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The voice of some of The Simpsons' most recognizable characters is leaving the show. After 35 years, Pamela Hayden, who voiced Milhouse Van Houten and numerous other characters, announced her retirement from the program. She will make her final appearance on the FOX show on Sunday. It's time for me to put down my microphone, but how can I bid The Simpsons farewell? In a press release, Hayden stated. Not without difficulty. According to the show's creator, Matt Groening, Bart Simpson wanted a companion to chat to in the school cafeteria, so he created Milhouse, his unfortunate best friend. He also pays homage to previous President Richard Milhous Nixon with his name. According to a remark from Groening, "We gave him the name Milhouse because that was the most unfortunate name a child coul...

On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that he is in favor of limiting the use of the Capitol's single-sex facilities, including restrooms, to people of that biological sex. This would essentially prevent the first transgender congresswoman from using the women's restrooms in the upcoming Congress. This week, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., presented a resolution that would prohibit transgender women from accessing the Capitol's women's restrooms and other facilities. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, is "absolutely" targeted by the bill, she said Tuesday. "Every Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol," stated Johnson, R-La., in a statement. "All single-sex facilities i...

Washington A supporter of Donald Trump who was one of the first rioters to enter the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was found guilty of planning to murder FBI special agents who were looking into his crimes there. Edward Kelley was found guilty on Wednesday of three additional charges: conspiracy to murder U.S. employees; solicitation to commit a crime of violence; and influencing or retaliating against federal officials by threat. Kelley was previously convicted last week of assaulting law enforcement officers and other offenses during the Capitol attack. The trial for the murder plan began Monday in Knoxville, Tennessee. After only an hour of deliberation, the jury found Kelley guilty on all three counts, according to Knoxville's NBC News station WBIR. One month after being sentenced...

A ballot proposition that would have progressively raised California's minimum wage to $18 per hour was narrowly defeated by voters, according to NBC News' prediction on Wednesday. This is the first time since 1996 that a ballot initiative to increase the state minimum wage has failed nationally. The California bill, which was on the ballot as Proposition 32, called for raising the minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, making it the highest in the country. With 92% of the vote counted, 50.8% of voters supported the no vote, compared to 49.2% who supported the yes vote. Opponents said that enacting the legislation would have increased costs for firms, which would have likely led to employee terminations, while supporters claimed that it would have benefited workers. The measure's opponents,...

Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney for Donald Trump, was held in civil contempt for continuing to falsely accuse the two former Georgia election workers of election fraud in the 2020 election after they won a defamation judgment against him worth over $150 million. A court-approved agreement in May stated that Giuliani "agreed to be bound by a permanent injunction prohibiting him from repeating the same or similar statements to the statements adjudged to be false and defamatory." However, according to documents filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., Giuliani has persisted in making false claims about Shaye Mosssay and Ruby Freeman online. According to the petition, "it took only six months for Mr. Giuliani to resume his defamatory campaign" against the mother and daughter, which inclu...

Michele Kang, a philanthropist and businesswoman, recently made a landmark commitment to women's soccer. U.S. Soccer announced Tuesday that Kang, owner of the professional soccer team Washington Spirit, has donated $30 million to the organization's women's and girls' initiatives. It's the biggest gift a woman has ever given to women's soccer, girls' soccer, and the soccer organization. Kang expressed her hope that the donation will encourage other benefactors to support women's sports in a press release. According to Kang, women's sports have been neglected and underappreciated for far too long. According to the press release, Kang's donation will enable the organization to increase the number of camps it presently operates, reaching six per age group, with a focus on sponsoring those for ...

The second-richest person in India, Gautam Adani, has been charged with fraud by U.S. authorities on charges that he and a number of accused co-conspirators attempted to bribe Indian officials with $250 million. The executives, the majority of whom are Indian, were charged by the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday with obtaining money from U.S. investors and other foreign lenders by making false and deceptive claims. Authorities also claim that the executives bribed Indian officials in order to secure billions of dollars in solar power contracts. In a statement released with the indictment, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace claimed that the defendants had planned a complex plot to bribe Indian government officials in order to obtain contracts valued at billions of dollars. ...

Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization started by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attempted to defend doctors under investigation in Washington state for allegedly disseminating false information regarding the Covid-19 virus, but the Supreme Court denied their request on Wednesday. On behalf of the court, Justice Elena Kagan rejected the emergency application. The plaintiffs' attorney, Rick Jaffe, stated, "We hope that one day the Supreme Court will clearly state that the Constitution does not permit the government to sanction the public viewpoint speech of physicians." Among the attorneys on the application was Kennedy, whom President-elect Donald Trump plans to appoint as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy's organization and other plaintiffs co...

After it was revealed that a trans student played on the women's volleyball team at one of the conference's universities, a group of over a dozen Republican lawmakers is calling on a collegiate athletic conference to prohibit transgender women from participating. Republican senators and representatives accused the NCAA Division I conference of breaking Title IX's sex discrimination safeguards and failing to comply with its own handbook's gender equity criteria in a letter addressed Monday to the Mountain West Conference's commissioner. According to the letter, allowing biological men to participate in women's sports is unfair and unequal. According to these rules, it makes sense for biological males to participate in men's sports and females in women's sports. It goes on to say that the M...

NEW ORLEANS A federal appeals court in New Orleans issued an injunction Wednesday that halts Louisiana's proposal to hang the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms in the state starting next year. A state motion to temporarily halt an earlier order issued by U.S. District Judge John deGravelles in Baton Rouge while the case is still pending was denied by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The judge's order remains in force far after the law's January 1 deadline for posting the commandments, since arguments before a 5th Circuit panel are set for January 23. The state argues that only the five school districts that are defendants in a legal dispute are impacted by deGravelles' order. However, while the appeal is pending, it is unclear how or whether the law would be applied ...