Mark Zuckerberg boasts Threads’ over 175M active monthly users

Meta Platforms’ newest social media service, Threads, has more than 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday, two days before the service’s first anniversary. “What a year it’s been,” Zuckerberg said in a post on the thread. In February, he said Threads had more than 150 million MAUs. Threads is a challenger […]
UK Bigwigs Implore Vatican to Spare Traditional Latin Mass

ROME — Leading British cultural and political figures have penned an open letter petitioning the Vatican not to ban the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). Widespread and sustained rumor The letter, which announced the Vatican’s intention to crush the TLM once and for all, was signed by believers and non-believers alike and examined the historical, spiritual […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Seemingly Skips Michigan Police Officer’s Funeral to Attend Joe Biden’s White House Meeting

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) missed the funeral for a Michigan State Trooper on Wednesday because she is scheduled to attend a White House meeting with President Joe Biden and Democratic governors. Bobby Ready, a spokesman for Governor Whitmer, said: Confirmed Governor Whitmer said in an email that she would personally attend the closed-door meeting […]
Genie Bouchard’s sultry ‘yard work’ photoshoot gets mocked by Sam Querrey

Sam Querrey may have been green with jealousy, which is why he did what he did with Eugénie Bouchard. Earlier this week, Bouchard, a Canadian-born tennis and pickleball player, attracted attention in a photo shoot in which she donned a green bikini while working in her yard. “Sunday yard work,” she captioned the Instagram post […]
Biden admin to fund deportation of illegal aliens who enter Panama in agreement to close Darién Gap

The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security recently announced an agreement with the Panamanian government to help close the Darien Gap, a route used by illegal migrants heading north to the U.S. More than 520,000 people took this route in 2023. July 1 press releaseThe Department of Homeland Security outlined “a new foreign assistance program […]
J.D. Martinez makes Mets return with new cleats after bizarre injury

WASHINGTON — J.D. Martinez’s new cleats arrived Wednesday, and he felt a degree of relief. The veteran defensive back missed Tuesday’s game due to soreness in his left ankle, but believes this was due to him putting on a different pair of cleats the night before because he hadn’t received his new order. The cleats […]
‘Needless provocation’: Trump campaign moves to evict pro-lifers from the GOP

As Republican National Committee members meet to draft and vote on the party platform a week before the convention, Christian and pro-life Republicans are bracing for a betrayal in Milwaukee: Rumors are circulating around town that the Trump campaign wants to slim down and streamline the platform and remove (or at least water down) pro-life […]
Why Aaron Judge may soon be getting ‘Barry Bonds treatment’

Manager Aaron Boone said that if Aaron Judge continues hitting at his current rate, opposing teams may get the “Barry Bonds treatment” by walking him rather than watch him continue hitting. “Maybe there will be a period of time where that happens,” Boone said Wednesday before the Reds’ 3-2 loss in the Bronx. Maybe the […]
Homes are now unaffordable in about 80% of the U.S.
Taylor Morrison CEO Cheryl Palmer speaks on “The Craman Countdown” about the headwinds the housing market is facing following a drop in existing home sales in August. In the United States, soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices are putting homeownership out of reach for millions of Americans and making homes increasingly expensive. This is […]
Boston Globe editorial board calls for Biden to bow out of race following ‘historically bad’ debate

A newspaper in another major city called on President Biden to give up re-election after he was harshly criticized for his performance in last week’s debate with former President Trump. The Boston Globe editorial board on Wednesday Published column They argue that the risks of Biden running at this point are too great and that […]