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Shutdown like it’s 1995.  The ongoing government shutdown became the second-longest in US history Wednesday, surpassing the 1995-1996 lapse in federal funding as it dragged into day 22 with no end in sight.  Senate Democrats have blocked Republican attempts to reopen the government 11 times since Oct. 1, when all but three members of the caucus voted against moving forward with a House-passed measure to keep federal departments and agencies funded at current levels through Nov. 21.  The Senate will gavel in at 10 a.m. Wednesday to try yet again to end the shutdown, as Democratic leaders demand a meeting…

Pope Leo XIV canonized seven religious figures who were posthumously boosted to sainthood on Sunday, including a former Satanic priest turned Catholic legend. More than 70,000 onlookers turned out to the Vatican to witness the historic canonization, the second done by Pope Leo XIV’s since he was chosen as the new leader of the Catholic Church in May. Italian lawyer and former Satanic Church priest Bartolo Longo was canonized as a saint on Sunday. Getty Images Among the celebrated lineup of figures was former Satanic priest Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who found his way back to Catholicism and even…

Blood, glamor, and chaos collide in AMC’s first look at ‘The Vampire Lestat,’ a fever-dream resurrection of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe. By Kirsten Saylor, iHorror Contributor – from New York Comic Con 2025 The crowd inside New York Comic Con’s Main Stage erupted as AMC unveiled an extended first look at The Vampire Lestat, the highly anticipated third season of Interview with the Vampire. For those who have followed Louis de Pointe du Lac’s tortured journey from New Orleans to Paris to some semblance of truth in Dubai, this new chapter promises something bolder, stranger, and far more drug-fueled. I…

Lithuania suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport late on Tuesday due to a presence of dozens of smugglers’ balloons in its airspace, the country’s National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC) said in a statement. European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen, Munich and the Baltic region. “Operations have been disrupted due to weather balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus,” the NCMC said in its statement, adding that passengers were asked to follow official airport information. Lithuania has suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport due to…

The Olympic sendoff event at UBS Arena is no more. The Super Bowl Media Day-style event for the Olympic hockey tournament that was planned in lieu of an All-Star Game at UBS Arena is being canceled, an Islanders spokesman confirmed to The Post. ESPN’s Emily Kaplan was the first to report the news. The Islanders are still slated to host the 2027 All-Star Game and skills competition, though it will have far less gravitas for being in between the NHL’s return to the Olympics and the 2028 World Cup of Hockey. The 2026 Olympics sendoff at UBS Arena has been…

In this blog, I introduce a fallacy to the list of “Cardinal Fallacies” in Logic-Based Therapy. I call this fallacy the Fact-Loading Fallacy because it involves embedding a value judgment (often unintentionally) in a premise of emotional reasoning that is supposed to report a fact. This fallacy can conceal, augment, legitimize, and sustain the self-disturbing effects of other fallacies in people’s emotional reasoning. According to Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), people upset themselves by making self-destructive value judgments based on irrational or fallacious premises. LBT thus helps people to replace such fallacious emotional reasoning with rational reasoning, that is, reasoning that does…

A Saw knockoff starring Jackie Earle Haley as a murderous Chuck Woolery type? An intriguing selling point, but frustrating in practice. Your Host tries to wrestle with cancel culture in the entertainment business while also slathering audiences in gore, which never gels together. Director DW Medoff has a secret weapon in Haley, who does his best to lead Your Host as an enigmatic John Kramer-y emcee, but Joey Miller’s screenplay isn’t properly calibrated. All the “killer gameshow host” bits are aces, and yet the story stumbles through its conflicts, rendering Haley’s showtime dramatics as afterthoughts. Your Host is a single-location…

The historic crown jewels snatched from the Louvre Museum in a daring, lighting-fast heist Sunday are worth more than a staggering $100 million, a Paris prosecutor has revealed. Paris Public Prosecutor Laure Beccuau told a French radio station Tuesday that about 100 investigators are hunting for the four slick crooks who broke into the world-famous Paris museum and made off with a trove of irreplaceable treasures worth about $102.1 million, or 88 million euros, before fleeing within 7 minutes. “This sum is indeed extremely spectacular, but we must remember that this damage is economic and that it is in no…

Hamas still has some 20,000 fighters and access to thousands of weapons, including missiles that can reach deep within the Jewish state, according to the Israeli military. The Israel Defense Forces said that despite killing more than 22,000 Hamas militants and dismantling its hierarchy and infrastructure over the last two years, Hamas has replenished its numbers, the Times of Israel reported. The IDF also believes that Hamas has access to thousands of small arms and hundreds of short-range rockets, with some of the missiles capable of hitting central Israel. The Israel Defense Forces reports that Hamas still has approximately 20,000…

Police in a sleepy Maine town are searching for an “older” man accused of snagging $7,400 that fell off the roof of a stranger’s car. The week-long manhunt, headed by the Kennebunk Police Department, was sparked when an airhead driver mistakenly left the hefty wad of cash on the roof of his car before driving off on Oct. 15. Police in Maine are searching for a man accused of stealing more than $7,000 he found on the side of the road. Kennebunk Police Department The driver had just sold a car for $7,400 in cash and was apparently so distracted…