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Ian Brodie, Cape Breton University and Moira Marsh, Indiana University “Dad, I’m hungry.” “Hi, hungry. I’m Dad.” If you haven’t been asleep for the past 20 years, you’ll probably recognize this exchange as a dad joke. The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times. Writer Jim Kalbaugh praised fathers’ telling of groan-inducing jokes to their children – or, importantly, to others in front of their children. The practice, Kalbaugh wrote, was “one of the great traditions of fatherhood worth preserving.” The term stayed remarkably dormant until the internet age: The first entry in Urban Dictionary was in 2004 by a contributor named Bunny; it debuted on Twitter in 2007; joke compilation books were published under the theme starting in 2013 in the U.

Eleven people were taken to the hospital after a crash involving multiple vehicles on Sunday in Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department. One vehicle was driving southbound on Parker Road near East Lehigh Avenue when it crashed into several cars, Aurora police posted at 6:48 p.m. on X. Police say “speed is believed to be a factor.” The adult driver and a juvenile passenger of the vehicle that crashed into the cars both have severe injuries. Northbound Parker Road is closed from Quincy to Hampden avenues. This is a developing story. Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.

Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, gives us a lesson on how history is just like shampoo, in that the last step is always repeat. This seems to be especially true to Republicans running for president. She points out how Tricky Dicky Nixon made a deal with the South Vietnamese to keep the war going until after the election. She fast forwarded to Ronny Ray Gun, who cut a deal with Iran to hold on to their American hostages until after the election.

Republicans have created a disaster on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. They have no message to justify their extreme forced birth positions. Their candidates are afraid to talk about it. And their standard bearer—convicted felon Donald Trump—can’t give a coherent statement about where he stands. Meanwhile, Democrats are on offense, knowing public opinion is on their side. New Gallup polling shows just how much the GOP needs to worry about abortion.

By DOUG FERGUSON (AP Golf Writer) PINEHURST, N. C. (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau climbed back into the most famous bunker at Pinehurst No. 2, this time with the U. S. Open trophy instead of his 55-degree sand wedge, filling the silver prize with grains of sand to commemorate the best shot of his life. Rory McIlroy wanted to bury his head in the sand. DeChambeau won his second U.

President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama spoke out against Donald Trump, warning about the former Republican President getting a potential second term. The comments were made during a Los Angeles Democratic Party fundraiser on Saturday night, June 15, which was hosted by actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and netted over $28 million before the event at L.