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An emergency has been declared on a cruise ship after a “passenger went overboard,” a tourist claims. Passengers on the Norwegian Jewel – currently en route from Barcelona to Miami – say they were woken up at 2 a.m. with “code Oscar starboard” blaring out of the speakers – a maritime emergency signal for a person overboard. A passenger claims staff on the cruise confirmed someone had “gone overboard” and the cruise ship is in “search and rescue mode” – currently circling the Atlantic Ocean. The Norwegian cruise liner set sail from Barcelona on October 15. A British passenger, who wanted…

Offering up confusion. A Detroit pastor is under fire for ridiculing a worshipper who attempted to gift $1,200 to the church instead of the $2,000 he had requested during a fundraiser — as the minister defended his now-viral stance on giving. Perfecting Church’s Bishop Marvin Winans was caught on camera sneering at a woman’s charity in front of her face as she delivered the large donation to the church during the congregation’s “Day of Giving” on Oct. 19. Perfecting Church congregant Roberta McCoy offers $1,235 to her church during a “Day of Giving” event on Oct. 19, 2025. Perfecting Church…

Crews in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday rescued 80 miners who became trapped after a mine partially collapsed. No one was injured or killed, according to the Civil Defense Agency. The miners became trapped when a portion of a zinc and copper mine in the Cerros of Maimón collapsed, a statement from the Ministry of Energy and Mines said. Rescue crews in the Dominican Republic freed 80 miners on Tuesday after they became trapped when part of a mine collapsed. @José Gutiérrez/Instagram The mine is located in a rural area northwest of the capital, Santo Domingo, where relatives had anxiously awaited the…

Disgraced ex-Long Island Rep. George Santos revealed he is fleeing the Big Apple if Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor — as he urged Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa to form a “coalition.” “Sadly it seems that my family and I will be departing the city I’ve called home my entire life. NYC will become a very dangerous place to live in if we elect mayor Mamdani and that is a risk I am unwilling to take now that I want to start growing my family,” Santos wrote on X Tuesday. The left-wing Democratic nominee holds a double-digit lead…

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…