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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

An Islamic court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in what the court deemed were sexual acts: hugging and kissing.


Monday, August 25, 2025

The co-hosts of the liberal political podcast "Pod Save America" described how the Democratic Party is currently enduring one of the worst crises in its history during the Friday episode of their show. Co-hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer broke down new polling numbers revealing that the party has lost millions of voters since the 2020 election. Pfeiffer declared that the situation is one of the worst that the party has ever dealt with in terms of dwindling support. "I mean, it is at its worst point than at almost any point in our history," he said. "And I would probably even include after the 1984 election, when we lost 49 states."


Friday, August 22, 2025

The House Oversight Committee is expecting to get hundreds of documents on Friday related to the Justice Department's investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case. The release will mark the first wave of files to be sent to the committee in response to a congressional subpoena issued earlier this month calling on the DOJ to provide records from its probe of the convicted sex-offender and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.


A majority of Colorado Democrats in the state House voted against a measure that would enhance criminal penalties for indecent exposure in view of a minor, and one state lawmaker claimed the bill could be used to "ban" drag shows and harm transgender people. Outlining her frustrations with the measure from the House floor Saturday, state Rep. Leslie Herod, a Democrat who has represented a Denver-area district in the state House since 2017, said the proposed law uses language like other measures around the nation meant to "target" transgender people.


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