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2026-08-18 · The Guardian

Virginia teacher and firefighters feud over whether a python started schoolhouse fire

🔮 Although officials said Forest middle school’s first day of classes on Wednesday would proceed as scheduled, word that a snake had caused a fire on campus generated a substantial amount of news coverage and social media commentary. assertive

2026-08-19 · The Guardian

Alaska athlete uses bear spray to fend off animal attack: ‘nightmare come to life’

🔮 She also remarked, “The outcome was just about as good as it could have been, and I’m actually really proud of how I handled a completely terrifying situation.” assertive

2026-08-24 · The Guardian

Ex-mayor Dan Sullivan supports incumbent Dan Sullivan’s Senate bid against third Dan Sullivan

🔮 Dan Sullivan supports Dan Sullivan against Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s US Senate election, says a former Alaskan mayor who recently backed the race’s Republican incumbent over a challenger sharing their name. assertive

2026-08-26 · The Guardian

Sonya Massey’s family says death of sheriff’s deputy who killed her ‘doesn’t feel like justice’

🔮 Grayson later testified that he feared Massey would throw the boiling water on him after she twice said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.” assertive

2026-08-28 · The Guardian

‘This whole thing’s a farce’: New Orleans Catholic church sex abuse settlement brings anger and shock

🔮 Settlement disclosure documents that disgusted victims virtually from the outset detail how points would be assigned based on the nature of the abuse, among other elements. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Guardian

Texas man sentenced to 20 years in prison over death of teen in 1980s

🔮 Elmore’s sentence in Laura’s death came about four years after an Oklahoma death row inmate, William Reece, pleaded guilty to the murders of two girls and one woman whose bodies were in the Texas Killing Fields: Laura Smither, 12; Jessica Cain, 17; and Kelli Cox, 20. assertive

2026-09-05 · The Guardian

First professional St Nick with Down syndrome inducted into International Santa Claus Hall of Fame

🔮 And then Bradley declared “he would be our Santa from now on”. assertive

2026-09-07 · The Guardian

Former Louisiana mayor completes 90-day jail term for raping 16-year-old boy

🔮 The former Louisiana mayor Misty Roberts has completed the 90-day jail sentence she received for raping a 16-year-old boy while still in elected office and been released from custody, according to state corrections records. assertive

2026-09-09 · The Guardian

Homeland security agent charged with child rape in Alabama, officials say

🔮 As a condition of his release on bond, Blacklidge would have to submit electronic monitoring, home confinement, and an order to neither contact the victim in the case nor anyone else under the age of 18, Marshall said. assertive

2026-09-10 · The Guardian

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the daughter of a hero remembers the mother she lost

🔮 “I don’t know how many people would be able to do that. assertive

2026-09-11 · The Guardian

Missouri UPS worker two weeks from retirement fatally struck by company vehicle

🔮 The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) is investigating Roberts’ death, a process that could take up to six months, an agency spokesperson said in a separate statement on Thursday. assertive

2026-09-12 · The Guardian

Registered sex offender was allowed to participate at South Carolina church for decades

🔮 Sidell, 69, also could not set foot in the school or those particular ministries’ spaces, Jones said. assertive

2026-09-14 · The Guardian

Four victims identified in Louisiana stabbing spree after suspect detained

🔮 Investigators there said they could not immediately release many details – but they confirmed four adults who were related had been shot to death, and one suspect had been taken into custody, the Texas television news outlet KVEO reported. assertive

2026-09-15 · The Guardian

Catnapped bodega cat in Brooklyn reunited with owner after intense grassroots campaign

🔮 That person said Jabal would be brought back to the store from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, according to both Janzen and Innab. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Guardian

Louisiana firefighters find feline native to sub-Saharan Africa while responding to house fire

🔮 JPaws’ statement said the agency would explore having the serval held temporarily at New Orleans’ Audubon zoo. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Guardian

Girl orphaned by Super Bowl reporter’s drugging and a deadly Kansas crash is ‘extreme victim’, granddad says

🔮 “The only thing she knows is her mom and dad are in heaven, and she will see them one day.” assertive

2026-09-25 · The Guardian

Partner of woman killed by US hunter who allegedly mistook her for deer says death ‘no accident’

🔮 Yolin Chilel Soto also suggested there may have been a component of “racism” to her sister’s killing, according to WHYY. mixed

2026-09-26 · The Guardian

California man charged in the killing of his ex-wife – two decades after she vanished

🔮 Jeff Maiorca, 53, faces a charge of murder in the death of Jill Maiorca, who was 29 when she was killed, authorities said in discussing what could be one of the latest cases in the US to be solved with modern DNA techniques. assertive

2026-09-27 · The Guardian

Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation

🔮 Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Guardian

John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’

🔮 With speculation about whether he may defect from the Democratic party swirling around him, US senator John Fetterman described himself seemingly unintentionally as a “lifelong Republican” during a fireside chat in Texas over the weekend. assertive

2026-09-30 · The Guardian

New Orleans judge files criminal case against CBS affiliate over reporting

🔮 And in August, a state court jury awarded a $300,000 verdict to Louisiana supreme court justice Jeff Hughes, who sued the Advocate newspaper for libel over an editorial – an outcome some US press freedom defenders fear could weaken the “actual malice” legal standard which has long governed such cases. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Guardian

Olivia Dean accused of plagiarism on her I’ve Seen It track

🔮 Beside damages, the lawsuit said it seeks an injunction that permanently would “restrain further ongoing acts of copyright infringement by [the] defendants”. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Guardian

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s former husband says he was ‘shocked’ by death of her ex-partner

🔮 The ex-husband of Gypsy Rose Blanchard has said he was “shocked” by the recent death in Louisiana of her former partner Ken Urker – and that he would be there for Blanchard and her daughter “if she needs me”. assertive

2026-10-04 · The Guardian

Conservative US supreme court justice Samuel Alito hints at retirement in interview

🔮 In a preview clip circulated online by the network, Alito told Jan Crawford, CBS national correspondent, that “I thought about” retiring at the end of the supreme court term that ended in June, saying: “It’s something that I think someone at my age has to think about.” “But,” Alito continued, “I thought I could still make a valuable contribution – which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place. mixed

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

Pretty Little Liars’ Keegan Allen attacked by masked assailants in LA

🔮 As Allen put it in a caption alongside his Instagram video, the two attackers “threatened to KILL me over my watch and would have! “God said no tonight. assertive

2026-10-11 · The Guardian

Man accused of child rape set to become police chief in small Louisiana town

🔮 Meaning Paul would be elected by default while out on $60,000 bail in connection with the child rape allegations made against him by the sheriff’s office of Allen parish, Louisiana, whose jurisdiction includes Elizabeth. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Guardian

Republican US senator facing re-election settles six-year bakery debt

🔮 Word of Marshall’s cookie debt became widely known after an 8 October social media post from Holly Thomas, a baker from Hutchinson, Kansas, which began: “Do you know why I will never vote for Roger Marshall?” assertive

2026-10-17 · The Guardian

Selma Blair ‘did not intend to harm anyone’ during airplane incident, representatives say

🔮 Without specifying who may have done so, the statement on Friday called it “outrageous” for anyone to suggest Blair does not have multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic neurological disorder which she went public about being diagnosed with in 2018. assertive

2026-10-18 · The Guardian

Six-year-old among two dead after Kansas woman drives through soccer game, with 11 more injured

🔮 After saying that McPherson City FC would later post further information in regards to the club and its upcoming events, the post concluded: “Please hold your loved ones tight tonight.” assertive

2026-10-19 · The Guardian

Vatican upholds excommunication of US deacon who resigned after son was molested by priest

🔮 The DDF cited technical grounds in rejecting Peyton’s appeal, saying he had joined an Anglican congregation, “published [that] fact … on social media” and therefore refused to submit to the Catholic pope, who since May 2025 has been Leo XIV. assertive

2026-10-24 · The Guardian

Verse from Qu’ran inspired US man to leap on runaway school bus and halt it

🔮 His first thought was to see if he could somehow shift the bus into park. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Guardian

A US woman feared dead was reported alive in Mexico. But cops now say that isn’t true

🔮 Although Feinman had not been found, the Yavapai county sheriff’s office subsequently charged Richards as well as a man named William DalCerro with second-degree murder, conspiracy and concealing a corpse in connection with her disappearance. mixed

2026-10-29 · The Guardian

New elementary school in Texas named after beloved longtime school custodian

🔮 But, as officials would later say, she took on much more than custodial work in her role, assisting students with their classwork; buying and delivering them school supplies if they needed them; and staffing the ticket booth at football games. assertive

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