Larry Tomczak, a Christian journalist and author, attended Shen Yun Performing Arts’ final show of the 2025 season at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on May 11. It was his first time seeing the performance, and he described the matinee as “just been outstanding.” “On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it an 11. You can see the discipline and the training and the hard work. It’s wholesome. It’s clean. It’s not offensive in any way.” Mr. Tomczak praised. “There’s a lot of entertainment today that people just justify anything—blasphemy, profanity, nudity. But this is so…
Author: Sarah Mitchell
We still don’t know what fundamentally causes migraines, and most are considered incurable. But for a small number of sufferers, surgery can make severe, chronic migraines disappear forever. This is as close as modern medicine has yet come to a cure, and it’s thanks to an Ohio-based plastic surgeon, Dr. Bahaman Guyuron. Like the discovery of penicillin, Guyuron’s discovery that surgery could help migraines was a fortuitous medical accident—although this one was a side-effect of otherwise successful surgeries, not the result of lax housekeeping and moldy petri dishes. After undergoing forehead lifts, some of Guyuron’s patients reported that their migraines…
Cokie Roberts, an ABC News journalist and commentator, died at the age of 75, said her family. According to the broadcaster, which reported on her death, she won several Emmy Awards throughout her career. She was also inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. “We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness,” her family said in a statement. The report said that her cause of death was due to complications from breast cancer. “Cokie Roberts will be dearly missed,” said James Goldston, president of ABC News, in a statement. “Cokie’s kindness,…
Women who allegedly suffered complications undergoing so-called “One Size Fits All” breast augmentation surgery in two states could be compensated under a proposed class-action settlement. The lawsuit was launched against The Cosmetic Institute in 2017 by patients in NSW and Queensland who claimed they suffered distressing complications because of the negligence of the company’s surgeons and staff. Those issues included heart problems, punctured lungs and seizures, among other conditions. The long-running case had been scheduled for a lengthy civil hearing to begin in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday, but the parties instead reached a last-minute agreement to settle the…
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been freed from detention in Iran and is flying home, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office said on Wednesday. Sala, 29, had been working under a regular journalistic visa but was detained in Tehran on December 19 and held in solitary confinement in the Iranian capital’s notorious Evin prison. Sala was seized three days after Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini was arrested in Milan on a US warrant for allegedly supplying drone parts that Washington says were used in a 2024 attack that killed three US service members in Jordan. Iran has denied involvement in the strike.…
Social media often tempts teenagers with non-surgical ways to improve their appearance, such as laser hair removal, skin and teeth whitening, chemical peels, botox, and face and lip fillers. And a new poll finds that a substantial number of parents are ready to support their teen’s pursuit of beauty through a trip to a med spa. About 1 in 6 U.S. parents support their teens undergoing these types of treatments, as long as they have parental approval, a new poll has found. But there remains skepticism regarding these procedures, according to the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital…
A prominent Guatemalan newspaper editor who has overseen investigations into corruption has been arrested, prompting denunciations Saturday by politicians, anticorruption activists and civic groups. Prosecution agents arrested José Ruben Zamora Marroquín at his home on Friday night, searching his home, seizing telephones and accusing him of money laundering. Zamora Marroquín is a prize-winning journalist who heads the newspaper El Periodico. “This is an orchestrated plan, where the aim now is not to pursue those who are corrupt, but rather opponents,” said human rights activist Eleonora Muralles. “The strategy is to coopt the whole system and have judges — with serious…
The “selfie” culture on social media appears to be intensifying people’s desires to undergo cosmetic procedures, a new study suggests. Time spent on Snapchat or Instagram seems to heighten a person’s interest in such procedures, researchers found. This was particularly true if folks used filters and photo-editing applications to alter the personal pictures they posted. “While there are many factors that likely contribute to this, social media usage did likely increase the desire, amongst a subset of patients, to seek cosmetic procedures,” concluded the research team led by senior researcher Dr. Neelam Vashi, an associate professor of dermatology at the Boston…
Most people have facial plastic surgery because they’re hoping to shave a decade or so off their perceived age. But a new study published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery has found that the average amount of “years saved” is only three —and we’re not talking dog years. “Typically, we tend to tell patients they’ll look less tired and more refreshed and try not to overpromise and say ‘You’ll look X years younger,’ because we don’t want to create unrealistic expectations,” says Dr. A. Joshua Zimm, a Manhattan plastic surgeon and one of the co-authors. The study, he says, was an attempt to…
Christophe Deloire, who negotiated to free imprisoned journalists around the world and offered refuge to reporters under threat as the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, died Saturday. He was 53. Deloire had been battling sudden and aggressive cancer and died in Paris surrounded by loved ones, according to board members of Reporters Without Borders, also known by its French acronym RSF. Deloire was ‘’a tireless defender, on every continent, of the freedom, independence and pluralism of journalism, in a context of information chaos,” RSF said in a statement. “Journalism was his life’s struggle, which he fought with unshakeable conviction,’’ it added. With boundless…