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The Trump Administration sent a memo to some of the U.S. universities asking them to change some of their admissions practices and how they operate, including putting a cap on the total international students at a university. In this article, we will review the key points from the memo, who it impacts, and how it impacts the international students, and what kind of effect it can have on future international students. Also, you can read the actual copy of the memo in the last section. Summary of Trump’s Memo to US Universities On October 1st, 2025, the Trump Administration sent…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Almost every day for nearly a year, Gota Chanturia has joined rallies at Georgia’s parliament against the government and its increasingly repressive policies. He’s done this despite mass arrests and police violence against demonstrators. And the civics teacher keeps marching even though he’s racked up an astonishing $102,000 in fines from the protests. That’s about 10 times what the average Georgian earns in a year. “We’ve said that we will be here until the end, and we’re still here,” Chanturia told The Associated Press as he participated in yet another demonstration this week in the capital of Tbilisi.…

V/H/S/Halloween comes out today on Shudder, and fans couldn’t be more excited. We recently reviewed the campy anthology project ahead of its release. However, we have another treat up our sleeves this Halloween season. I recently sat down with Micheline Pitt-Norman & R.H. Norman to discuss their section Home Haunt as well as their upcoming project with James Wan & Jason Blum, Cosmetic. Micheline Pitt-Norman & R.H. Norman Interview iHorror: How did you two get involved in horror? Are you a fan of the genre outside of these new projects? Micheline Pitt-Norman: Oh yeah. My love for horror started at…

PROVO, Utah — One of the biggest vulnerabilities in the case against Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin, Tyler Robinson, could be the prosecution’s timeline, according to a prominent Utah defense attorney — and she expects the defense to drag discovery in the case on for up to a year before he finally gets a preliminary hearing. Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two, was shot and killed around 12:20 p.m. on Sept. 10 while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. He was a founder of the conservative student group, which had a national footprint and is credited…

The father of the knife-wielding terrorist behind a deadly UK synagogue attack allegedly praised the deadly Oct. 7 slaughter as a “miracle” — and called Hamas murderers “God’s men on earth.” Jihad Al Shamie’s surgeon dad, Faraj Al Shamie, posted a slew of posts on Facebook in support of the deadly 2023 attacks on the Jewish state, the Telegraph revealed — including one in which he described the atrocities as a “miracle by all standards.” The posts emerged just hours after the dad fired off a statement distancing himself from the carnage his son — whom he had named Jihad — inflicted Thursday…

As President Donald Trump tightens bonds with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is doubling down on his bloody war, ordering a huge influx of men to sign up for service. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Trump has signed off on sharing US intelligence to help Kyiv attack oil refineries, pipelines and other key targets in Russia — and is reportedly considering giving Ukraine the Tomahawk and Barracuda cruise missiles needed to strike deep inside the invader’s territory. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials are in Washington to seal a deal that President Volodymyr Zelensky says will involve the United States purchasing…

Police will investigate whether the knife-wielding terrorist behind the UK synagogue attack previously sent death threats to a British politician over his position on Israel — as officials reveal they were astonished by his name. Jihad Al Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, was shot dead by cops on Thursday just minutes after he plowed his car into pedestrians and went on a stabbing frenzy outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur. As police probe his motives for the hate-filled attack, investigators will look at whether he’s also to blame for menacing emails…

Here’s a photo of my son Jon at six months old (he’s now 24). Most people looking at it would say something like, “What a cute little person!” Almost no one would say, “What a cute baby ape!” Yet, oddly enough, from a technical scientific perspective, that would be the more accurate statement. This blog is about why that is and why it matters. Language Matters, and It’s Messy To make sense of this, we need to consider the nature of language. Words don’t have fixed meanings. Their meaning depends on context, history, and how we use them in everyday…

DREAD THE HALLS 2025 – The Holidays Are Haunting, and Terror Waits Beneath the Tinsel…: ” Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing return with DREAD THE HALLS 2025, the third chapter in their fan-favorite holiday horror series! Following last winter’s breakout debut and this summer’s Dread the Hall H sell-out at San Diego Comic-Con, the team is back with a super-sized 72-page stocking stuffer of pure terror. Co-created and written by Jordan Hart (Ripple Effects, The Cabinet) and Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots, Megalopolis), Dread the Halls 2025 unwraps five wildly different tales that run the spectrum from suspense to splatter. Art drops by Luana Vecchio (Lovesick, Bolero), illustrating her first holiday tale—a 12-page yuletide riff that…

Drug-resistant superbugs are sickening American hospital patients at an alarming rate — but the reality of these “nightmare bacteria” infections is even worse than the headlines suggest.   Last week, researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a “shocking” increase in drug-resistant CRE infections — which tripled from 2019 to 2023 and caused an estimated 1,100 deaths.  But the ugly truth is dirty hospitals are killing patients, regardless of whether it’s CRE or some other germ. CRE is short for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, a class of bacteria new to the US since 2001 that can only be treated with IV antibiotics, not…