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The jobs-versus-mobs line also provides insight into the social media feedback loop between President Donald Trump and his supporters. | POLITICO Illustration/Getty Images The creator of ‘Dilbert,’ a Reddit user and Newt Gingrich all helped to make a random tweet part of Trump’s midterm stump speech. It used to take a fancy degree and political…
HF: So where does demonic possession come into play? SL: So in the medieval era, particularly between about 1300 to about 1600, this disease [ergotism], which we now know as food poisoning, was thought of as demonic possession. People would go to monasteries to be treated, where they most likely got better because they weren’t…
There is a family friend, a man I’ve known for decades. A highly educated man with total financial security in his recent retirement. A man who always had a good story to tell or an interesting side of a conversation to hold up. Then, a few years ago, he got on Facebook. Reading his timeline…
From left: Laura, Nathan, and Jocelyn. Photo: Courtesy of the subjects More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won’t vote. (See also: Many reasons why you really, really should.)…
The FBI has been alerted to an alleged plot to discredit special prosecutor Robert Mueller after a woman said she’d been offered money to falsely say that he’d sexually harassed her. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the…
The creepy gas station from the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still standing in Bastrop, Texas. Known simply as The Gas Station, this slice of movie history has been restored to look as it did in the 1974 movie and turned into a horror-themed BBQ joint and hotel. Owners Roy and Lisa Rose…
On Tuesday, October 16, President Donald Trump started tweeting. “The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!” “We have today informed the…
Scott Olson/Getty Images North America Justifying his decision to attend a political rally and address the Future Farmers of America convention on Saturday — both just hours after a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 — President Donald Trump lied about the aftermath of September 11, 2001. “I remember when we had…
Gov. Tom Wolf, center, walks with Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald Elected officials from Pittsburgh and around Pennsylvania are reacting to a shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue that has left multiple people dead and several injured. “This is an incredibly sad day for all of us,” Gov. Tom Wolf told reporters gathered near Tree of…
This is a breaking story, and it will be updated. Multiple people were killed and several were injured in a shooting Saturday at Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill that’s being treated as a hate crime, according to police. A suspect is in custody. Law enforcement officials have not released the person’s name….