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CHICAGOIn a move making her the latest performer to join the distraction-free trend, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde confirmed Friday that she was now requiring all concertgoers to stash their boyfriends in locked pouches during her shows.I understand wanting to share the experience, but I think a live performance is more special when everyone puts their boyfriends away, said Lorde, who explained that her current Ultrasound World Tour had partnered with Yondr to lock fans male significant others in the companys patented three-by-six-foot pouches before entering the venue. I dont want people just glued to their boyfriends for the entire show. Fans should be singing along, dancing, and really getting into the music, so if we see you with a boyfriend, you will be asked to leave. If you need him to get to the venue and get home, we totally understandjust silence him and keep him in the pouch so everyone can enjoy the experience.According to sources, a fan at a recent Lorde concert was booted from the show after she was caught sneaking in a second boyfriend.The post Lorde Requiring All Concertgoers To Stash Boyfriends InLocked Pouch appeared first on The Onion.

HILLIARD, OHReluctantly admitting to the table that she might have been too quick to judge, local mother Janet Greenbaum told family members Thursday that she was actually quite impressed by the manners of their tattooed restaurant server.When she first came over to give us our menus, I thought she was in some kind of biker gang, but she turned out to be really polite, said the 63-year-old mother of two, who remarked that the North Side Grill waitress seemed very smart and well-spoken despite having ruined her cute little arms with body art that resembled a half lady, half skull thing and a devil-looking guy. Between the tattoos, that haircut, and all those hideous piercings, she looks pretty scary, but underneath, shes sweet as can be. Im starting to think shes never even been to prison!Greenbaum added that she was also impressed to see a wedding ring on the womans finger, although she shuddered to think what kind of man would marry such a thing.The post Mom Impressed By Tattooed Persons Manners appeared first on The Onion.

Rosalas fourth studio album, Lux, has been met with critical acclaim, cracking the Billboard top 10 for the first time in the Spanish pop stars career. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the artist.Genre: MsicaMusical Influences: Traditional Spanish TikToksWho Shes Beefing With: B-flatFrequent Collaborator: King Ferdinand VControversies: Making Spanish-language music, despite being from SpainOften Mistaken For: Woody GuthriepH Level: 9The post Artist Profile: Rosala appeared first on The Onion.

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Smoke rises as Israeli forces demolish the home of Abdul Karim Sanoubar, a suspected Palestinian militant who has been accused by Israel of planting bombs on buses in central Israel, in Nablus, West Bank, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)2025-12-02T07:01:50Z DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) Israel on Tuesday said it had received findings handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross. They were believed to be remains of one of the two hostages still in the territory: an Israeli and a Thai national.Israels government said they would be taken for forensics testing. Palestinian media has said they were found in Gazas northern town of Beit Lahiya. Israeli officials didnt immediately say what the term findings meant.The remains of 26 hostages taken in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war have already been returned since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire began on Oct. 10.Palestinians killed in Gaza Israeli fire killed two Palestinians in Gaza in Tuesday.An Israeli drone strike killed a videographer in the south, said officials at Nasser Hospital, which received the body.Momahed Wadi was killed in Khan Younis, the hospital said. Wadi owned a drone photography company that once specialized on filming occasions like weddings. More recently, it posted footage of Gazas destruction. Also Tuesday, a man was shot dead near the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al-Awda Hospital. Israels military did not immediately comment on either death, but has said killings are often in response to militants approaching or firing at its forces.Gazas Health Ministry said more than 350 Palestinians have been killed across the territory since the ceasefire. Both Hamas and Israel have accused the other of breaking the terms of the truce. The initial 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel killed around 1,200 people while more than 250 others were taken hostage. Almost all of the hostages or their remains have been returned in ceasefires or other deals.Gazas Health Ministry says the Palestinian toll has topped 70,100. The ministry operates under the Hamas-run government. It is staffed by medical professionals and maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by the international community. Violence in the West BankIsraels military has also pushed forward its operations in the occupied West Bank, shooting and killing two Palestinians on Tuesday it accused of attacking soldiers.The military said troops shot and killed a suspect who stabbed and lightly wounded two soldiers as they confronted him near an Israeli settlement in the central West Bank. It said the incident was under review. In the southern West Bank, the army said it fatally shot a Palestinian who had carried out a car-ramming attack that wounded a soldier. The army said the man attempted to flee as they tried to arrest him.The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the suspects as an 18-year-old from north of Ramallah and an 17-year-old resident of Hebron.Israels military has stepped up its activities in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began. Israel says the offensive is aimed at rooting out militants. Palestinians say scores of stone-throwers, protesters and uninvolved civilians have been killed.In recent weeks, Israeli settlers have stepped up attacks on Palestinian civilians. Israel demolishes family homes in West BankIsraeli forces on Tuesday demolished the family home of Abdul Karim Sanoubar, a suspected Palestinian militant currently in detention who has been accused of planting bombs on buses in central Israel in February.Troops evacuated 13 homes around the building in Nablus. Israel says home demolitions are meant to deter future attackers, but critics say they amount to collective punishment against the families of assailants and only exacerbate tensions with Palestinians.The military, which said the explosives in the planned attack didnt detonate, said it demolished Karim Sanoubars familys home due to the irregular nature of the planned attack and with the backing of the legal authorities.Israeli troops later traveled to Aqabah town in the West Bank to demolish the house of a man accused of carrying out a shooting attack in which one person was killed, the military said. Tensions with Lebanon and SyriaOn Tuesday, Israels military launched another round of strikes on southern Lebanon, an almost daily occurrence as Israel accuses the militant group Hezbollah of failing to disarm following a U.S.-brokered ceasefire last year that halted two months of war.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed calls to establish a demilitarized buffer zone along the Israel-Syria border in a visit to soldiers injured in Syria. On Friday, Israeli forces killed 13 people in a raid on a Syrian village, where they opened fired on residents confronting them, according to Syrian officials.Israel has said such attacks in Lebanon and Syria are against militant groups, but critics say they come with a heavy toll as civilians, including women and children, are often killed.As Pope Leo XIV departed Lebanon on a visit to the Middle East, he made a brief mention of violence in Lebanons south and called for peace in the region.___Magdy reported from Cairo and Janetsky from Jerusalem.___Find more of APs Israel-Hamas coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war MEGAN JANETSKY Megan Janetsky covers migration, conflict, human rights and politics in Mexico and Central America for The AP based in Mexico City. 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Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday Nov. 1, 2021. Andy Buchanan/Pool via AP, File)2025-12-02T14:00:31Z TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernndez, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, his wife announced Tuesday.The U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate website showed that Hernndez was released from U.S. Penitentiary, Hazelton in West Virginia on Monday and a spokesperson for the bureau on Tuesday confirmed his release.His wife Ana Garca thanked Trump for pardoning Hernndez via the social platform X early Tuesday.After almost four years of pain, of waiting and difficult challenges, my husband Juan Orlando Hernndez RETURNED to being a free man, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump, Garcas post said. She included a picture of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons listing for Hernndez indicating his release. Hernndez was arrested at the request of the United States in February 2022, weeks after handing over power to current President Xiomara Castro.Two years later, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison in a New York federal courtroom for taking bribes from drug traffickers so they could safely move some 400 tons of cocaine north through Honduras to the United States. Hernndez maintained throughout that he was innocent and the victim of revenge by drug traffickers he had helped extradite to the United States. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on On Sunday, Trump was asked about why he pardoned Hernandez by reporters traveling with him on Air Force One. I was asked by Honduras, many of the people of Honduras, Trump said.The people of Honduras really thought he was set up, and it was a terrible thing, he said.They basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country. And they said it was a Biden administration set-up. And I looked at the facts and I agreed with them.The pardon promised by Trump days before Honduras presidential election injected a new element into the contest that some said helped the candidate from his National Party Nasry Asfura, one of the leaders as the vote count proceeded Tuesday.

Nature, Published online: 02 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03738-6Places in England still using local mean time in 1875, and Niels Bohr delivers a talk on the latest in quantum theory, in this weeks peek at Natures archive.

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WASHINGTONTouting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 andIm reading off the official statistics from my people500 will be 25,500, said Trump, speaking from the Oval Office as he told reporters the move would shift decimals many places to the right for wages, stock prices, job numbers, gross domestic product, and other vital economic indicators. Say your net worth is about $20,000. In that case, youre now a millionaire. And we dont have to worry about fertility anymore, because this country now has about 17 billion people. These are really tremendous increases that should have gone into effect years ago. Trump added that if the executive order was as successful as he expected it to be, he might soon shift to increasing some letters.The post Trump Announces 5,000%Increase In All Numbers appeared first on The Onion.

A COPA Airlines plane takes off at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, days after the government revoked operating rights for international airlines that suspended flights following a warning from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.(AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)2025-12-02T15:02:57Z CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) U.S.-operated flights returning deported migrants to Venezuela will continue despite President Donald Trumps suggestion that the airspace of the South American country should be viewed as closed.The government of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro on Tuesday announced that the twice weekly flights will go on following a request from the Trump administration. That reverses a Venezuelan government Saturday announcement indicating that U.S. immigration authorities had unilaterally suspended the flights.An overflight and landing application submitted Monday by U.S.-based Eastern Airlines requests permission for an arrival Wednesday. The application was made public Tuesday by Venezuelas foreign affairs minister.Venezuelans have been steadily deported to their home country this year after Maduro, under pressure from the White House, did away with his long-standing policy of not accepting deportees from the U.S. Immigrants now arrive regularly at the airport outside the capital, Caracas, on flights operated by a U.S. government contractor or Venezuelas state-owned airline. The flights have continued despite U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean and off Venezuelas Caribbean coast. The Trump administration says the strikes are aimed at drug cartels, some of which it claims are controlled by Maduro. Trump also is weighing whether to carry out strikes on the Venezuelan mainland.More than 13,000 migrants have been deported to Venezuela this year on dozens of chartered flights, the latest of which arrived Friday.

As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As its done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sitessome of the largest adult content platforms in the worldpulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.The other states include Louisiana, Utah, Mississippi, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Montana, North Carolina, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Indiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Arizona, and Ohio.As you may know, your elected officials in Missouri are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk, DeVille says in the video. On the blocked homepages theres also a link to an explanation of the Restricted to Adults, or RTA label, which porn site administrators place on their sites to signal to device-based parental controls that the websites are inappropriate for minors.Like most of the other 24 laws across the country, Missouris age verification law requires websites containing more than one third of material thats considered harmful to minors, or sexual content, to perform age verification checks. Similar or more restrictive laws have swept the country since Louisiana became the first state to enact age verification legislation in 2023.Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the InternetInvasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a drivers license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.404 MediaEmanuel MaibergAge verification laws reach beyond porn sites, however. In Wyoming, South Dakota, Mississippi and Ohio, where the laws are written broadly enough to cover social media sites and any platform hosting adult content, Bluesky users have to submit to a face scan by the third-party company Yoti or upload a photo of their credit card to verify theyre over 18 years of age. In July, Bluesky started requiring all UK users to verify their ages in response to the Online Safety Act. Weve previously reported on the security risks in uploading sensitive personal data to identity verification services, including the potential for hackers to then get ahold of that information themselves. In October, after Discord started requiring UK users to verify ages, the platform announced hackers breached one of its third-party vendors that handles age-related appeals, and said it identified around 70,000 users who may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of the breach.Last week, Pornhubs parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft, urging them to support device-based age verification in their app stores and operating systems, WIRED reported. Based on our real-world experience with existing age assurance laws, we strongly support the initiative to protect minors online, Anthony Penhale, chief legal officer for Aylo, said in the letter. However, we have found site-based age assurance approaches to be fundamentally flawed and counterproductive.Instead of protecting minors, age verification laws spike usage of virtual private networks and send usersincluding, potentially, minorsto unregulated or unmoderated sites that dont care about complying with U.S. or UK laws. In Missouri, searches for VPNs spiked following the laws enactment.Missouri schools are not required to teach sex education, leaving it up to local school boards to decide what, if anything, children are taught about sexual health. School districts that do teach sex ed are required to promote abstinence, a modality long recognized as ineffective at protecting children from engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Even if a district offers sex ed, parents are allowed to pull their kids out of that class altogether. But despite research showing age verification laws dont work either, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway believes forcing adults to undergo age verification protects the children in her state. We are proud to stand on the side of parents, families and basic decency. Missouri will not apologize for protecting children, Hanaway said in a press release.

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Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters aboard an airplane as he returns from a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP)2025-12-02T16:35:33Z ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday shared for the first time what he was thinking when the votes started going his way during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and put the rest in Gods hands.I took a deep breath. I said Here we go Lord. Youre in charge and you lead the way, Leo told reporters during a wide-ranging airborne press conference coming home from his inaugural trip to Turkey and Lebanon.Leo fielded questions for a half-hour, responding easily in English, Spanish and Italian about a variety of church and international news. He hinted at behind-the-scenes discussions about Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon, urged dialogue rather than U.S. military threats on Venezuela and discussed his hoped-for future travels in Africa and South America, among other topics. But it was his remarks about the conclave and his papal learning curve that shed new light on Leo the man and what makes him tick. His responses, after seeming timid with the media early in his pontificate, showed he is much more comfortable now, is paying close attention to what is being reported about him, and that he has a good sense of humor about it. Leo was asked what he was thinking when he saw a huge crowd of people at one of his events in Lebanon, where it seemed as if the size had taken him by surprise. Leo suggested that wasnt necessarily the case. My face is very expressive but Im oftentimes amused by how the journalists interpret my face, he said. Its interesting. Sometimes I get really great ideas from all of you because you think you can read my mind or my face.Youre not always correct, he added, to laughs. A spirituality that leaves everything up to GodMore instructive to understanding what hes thinking, Leo said, would be to read up about his spirituality. Beyond St. Augustine, the fifth-century theologian who inspired his religious order and is Leos most-frequently cited church father, Leo recommended a book The Practice of the Presence of God, by a 17th-century Carmelite friar, Brother Lawrence.It describes, if you will, a type of prayer and spirituality where one simply gives his life to the Lord and allows the Lord to lead. If you want to know something about me, thats been my spirituality for many years, he said.In midst of great challenges -- living in Peru during years of terrorism, being called to service in places where I never thought Id be called to serve -- I trust in God, he said.That held true in the May conclave, he said, when the former Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected in a remarkably fast four ballots on the second day of voting. According to cardinals who participated, it was clear already by the third ballot that morning that the votes were going his way and that Prevost would be elected historys first American pope.I resigned myself to the fact when I saw how things were going and I said This could be a reality, Leo said.Speaking to a reporter who is about to retire, Leo said he had had different plans for his future. Just a year or two ago, I too thought about retiring some day, he said. Youve received that gift apparently. Some of us will continue to work.In Lebanon, Leo had a taste of what its like to be a pope on the road, and he said the enthusiasm of young Catholics was awe-inspiring.I think to myself, These people are here because they want to see the pope. But I say to myself, Theyre here because they want to see Jesus Christ and they want to see a messenger of peace, he said. Just to listen to their enthusiasm and to hear their response to that message is something that I think is -- that enthusiasm -- is awe-inspiring.I just hope I never get tired of appreciating everything that all these young people are showing, he said. On pressing international issues Leo urged the United States to pursue dialogue and even exert economic pressure on Venezuelas leaders to achieve its goals, rather than threats of military action.The voices coming from the United States change, with a certain frequency at times, he said. I believe its better to look for ways of dialogue, perhaps pressure -- including economic pressure -- but looking for other ways to change, if thats what the United States wants to do. Leo said he hopes to make his second trip as pope to Africa next year, visiting several countries but especially Algeria because of its important role in Christian-Muslim relations and its significance to St. Augustine, who inspired his religious order. Leo also said he hoped to visit three countries in Latin America in either 2026 or 2027: Argentina, Uruguay and Peru, where he lived for two decades as a missionary. Argentina especially has been waiting for a papal visit after Pope Francis never went home after his 2013 election.___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. NICOLE WINFIELD Winfield has been on the Vatican beat since 2001, covering the papacies of St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and the Francis pontificate and traveling the world with them. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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