "anarchist" in connection to a social media post to kill Attorney General Pam Bondi for $45,000. Tyler Maxon Avalos, 29, was arrested on Oct. 16 after the FBI was alerted by a tipster to the alleged murder-for-hire that the defendant allegedly posted on social media earlier this month,the New York Post ...