You expect to find dead bodies in a funeral home — but not more than 50 of them, unrefrigerated and producing a stench that wafted into the neighborhood and prompted investigators to pay a visit.

Authorities are still investigating the South Chicago Chapel where a total of 56 bodies were discovered this week in various states of decomposition, according to investigators.

That revelation came months after nearby residents complained about a "stench" coming from the funeral parlor, Fox News Digital  and other outlets reported.

State and local officials alerted the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office (MEO), which sent investigators and forensic pathologists to the site to get a look inside.

There they made the grim discovery.

"Multiple decedents" were stored in an unrefrigerated area under “deplorable conditions,” investigators alleged.

“Staff is assessing the conditions of the remains, searching for documentation regarding identification of the decedents as well as death certificates,” the MEO said in a statement. “This process could take several days to ensure proper disposition.”

Meanwhile, state officials suspended the license of funeral home director Johanna Morgan on Wednesday. State business records show Morgan incorporated South

Marvel Studios has cast Kit Connor, who is best known for the gay romance series Heartstopper, to portray one of the most famous superheroes in an upcoming reboot of the X-Men film series.

According to Deadline, the 22-year-old Connor will play Cyclops in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The character, a mutant with the ability to shoot lethal laser beams from his eyes, has been a pillar of the comics series and its film adaptations.

The British actor shot to prominence for his lead role in the gay romance British Netflix series, Heartstopper, where he plays a high school rugby player who falls in love with a nebbish, openly gay fellow student (Connor’s co-star Joe Locke has also appeared in a Marvel Studios show, the one-season Disney+ series Agatha All Along). The series was aired from 2022 to 2024. Based on the series of books and comics by young adult author Alice Oseman, the series frequently depicts gay sex among teens and also transgender characters.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was confirmed Saturday to lead the U.S. Department of Justice, the news coming after Republican lawmakers struggled to make a decision.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) announced at the last minute on Friday that he would support Blanche’s confirmation, Fox News reported Saturday.

During his announcement, Cassidy said the process was about Blanche, the difficulty of his job, and “how the American people can be best served.”

I will support Todd Blanche for U.S. Attorney General. pic.twitter.com/PKWr3atuvA

— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) August 7, 2026

Cassidy’s support placed Blanche in the position to be confirmed.

In a social media post early Saturday, Blanche wrote, “I am deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me to lead the Department of Justice as our great nation's 88th Attorney General. I am grateful to the Senate for staying late to complete this process.”

“To the dedicated public servants of the Department of Justice, thank you for your work each day to uphold the law and keep our country

Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) warned that a movement within the Democratic Party was running on an agenda to radically change America.

According to Blackburn, it was Democrats’ mission to “start over” in the United States.

“Senator, you’ve seen the craziness that is infecting the Democratic Party,” guest host Jason Chaffetz said. “I mean, it’s hard to recognize — I mean, even from just a few years ago, let alone years ago. What’s your perspective on this craziness that’s coming into the — I mean, you got Democrats firing on Democrats because they can’t figure out who they are and where they want to go.”

Blackburn replied, “Yeah. Yes. And in Tennessee, I talked to people that have been Democrats all their lives who are saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute. This is not what we are.’ When you look at the Democrat socialist agenda, they want to run your life 24/7/365. They want to make certain that they own everything, that there’s no private property. They’re not running on different policies, which is what used to be what Democrats did. You would have a point and a counterpoint about different policies whether it was

Failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) is reportedly back in jail after he tested positive for methamphetamine in Alabama, TMZ reported Friday.

The news came after Gillum was arrested in July on charges relating to possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana, according to Breitbart News.

Meanwhile, TMZ reported of the suspect:

Baldwin County Assistant D.A. John Oxford tells TMZ… Andrew is taking part in random drug testing known as “color code drug testing.” Basically, we’re told Andrew is assigned a color by the court, and he’s supposed to call a hotline every day. If he calls the hotline and his color is read out, he has to report that day for a drug test.

Oxford says Andrew didn’t show up for his drug test on a day his color was called… so he was tested for drugs at his court appearance Thursday… and it came back positive.

Andrew Gillum locked up again, authorities say he tested positive for meth.

Details: https://t.co/5z1CCiZklP pic.twitter.com/6ktxHpX1Zj

— TMZ (@TMZ) August 7, 2026

Numerous reports of controversy involving Gillum, who is the former mayor of Tallahassee, have come out over the years.

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief pled the Fifth well over 100 times during his testimony before lawmakers last week.

Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) announced the 8-5 committee vote on Thursday morning.

In an all caps post, Paul wrote, “PASSED BY REPUBLICANS ON BEHALF OF THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES STILL AFFECTED YEARS AFTER THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE RESOLUTION TO HOLD ANTHONY FAUCI IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS HAS PASSED OUT OF THE SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE BY A VOTE OF 8-5.”

PASSED BY REPUBLICANS ON BEHALF OF THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS AND THEIR FAMILIES STILL AFFECTED YEARS AFTER THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE RESOLUTION TO HOLD ANTHONY FAUCI IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS HAS PASSED OUT OF THE SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE BY A VOTE… https://t.co/9wgO1KeMd2

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) August 6, 2026

Paul explained prior to the vote that lawmakers were voting on “whether a witness, who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon, can be ordered

Mike Rowe said if the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) “continue to grow in popularity, and the Democrats actually campaign on their behalf, I think it’ll be the largest political blunder in my lifetime.”

“I’m not what you’d call a keen observer of the political climate in our country, but I do pay attention, broadly, to what’s going on within our two parties,” Rowe began in a Sunday X post, sharing a monologue from a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.

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I'm not what you'd call a keen observer of the political climate in our country, but I do pay attention, broadly, to what's going on within our two parties. Watching the latest from @billmaher, I was reminded of how we struggle to reconcile our support…

— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) August 2, 2026

“Watching the latest from @billmaher, I was reminded of how we struggle to reconcile our support for an idea we might like, if it's promoted by a politician we hate. And vice versa,” the Dirty Jobs star continued.

“Here though, we have an opportunity — Democrats, in particular —

The youngest black professor ever at the University of Cambridge has resigned after the institution announced it was finally launching an investigation into allegations of plagiarism, as other claims of potentially fake hate crimes and alleged embellishment of his CV swirl.

Erstwhile Professor of sociology of education Jason Arday at the prestigious University of Cambridge and Jesus College Cambridge tendered his immediate resignation overnight, a sudden change in course after months of punchy denials from both the academic and the institution over probity claims that range from allegedly faked publications, alleged thesis plagiarism, to claims of alleged acts of physical intimidation against him.

Arday’s letter of resignation went long on promoting his own achievements, but fell short of any admission of wrongdoing or an apology, and indeed insisted that “This is not the end of my work. It is simply the end of this chapter”. Reflecting on his appointment as professor at Cambridge in 2023, Arday claimed “Thousands celebrated not simply my appointment, but what it represented: that talent, perseverance and hope can triumph over even the greatest adversity”, and lamented what he described as a campaign of harassment against him since.

He wrote: “Sadly, the years

The leader of a moderate Democrat group said members are gearing up for a battle with democratic socialists who may try to capture the presidential nomination in 2028, the New York Times (NYT) reported Thursday.

Some Democrats, including Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), have been warning against the rising influence of socialists and communists in the Democrat Party, Breitbart News reported Wednesday.

Indeed, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed beat establishment Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in Tuesday’s primary in Michigan, where “the radical transformation of the Democratic Party is center stage,” Breitbart News said Wednesday:

El-Sayed, a public health official and former failed candidate for governor in 2018, delivered the most high-profile win to date for the movement increasingly calling the shots in Democrat politics. While he is not a formal member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the ascendant power center of left-wing American politics, elected officials identifying as democratic socialists, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), campaigned hard for him over several months leading up to the August primary.

According to the Times article:

"We are preparing for the next war that is coming," said Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third