Kirk Cameron read to hundreds of children at the Library of Congress in August 2025. The Education Department’s Center for Faith invited him to share his Christian children’s books in the nation’s most prestigious library. Three years before, fifty public libraries had rejected his requests to appear. “Let that sink in. Three years ago, I...
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The match was Al-Nassr versus Al-Hazm in the Saudi Pro League. Cristiano Ronaldo took possession near the edge of the box in the 88th minute. He shifted the ball to his right foot and drove it low into the corner. The crowd erupted, but not for the technique. They erupted for what it represented. Goal...
Johnny Mathis sang his last live professional note on May 18, 2025, in Englewood, New Jersey. When the final song ended and the applause faded, a 70-year career quietly came to a close. Two months earlier, his management posted the news on Facebook. Mathis was struggling with memory problems that were getting worse. Columbia Records...
Ian Watkins, the disgraced former frontman of the band Lostprophets, was murdered at HMP Wakefield on October 11, 2025. According to authorities, the 48-year-old died after sustaining a stab wound to the neck during an assault by fellow inmates. At the time of his death, Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence for a series of...
Lillian Marie Weber was born on May 6, 1915, on a farm in Iowa, and passed away on May 5, 2016, leaving behind a legacy that we are never too old or too tired to leave the world better than we found it. At 96, she could have settled into a quiet retirement, but instead...
How many children make for a fulfilling but manageable life? For decades, the traditional answer for the ideal number of children has been two. A September 2025 Gallup poll confirms this by finding that Americans want an average of 2.7 children, with 40% saying two is ideal and 27% preferring three. Only 4% say one...
Intelligence brings real advantages. Smarter people learn faster, solve problems better, and remember information longer. But high intelligence also creates a particular kind of social friction. The same mental habits that help someone excel academically or professionally can make everyday interactions harder. These 18 habits appear consistently among highly intelligent people, and each one creates...
Meghan Markle nearly died from postpartum preeclampsia after giving birth. In April 2025, she shared this experience on her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder. Her guest was Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble, who survived the same crisis. The two discussed how their bodies had failed them while the world expected them to...
Couples sleeping in separate beds seems like a modern trend. But wealthy couples in earlier centuries often maintained separate bedrooms. The practice fell out of favor in the mid-20th century as shared beds became the romantic ideal. Now the pendulum is swinging back. A sleep study found that one-third of couples sleep apart occasionally or...
When deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrived at Friendship Elementary School in Deltona after a fire alarm went off, they walked into destruction that could have been caused by a tornado. The media center was wrecked. Glass from a shattered door covered the floor. Tables lay overturned. Shelves had been knocked over. Books...
Peter Macdonald spent 50 years looking for his brother. The search started with a moment on a train platform in 1967. The train was pulling away from Preston Railway Station when their father appeared. Peter’s mother held her 10-week-old baby in her arms while 2-year-old Trevor stood behind her. She was escaping to London. Their...
Christopher Thomas broke into Samantha Stites’ home in the early morning hours of October 7, 2022. He jumped on top of her in bed and choked her, then forced handcuffs onto her wrists, bound her feet, and shoved a ball gag into her mouth before wrapping duct tape around her head. Thomas blindfolded her and...