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Book banning. This is not a new phenomenon.I remember well when I was in the seventh grade of secondary school, a pressure group was horrified by some of the titles in the high school curriculum and lobbied our local school board.The Pigman, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm… all of these were on the list. I don’t remember why, but the fundamentalists were recounting them. They counted how many swear words were in each novel (which must have been an exhaustive task; today it can be found with a Google search.)…

The Hurt Business, a faction comprised of Montel Vontavious Porter, Bobby Lashley, Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander, were WWE’s featured act during the pandemic’s empty arena/ThunderDome shows. They disbanded in early 2021, briefly reunited later that year, but disbanded for good in 2022. Fans have repeatedly called for the group to reunite, and WWE has occasionally hinted at a return, but there’s been no sign of it happening: MVP teamed with Omos while rehabbing an injury, Benjamin was fired, Lashley has been out since May after WWE announced his injury, and Alexander has teamed with Ashante Adonis in a tag…

Family of Kiss guitar technician dies after contracting coronavirus while performing the band’s “End of the Road” World Tour won a wrongful death lawsuit against the band, after the band’s motion to dismiss the case was denied in a Los Angeles court on Friday. Katherine Stuber, whose husband Fran was Paul Stanley’s guitar technician for decades, and several family members filed a lawsuit in October 2023 against Stanley, Gene Simmons and Kiss’ longtime manager Doc McGee, alleging negligence and wrongful death. The lawsuit also names tour promoter Live Nation and hotel chain Marriott as defendants. McGhee, Simmons and Stanley contested…

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Washington state is experiencing its hottest weather of the summer, and the National Weather Service for the region has issued a heat advisory for Saturday, with the heat index expected to reach at least 105 to 107 degrees Fahrenheit. Similar conditions are expected on Sunday, when additional heat warnings may be issued.”Extremely hot and humid conditions will continue in the region from Saturday into Sunday,” the Meteorological Agency warned, warning that “dangerously hot conditions” are expected and there will be a “significant increase in heatstroke cases.”The heat is already on the rise on Friday, with highs expected to reach the…

Magnus Sheffield and Matteo Jorgenson are set to join Brandon McNulty on the U.S. Olympic Cycling Team for the Paris Olympics, giving the U.S. team its best chance of winning a road race medal in 40 years.McNulty had already qualified for the team by winning the national time-trial championship earlier this year. The big question was who would ride with him. USA Cycling had to look at the athletes who could potentially take to the starting line of the Tour de France on June 29 and then choose the team that would best suit the Olympic course that begins and…

Reinforcements are arriving, with big donors from both parties giving huge sums of money to politicians and outside groups in what is expected to be the most expensive election in history, according to new filings. Timothy Mellon, a businessman who has donated heavily to super PACs backing both former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., took his giving to a new level in May, donating $50 million later that month to MAGA Inc., a super PAC supporting Trump’s candidacy. The donation listed in the report was dated the day after Trump was convicted in New…

FLORIDA — EA Sports plans to release its first college football game since 2013, “College Football 25,” on July 19.The new College Football is designed to deliver the most authentic college football experience on a digital screen.College Football 25 Introduces CampusIQ™is a suite of features that lets you experience the true depth of college football through open, fast-paced gameplay across all 134 FBS schools in every area of ​​the game.EA Sports’ Director of Production Christian McLeod appeared on Channel 9 to talk about what to expect and what’s to come ahead of the game’s release.Melbourne father suspected of beating six-week-old…

Every Tuesday in her column, Prudence asks readers for their opinions on a question that’s stumping her, and she posts a final opinion on that question on Friday. This week’s dilemma and its answer are: Chris H, Animal Mama, Animal Advocate, Elfie, and Farm Boy I am grateful for their ideas! Dear Prudence, Maybe the answer here is to focus on yourself, but I feel like I’m really in a moral dilemma. One of my relatives breeds animals en masse and illegally breeds dogs. Whether or not breeding is wrong, this person is not good at caring for animals. Currently,…

The bill would ban U.S. investors from funding Chinese AI systems that could be used for weapons targeting or other military applications.The U.S. Treasury Department has finalized proposed rules to restrict and monitor U.S. investment in China in artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing. The fleshed-out proposed rules, released Friday, stem from President Joe Biden’s August executive order on “countries of concern” access to U.S. dollars to fund advanced technologies that could enhance military, intelligence, surveillance and cyber capabilities. The order identified China, Hong Kong and Macau as countries of concern. The Biden administration has sought to prevent China,…