David Lohr walked into a Los Angeles grocery store in November 2018 and poured Clorox into a refrigerator full of cheese for sale. He doused bleach on more groceries like ice, alcohol, and frozen shrimp in California stores—four more times—before being arrested on federal charges in February 2019, according to court documents reviewed by the
Do you live in a swing state? If so, the Voter Participation Center, a “non-partisan” charity, is spending big on Facebook ads to ensure you have the information you need to cast a ballot in the upcoming election. That is unless you like NASCAR, golf, Jeeps, or other interests and hobbies typically associated with Republican
The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago kicked off with words that few American voters were eager to hear: “From time immemorial, our ancestors lived in the Great Lakes region,” said Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal Council vice chairman Zach Pahmahmie. “However, in 1849, an illegal auction by the U.S. government forcibly removed our tribe
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) pledged in October 2022 to combat anti-Semitism “wherever it rears its ugly head.” But when a powerful California National Guard general was credibly accused of denigrating a Jewish subordinate as a “kike” lawyer, Newsom’s Military Department dismissed the allegations on a technicality, and the governor promoted the alleged perpetrator, Matthew
Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, the military said on Sunday. The Israeli military announced the recovery of the bodies from underground in the southern city of Rafah. The bodies of Carmel Gat, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov,
Griffin Dunne’s memoir bobbed around the bestseller list after it was published in June, and though it’s since slipped off, my guess is the book will prove to have staying power. Like the life of the family he portrays with such affection and humor, The Friday Afternoon Club is divided into two parts. The first
I have been lunching monthly with Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, so I was particularly delighted to encounter, in this collection of his essays from 1978 to 2023, a description of our first meal together. The conversation, Joe recalled, turned to the cultural “theory” then fashionable in university English departments. “‘Of course I loathe