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I f you want to get a bunch of rowdy firefighters out to a political event on a Monday night, it turns out free beer is a pretty good strategy. It’s a gorgeous October evening in Missoula, Montana — the state’s second-largest city, at the mouth of the Bitterroot Valley — and Great Burn Brewing is packed to the rafters with wildland firefighters of all stripes. Logging boots. Seven-day beards. Flannels that have seen some shit. Under a big sign that says I HEART BEER, a scruffily handsome congressional candidate named Sam Forstag is on the mic explaining fiscal policy…

A Costa Mesa woman who registered her dog to vote, and cast ballots in the animal’s name in 2021 and 2022, has been sentenced to pay for anti-voter-fraud billboards, prosecutors said Thursday.Laura Lee Yourex, 64, was charged in September 2025 with five felonies after posting a photo to social media showing her dog posing with a ballot while wearing an “I voted sticker,” Kimberly Edds, a spokesperson for the Orange County district attorney’s office, wrote in a statement.The dog’s vote was counted in the 2021 recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom and then rejected in the 2022 primary election. In…

After years of relative silence, fans have finally gotten their first substantial look at EA Motive’s upcoming Iron Man game, just not in the way the studio intended. An unfinished trailer for the highly anticipated Marvel game has leaked online, showing more than two minutes of early footage featuring Iron Man flying through a massive city, battling enemies and seemingly customizing his armor. And this one appears to be very real. Following the footage making its way around the internet, the official Marvel’s Iron Man account responded to the leak with its first-ever post. “Well, that didn’t go as planned,”…

Weight-loss medications, data and AI offer significant opportunities for fitness operators, but also raise challenges around education, commercial partnerships, security and member relationships, according to speakers at W3Fit in Malta, which is currently taking place in Malta. The panel, The Fork in the Road, was moderated by operator turned consultant, Justin Musgrove, and featured Anders Carlbark, CEO of Swedish operator STC; Nicole Nason, director of international franchise development at Gold’s Gym; and Myzone founder, Dave Wright.  Musgrove highlighted the commercial opportunities surrounding GLP-1 medicines, with operators such as Life Time already incorporating weight-loss medication into clinical services alongside personalised fitness…

Updated October 16, 2026 — 6:45am,first published 5:55amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.No gift articles leftYou’ve used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month.CloseAAAWarning: Graphic contentLondon: A woman who alleges she was raped by Russell Brand has told a court the actor underwent a sudden change in manner as they talked in her hotel room, demanding she take photographs of him before pushing her onto a bed.The woman told jurors that Brand became suddenly “monster-like” after they had talked for…

Just a few weeks from the end of the 2026 midterm elections, there are all sorts of variables that could affect the outcome on the margins. There remain many races for House, Senate and governorships that are very close. Polling errors could be painting an unduly rosy picture of Democratic prospects. Late ad blitzes or candidate debates may tilt the balance here and there. "October surprises" remain a possibility, or even a "November surprise" by way of Trump administration efforts to suppress or intimidate voters.

EMDR therapy is a deep form of psychotherapy that helps patients overcome trauma. Most of the trauma is triggered by difficult memories and experiences in life, while therapy often works by recalling those events.In other words, EMDR is suitable for healing from depressive episodes, anxiety and even PTSD. Its effectiveness has made it a popular choice among therapists looking to expand their trauma treatment toolkit.Now, what previous training is required to be an EMDR therapist? Surprisingly for some, you can’t take independent EMDR training, so previous education is required. There are a bunch of requirements to even start the training.With…

Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander played the villain genius Kurros in the Star Trek: Voyager episode «Think Thank.» By Michileen Martin | Published 21 minutes ago Jason Alexander in Star Trek: Voyager If someone asked you to cast an actor to play an evil mastermind, the guy who played the loud and melodramatic George Costanza might not be the first thespian to spring to mind, but when it was time for Star Trek: Voyager to find the face of an influential group of super-genius aliens, that’s exactly who they called. Star Trek tapped Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame to play Kurros, an…

US president reverses Pentagon’s plan to publicly stream execution of Nidal Malik Hasan after outcry.Published On 15 Oct 202615 Oct 2026United States President Donald Trump has said that the execution of a man who killed several military personnel at the Fort Hood military base in 2009 will not be live-streamed.The statement on Thursday represented a reversal for the administration, with the Pentagon saying last week the execution would be live-streamed. The public killing would have been the first of its kind in the US since 1936, with successive administrations criticising foreign governments for conducting such executions.Recommended Stories list of 3…

Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott repeated a claim he’s made for the past five years. He stated that the number of people crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally “posed an ongoing and imminent threat” across the state. In doing so, he renewed a border security disaster proclamation that has greatly expanded his powers without going through the state Legislature. Abbott’s declaration stands in sharp contrast to the numbers reported by the Trump administration, which says the drop in the flow of migrants crossing the border has been unprecedented and has reached historic lows since it took over in January 2025. …