Bill Maher confronted Jay Leno, 74, with a “conspiracy theory” that the former Tonight Show host’s spate of accidents in recent years were the result of a gambling addiction gone wrong.

“It’s a conspiracy theory since you’ve had three accidents that you actually have gambling debts and are being beaten up by the mob,” Maher told Leno, who laughed off the suggestion as he appeared on the Club Random podcast.

“I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill,” Leno joked, referring to the most recent accident—which left him with a bruised face and sporting an eyepatch after he says he rolled down a steep hill and hit…

In November, Leno was spotted in public with severe bruising to his face and an eye patch after an incident where he fell down while descending a 60-foot hill outside a Hampton Inn hotel in Pennsylvania. Leno also suffered a broken wrist and a lost fingernail following that accident.

Two years earlier, Leno suffered significant burns to his face after a gas fire,…

A Midwestern city has fostered a rocky financial situation by offering extremely generous retirement benefits to public workers, experts say.

Chicago‘s projected budget deficit is a whopping $982.4 million, according to The Civic Federation.

Despite several tactics to save the city from bankruptcy, politicians have failed to get to the root of the issue –  increasing pension payments to Chicago’s more than 40,000 public employees.

‘Retirement benefits are like free junk food to politicians – everyone loves them, and the bills don’t arrive until later,’ Andrew Biggs, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in a New York Times opinions piece. 

‘They can be ruinous for a city’s long-term fiscal health.’

By AC Wimmer

CNA Newsroom, Jan 1, 2025 / 07:30 am

Pope Francis marked the Angelus prayer on the first day of 2025 by calling on Christian nations to set an example through debt relief for the world’s poorest countries and renewing his passionate plea for peace in global conflict zones.

Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace to what the Vatican reported as approximately 30,000 faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the pontiff connected…