Mar. 15, 2025
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In front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall last week, PresidentJoe Bidendelivered apassionate speechabout the battle for the “soul of America,” saying that “Donald Trumpand the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
Some high-profile members of the GOP quickly denounced the president’s remarks as divisive political rhetoric timed with the quickly approaching midterm elections.
Days later in Milwaukee, Biden didn’t back down — but he did explain that his stark warning wasn’t about the entire party.
Mar. 15, 2025
Terri and Doug Owens.Photo:Doug and Terri Owens
Doug and Terri Owens
Terri Owens says her husband made her heart whole when they first met.After they remarrieddecades later, he took things to another level when she went into cardiac arrest in her sleep.
“Doug mended my broken heart through all these years — and then he saved my broken heart," Terri, 61, tells PEOPLE. “He was my heartbeat."
Terri and Doug first met at a roller skating rink when Terri was 16 and he was 17 — and they were still teenagers when they tied the knot on Aug.
Mar. 15, 2025
Elon Musk.Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images; Getty Images
In the hours after news spread thatElon Muskhad finallypurchased Twitter, talk quickly turned to the issue of free speech — and how much hate, harassment and extremism will be allowed on the platform moving forward.
Musk has previously sparked concerns over his seemingly relaxed attitude towards content moderation, which include his thoughts onreversing Donald Trump’s permanent ban.
But shortly before the takeover was finalized, Musk issued a public letter to advertisers, assuring them that he didn’t want the platform to “become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!
Mar. 15, 2025
Dr. Billy Hudson with a group of student Aspirnauts in 2007.Photo:Dana Johnson/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dana Johnson/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
It’s May 1958, and 16-year-old Billy Hudson is bloody and battered lying in the dirt near his rural Arkansas home. He’s clutching a shotgun, trying to decide whether to kill himself or the father who abused him.
Tears still form in Dr. Billy Hudson’s eyes when he reflects on that moment more than six decades ago — and on how he escaped that dark place with the help of a high school teacher who recognized his potential.
Mar. 15, 2025
Emberly Wadsworth and her family next to one of her Elf on the Shelf scenes.Photo:Courtesy of Emberly Wadsworth
Courtesy of Emberly Wadsworth
Many parents know that the start of the Christmas season often means the return of theElf on the Shelf. Social media feeds are full of parents finding silly, innovative ways ofdisplaying their child’s Elf, who is “tasked” with reporting back to Santa about the child’s behavior each night.