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Britney Spears’ Memoir Sold 1.1M Copies In First Week

NEW YORK (AP) — Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” has sold 1.1 million copies in the U.S. alone through its first week. “I poured my heart and soul into my memoir, and I am grateful to my fans and readers around the world for their unwavering support,” Spears said in a statement released Wednesday by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. The sales figures include pre-orders, print sales, e-books and audiobooks. “The Woman in Me,” released Oct. 24, has been praised by critics as a compelling account of her rise to global fame and her ongoing struggles, ...

Oldest Hatred Comes Roaring Back

In one day of savagery, Hamas brought the world’s oldest hatred into the mainstream. The upwelling of antisemitism around the globe, and especially in the United States, mocks the naivety of those who imagined that the oldest hatred was mostly in the past, that Israel could be a normal nation or that a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue could be realized in the near future. American Jews, stunned by the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, are reeling from the lack of basic decency shown by many progressives. No more hiding behind “anti-Zionism is not ...

A Reminder for Everyone: Understand Evil or Perish by Its Hand

Last week, the Metropolitan Police in London were videotaped removing posters with pictures of hostages taken by Hamas. The posters were being removed from Cullimore Chemist in Edgware. The chemist’s CEO, Hassan Khan, recently retweeted posts branding Israel and the IDF “filthy animals” and encouraging Iran and Hezbollah to attack Israel. This naturally caused some properly earned angst. After all, the removal of such posters has become the domain of antisemites across the world. What was the police’s excuse for removing the posters? They explained, “We do not wish to ...

GOP Isolationism Is Dreadful

Explaining his support for U.S. aid to Israel but not Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance, the shape-shifting Ohio Republican, wrote: “Israel has an achievable objective. Ukraine does not.” Actually, their objectives are identical — national survival while living in proximity to enemies whose objective is national annihilation. Vance’s categorical conclusion, that Ukraine’s survival is unachievable, makes him a momentous symptom of Donald Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party. If Trump becomes, for the third consecutive time, the party’s presidential candidate, one of our ...

Cities Debate: Is ‘Right On Red’ Wrong For Drivers?

CHICAGO (AP) — Sophee Langerman was on her way to a bicycle safety rally in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood in June when a car turning right rolled through a red light and slammed into her bike, which she was walking off the curb and into the crosswalk. The car was moving slowly enough that Langerman escaped serious injury, but the bicycle required extensive repairs. To Langerman, it’s another argument for ending a practice that almost all U.S. cities have embraced for decades: the legal prerogative for a driver to turn right after stopping at a red light. A dramatic rise in ...

Weirton Native Is ‘Mountaineer Of Distinction’

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University has named Olivia Dowler, Sophia Flower, Rachel Johnson, Thomas Williams and Natalie Wonsettler the 2023 Mountaineers of Distinction, a Mountaineer Week tradition that recognizes exemplary academic achievement and extracurricular involvement. Distinguished by superior academic standing and a spirit of volunteerism and service to others, the honorees were chosen by an interview selection panel from a pool of nearly 70 students who applied from across campus. All members of the WVU Honors College, the four seniors and one graduate student received ...