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6+ min ago (609+ words) Yee-ow!! Stranger Things Season 5 revealed, to those who haven't seen Stranger Things: The First Shadow, that the parents of all of the Netflix series' main characters used to be in drama club together" and I have thoughts! Spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1 ahead! The same goes for First Shadow, honestly. Do-si-do away if you haven't finished watching the first part of the final season. That said, the Rodgers and Hamilton musical has been referenced in pop culture a lot recently. It played a significant role in the second season of Euphoria, the 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and of course the 2025 movie Blue Moon to name a few. So we should look a little further than that. The flyer for the musical says that the producing is "introducing Henry Creel as Curly McClain." That's definitely one way to…...

15+ min ago (735+ words) Netanyahu asks Israeli president for pardon from corruption case PKK urges Turkey to free Ocalan to advance peace process Iran halts power generation at key dam over drought As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast Inside Amir: A quiet portrait of leaving Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial facing corruption charges, announced Sunday he had submitted a pardon request, saying the long-running cases were tearing the country apart. US President Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President Isaac Herzog earlier this month, asking him to pardon Netanyahu, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the ongoing court cases. "The trial in my case has been ongoing for nearly six years, and is expected to continue for many more years," Netanyahu - who is also wanted by the International…...

15+ min ago (476+ words) Netanyahu asks Israeli president for pardon from corruption case PKK urges Turkey to free Ocalan to advance peace process Iran halts power generation at key dam over drought As MAGA turns on Zionism, Israel First right stokes Islamophobia How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast Inside Amir: A quiet portrait of leaving Iran The'Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)'will take no further steps in the peace process with Turkey until negotiations to free the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan advance, a senior commander'told AFP. "From now on, we will be waiting for the Turkish state and they have to be the one taking steps," he said. The group has two demands, he added. Female senior commander Serda Mazlum Gabar told AFP that "as long as the leadership is inside, the Kurdish people cannot be free. Nor can we,…...

27+ min ago (1383+ words) Trans girls' future in school sports may rest upon whoever succeeds Gov. Gavin Newsom. The governor's race in California is heating up as multiple candidates from both parties vie to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in January 2027. Transgender rights figure prominently in a campaign colored by Newsom's own evolving position on the issue. The term-limited governor and all-but-declared candidate for president in 2028 is charting a serpentine course around the demands of trans rights activists and those voters who are open to a populist Democratic message but alienated by a "woke culture" weaponized against the left by Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans. Newsom shocked many supporters when he agreed earlier this year with Charlie Kirk, a guest on Newsom's podcast (months before the young MAGA conservative influencer was killed), that trans student-athletes competing against girls was "deeply unfair.I think it's an…...

40+ min ago (532+ words) Goalscorers Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo help Barcelona fight back against Alaves and return to top of La Liga table. Barcelona recovered from an early setback to secure a 3-1 victory over Alaves in La Liga on Saturday, with first-half goals from Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo and a late second for the latter sealing the win at the Nou Camp. The triumph lifts last year's champions to the top of the standings on 34 points, two ahead of second-placed Real Madrid, who have a game in hand at Girona on Sunday. In their second match back at the partially renovated Nou Camp after two and a half years of redevelopment, Barcelona overcame a shaky start amid uncharacteristic scenes of long pre-match ticketing delays that left the stadium half-empty at kickoff. According to the club, the problems were caused by technical difficulties…...

42+ min ago (354+ words) A Newsmax panel erupted Sunday in response to a series of advertisements running this weekend encouraging Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers to quit their jobs, with panel participants calling the ads everything from "disgusting" to "classic communism." The video advertisement in question was launched by the Women's March WIN political action committee, and depicts an ICE agent returning home from work to their young daughter, who asks them "how was your day?" In the ad, a narrator can be heard speaking directly to ICE agents, telling them that "a mask can't hide you from your neighbors, your children and God," and that they "can walk away before the shame follows you home." For Deneen Borelli, conservative commentator, Newsmax contributor and author, the ad went far beyond what she considered acceptable, and she even argued that it would encourage violence against…...

47+ min ago (621+ words) During his first term, U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda was often described as "isolationist" " a major departure from the hawkish conservatism of GOP Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George HW Bush and George W. Bush and the hawkish liberalism of Democratic Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry Truman.Yet since his return to the White House, Trump has been highly confrontational with Venezuela " from strikes against Venezuelan boats (which he alleges were smuggling illegal drugs to the United States) to reportedly considering military attacks against President Nicolas Maduro's leftist government.Now, according to The Independent's Lucy Leeson, U.S.-based airlines are making a concerted effort to avoid flying over Venezuelan airspace."Flight Radar shows airlines diverting away from Venezuela after Donald Trump told airlines to consider the airspace closed," Leeson reports in a late November article. "Following dozens of…...

51+ min ago (878+ words) European funding aimed at curbing migration inadvertently strengthened Sudanese paramilitaries, while weak export oversight allowed the flow of weapons. Former South African diplomat. Sudan was teetering on the edge of crisis long before open war erupted in April 2023. Decades of authoritarian rule under Omar al-Bashir resulted in a fragile economy, fragmented security forces, and entrenched paramilitary structures. By mid-2023, Sudan was effectively split into contested zones, with major urban centres, such as Khartoum and Omdurman, transformed into battlefields, and millions of civilians displaced internally or forced across borders as refugees. Although geographically removed, the European Union played a consequential role in these developments. For nearly a decade, it pursued a strategy of "externalising" migration control, directing aid, training, and equipment to African states ostensibly to reduce irregular migration towards Europe. Between 2014 and 2018, the EU channelled more than 200 million euros ($232m at the…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (627+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. One of humanity's biggest achievements may be slipping away. Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for: they live in a time that has made historic progress against the scourge of extreme poverty. And now it may be ending. That's the dire conclusion of a recent post by Max Roser, founder of the website Our World in Data. While Roser projects that the number of people in extreme poverty will decline by about 40 million over the next five years, he writes…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago (266+ words) President Donald Trump's crypto czar, South African venture capitalist David Sacks, has pushed the Trump administration to enact several policies that have enriched his Silicon Valley friends " and potentially himself " driving a wedge in MAGA and "alarming" White House officials, The New York Times reported Sunday. "The tech bros are out of control," said Steve Bannon, Trump's former White House chief of staff and MAGA influencer, The Times reported. "They are leading the White House down the road to perdition with this ascendant technocratic oligarchy." Sacks is denoted as a special government employee in the Trump administration, meaning he isn't paid for his government work. Nevertheless, Sacks has made several recommendations that have paid off handsomely for Silicon Valley, and despite warnings from White House officials that some may pose national security risks. Sacks' work in the Trump administration has…...