The sky above CFB Trenton was sharp and still, as if holding its breath. At 2:47 p.m., the ramp of the military aircraft opened and revealed a flag-draped casket. Eight soldiers advanced, their steps precisely timed, driven by reverence and training. Sebastian Halmagean had returned home. At just 24, he carried a gentle feeling of obligation that belied his age. He wasn’t a celebrity. He didn’t pursue noise or cameras. But he opted to serve—and ultimately sacrificed everything. As a gunner deployed in Latvia under Operation REASSURANCE, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with NATO partners in a region filled with geopolitical uncertainty.…
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Stepping into a festival venue that feels organically constructed is surprisingly rare. At All Things Go Toronto 2026, that vibe arises almost instantaneously. It’s not only the skyline shimmering behind the stage or the waterfront breeze; it’s the feeling that this been carefully considered. The program, which is set for June 6 and 7 at the RBC Amphitheatre, exhibits a very distinct curatorial voice. Supported by The Beaches and up-and-coming performers like Rachel Chinouriri and Holly Humberstone, Kesha will lead a bill on Saturday that is based on audacious, resilient energy. Sunday shifts to a more subdued tone, anchored by…
The rotisserie chicken rests under bright warming lights, wrapped in glossy plastic, emanating that familiar smell that swirls toward shoppers like incense. For years, it has been Costco’s amazingly successful emblem of bargain — stable in price, incredibly predictable in flavor, and shockingly low in an era of growing grocery expenditures. It is currently at the heart of a case that poses the straightforward query, “What does “no preservatives” actually mean?” In recent days, a potential class-action case filed in California has disputed the labeling of Costco’s Kirkland Signature rotisserie chicken. Two shoppers say that signs and marketing stating “no…
It happened swiftly, without any red carpet pictures or press releases. Britney Spears married her childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander in Las Vegas on a chilly January morning in 2004. The following day, there were very few memories of the occasion, no flowers, and no stylists. They had been drinking. They had been dull. They also came up with a concept, as she later stated. Jason wasn’t a celebrity. He wasn’t famous, other than sharing a name with a Seinfeld actor. He was someone Britney knew from Louisiana—familiar and unthreatening amid a turbulent time in her career. The kind of…
They were heading to practice, the way they had numerous mornings before—equipment packed, coffee cooling in cup holders, music barely loud enough to conceal the buzz of tires on winter asphalt. Three young hockey players who have a long way to go and a long way to go. More ice time, another round of drills, and perhaps even a post-practice joke between shifts were all planned for that section of Highway 2 near Stavely. But time collapsed quickly at that intersection, and nothing that followed has made it easier to accept. The Southern Alberta Mustangs lost three players that day:…
When they first met in 1997, the awards season was already tense. Anne Heche has just gained attention for her consecutive parts in Wag the Dog and Donnie Brasco. Ellen DeGeneres, already famous for her sharp wit, had recently come out—on national television, no less. The actress’s and her sitcom character’s single declaration, “I’m gay,” had a profound impact. Then Anne entered next to her. Their relationship wasn’t performative. It was both personally costly and emotionally present. When Anne took Ellen to the Volcano premiere, she wasn’t making a statement for headlines—she was showing up for someone she loved. The…
It appeared to be a procedural footnote at first. A complaint, filed by an intelligence official, waits to be processed through the system. But over nine months later, the file remains untouched by Congress—its contents supposedly so confidential that it’s been physically sealed in a secure vault. That vault, figuratively and literally, has come to represent something greater than classification: a question about power, process, and trust. The whistleblower complaint names Tulsi Gabbard, the sitting Director of National Intelligence. Once seen as a renegade voice on the national stage, she now has a clearly formal role—leading the intelligence machinery of…
On February 2, a harshly worded email carrying an old word with new urgency—measles—briefly broke the peaceful bustle of UW-Madison campus life. A student who had just returned from a trip abroad tested positive. Dane County had not experienced a case since 2024. Now, in the first few weeks of 2026, the illness had reappeared—not as a textbook recollection, but as an ongoing public health inquiry involving five buildings, hundreds of hours of foot traffic, and thousands of individual concerns. The list of exposure venues read like an ordinary student itinerary—Qdoba on Park Street, Union South, the Genetics Building. Each…
He didn’t come yelling. There was no manifesto, no explicit warning. A silent man with a gun enters a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., and points it at the employees. In 2016, Edgar Welch drove from North Carolina to study an idea he believed so deeply, he endangered his life for it. That theory was Pizzagate. Despite being completely disproved, Pizzagate became an extraordinarily sticky myth. What made it so amazingly powerful wasn’t the authenticity of its details, but the way it stole symbolism and emotion. It targeted pizza, emails, emojis—ordinary objects reconfigured as deadly signals. The human mind, when searching…
For years, she was nearly invisible. Not in a hidden way, but in the peaceful, everyday sense—working, living, and existing just beyond the headlines. Belarusian dentist Karyna Shuliak, who immigrated to the US in 2009, wasn’t one of the well-known figures connected to social scandals or power circles. Unexpectedly, however, her name now holds a prominent position in one of the most closely examined legal estates in contemporary American history. Through official documents recently disclosed by the U.S. Department of Justice, it was revealed that Shuliak was not just Jeffrey Epstein’s penultimate girlfriend but also the single largest beneficiary of…