On December 14, 2025, the world was shocked by the news of the brutal stabbing deaths of famed actor/director Robert Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner. Within hours, authorities had arrested the Reiners’ second son, Nick, for the crime. Two days later, he was formally charged with two counts of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of multiple homicides; if found guilty, Nick Reiner could receive the death penalty.
On the evening of 3 November 2025, former US Vice President Richard “Dick” Cheney passed away at his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, of complications related to pneumonia and vascular disease. He was attended by Lynne, his wife of 61 years, their daughters Mary and Liz, and other family members.
Cheney’s career in politics spanned decades, from his early work in the late 1960s as an aide to Donald Rumsfeld, later Defense Secretary, to his stint as Chief-of-Staff for President Gerald Ford; U.S Representative for Wyoming; Defense Secretary for President George H. W. Bush; and Vice President for his son, George W. Bush. He made a brief foray into the private sector as CEO of Halliburton, a Fortune 500 company, during the Clinton administration.
On the last weekend of September 2025, two mass shootings unfolded, within 13 hours of each other, on the East Coast and in the Heartland, both allegedly perpetrated by 40-year-old former marines, and both employing unorthodox means to enact their crimes. On Saturday, 27 September, at about 9:30 PM EDT, Nigel Max Edge approached a popular waterfront bar in Southport, North Carolina by boat, and fired indiscriminately into the business, killing 3 and wounding 5 more. The following morning at 10:25 AM EDT Thomas Jacob Sanford drove his truck, huge American flags waving, straight into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sanctuary in Grand Blanc, Michigan, leaping from the vehicle to spray the attendees with bullets, and tossing accelerant into the church, then lighting it, causing a massive fire. Four were killed, 10 injured.
The Lunar Eclipse of September 7, 2025 in Pisces brought out the best and worst of mankind, in the elevation of a gifted youth to the hierarchy of Catholic Saints, and the assassination of a popular conservative activist by a troubled underachiever. AAA does a double dip into the cosmic whys and wherefores during this extreme eclipse season.
On 10 September 2025, Charlie Kirk, conservative activist, podcaster and founder of Turning Point USA, was killed with a single shot to the neck at an open-air appearance on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, attended by some 3000 people. Close to President Trump, JD Vance, and the next generation of the Trump family, Kirk was instrumental in rallying young men to support Trump in his 2024 electoral victory. He is survived by his wife Erika and two young children.
Shortly before 8:30 AM CDT on 27 August 2025, a black-clad individual approached the Annunciation Catholic Church school, while elementary students were celebrating a school-wide mass to commemorate the start of the academic year. Robin Westman, 23, began shooting through the stained-glass windows of the church, firing dozens of rounds before committing suicide. Two children, aged 8 and 10, were killed, and 17 others injured, including 14 children and 3 octogenarians.
