Were you a Ferris or a Lucas? Did you have it all figured out in high school, like the eponymous trickster from 40 summers ago? Could you hoodwink your parents, fool your school, and charm (or manipulate) your friends so you could live a carefree, adventurous life? Or were you more like the title character from Lucas, the less-remembered high school movie, also set in the Chicago suburbs, released just a few months earlier: a peculiar kid with weird pastimes, the target of bullies, the lovelorn loser stuck in the friendzone?

A Queens man who was indicted for manslaughter late last month after killing a woman in a three-car crash and then fleeing the scene was also charged with hate crimes yesterday for allegedly destroying property outside a kosher bagel shop just days before the crash.

In the United States, the democratic socialists and the Hamas sympathizers often march arm in arm. Abroad, news that China is exporting surface-to-air missiles to Iran reveals the extent of the alliance between Islamists and the Chinese Communist Party. The domestic red-green alliance threatens to immiserate a generation of Americans. The international variant could also do the same.

Influential Detroit pastor and radio host Horace Sheffield III enthusiastically endorsed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a radio interview last week, urging listeners to make "5 and 10 phone calls" to help propel the left-wing Democrat to victory. Unmentioned in the glowing interview was that El-Sayed's campaign has paid tens of thousands of dollars to Sheffield's nonprofit organization.

A bipartisan group of senators is introducing new federal legislation to ban universities from giving admissions preferences to children of alumni or donors.

Call it pleading the thrift.

Hunter Biden claimed under oath earlier this year that he's so broke he doesn't even own a car or a cellphone, and said his family is too strapped for cash to help him pay off millions in unpaid legal bills.

During a March 2025 stop on socialist senator Bernie Sanders's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said President Donald Trump's "deplorable and disgusting" tax cuts benefited "folks who don't really need more money." Months later, he claimed a $26,000 income deduction that was created as a part of that legislation, records show.

Multiple U.N. relief agencies continue to stonewall a U.S. probe into their ties to Hamas, withholding key documents and other information that could reveal their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to U.S. officials and diplomats briefed on the matter.

The Democratic nominee in Colorado's competitive Eighth Congressional District, Manny Rutinel, sponsored legislation requiring health insurers to cover "gender-affirming health care," including sex changes—with no age restrictions.

At least 17 law firms have dropped out of a prestigious internship program that allegedly excluded white applicants, cutting the program's enrollment in half as it faces a federal probe.

The defections from Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a nonprofit that places "underrepresented" students at elite law firms, came after the program and 44 participating firms were hit by a discrimination complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which opened an investigation last year.

The Associated Press says "Public executions are not uncommon in Iran." The watchdog group Iran Human Rights counted 459 such executions between 2008 and 2025, frequently featuring large audiences, including children. United Against Nuclear Iran reports that Iran "regularly carries out executions in public. In many of these cases, the victim is publicly hanged from a construction crane, an especially slow and painful execution method." And that doesn't even mention the extrajudicial killings of pro-democracy protesters. President Trump has said between 30,000 and 52,000 of them were murdered this year by the Iranian regime, many shot in the forehead.

Donald Trump cracked jokes at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend. Yes, they actually rescheduled it after the failed shooting in April. That's how much journalists enjoy giving themselves awards. Trump made them listen to his jokes, which they hated, especially the one about Kaitlan Collins looking like a transgender celeb.