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The tragic discovery of Viterbo University graduate student Eliotte Heinz’s body in the Mississippi River this week left the La Crosse, Wisconsin, community in shock, remembering the 22-year-old for her sweet demeanor and reigniting calls for increased vigilance in the bustling college town. Heinz disappeared early Sunday while walking home after a night out at…
We’re in the heart of summer fun, but it’s already time for back-to-school planning, especially if that involves buying a new laptop. The dizzying number of different laptops and configurations can feel overwhelming, especially if you want something that doesn’t cost too much but will still last a long time. My general guidelines are to…
A phishing scam posing as a Microsoft security alert is targeting users with emails that claim an alert has been triggered on their account. The link appears safe at first glance, often pointing to a Google Docs or SharePoint page. But that’s part of the trap. Once clicked, it redirects to a fake Microsoft login…
On the recent IMO podcast, former President Barack Obama, alongside Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson, claimed young men “don’t need sports” but instead need “gay mentors” and shouldn’t strive to be providers. While the comment was dressed in intellectual language, let’s call it what it is: the latest in a series of assaults by the…
The OnePlus Nord 5 does exactly what the company’s Nord phones have always done: deliver strong specs at a relatively low price. It’s one of the more powerful phones at this price point and should easily outstrip Samsung and Google’s more expensive alternatives. This is a function-over-form phone, one where the key selling points are…
At the time of his death, ’30s star Will Rogers was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, but all he really wanted was to be a cowboy, according to his great-granddaughter, Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry. “I think the Hollywood scene paid the bills,” Rogers-Etcheverry, who lives in her great-grandfather’s native Oklahoma, where he is known as “Oklahoma’s favorite…
A Texas man has filed a landmark federal wrongful death lawsuit against a California abortion provider, alleging the physician “murdered” his unborn children by mailing abortion pills across state lines. The case, Rodriguez v. Coeytaux, marks the first of its kind to test how far pro-life litigants can go to sidestep blue state abortion shield…
Laundromats offering food, drinks and entertainment might be having a moment in New York City — but in other parts of the country, they have loads of experience with making a mundane chore fun. (See the video at the top of this article.) Several “laundrobars” have popped up across Brooklyn in the last two years,…
NPR was long lambasted by President Donald Trump and other Republicans as a left-leaning institution that didn’t deserve taxpayer money, but after years of banter, federal funding was cut last week. Trump’s rescissions package includes over $1 billion in cuts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-backed funding arm for NPR and PBS. The…
Billy Joel said he was “devastated” when second wife Christie Brinkley left him during their nine-year marriage that ended in divorce in 1994. “I realized love is not concrete,” the “Uptown Girl” singer told the producers in the second part of his documentary “Bill Joel: And So it Goes.” He added, “You know, you feel…