J.J. McCarthy shook off a sluggish start to deliver three fourth-quarter touchdowns, sparking the Minnesota Vikings to a dramatic comeback win over the Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football. With Monday’s performance in Chicago, McCarthy became the first quarterback in NFL history to notch three touchdowns in the fourth quarter of his debut. McCarthy, who was drafted by the Vikings in 2023 but missed his rookie season with a knee injury, made his regular-season debut by completing 13 of 20 passes for 143 yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. He also rushed for 25 yards, including a 14-yard score, as…
Author: Jack Davis
Speaking Monday at a Religious Liberty Commission meeting in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump announced plans for the Department of Education to issue new guidance protecting prayer in public schools. Trump made the remarks at the Museum of the Bible, founded by Hobby Lobby’s Green family. He did not offer a specific timeline or details on what the directive would entail. “For most of our country’s history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation, yet in many schools today, students are indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda,” the president said. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued…
Police in Germany responding to late-night reports of someone repeatedly ringing doorbells at an apartment building discovered the unlikely culprit: a slug. Residents in Schwabach, Bavaria, had called authorities after their doorbells kept going off, suspecting local youths were behind the disturbance. They grew particularly uneasy when the motion-sensor cameras at the entrance failed to capture anyone at the door. When officers arrived, they found the supposed prankster was actually a slug crawling across the doorbell panel, setting off multiple buzzers as it moved. “There was a slug sitting right on our nameplate. You could even see its slime trail…
A baby raccoon that got drunk after eating fermented peaches and nearly drowned in a dumpster was saved by a Kentucky nurse who performed CPR on the animal. Misty Combs, a registered nurse at the Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, said she and several colleagues noticed a frantic mother raccoon running through the parking lot. Upon investigating, they found the mother’s two babies trapped inside a dumpster owned by nearby Kentucky Mist Moonshine. Combs managed to scoop one of the kits to safety with a shovel, but the other was lying face-down in the water at the bottom of…
Kent Broussard, a 66-year-old freshman at LSU, went viral after performing with the LSU Tiger Marching Band on Saturday. ESPN featured the nearly AARP-eligible student in its Random Fandom segment. Saturday’s matchup against Louisiana Tech marked Broussard’s debut as an official member of the LSU Tiger Marching Band. “Now, the first time he watched LSU inside Tiger Stadium, he was just nine years old,” ESPN announcers said on the broadcast. “Life took him another way — a career, raising a family. But he had a dream: of joining the Golden Band from Tigerland. And five years ago, Kent picked up…
An Australian woman convicted of poisoning three lunch guests with the world’s deadliest mushrooms has been sentenced to three life terms, with a non-parole period of 33 years, closing the chapter on a case that has gripped the nation and inspired multiple podcasts and documentaries. Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty in July of murdering three relatives of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson — his parents, along with his aunt and uncle — by serving a beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms she had gathered near her rural Victoria home in 2023. Her life sentences will run concurrently with…
The dispute over a Philadelphia Phillies fan who confronted a father for a home run ball during a game against the Miami Marlins has continued to spark outrage. Angry spectators, upset after the woman approached the man and demanded the ball he had given to his young son, began trying to identify her online. Their efforts fueled a rumor that the woman was Cheryl Richardson-Wagner. She responded to the hateful comments online with a humorous post on Facebook. “OK everyone … I’m not the crazy Philly Mom (but I sure would love to be as thin as she is and…
In a fresh sign of strain on the U.S. labor market, worker confidence in the ability to switch jobs has fallen to its lowest level on record, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey released Monday. The Fed’s August Survey of Consumer Expectations found respondents saw just a 44.9% chance of landing a new job if they lost their current one — a 5.8-point drop from July and the weakest reading since the survey began in 2013. The numbers underscore the sharp reversal from the “Great Resignation” of 2021-22, when as many as 4.5 million people a month were…