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The Texas Senate debate was held on October 15, and Ted Cruz and Colin Allred went head-to-head over key topics. Image Credit: Getty Images This year’s Texas Senate debate took place on October 15 in Dallas, and Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Colin Allred went head-to-head on a variety of key topics. As the 2024 presidential election approaches, voters in Texas watched as Cruz and Allred clashed over issues surrounding Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Cruz accused Allred of emulating Harris’ policies, saying at one point, “Congressman Allred and Kamala Harris are both running on the same radical…

The Lexus LC enters its eighth year on the market with some changes A key change for the 2025 LC is additional reinforcements for the chassis The 2025 LC offers a choice of V-8 or V-6 hybrid powertrains Lexus has consistently improved the LC since the sports car’s 2018 arrival, and the 2025 model continues that trend. Revealed on Friday, the 2025 LC benefits from additional reinforcements to the chassis, a new Iridium exterior paint option, and the addition of an available carbon-fiber door sill plate to the Sport Package. Pricing is only slightly higher than the previous year, with the…

Australia will be stepping into the UCI Gravel World Championships in Belgium with a women’s squad that boasts a strong mix of proven gravel talent and road crossover riders, including debuting Australian champion Courtney Sherwell, Giro d’Italia stage winner Neve Bradbury and proven player Tiffany Cromwell.The men’s team will include the experience of Cyclingnews columnist Nathan Haas, last year’s Australian gravel champion Connor Sens, Freddy Ovett and Oliver Stenning among a squad of nine that will take on the 181km men’s race from Halle to Leuven on Sunday October 6. Completing the squad are Laurens Black, Tom Chester, Kobe Henderson, Matthew…

Social Security recipients will get a 2.5% cost-of-living boost in 2025 Source: abcnews.go.com

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Agatha All Along. After the epic ending of Agatha All Along Episode 5 that revealed Teen’s true identity set to Billie Eilish’s “You Should See Me in a Crown,” Episode 6 of the Marvel television series dove deeper into Teen’s past to make connections to how he got where he is today‘Agatha All Along’ Episode 6 Recap: Teen’s Backstory Is Told And His Mission Is Revealed Teen was considered a Familiar, or amateur witch, until his blue powers crackled to life out of his anger at the death of Alice…

Retired workers on Social Security will receive a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment in 2025. Many retired workers are struggling with rising prices. Gallup reports that a record number of Americans cited inflation as a source of financial hardship in 2024, and a recent survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that over half of retirees worry they will need to make substantial spending cuts to keep up with inflation. Consequently, Social Security’s 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) has become a focal point for many seniors. Last week, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that benefits will increase 2.5% next year. But…

Social Security Administration announces cost-of-living increase for 2025The Social Security Administration just announced how much more recipients will get in 2025 following its cost-of-living adjustment.Scripps NewsSocial Security recipients will see a slight increase in checks in the coming year, and others will get their checks a bit early in November.The Social Security Administration announced a cost-of-living adjustment increase for 2025 last week, but it’s not as much as recipients have seen in prior years. The 2025 adjustment shrank to 2.5% from 2024’s 3.2% increase, the Social Security Administration said on Oct. 10. This is the smallest rise since 2021.While the COLA is…

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity’s most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450.  A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in 1487, played a crucial role in spreading persecution across Europe. The study also highlights how trials in one city influenced others. This social influence — observing what neighbors were doing — played a key role in whether a city would adopt witch trials. “Cities weren’t making these decisions in isolation,”…

The brightly colored “Sukkot boxes” offered up on Amazon boasted the colors of spring, not fall; had no ostensible use for the Jewish holiday; and contained a Hebrew misspelling that bordered on obscene. Reader, I bought them. And it wasn’t just me. Enabled by our Prime accounts, Jews across the United States shelled out about $15 for a dozen ready-to-construct cardboard boxes emblazoned with Hebrew letters that spelled out a phonetic variation on “tuchus” — the Yiddish word meaning “butt.” “It was a bit of an impulse buy, but I thought it was hilarious,” said Erin Stern of Baltimore, who…

LAS VEGAS —  In 2007, I visited Las Vegas at the invitation of a college student, Edgar Flores. He was a volunteer for the Latino Youth Leadership Conference, an annual weeklong retreat at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was an English major.About 100 high school students gathered to learn leadership skills and build a sense of identity in a state where Latinos were, at the time, largely powerless. Seven days. Seven states. Nearly 3,000 miles. Gustavo Arellano talks to Latinos across the Southwest about their hopes, fears and dreams in this election year. In a small auditorium, I…