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Florida Woman Faces Fines Over $100,000 For Parking On Part Of Her Lawn Sandy Martinez said she lives with other family members at her home in Lantana, Florida. The homeowner said they all own cars and work hourly jobs, and they try their best to make their vehicles fit in the driveway. Because there's not enough room, Martinez said she chooses to park on her walkway and part of the grass of her property. As a result, the city of Lantana has been penalizing her $250 a day. "If I park over the sidewalk, then we’ll get a ticket. We can’t park
on the street, because obviously it’s a roadway. We can park in the
swell, but it’s very dangerous, so that leaves us no choice but to park
in the driveway on my grass," she said in a IJ video.
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HSBC says customers who refuse to wear a face mask will have their accounts withdrawn The lender - which also owns First Direct and Marks & Spencer bank - said customers who break the law could forfeit their bank account. A spokesman said face masks are mandatory in all branches as per government
guidelines. Those who refuse to comply will be refused service and could
have their bank accounts withdrawn.
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Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral, will now be called Potato Head; Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head will live on in some form Hasbro, the company that’s made the potato-shaped plastic toy for nearly 70 years, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year. Many toymakers have been updating their classic brands in recent years, hoping to relate to today’s kids and reflect more modern families. “It’s a potato,” said Ali Mierzejewski, editor in chief at toy review
site The Toy Insider. “But kids like to see themselves in the toys they
are playing with.”
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Vaccine Site Uses Credit History to Verify Patients’ Identities She received an error message that her identity couldn't be verified through Experian, a credit monitoring company. She said she's felt "horrified" at the amount of info needed from vaccination scheduling sites before users can even see when there are open slots. "This one wins, though," she said.
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After Coca-Cola Backlash, LinkedIn Removes Diversity Lesson Telling Employees to 'Be Less White' "The Confronting Racism course featuring Robin DiAngelo is no longer available in our course library, at the request of the 3rd party content provider we licensed this content from," LinkedIn vice president of corporate communications Nicole Leverich told Newsweek in an email on Monday. "We provide a wide variety of learning content, including more than
270 courses on the topics of diversity, inclusion and belonging," Leverich
said. "We will continue to add new courses to help people learn the
skills they need to be more successful in their career, including the
foundational skills we all need to be effective allies and help build
a more equitable future.".
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Justice Department investigating Elon Musk’s SpaceX following complaint of hiring discrimination The DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section received a complaint of employment discrimination from a non-U.S. citizen claiming that the company discriminated against him based on his citizenship status. “The charge alleges that on or about March 10, 2020, during the Charging
Party’s interview for the position of Technology Strategy Associate,
SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed
to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful
permanent resident,” DOJ attorney Lisa Sandoval wrote in a court document.
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More proof that the COVID vaccine rollout is a complete mess Rather than continue the practice of the Trump administration, of
holding back enough coronavirus vaccine to guarantee the second “booster”
shot to everyone who got the first vaccine dose, the Biden team plans
to just release as much coronavirus vaccine as possible to everyone.
The thinking is that it doesn’t make sense, to use a military analogy,
to worry about conserving ammunition in this war, at a time when more
people than ever are dying from the COVID-19 virus.
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Student 'Suspended' For Carrying Classmate Suffering Asthma Attack To Nurse's Office Anthony Ruelas, Cortes’ son, was suspended for disobeying his teacher.
He had chosen to help a classmate who was having an asthma attack by
carrying out of the class and into the nurse’s office. Ruelas stated
that it seemed like he had spent an eternity watching his classmate
wheeze and gag as she struggled to breathe.
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Schererville, Indiana Family Is Poised To Be Evicted For Having Too Many Children But as CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Tuesday night, one family in Schererville, Indiana is in fear of losing their home – even though they can pay their rent. Comforting her 18-month-old while holding her 9-month-old, Julius,
is routine for Deborah Rangel. All four of Rangel’s children keep her
busy these days, yet keeping a roof over their heads worries the mother
most.
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‘Climate Czar’ John Kerry Owns an $12 Million Beachfront Home “Former Secretary of State John Kerry will fight climate change full-time as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and will sit on the National Security Council,” the Biden-Harris transition team announced on Monday on its website. “This marks the first time that the NSC will include an official dedicated to climate change, reflecting the president-elect’s commitment to addressing climate change as an urgent national security issue.” A major tenet of the climate changers is that sea levels are going
to rise dramatically, with one estimate saying the levels will jump
by six feet or more by 2100.
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Oregon health official dressed as clown while announcing coronavirus deaths Doctor Claire Poche, a senior health adviser for the Oregon Health Authority, donned white and red clown makeup and a red tie with a polka dot shirt in the sombre clip. In the bizarre video, Dr Poche announces statistics on recorded cases
of the virus and deaths while wearing the costume and maintaining a
straight face. “As of today, there have been 38,160 cases of Covid-19
in Oregon, with 390 new cases being reported today,” she said.
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Nurse placed on leave for bragging on TikTok she doesn’t wear a mask The since-deleted post from user @Loveiskind05 showed the nurse wearing scrubs and a stethoscope, with the caption, “When my coworkers find out I still travel, don’t wear a mask when I’m out and let my kids have play dates.” A “duet” of the original TikTok remains online. Users apparently identified the nurse and then alerted her employer, Salem Health. In a Facebook post Saturday, the hospital thanked community members
for reaching out and announced that she had been “placed on administrative
leave pending an investigation.”
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Deep Run High School student suspended after protesting against social injustice during virtual class He saw the ultimatum as “good trouble,” a nod to civil rights pioneer and Rep. John Lewis, who died in July. The administration called his 55-page slideshow a disruption. “I’ve been at Deep Run for three years and I’ve seen all of the issues
there. How administrators just completely ignore racism and write it
off as instances that are untrue,” said Vizdos, who is white. “Or, [they]
don’t even follow up at all.”
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Pennsylvania Democrats caught on hot mic laughing about wearing masks as 'political theater' Rep. Wendy Ullman and Gov. Tom Wolf, both Democrats, held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act as the Supreme Court is poised to take up a legal challenge to the healthcare law later this fall. Before the event began, a livestream caught Ullman and Wolf discussing their plans for wearing masks. "So Wendy, I'm going to take, I'm going to take my mask off when I
speak," Wolf said. "I will as well. I'm waiting so that we can do a
little political theater," Ullman said as the two laughed. "So that
it's on camera."
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Colorado town threatens a year in jail for residents who refuse to wear masks The emergency order, issued by City Manager J. Shawn Lewis and approved by the city council Monday, went into effect Thursday. It states that everyone over the age of 6 will be required to wear a mask while outside their homes. Face masks must be worn inside any retail or commercial business,
governmental office, or health care facility, including veterinary offices,
officials say.
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Parents upset over survey given to students at a Las Vegas high school Parents say students at West Technical and Career Academy were asked to answer some pretty controversial questions while in class. The principal at West Tech in Summerlin says they’re making changes to prevent this type of content from being used in the classroom again. Some of the questions of concern including how warm or cold the student
felt about white people, and if the student would be willing to have
a sexual relationship with a black person.
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An Online Student Attended a Rooftop Party. He Was Reported to NYU and Suspended Indefinitely The party was consistent with New York City's Phase 4 COVID-19 guidelines, which allow events of up to 50 people. Many attendees went mask-less, but Andy says he didn't stand in close proximity to anyone other than his roommates—who are also students—and they left after a short while. But unbeknownst to Andy—whose name has been changed for this article
to protect his privacy—someone at the party posted a video of the event
on social media. Andy never saw this video, but he knows that he was
visible in it. The video was reported to NYU administrators via the
university's COVID-19 compliance system.
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Harvard professor wants to ban homeschooling because it’s ‘authoritarian’ Elizabeth Bartholet told Harvard Magazine that it gives parents “authoritarian” control over their kids — and can even expose them to white supremacy and misogyny. “The issue is, do we think that parents should have 24/7, essentially
authoritarian control over their children from ages zero to 18? I think
that’s dangerous,” Bartholet said. “I think it’s always dangerous to
put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful
ones total authority.”
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Shelby County woman who passed away 6 months ago gets letter saying she is COVID-19 positive His mother died six months ago, but the health department just sent her a letter saying she is COVID-19 positive. Troy Whittington said he was surprised when he opened the letter this week from the Shelby County Health Department. He knew what was in that letter was false. "I'm just having a hard time understanding how they can say someone
has COVID-19 when they are not even alive," said Whittington. Whittington
said a letter arrived from the Shelby County Health Department for his
mother, Sandra Whittington. The letter says she has been diagnosed as
COVID positive and needed to isolate.
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Hair salon banned from advertising job for 'happy' stylist - because it 'discriminates against unhappy people' Alison Birch listed a job ad looking for a part-time qualified hairdresser at her AJ's Unisex Hair Salon in Stroud, Glos. The position called for someone with five years experience of working in a salon, who is "confident in barbering as well as all aspects of hairdressing". And the advert stated: "This is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only
happy, friendly stylist need apply." But yesterday (Weds) Alison says
she received a call her local job centre informing her they could not
run her advert - because the word 'happy' is considered 'discriminatory'.
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Parler, the "free speech" alternative to Twitter, keeps banning people Parler began banning people almost immediately. “If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler,”
CEO John Matze told CNBC last week, just days before declaring that
you can’t repeatedly say “fuck you” to people or threaten to kill them,
two things that happen daily on the streets of New York City. Other
stuff that can get you banned: Pornography, obscene usernames like “CumDumpster,”
and “pictures of your fecal matter.”
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12-year-old suspended over toy gun seen in virtual class Isaiah Elliott attends Grand Mountain, a K-8 grade school in the Widefield District #3, just south of Colorado Springs. On Thursday, Aug. 27, the seventh grader was attending on online art
class when a teacher saw Isaiah flash a toy gun across his computer
screen. The toy in question is a neon green and black handgun with an
orange tip with the words “Zombie Hunter” printed on the side. The teacher
notified the school principal who suspended Isaiah for five days and
called the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office to conduct a welfare check
on the boy without calling his parents first.
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Employees need masks even for at-home Zoom calls, Wisconsin agency says. In an email to employees sent out on July 31, the head of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources not only reminded employees of Gov. Tony Evers’ mask order going into effect on Aug. 1, he also said that every DNR employee must wear a mask ... even while on a teleconference. “Also, wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual
meeting that involves being seen — such as on Zoom or another video-conferencing
platform — by non-DNR staff,” Preston Cole said, according to the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel. “Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public
service employee care about the safety and health of others.”
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Louisiana man serving life for $30 marijuana sale set to be released under deal with DA Prosecutors in Vermilion Parish on Thursday agreed to cut Derek Harris loose after nine years, following a decision last month by the Louisiana Supreme Court to grant him a new hearing over his sentence. Cormac Boyle, an attorney with the Promise of Justice Initiative who
represents Harris, said 15th Judicial District Attorney Keith Stutes’
office agreed that Harris had received ineffective assistance of counsel
at his sentencing hearing.
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Remote learning dress code has some parents frustrated The handbook says kids are not allowed to wear pajamas while doing classes online at home. Some parents are angry saying the district shouldn’t be telling them what they can’t do in their own homes. Elizabeth Ballinger says, “I made the decision for my kids to be at
home and I don’t really see how any district can come in and say what
my kid can’t wear in my house. I don’t think they have any right to
say what happens in my house. I think they have enough to worry about
as opposed to what the kids are wearing. They need to make sure they’re
getting educated.”
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Destruction of ancient Aboriginal site sparks calls for reform in Australia Caves used as Aboriginal shelters in Western Australia's Pilbara region were legally demolished by Rio Tinto on Sunday, prompting outcry and reigniting national debate on the protection of indigenous heritage sites. The blast came days before Australia's national Reconciliation Week,
which aims to strengthen relationships between First Nations people
and non-indigenous people.
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Top L.A. Democrat Pushed To Cut LAPD Funding While Having Private LAPD Detail At Her Home Since April Spectrum News 1 journalist Natalie Brunell reported that the unit,
which guards Martinez’s home, usually includes two police officers and
has been in place for the last two months.
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Woman Set Up a Little Free Pantry Without a Permit, County Threatened Criminal Charges "For 16 years, our family struggled with food and security, and a lot of people don't understand how hard it is if they don't struggle with that," says Kathy Hay, who notes she is in a much better financial place now. "I'm always looking for ways to help people that are having a hard time." Inspired by the leftovers from a pot of chicken soup she'd made, Hay
started researching ways to start a little free pantry in her Asotin
County, Washington, neighborhood. In December she set one up in her
backyard, replete with refrigerated food, canned goods, and produce—all
available for free to those struggling to make ends meet.
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State investigates dozens of car dealerships for possibly violating stay-home order Most vehicle dealerships across the state have been collecting dust the past six weeks to comply with the stay-home order, with some reporting its sales have dropped more than 90 percent. Dealerships were allowed to sell vehicles on a very limited basis during this time. But the Department of Licensing confirmed it is looking into about
25 dealerships where the number of title transfers raised red flags.
Those dealerships processed more than 100 vehicle title applications
between April 1 and April 16.
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Tanzania president angry as pawpaw and goat test positive for coronavirus Reports say the country’s health officials had randomly obtained several non-human samples, including from pawpaw, a goat and a sheep, but had assigned them human names and ages before submitting them to Tanzania's laboratory to test for the coronavirus. Interestingly, the lab technicians had not had any clue about the
origins of the samples submitted to them for testing. To the surprise
of the government, samples from the pawpaw and the goat tested positive
for COVID-19, making the president suspect that some people who were
being tested positive for the deadly virus may not have been infected
after all.
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Baltimore boy's BB guns seen during virtual class sparks police visit Courtney Lancaster, a Navy veteran, told a local Fox affiliate that her 11-year-old son, a fifth-grader at Seneca Elementary School, is a Boy Scout who is trained in archery and firearm safety and owns several BB guns. Ms. Lancaster said her son keeps his bow and BB guns displayed on
a wall in his bedroom, which was apparently within view during a recent
Google Meet class, in which he had been enrolled since March due to
the coronavirus pandemic.
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Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home executives after big campaign donations Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New
York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month
quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat
of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted
into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s
most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials,
according to legal experts.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Warns Stay-At-Home Violators: 'We Will Take You To Jail, Period' She then proceeded to yell at a small group of teens who were hanging out in a parking lot across the street. It was a moment that brilliantly captured the collapse of common sense among government officials trying to enforce an extreme and increasingly unreasonable form of social distancing. Lightfoot's press conference on Saturday addressed the news that Chicago
police had broken up several social events with more than 50 people
in attendance on Friday. The authorities had learned that more parties
were expected to take place on Saturday and Sunday.
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What Is A “Pearl Clutcher?” Society was in perfect harmony. Men worked, while women made babies
and sandwiches. There was no confusion. People knew their places. If
a woman tried to disrupt societal balance by thinking, that impulse
was promptly squashed by the neighborhood gossips. These fine ladies
clutched their pearls and shamed any free-thinking hussies right back
into the kitchen. All shoes were removed from the hussy’s house. Shamed
and shoeless, women had no choice but to return to the kitchen barefoot,
and hopefully, pregnant. The system worked.
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Facebook’s ‘fact checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story The piece was widely read online — until Facebook stepped in. The social media giant’s “fact checkers” decided this was not a valid
opinion. If you tried to share Mosher’s column on Facebook, the social
network stuck a “False Information” alert on top, saying that finding
was “checked by independent fact-checkers” and preventing your friends
from clicking to connect to the original article to see for themselves.
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Former police officer arrested in park for throwing ball with daughter due to coronavirus social distancing rules The department apologized Tuesday afternoon, calling the incident an "overreach by our police officers." Matt Mooney, 33, told ABC News he walked with his wife and daughter from their home to a nearby park Sunday to play softball. "We're just having a good time, not near anybody else. The next closest
person is at least 15 feet away from me and my daughter at this point,"
Mooney told ABC News.
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A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus This allows goods to get to the public quicker at lower cost, more
service providers to enter struggling industries, and the market to
respond to the crisis in countless other ways.
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Nevada governor limits malaria drugs for coronavirus patients Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak’s emergency regulation limits the prescription of the drugs in outpatient settings — not in hospitals or emergency rooms — to a 30-day supply, to ensure they’re available for “legitimate medical purposes.” The action also aims to prevent stockpiling the meds, which are also used to treat arthritis and lupus. “While these drugs serve necessary medical purposes, this regulation
protects the Nevadans who need them and prevents unnecessary hoarding,”
Sisolak tweeted.
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Discussing Coronavirus Response, Sanders Accidentally Calls it Ebola and Biden Accidentally Calls it SARS Sanders accidentally called it ebola and Biden mistakenly referred to it as SARS. "No one is in a position where they have a significant financial disability as a consequence of this SARS, of this particular crisis," Biden said during the 11th Democratic debate, hosted by CNN Sunday night. During a follow-up segment, Sanders also misnamed the novel coronavirus
that has resulted in the death of more than 6,500 individuals and infected
over 150,000 people around the globe.
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UC Berkeley Instructor Says Rural Americans Are Bad People Who Deserve "Uncomfortable" Lives Kernion believes that "City Americans" should not have to bear the
cost of providing healthcare to rural America. "Rural Healthcare should
be expensive! And that expense should be borne by those who choose rural
America!" he wrote. In addition to this, he argued that rural Americans
should be instructed to pay higher taxes to cover healthcare and broadband
among others, as they rejected the "efficient" city life consciously.
"Same goes for rural broadband. And gas taxes. It should be uncomfortable
to live in rural America. It should be uncomfortable to not move," added
the instructor.
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Finland’s Oulu city council roasted online for feeble “no-no square” dance to combat rape A video from the account @sannanopsa, representing the Finnish city of Oulu, was created to raise awareness of child sexual abuse and empowering people to be aware of rape. The video, in which five representatives do a brief dance to the lyrics,
“Stop, don't touch me there. This is my no-no square,” has been ridiculed
online for being a weak attempt to deal with a serious issue.
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Our crazy farm subsidies, explained It’s just a matter of figuring out how to make it work — and that’s where things get tricky. Right now in the U.S., we subsidize certain crops pretty heavily. These are things that can be shipped and stored easily, and traded in international commodity markets. But because of the way we manage our subsidies, we end up with A LOT
of corn. In 2010, U.S. farmers produced 32 percent of the world’s corn
supply on 84 million acres of farmland, raking in a cool $63.9 billion.
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Welfare fraud in Sweden by Iraqi MINISTER? The scandalous story made the headlines in Sweden this weekend, after
several news outlets reported that Iraqi Defense Minister, Najah al-Shammari,
is also known as a Swedish citizen named Najah al-Adeli. The man is
said to have emigrated to Sweden in 2011, becoming a citizen in 2015,
and is still registered as living in one of Stockholm’s suburbs. Both
‘al-Adeli’ and his wife had allegedly been receiving child and housing
support for years, before getting reported for benefits fraud two weeks
ago. A preliminary probe into the scheme has been launched both by the
country’s police and welfare watchdog.
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It’s Now ‘Transphobia’ to Refuse to Date Trans People, Say Twitter Experts The bulk of social media users who do not belong to a sexual or hard-left political community dismiss the condemnation of “transphobia.” But the term has become increasingly thrown around to malign people
who are strictly heterosexual–and even a large portion of homosexual
men, who wouldn’t consider dating a trans person.
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Racial hatred message daubed on park wall The massive graffiti which takes aim at people of colour reads ‘it’s ok to be white’ was painted on the side wall adjacent to Bedford Park in Southport overnight. Shocked residents in the area said they were appalled to wake up to face the graffiti and have called the police and council to sort it out. As yet it’s believed police don’t have any suspects for the racially
aggravated graffiti and there are no witnesses due it being painted
overnight.
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ACLU calls for tampons in men's rooms in order to achieve 'menstrual equity' "While free menstrual products are not uniformly provided in women’s restrooms, they are almost never available in men’s restrooms, even for pay," the group said in a statement Tuesday. "Men’s restrooms are also less likely to have a place to dispose of
these products conveniently, privately, and hygienically."
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MPs not running again will get paid around $1.6M in severance Thirty-nine sitting MPs have declared they won’t run again in the next election, of whom 18 are eligible for severance payments totalling an estimated $1,618,850, according to an analysis by The Canadian Press. Sitting MPs who have served for less than six years are not eligible
for pensions, and instead receive a lump severance payment worth half
their annual salary. They also get back any pension contributions they’ve
already made, plus interest.
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Identity and algebra: Seattle schools incorporate ethnic studies into math class "Math, in case you didn’t already know, is racist," said an article from conservative website The Daily Wire. The framework lays out a structure of learning themes like "Origins,
Identity, and Agency" and "Power and Oppression," which are meant to
be taught side by side in a math class.
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Trans women and cervical cancer screening If you’re a trans woman and have not had bottom surgery, you aren’t at risk for cervical cancer. If, however, you’re a trans woman who has had bottom surgery to create
a vagina (vaginoplasty) and possibly a cervix, there’s a very small
risk that you can develop cancer in the tissues of your neo-vagina or
neo-cervix. The risk depends on the type of surgery you had, the type
of tissue used to create your vagina and cervix and your personal health
history. Talk to your healthcare provider to figure out your specific
cancer-screening needs as part of your overall pelvic health following
surgery.
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Legislator Who Argues Housing Is a Human Right Also Suing to Stop Affordable Housing in Her District Take New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou (D–Lower Manhattan) who just co-wrote an op-ed arguing that every New Yorker should be guaranteed a home—while also suing to stop the construction of an affordable housing complex in her district. In a Wednesday piece for the New York Daily News, Niou and activist
Feliz Guzman argue that the Saturday murder of four homeless people
in New York City could have been prevented by more government spending
on housing and social services.
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A Utah Woman Is Facing Criminal Charges for Going Topless in Her Own Home Tilli Buchanan and her husband were installing insulation in their
garage when they shed their itchy clothing and stripped down to their
underwear, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. When Buchanan’s stepchildren
came into the garage and saw her topless, she said that they shouldn’t
be embarrassed, because her husband—the children’s father—wasn’t wearing
a shirt either.
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Woman dies at 102, DirecTV charges early termination fee Yet, ironically, she didn't outlive her satellite TV contract. And that was a problem. "Everything was fine until we went to disconnect and that's when all
the surprises happened,'' said her son-in-law, John Manrique. More
City Shuts Downs Preschoolers’ Farm Stand Citing Zoning Violations Alas, this is not satire. It’s the current predicament facing the
Little Ones Learning Center in Forest Park, Georgia, just outside of
Atlanta. In an area where access to fresh fruits and vegetables can
be limited, this preschool has stepped up to prioritize growing and
selling fresh produce from its school gardens. According to recent reporting
in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Little Ones has often sold its
produce with generous discounts to local food stamp recipients and other
neighbors and has been acknowledged as a leader in the farm-to-school
healthy food movement.
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Teacher tells class demonic energy coming from bathroom, Dept. of Education says Edward Tardif, 46, was also accused of holding meditation in his criminal justice classroom during the 2017-2018 school year as well as trying to smoke with a student and contacting students on social media at inappropriate times. Tardif said the district did not welcome him back to the classroom
following that school year and he has not been a teacher since.
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A Man Spent 82 Days in Jail on Meth Charges. The Meth Was Actually Honey Maryland Transportation Authority Police then arrested him, telling him that the bottles in his bag labeled "honey" had tested positive for methamphetamine. A police dog sniffed Haughton's bag raising suspicion that he had drugs, and a field test at the airport yielded positive results for meth. He spent the next 82 days in jail. Except the bottles really were full of honey. Maryland State Police
lab test results confirmed that on January 17, and prosecutors dropped
three felony drug counts six days later.
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Why a county councilwoman was sworn into office on a Dr. Seuss book Her 5-year-old son, Liam, and her 7-year-old daughter, Bella, held the book in their small hands as their smiling mother was sworn into office Aug. 13. It was a choice with personal meaning. Dunaway said her single mom
was a coal miner who would say if she believed in herself and worked
hard, Dunaway could achieve anything.
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A governor intervened so this mom could keep her hilarious license plate "Pee before we go!" Wendy Auger, a New Hampshire mom of four, is all too familiar with telling her kids to use the bathroom before leaving the house (or the store, or the restaurant, or any other location). So she put it on a license plate. Auger has had the plate for 15 years, and said that before now, she's gotten nothing but positive reactions. "(People) think it's funny," she told TODAY Parents. "I get thumbs-ups,
honks on the highway, people yelling 'Awesome plate!' in drive-through
lines. It brings a chuckle and a smile to the people who can figure
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Michigan council candidate wants to keep her town ‘as white as possible’ But that thread was momentarily marred with shock following a racist statement from one City Council candidate in response to a question about diversity. “Keep Marysville a white community as much as possible,” said newcomer
Jean Cramer, one of five candidates vying for three open council seats
in November. The question: “Do you believe the diversity of our community
needs to be looked at, and if so, should we be more aggressive in attracting
foreign-born citizens?”
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YouTube Removes Robot Fighting Videos After Declaring Them 'Cruelty to Animals' To be fair, YouTube blames a new algorithm that flags robot fighting
videos as animal cruelty because it can't distinguish between real animals
and robots shaped like animals. As to be expected, robot enthusiasts
are not happy. According to The Daily Mail, a robot enthusiast that
goes by the alias Maker's Muse pointed out that "I do not support animal
cruelty in the slightest. But what's happening is that it's false flagged
robots smashing each other as animal cruelty."
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Police Ask Public to Report ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents’ Because #HateHurts The way that the department has phrased tweets about this has varied from tweet to tweet, but one of them in particular asking the public to report “non-crimes” was lambasted more than others. “In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a
stop to it #HateHurtsSY,” police said.
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Berlin choir accused of gender discrimination by nine-year-old girl Next week, Berlin’s administrative court will hear that the decision of the State and Cathedral Choir Berlin (SDB) to reject the girl after an audition in April this year was discriminatory because it infringed on her right to equal opportunities in state support. The girl’s mother, who is bringing forward the complaint on her behalf,
argues the choir’s girls-only partner choir at the Berliner Singakademie
could not have provided her daughter with training of a similar quality.
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Police say trolls who mocked drug dealer’s ‘receding hairline’ could be prosecuted A mugshot issued by officers for Jermaine Taylor, 21, from Newport, Wales attracted a staggering 76,000 comments, poking fun at his bonce. Taylor is wanted by police on recall to prison. He was released on licence after being jailed for three years for being concerned in supplying cocaine after being sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court in September 2017. One Facebook user posted: ‘That hairline goes further back than Woolworths.’ While Matt Price added: ‘Push his release date back further than his hairline, that should teach him.’ Lea Hook said: ‘He was last seen in town; police are combing the area’,
while Lawrie Hillman joked: ‘He’s vanished into thin hair.’
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London Bridge attack hero on anti-terror watch list after far-right yobs contacted him But Roy has since been placed on the Government’s Prevent programme amid fears he could become an extremist after he was contacted by anti-Islam supporters. He has had to attend de-radicalisation classes and is being monitored by cops. Roy said: “They treat me like a terrorist but I’m not political at
all.”
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Pakistan govt accidentally turns ‘cat’ filter on during FB Live, leaves everyone in splits A user pointed out the gaffe and asked the administrators of the page
to turn the cat filter off. “Filter hata lo. Banda billi bana hua hai
(Remove the filter, the man has been turned into a cat),” the eagle-eyed
viewer warned. Although it was switched off pretty quickly, it was enough
for the ever-vigilant Twitterati to take screenshots and have fun at
its expense.
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Oregon governor sends police to find missing Republicans, bring them to Capitol All 11 Republican senators are in hiding, at least some of them out
of state, in order to prevent the Senate from having the quorum it needs
to operate. They can’t abide the Democrat-backed carbon cap and spend
bill that is up for a Senate vote today.
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A girl at mom’s, a boy at dad’s: ‘Transgender’ Texas child caught in custody battle Divorce is tough on children, but especially so for six-year-old James Younger. When he’s with his father, Jeff Younger, James is a normal boy. He dresses like a boy, hangs out with other boys, and refers to himself as a boy. When he’s with his mother, Anne Georgulas, James lives as a girl called Luna. Since he expressed an interest in wearing girls’ clothes, Georgulas
a pediatrician, began referring to him exclusively as ‘her,’ enrolled
him in school under his female name, encouraged him to cross-dress,
and took him to a sympathetic “rainbow counsellor” who lists working
with transgender children as one of her specialities.
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Journalist Criminally Investigated for Allegedly Using the Wrong Pronoun in Tweet In a series of tweets, Farrow noted that the police had told her she
would “need to be interviewed under caution for misgendering Susie Green’s
child.”
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High School Suspends 2 Students for Posting Gun Range Photos on Snapchat, ACLU Files Suit The photos were not taken at school. They were not taken during school hours. They did not reference a school. They auto-deleted after 24 hours,
which was well before the school became aware of them. And yet, administrators
at Lacey Township High School suspended the boys for three days, and
also gave them weekend detention.
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Scholar makes ‘moral case’ for letting people decide their own age The piece, by Joona Räsänen of the University of Oslo in Norway, titled
“A Moral Case for Legal Age Change,” concludes that there are three
scenarios when a change to one’s legal age should be allowed: When “the
person genuinely feels his age differs significantly from his chronological
age,” when “the person’s biological age is recognized to be significantly
different from his chronological age,” and when “age change would likely
prevent, stop or reduce ageism, discrimination due to age, he would
otherwise face.”
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Man investigated by police for retweeting transgender limerick Harry Miller, 53, from Lincoln was contacted on Wednesday by a community cohesion officer following a complaint that had been made about the plant and machinery dealer’s social media posts. Citing 30 potentially offensive tweets, the PC singled out a limerick Mr Miller had retweeted which questioned whether transgender women are biological women. It included the lines: "Your breasts are made of silicone, your vagina goes nowhere." No crime was committed, yet sharing the limerick online was recorded
as a ‘hate incident’.
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Democratic Socialism: Who Knew That 'Free' Could Cost So Much? However, the democratic socialist agenda will face resistance not
only from other lawmakers but from basic math. Their promises, which
include free college, a single-payer health care system, guaranteed
jobs, and more, would require astonishingly high expenditures that would
cause the federal deficit to skyrocket. Once the costs become clear,
most mainstream politicians and voters will surely balk. Making big
promises is one thing; paying for them is another.
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What Will the U.S. Government Do With 1.4 Billion Pounds of Cheese? The nation eating this much cheese is not only mind-boggling: It's
growing less and less likely. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture
data, Americans have cut their milk consumption down from 35 pounds
to an average of 15 per person annually. The excess is turned into cheese
for storage and longevity (and the enjoyment of delicious cheese products).
At the same time, government subsidies have continued to support dairy
production, buying up surplus to keep prices steady. That leaves us
with more cheese than anyone, even the experts, knows what to do with.
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6th Grade Girl Leaves School In Tears After Being Kicked Out For Not Wearing Her ‘Natural Hair’ In the case of Faith Fennidy, public opinion seems pretty clear. The 6th grader attends Christ the King Parish School, a private school in Louisiana, and was recently pulled from class and kicked out of school for having hair extensions, which is apparently against school policy. The entire ordeal was captured on video by Faith’s brother. He shared
it on Facebook, where it’s been commented on upward of 23,000 times.
In the clip, you can hear parents and school administrators continuing
to argue as Faith gathers her belongings and walks outside, crying the
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A tale of two Bills: Cosby goes to jail for 30 years for sexually abusing women but Bill Clinton can rape them and remain free Following the verdict, District Attorney Kevin Steele said the disgraced star “was a man who evaded this moment for far too long.” Cosby, now 80 and married for 54 years, was at one time accused of
drugging and sexually violating scores of women (as many as 60 came
forward with accusations) throughout the course of his career. During
this latest legal effort to hold him accountable — this week’s trial
was actually a retrial — the prosecution put five of those women on
the stand.
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Student with banned Trump shirt to get apology, $25,000 from school district Addison Barnes, an 18-year-old senior, was suspended for wearing the shirt backing Trump's immigration and Homeland Security policies. He then sued the high school, the principal and the Hillsboro School District, arguing they violated his First Amendment rights. In late May, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order,
essentially barring the school for the remainder of the school year
from enforcing its earlier decision prohibiting Barnes from wearing
the shirt. On Tuesday, Barnes' lawyers announced they reached a settlement
with the district: Principal Greg Timmons will issue a letter of apology
and the district will pay $25,000 for Barnes' attorney fees.
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Electronics-Recycling Innovator Going to Prison for Extending Computers’ Lives Known for building an electric car out of “garbage” that outlasts a Tesla, his company processes more than 41 million pounds of e-waste a year. Lundgren has received international praise for slowing the stream of harmful chemicals and heavy metals into the environment, and counts IBM, Motorola and Sprint among clients grateful for his cheap refurbished products. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not such big a fan of Lundgren’s work.
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Police Allege Mice Ate Half a Ton of “Missing” Weed Over half a ton of cannabis was found to be missing from a police warehouse in the town of Pilar, about 50 miles outside of the Argentine capital city of Buenos Aires. While the eight Argentinian cops claimed that mice had eaten it, and
surprisingly mice eat cannabis a lot more often than one might think,
forensic investigators report that they checked out the scene and found
no evidence that the mice consumed the missing weed.
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Alberta man legally changes sex for cheaper car insurance: 'I didn't feel like getting screwed over any more' “I didn’t feel like getting screwed over any more,” the man, identified only as “David,” said this week. For more than three years, Alberta has been among several provinces
in which residents can legally change the sex on their birth certificates
without providing evidence of genital surgery.
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Alaska Airlines Had to Choose Between an 'Emotional Support Cat' and a 15-Year-Old Passenger With Allergies. Want to Guess Who Won? Can you guess which one had to leave the plane? The story takes place on Alaska Airlines, and it comes to us from The Arctic Sounder, a weekly newspaper serving the extreme northern parts of Alaska, where the girl lives. The Arctic Sounder in turn got it from the girl's mother, who posted
it on Facebook. Here's what happened according to the mom.
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White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-Americans According to new research by Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of
organizational behavior at Yale SOM, white liberals tend to downplay
their own verbal competence in exchanges with racial minorities, compared
to how other white Americans act in such exchanges. The study is scheduled
for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Dear Moms, Do You Want Your 35-Year-Old Living in Your Basement? Because This Is How You Get That Well, the reason for the manager's phone call can be summed up in two words: helicopter moms. Yes, I know the term should be "helicopter parents" but it's the moms
in this story. See, the manager was checking to make sure that a four-
to five-hour shift wouldn't be too hard on Pam's daughter. She was tired
of moms calling to complain that their little darlings were tired. She
was even more tired of finding mom behind the counter, having sent the
child home because the shift was too long.
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Kids treated after being served Pine-Sol instead of apple juice at preschool A state Health Department investigation found that a classroom assistant preparing morning snacks for children at Kilohana United Methodist Church Preschool served the cleaning fluid — even though it was in the original Pine-Sol container and properly labeled. The assistant apparently “saw the yellow/brown colored liquid container
on a clean-up cart in the kitchen and returned to the classroom” with
it, the Health Department said in its review.
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Guess Which Congressman Thought a Malfunctioning iPhone Was Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Fault Rep. Steve King (R–Iowa) did not disappoint. He related an anecdote involving his 7-year-old granddaughter, who was playing with an iPhone when an image of King accompanied by crude language appeared on the screen. "How does that show up on a 7-year-old's iPhone who's playing a kid's game?" Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who had been summoned to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, matter-of-factly answered, "Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company." King then attempted to save face by suggesting, "maybe it was an Android."
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'Complete idiot' Cop Steals Hash Chocolate During Drug Bust, Eats it, Halucinates, Freaks out, Forces Suspects Release Vittorio Dominelli, one half of a police duo who rose to notoriety earlier this year after they consumed cannabis-infused chocolate on duty, pleaded guilty in a College Park courtroom Friday to attempting to obstruct justice. The married father of three, who had been with the Toronto police
for 13 years, resigned in the wake of the incident, which saw him accused
of breach of trust, a charge withdrawn Friday.
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Amazon's patent for caging workers was "bad" idea, exec admits The patent was highlighted in a recent article by two AI researchers, who wrote that the design illustrated "an extraordinary illustration of worker alienation, a stark moment in the relationship between humans and machines." While the optics of placing a worker inside a cage certainly aren't good, the patent's purpose was geared toward employee safety, rather than confinement. The caged mobile workspace was designed to keep humans safe as they entered warehouse floors where robots zoom around, pushing towering shelves of goods ordered by Amazon customers. More
2 Kentucky high school students suspended after dressing as Columbine shooters for Halloween The two girls in Adair County, about 120 miles south of Louisville, decided to dress up as Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the two teenagers who carried out the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. The girls probably didn't get the reaction they wanted. After their
photo went viral on Halloween, the girls were suspended for three days,
according to WLEX-TV. The photo showed the girls on the floor in the
school's library, WLEX reported, which mimicked the eerie photo of the
two Columbine shooters after they killed themselves in the Columbine
library.
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Roy Group to Start its First All-Girl Boy Scout Troop “I was in Girl Scouts for a couple years but it only taught how to sweep the floor and how to set the table,” said Hailey Van Elsacher, 17. “I was like, ‘I don’t need these things. I can learn them at home.’” She said that she wanted more exciting trails in her future, and this was her vehicle to do it. “I’m looking forward to new adventures, because I am a very adventurous
person,” Van Elsacher said. “So hopefully I’ll get to have more fun
going on more camping trips and going hiking, fishing, things like that.”
Not so long ago, girls weren’t allowed in the Boy Scouts of America,
but nearly two years ago, all that changed.
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PETA claims milk a 'symbol of white supremacy' PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is making the claim that milk is the perfect tipple for racists. The assertion first appeared in a blog post last yea,r but slipped under the radar. Last week, PETA doubled down. PETA points to Christopher Waltz’s Nazi character in the film Inglourious Basterds knocking back a glass of milk in a French farmhouse as he hunts for Jews. The organization tweeted: “Cows’ milk has long been a symbol used by
white supremacists.”
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Mandatory presidential text alerts violate freedom of speech, according to a new lawsuit Three individuals filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court
in New York City Sept. 26 against President Donald Trump and Federal
Emergency Management Agency administrator William B. Long, arguing that
the presidential alert messaging system violates the First and Fourth
Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The presidential alerts — which,
unlike Amber alert or other emergency messages, phone users cannot opt-out
of — is a “national public warning system” that allows the president
to issue messages in the case of a national emergency.
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A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them The Greater Male Variability Hypothesis, first proposed by Charles
Darwin, suggests that there are more men than women at both the bottom
and the very top of the distribution for intelligence scores. More men
than woman are Nobel Prize winners and chess grand champions, and more
men than women are homeless, unemployed, and in prison. Men as a group
express greater variability in aptitude and ability.
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5th Grader Punished at School for Calling His Teacher ‘Ma’am’ ABC7 reports that 10-year-old Tamarion Wilson, a fifth-grade student
at North East Carolina Preparatory School, was punished by his teacher
for saying “yes, ma’am.” The teacher made him write the word “ma’am”
on a sheet of loose-leaf paper, four times per line on both sides of
the page.
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Feminists Say New iPhones Are Sexist and Threaten 'Women's Hand Health' The biggest phone that Apple sells will now be the 6.5-inch-wide iPhone Xs Max and the smallest phone will be the 4.7-inch-wide iPhone 7. That means women, who have smaller hands than men ?on average, will have to stretch their tiny fingers an extra 0.7 inches. British feminist activist Caroline Criado Perez worried that the new
iPhones would cause her to injure herself. Prior to the advent of the
iPhone SE, she said, she had developed repetitive strain injury from
operating her Apple device.
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Only Black People Should Be Allowed to Vote Lisa Bloom, whose mother, Gloria Allred, also represents several Trump
accusers, tweeted the results of the ABC News/Washington Post poll on
Sunday, and quipped “only black people should be allowed to vote.”
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DCFS called after mom allows 8-year-old girl to walk dog alone Eight-year-old Dorothy Widen was walking her dog around the block when someone called the police and told them they spotted a 5-year-old walking a dog alone. Police immediately went to the family’s home and when they were told
Dorothy was 8, her parents say the officer said that was fine and left.
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‘Racist’ Gorilla Statue Removed From Playground The gorilla, nicknamed Dobby, was taken from the Community Park following concerns from some citizens that it was potentially racially insensitive. The freestanding statue was placed inside a cage at the park over fears
it could topple over and hurt children if they climbed on it. However,
after Corsicana Mayor Don Denbow received 45 complaints that the gorilla
was offensive, the decision was made to remove it entirely.
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How Companies Like JPay Are Making Millions Charging Prisoners to Send An Email There, under fluorescent lights, she scanned rows of brightly colored birthday cards to pick out the perfect greeting for her son—let’s call him Tim—who is imprisoned more than 100 miles from his mother’s home just outside New Orleans. The card she settled on was dark brown with trees and a birthday message
that read, “For the best son in the world.” Tim was in his 10th year
of a 30-year prison sentence for an armed robbery he committed at age
17; he would not be able to see, let alone sit under or touch, a tree
for the next 20 years. After Jones, her daughter, and her three grandchildren
signed the card, she mailed it off, happy that Tim would know that his
family was thinking of him.
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‘We’re very sorry.’ Wells Fargo admits error that cost hundreds of people their homes In yet another apology for the San Francisco-based bank, Wells said a calculation error involving a mortgage underwriting tool resulted in 625 customers being incorrectly denied or not offered modifications to make their loans more affordable. In about 400 of those cases, the homes were ultimately foreclosed on. The bank said the error affected customers in the foreclosure process between April 2010 and October 2015, when the problem was corrected. The error was uncovered in an internal review, Wells said. The bank
also said it has set aside $8 million for customers who were caught
up in the problem.
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Roofer fined £300 for carrying sandwich wrappers and crisp packets in his van Roofer Stewart Gosling, 43, was punished with the on-the-spot penalty after a stash of waste he kept in a plastic commercial waste bag was found in the back of his vehicle. Waltham Forest Council workers told Mr Gosling he was breaking the law for carrying the rubbish without permission when they carried out spot checks in east London. Mr Gosling has tried to appeal the fine but has been told he will
end up in court if he doesn't pay the penalty issued at the roadside.
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PayPal tells deceased customer that being dead is a breach of its rules In response to this documentation, PayPal sent a letter with the headline: “Important: You should read this notice carefully." It read, “This is a default notice served under section 87(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Your account has an outstanding balance of £3,240.72.” “You are in breach of condition 15-4(c) of your agreement with Paypal
Credit as we have received notice that you are deceased. In accordance
with condition 15-4(c), we are entitled to close your account, terminate
your agreement and demand repayment of the full amount outstanding.”
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Latino student expelled over photos that sparked racism accusations In one photo, it shows Ruiz and three of his friends posing in front
of a mirror with a plastic gun and the word “chuuch” – slang for “amen”
– captioned on it and pointing to a well-dressed black doll. Another
showed an edited image of a black male’s face over a gorilla, according
to a memo from the school obtained by Campus Reform, which first reported
the issue.
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Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech The Liberty County Vindicator, a community newspaper between Houston and Beaumont, had been posting the whole declaration in small daily chunks for nine days on its Facebook page in the run-up to July 4. But the 10th excerpt was not posted Monday as scheduled, and the paper said it received an automated notice saying the post “goes against our standards on hate speech.” Part of the standard notice, Vindicator managing editor Casey Stinnett
wrote, included a warning that the newspaper could lose its Facebook
account, on which it depends for much of its reach, if there were more
violations.
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Cops Arrive after Maryland Man Posts Photos of Non-Psychedelic Mushrooms on FB The cop's agenda? He was apparently there to conduct an investigation into the man and his girlfriend, Hope Deery, for possessing psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms. The only problem: they weren't magic mushrooms. "We let them in and as soon as the police officer walked in he asked
us why we were eating mushrooms and posting about it online," the man
posted.
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Black Pregnant Woman Jailed For Using Gun To Defend Family From Attacker, Silence From The NRA Siwatu-Salama Ra, a 26-year-old environmental activist in Detroit, used her weapon to fend off an angry neighbor – with whom she had a dispute – after she deliberately crashed her car into Ra’s home while Ra’s two-year-old child was playing inside. Fearing for her family’s life, Ra, a legal gun owner in an open carry
state, pulled out an unloaded handgun and pointed it at the assailant,
identified as Channell Harvey, who then fled.
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Child with Autism Arrested for Firing 'Imaginary Rifle' David Sims, 12, was talking with his friends about BB Guns at Conroe Independent School District’s Bozman Intermediate School in Texas when he allegedly pointed the imaginary gun at his art teacher. His hand gestures made the teacher feel uncomfortable, which led to the 12-year-old boy being arrested by authorities on Monday. “They just said, 'We don't tolerate that. We take it as a threat.'
A threat? He didn't threaten anyone. He didn't do anything but play,"
according to David’s mother, Amy Sims.
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Ask Your Baby's Permission Before Changing Diaper, Says Sexual Consent Expert Deanne Carson, who works for an organization which teaches children about consent, appeared on Australia’s ABC news network to comment on Saxon Mullins, whose rape case sparked a national debate on sexual consent laws. Carson argued that parents should teach their children about consent as early as possible. “We work with parents from birth...Just about how to set up a culture
of consent in their homes. ‘I’m going to change your nappy now, is that
OK?’ Of course a baby’s not going to respond ‘yes mum, that’s awesome
I’d love to have my nappy changed'.
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British schools are removing analog clocks from classrooms because kids can't read them Officials have begun replacing the traditional clocks with digital ones as children have been unable to tell the correct time on analog clocks, The Telegraph reports. “The current generation aren’t as good at reading the traditional
clock face as older generations,” Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary
at the Association of School and College Leaders in England, told the
publication. “Nearly everything they’ve got is digital so youngsters
are just exposed to time being given digitally everywhere.”
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Nurses are subject to a new code where they must announce their 'white privilege' before treating Aboriginal patients The term 'white privilege' defines the unearned social and cultural
advantages awarded to people with white skin which are not enjoyed by
people of colour or non-white backgrounds. The Nursing and Midwifery
Board believes the cultural safety of Indigenous or Torres Strait Islander
patients is just as important as their clinical safety.
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West Hills High student arrested after posting LEGO rifle photo with threat The 14-year-old ninth grader was arrested at his home Tuesday, said Catherine Martin, a spokeswoman with the Grossmont Union High School District. “We thank law enforcement for their quick action,” Martin said on
Twitter. School officials told deputies of the post about 10 p.m. The
student had posted to Instagram what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle out
of LEGO pieces along with the caption, “Don’t come to school tomorrow.”
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No One Mentions That The Russian Trail Leads To Democratic Lobbyists Washington lobbyists trade on their access to power. Many are former
administration officials or members of Congress. If Trump fulfills his
promise to “drain the swamp,” these influence peddlers would have nothing
to sell. They are under attack.
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Service Canada's gender neutral directive is 'confusing' and 'will be corrected' says minister The directive, obtained by Radio Canada, the French-language arm of
CBC, instructs Service Canada employees who interact with the public
to stay away from terms such as Mr., Mrs., father and mother, and to
"use gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language."
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Gallery removes naked nymphs painting to 'prompt conversation' Manchester Art Gallery has asked the question after removing John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs, one of the most recognisable of the pre-Raphaelite paintings, from its walls. Postcards of the painting will be removed from sale in the shop. The painting was taken down on Friday and replaced with a notice explaining
that a temporary space had been left “to prompt conversations about
how we display and interpret artworks in Manchester’s public collection”.
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Ryan Zinke: Too Many Americans Are Enjoying National Parks For Free Who gets into national parks for free? Veterans, disabled Americans, senior citizens, and children. Zinke assured the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on
Tuesday that he would not impose new fees on veterans, but he did propose
raising vehicle fees from at some of the busier national parks, such
as Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Zion, which currently charge
between $20 and $30 per car.
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Planned Parenthood taps into sex-change ‘therapy’ for minors as new revenue source "We had a lot of parents actually reach out to us wanting to get care for the young people in their lives," said Dr. Suzie Prabhakaran, Vice President of Medical Affairs for Planned Parenthood. "So we decided it was time for us to expand the care that we were providing to minors." Planned Parenthood has been providing transgender hormone therapy
since October of 2016, but up until now that was for those 18 and older.
They say transgender patients have a difficult time accessing care because
a lot of doctors can be judgemental of those who are transgender. At
Planned Parenthood, it all starts with an initial consultation.
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#MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations In December, when Time magazine announced that “Silence Breakers” who spoke out against sexual harassment were its Persons of the Year, Garcia’s face was prominently included in the art accompanying the cover story. But Daniel Fierro of Cerritos told POLITICO that in 2014, as a 25-year-old
staffer to Assemblyman Ian Calderon, he was groped by Garcia, a powerful
Democratic lawmaker who chairs the Legislative Women’s Caucus and the
Natural Resources Committee. He said she cornered him and that Garcia
appeared inebriated, began stroking his back, then squeezed his buttocks
and attempted to touch his crotch before he extricated himself and quickly
left.
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Why This Mom Is Selling Fake Penises for Kids Under 5 And while Deysach sells these products with the intention of helping
trans kids better express their gender, she's facing a strong pushback
online from people who think she's way out of line.
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Norway Olympic ski team under fire for sweater’s symbol used by Nazi Germany The black and grey sweaters feature a symbol known as the Tyr rune, representing the team’s theme for the Olympics, “the Attacking Viking.” The symbol is associated with Viking and Norse mythology and stands for heroic glory. But the symbol has also been hijacked by extreme right-wing groups.
For example, Tyr was also the official emblem for Adolf Hitler’s leadership
school in Nazi Germany.
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'The Bachelor' Creator Blames Fans' Racism, Trump For Show's Low Ratings From New York Times: In 2017, the first “Bachelorette” chapter to star an African-American woman — Rachel Lindsay, a lawyer from Dallas — drew precipitously fewer viewers than the season before it. “I found it incredibly disturbing in a Trumpish kind of way,” Mr. Fleiss said. “How else are you going to explain the fact that she’s down in the ratings, when — black or white — she was an unbelievable bachelorette? It revealed something about our fans.” You're a racist if you don't want to watch my crappy TV show.
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Washington state sues Motel 6 over cooperation with immigration authorities The office began investigating Motel 6 after two of the low-cost chain's locations in Arizona provided its guests' personal information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Six additional locations in Washington provided the same information covering more than 9,100 guests to ICE agents, Ferguson's office said. "Washingtonians have a right to privacy, and protection from discrimination,"
Ferguson said in a statement announcing the lawsuit, filed in King County
Superior Court. "I will hold Motel 6 accountable and uncover the whole
story of their disturbing conduct."
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James Damore just filed a class action lawsuit against Google, saying it discriminates against white male conservatives His claims: that Google unfairly discriminates against white men whose political views are unpopular with its executives. Damore is joined in the 161-page suit by another former Google engineer
named David Gudeman, who spent three years with Google working on a
query engine. According to Gudeman’s LinkedIn profile, he left the company
in December 2016 and has been self-employed since.
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White noise video on YouTube hit by five copyright claims Sebastian Tomczak, who is based in Australia, said he made the video in 2015 and uploaded it to YouTube. The claimants accusing him of infringement include publishers of white
noise intended for sleep therapy.
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Professors claim farmers’ markets cultivate racism: ‘Habits of white people are normalized’ Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco, two geography professors at SDSU, criticized the “whiteness of farmers’ markets” in a chapter for Just Green Enough, a new anthology published by Routledge in December. The anthology, which features contributions from a variety of professors,
aims to highlight the harms of “environmental gentrification,” a process
in which “environmental improvements lead to…the displacement of long-term
residents.”
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Texas Dad Confiscates 12-Year-Old Daughter's Phone As Punishment, Gets Arrested By The Cops In 2013, Ronald Jackson discovered a text message on his daughter's phone that he found to be "rude." He took the phone away from his daughter, who was 12-years-old at the time, to teach her a lesson. "I was being a parent..." Jackson told KDVR. "...A child does something
wrong, you teach them what’s right. You tell them what they did wrong
and you give them a punishment to show them they shouldn’t being doing
that"
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Prominent lawyer sought donor cash for two Trump accusers California lawyer Lisa Bloom’s efforts included offering to sell alleged
victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself,
arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting
to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined
to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000, the clients
told The Hill.
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Students who shut down University of Oregon president’s speech panic after they’re charged A week after they received formal charges of “disruption of university” and “failure to comply” for shutting down the State of the University speech by University of Oregon President Michael Schill, participants warned Schill that he had “escalated tensions” by holding them accountable (!). Student, faculty and union leaders signed an open letter to Schill
and the board of trustees, posted on the activist UO Student Collective
Facebook page, that blames Schill for comparing the protesters to the
fascists they claim to fight.
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On YouTube Kids, Startling Videos Slip Past Filters When Ms. Burns walked over, Isaac was watching a video featuring crude renderings of the characters from “PAW Patrol,” a Nickelodeon show that is popular among preschoolers, screaming in a car. The vehicle hurtled into a light pole and burst into flames. The 10-minute clip, “PAW Patrol Babies Pretend to Die Suicide by Annabelle
Hypnotized,” was a nightmarish imitation of an animated series in which
a boy and a pack of rescue dogs protect their community from troubles
like runaway kittens and rock slides. In the video Isaac watched, some
characters died and one walked off a roof after being hypnotized by
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Transgender reveal in kindergarten class leaves parents feeling "betrayed" "These parents feel betrayed by the school district that they were
not notified," said Karen England with the Capitol Resource Institute.
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Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Painting Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism
of Soviet monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in
Sofia was spray-painted, ITAR-Tass reported. The Russian Embassy in
Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally
clean up the monument in Sofia’s Lozenets district, identify and punish
those responsible, and take “exhaustive measures” to prevent similar
attacks in the future, the news agency reported Monday..
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Rick Perry Just Said That Fossil Fuels Help Prevent Sexual Assault During an energy policy discussion, he said: “From the standpoint of sexual assault. When the lights are on, when you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will, on those types of acts… fossil fuels is going to play a role in that. I think it’s going to play a positive role.” It’s a little difficult to try and work out what he means by this.
Is he trying to say that when you have lights on, the perpetrators of
sexual assault are easier to see? This is obviously true - but studies
show that it has little effect on such crimes being committed. Either
way, to use such a horrific issue to tout the benefits of oil, gas,
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EU Study Showing Piracy Doesn't Affect Game Sales Was Shelved Companies chose to ignore this information, and it’s easy to understand
why. It sounds like the logical thing to imagine, but it’s not backed
by science. Nevertheless, the European Commission wanted to know what
is the effect of piracy on copyrighted material and ordered a study.
The results were never made public.
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FBI finds FEMA supplies in Trash Container Supplies mismanagement or theft, for being federal property, will
be investigated by the FBI and can lead to a penalty of up to 20 years
if any individual is found to be violating the distribution guidelines.
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Schools are banning best friends to protect students' feelings Thomas's Battersea, the school George attends, bans kids from having best friends, Marie Claire reports. Instead, teachers encourage all students to form bonds with one another to avoid creating feelings of exclusions among those without best friends. Jane Moore, a parent whose child attends the school, explained the
idea on a recent episode of the British talk show "Loose Women." "There's
a policy," she said, "that if your child is having a party — unless
every child is invited — you don't give out the invites in class." More
Oxford University "Doctor Stabby" avoids jail because of her ‘extraordinary’ potential Aspiring heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward ran out of court with a big smile on her face Monday after being handed a suspended sentence. Wearing a black suit and white blouse, she appeared in the glass-paneled dock before the judge at Oxford Crown Court. Flanked by a female security guard, she wept and dabbed her eyes with
a tissue as the judge sentenced her to 10 months in prison, suspended
for 18 months.
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Australian Professors Claim Boys Are Better Than Girls At Physics Because They Play With Pee Some of you will think we’re daft. Some will wonder what kind of jobs we have if we have enough time on our hands to dream this kind of thing up. Some of you may even think we’re having you on. Our intentions, however, are honourable. Playful urination practices – from seeing how high you can pee to
games such as Peeball (where men compete using their urine to destroy
a ball placed in a urinal) – may give boys an advantage over girls when
it comes to physics. And we believe there’s something we can do about
it.
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How a 5-year-old's 'pretend play' resulted in a school suspension Jackson Riley attends the Great Valley Academy public charter school in Modesto and was suspended for a day for making terrorist threats, TV station Fox 40 reported. The incident occurred Aug. 31, Jackson's father, Ian Riley, told The Bee. He got a call from the school saying the kindergartner had refused to take off his backpack and, when asked why, said there was a bomb in it that would explode if he did so. Riley said Jackson loves his teachers, as do he and his wife, Michelle.
"We have two kids there and the teachers are amazing," he said. "Our
issue is with the administration's knee-jerk reaction."
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"Meathead" Launches Committee To Investigate Russian Election Meddling Reiner announced the CIR on Tuesday, posting to Twitter that he wants Americans to " “understand the gravity of Russia’s invasion of our democracy," adding that he intends on using his resources to truly solve the mystery of how Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election. The group launched their website, InvestigateRussia.com, on Wednesday.
It has a few fancy videos - one of which stars Freeman, who warns that
Russia is waging a war on the United States that we can no longer afford
to ignore. "We have been attacked," bellows Freeman. "We are at war."
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Democrat candidate for NY City council lives in Section 8 housing, hides photos of husband on yacht The Facebook photos showed city council candidate Carlina Rivera’s husband, attorney and Community Board 3 Chairman, James Rogers, sailing on his wealthy father, William Rogers’, yacht as they competed in boating competitions, the New York Post reported. The Facebook page “Big Boat,” which is the name of the yacht, removed
the photos ahead of New York City’s primary elections on Tuesday but
the damage was done.
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Florida gun owners encouraged to 'shoot the storm' and fire their guns at Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma is due to hit Florida on Saturday, and the state is
currently experiencing the largest ever mass evacuation due to a hurricane
in American history. But Ryon Edwards, 22, came up with a novel way
of amusing himself during the storm: firing bullets into it. He started
a Facebook "event", and as of Friday evening 46,000 people say they
are interested.
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College tells students to ‘rub one out’ to prevent rape As part of an “Alcohol and Chill” session during orientation, students discussed “awareness, prevention, bystander education, and risk reduction,” according to a statement from the school’s senior vice president for student affairs. An image obtained by Campus Reform shows that during said session,
participants were told to “Rub One Out,” with a notation at the bottom
of the slide explaining that “self-gratification can prevent sexual
assault.”
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Why the Do Not Call list doesn't work anymore “I’m getting inundated,” the frustrated woman said. Multiple times a day, live or automated robocallers ring her home phone—to sell her vacations, lower her credit card rates, or ask for donations. “Somebody will be saying I’ve got a vacation package for you, that
we thought you might be interested in, and I just hang up. Because I’m
not interested in it,” she said. It’s gotten so bad that she checked
to see if her name is still on the National Do Not Call List that she
signed up for more than a decade ago. She learned she is still on the
list. But it’s not doing a thing for her.
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Man Builds Park Stairs for $550 After City Gives $65,000 Estimate Retired mechanic Adi Astl says he took it upon himself to build the
stairs after several neighbours fell down the steep path to a community
garden in Tom Riley Park, in Etobicoke, Ont. Astl says his neighbours
chipped in on the project, which only ended up costing $550 – a far
cry from the $65,000-$150,000 price tag the city had estimated for the
job.
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Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud So it may be surprising to learn that he believes the diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is an invention — and only benefits the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatrists. “That is the history of humanity: Those in authority believe they’re
doing the right thing, and they harm those who have no power”, says
Jerome Kagan.
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These Coloradans say Earth is flat. And gravity’s a hoax. Now, they’re being persecuted. They have no leaders, no formal hierarchy and no enforced ideology, save a common quest for answers to questions about the stars. Their membership has slowly swelled in the past three years, though persecution and widespread public derision keep them mostly underground. Many use pseudonyms, or only give first names. “They just do not want to talk about it for fear of reprisals or ridicule
from co-workers,” says John Vnuk, the group’s founder who lives in Fort
Collins.
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop responds after NASA calls BS on ‘healing’ stickers Sometimes they go on benders, or buy a private island, but in Gwyneth
Paltrow’s case, she started a “wellness” company that is now trying
to help sell special stickers that it claims can cure you of anxiety,
balance your body’s “natural frequency,” and even relieve pain. Now,
NASA — you know, that little group that does actual science — is calling
BS on the whole thing.
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Portland Burrito Shop Forced to Close After Getting Hounded for ‘Stealing From Mexico’ “I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did,” Connelly told Willamette Week. “They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins. They wouldn’t tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look. We learned quickly it isn’t quite that easy.” Whelp, apparently this interview sparked an Internet shitstorm, which
ended in Kooks Burritos shutting down and the two white women who owned
it scrubbing social media of the business’ existence. Wilgus and Connelly
were accused of cultural appropriation by the Internet mob, and even
the theft of PoC’s recipes.
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School district slams sixth grader with suspension over haircut Xavier is a sixth grader at Cedar Bayou Junior High School in Baytown. When he walked into class last Thursday, he said he was promptly sent to the office. "I was walking into class, and she saw my hair and said, 'You can't have two lines in your hair. Go to the office,'" Xavier said. The school, he said, ordered him to fix the haircut by Monday, or be punished with in-school suspension. "I don't think it's fair," Xavier said. "He's had his hair cut like
this for six months and now all of a sudden it's a problem?" said his
father, Matt Davis.
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Canada Man Ordered to Surrender ‘Offensive’ Star Trek License Plate Manitoba local Nick Troller was informed by an agent from Manitoba
Public Insurance on Wednesday that they had received complaints from
two people about the word “assimilate,” which they claimed is offensive
to minorities. He was then served a letter informing him that “it has
been brought to the attention of this office that the personalized plate
ASIMIL8 is considered offensive,” and was ordered to surrender it immediately.
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Lookalike Foods: DNA test finds Subway sandwiches may be just 50 percent chicken According to the CBC Marketplace DNA test, the pieces of chicken tested in Subway sandwiches contained just 50 percent chicken DNA, with the rest containing soy. The study tested Subway's Oven Roasted Chicken Sandwich and the Sweet
Onion Chicken Teriyaki. The results showed the oven roasted chicken
had only 53.6 percent chicken DNA while the chicken strips in the sweet
onion chicken teriyaki had just 42.8 percent chicken DNA.
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No soda tax for diet drinkers? Seattle’s plan excludes drinks favored by rich and white The 2-cents-an-ounce tax would apply only to sugary beverages, such as regular sodas, energy and sports drinks, and bottled teas and coffee that are sweetened with sugar. For a 2-liter bottle of Coke, the tax could add $1.35 to the cost. Money raised — estimated at $16 million per year — would be used to
support various programs aimed at reducing disparities between white
students and black and Latino students. But this proposed tax could
also place a heavier burden on the very groups it’s aiming to help.
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Single dad furious after teen daughter reveals why her friends can't stay over at their house The anonymous man, writing on Kidspot, revealed how he was the girl's primary carer for five years of her life before his wife ran off with another man and took their child with her. After years of fighting for custody of his "wonderful" daughter, the pair moved to Australia together four years ago. He struggled to get on school records as her primary carer as the
system "wouldn't accept it" and, bizarrely, ended up being listed as
her mother.
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Chelsea Clinton Gets Another Award For Doing Nothing Special Not content with just her Variety-sponsored “achievement award,” Chelsea on Tuesday night accepted the annual City Harvest Award for Commitment in fighting hunger in New York City, as reported in Mail Online. Before we claim that she’s done nothing to earn a major award, aside
from sitting in a privileged position atop her family’s namesake foundation,
or say that she has few actual commitments aside from spending her family’s
money and attending a single board meeting for Expedia lest she forfeit
the several hundred thousand dollars she earns in her honorary position,
in this case, it appears Chelsea did do at least something to earn her
award.
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School Officials Shamed A Teenage Girl For Bringing "Too Much Food" For Lunch Sounds like a pretty reasonable lunch to us. But when a student brought this exact lunch to school one day, she was told that she had packed too much food, her mom wrote on a parenting blog. School officials have been monitoring what the students bring for lunch
every day at this girl's secondary school, her mom said in the post.
"DDs [dear daughter's] secondary school has started checking all the
packed lunches at registration," she wrote. "I know lots of secondary
school students buy sweets and chocolate etc on the way to school but
surely at that age it's their choice."
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New bill takes aim at men's masturbation habits The satirical House Bill 4260 would encourage men to remain "fully abstinent" and only allow the "occasional masturbatory emissions inside health care and medical facilities," which are described in the legislation as the best way to ensure men's health. A man would face a $100 penalty for each emission made outside of
a vagina or medical facility. Such an emission would be considered "an
act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of
life," according to the legislation.
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Kurdish healer: Trump is possessed; I can cure him by beating soles of his feet Known as Mala Ali Kalak and based in a small town outside Erbil on the road to Mosul, he says he has treated many cases of cancer and HIV, including government officials. “Trump is possessed and I need to beat him on the soles of his feet
to get the jinni out of his body,” Mala Ali told Rudaw in an interview.
“He has lost his mind and oversteps his boundaries all the time. He
needs help. Unless he is cured he will continue to act like he does
now.”
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Atlanta welfare bums battling state over right to name daughter Allah But, in the eyes of the state of Georgia, the 22-month-old child has no name. According to Handy and Walk, the Georgia Department of Public Health refused to issue the infant a birth certificate with the last name the couple chose for their daughter: Allah. The ACLU of Georgia has filed suit on behalf of the couple, who say
they can't get a Social Security number for their daughter because they
don't have a birth certificate. They also anticipate problems with access
to health care, schools and travel.
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'Bread war': Venezuela arrests brownie and croissant bakers in effort to tackle food shortages Maduro has sent inspectors and soldiers into more than 700 bakeries around the capital this week to enforce a rule that 90 percent of wheat must be destined to loaves rather than more expensive pastries and cakes. It was the latest move by the government to combat shortages and long
lines for basic products that have characterised Venezuela's economic
crisis over the last three years.
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American Legion Riders say they were harassed by staff at Michigan Dave & Busters location According to biker Victor Murdock a general manager at the location
told the group of bikers that they had to remove their riding vests,
or colors, turn them inside-out or leave the premises. The bikers’ attire
apparently violated the chain’s dress code policy which prohibits clothing
that promotes “evidence of gang affiliation,” according to MLive.
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School apologizes for fried chicken menu for Black History Month The Feb. 16 lunch menu at Hopewell Valley Central High School also listed corn bread, sweet potato casserole, sauteed spinach, mac & cheese and peach and apple crisps. It's not clear who complained about the menu. "The decision to include these items without any context or explanation,
reinforces racial stereotypes and is not consistent with our district
mission and efforts to improve cultural competency among our students
and staff," Superintendent Thomas A. Smith wrote in a message to the
community.
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Absurd State Licensing Rules Could Send A Woman To Jail Just for Touching a Horse Not because she would hurt the animal—she'd never think of doing such a thing—but because of an anonymous complaint submitted to the state's licensing board that governs veterinary medicine. Wheeler has been studying horse massage since 2010, when she adopted an abandoned horse suffering from a potentially life-threatening neurological condition known as equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. Her horse, Jazz, was treated with a mix of medication and massage
therapy, and Wheeler became interested in the practice. Since then,
she's twice been certified in equine massage by an Indiana-based animal
therapy school, and, in 2016, successfully obtained a license from the
state of Tennessee, where she lives, to practice massage therapy on
humans.
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Teen Girl Sent Teen Boy 5 Inappropriate Pictures, Faces Lifetime Registry as a 'Violent Sex Offender' or 350 Years in Jail About two years ago, when Zachary was a 17-year-old high school senior
in Stafford County, Virginia, a girl in his computer club invited him
over to visit. She introduced him to her younger sister, age 13. This
younger sister told Zachary he reminded her of a friend: this friend,
also a 13-year-old girl, shared Zachary's love of dragons and videogames.
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Grad Student Exposes Massive Network Of Over 350,000 Fake Twitter Accounts On Twitter, bots are accounts that are run remotely by someone who automates the messages they send and activities they carry out. The network of 350,000 bots stood out because all the accounts in it shared several subtle characteristics that revealed they were linked. It was "amazing and surprising" to discover the massive networks,
said Dr Shi Zhou, a senior lecturer from UCL who oversaw Mr Echeverria's
research.
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Utah’s Anti-Porn Crusade Has Entered a Crazy New Phase There is, of course, no evidence of a “pornography epidemic” with any measurable toll on society. Yes, a lot of people view porn, as has been the case ever since porn was easily viewable, and as will likely be the case forever. But the sorts of things you’d expect to be associated with a hypothetical porn epidemic, like people having tons of reckless sex, don’t appear to be happening. The only thing anti-porn zealots can point to as evidence of a dangerous
“epidemic” is that a lot of people are watching porn. There’s no credible,
empirically backed second half to the sentence “Tons of people too much
porn, and it’s causing X.”
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Who got rich off the student debt crisis In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the best kind for banks and debt collectors. Today, just about everyone involved in the student loan industry makes money off students – the banks, private investors, even the federal government. Jessie Suren is an energetic 28-year-old who wanted a career in law
enforcement. Albert Lord is a 70-year-old former accountant who became
a multimillionaire executive. The two have never met, but their stories
tell the history of America’s student debt crisis.
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Facebook 'fact checker' who will arbitrate on 'fake news' is accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes Snopes.com will be part of a panel used by Facebook to decide whether stories which users complain about as potentially 'fake' should be considered 'disputed'. But the website's own troubles and the intriguing choice of who carries out its 'fact checks' are revealed by DailyMail.com, as one of its main contributors is disclosed to be a former sex-blogger who called herself 'Vice Vixen'. Snopes.com will benefit from Facebook's decision to allow users to
report items in their newsfeed which they believe to be 'fake'.
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When Food Is Expensive, We Assume It’s Healthier, Too And as a forthcoming study in the Journal of Consumer Research illustrates, the same thing can happen with price. More expensive foods benefit from the health halo of a higher cost, while affordable items are seen as junky — even if neither is true. Konchinsky is now suing the police officers, alleging they violated her constitutional rights. What's the basis of her lawsuit? Konchinsky's suit alleges that the officers' actions violated her First
Amendment right to freedom of speech.
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No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS Samples of store-brand aloe gel purchased at national retailers Wal-Mart, Target and CVS showed no indication of the plant in various lab tests. The products all listed aloe barbadensis leaf juice — another name for aloe vera — as either the No. 1 ingredient or No. 2 after water. There’s no watchdog assuring that aloe products are what they say
they are. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn’t approve cosmetics
before they’re sold and has never levied a fine for selling fake aloe.
That means suppliers are on an honor system, even as the total U.S.
market for aloe products, including drinks and vitamins, has grown 11
percent in the past year to $146 million, according to Chicago-based
market researcher SPINS LLC.
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Trudeau says Canada has no ‘core identity’ The consensus from Canada’s elites has been to condemn the very idea of listing our values, let alone asking newcomers to respect and adhere to them. But a far more controversial idea about Canadian values and identity was recently proposed by our very own prime minister. And the media barely batted an eyelash. Late last year, Justin Trudeau
told the New York Times that Canada is becoming a new kind of country,
not defined by our history or European national origins, but by a “pan-cultural
heritage”.
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Professor attacks political correctness, says he refuses to use genderless pronouns Peterson, a white male in his mid 50s, also decries what he claims are attempts by the university to transform its human resources department into “a politically correct institution.” Gender identity is defined by the Ontario Human Rights Commission
as “each person’s internal and individual experience of gender. It is
their sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along
the gender spectrum.” The commission defines gender expression as “how
a person publicly presents their gender,” which can include behaviour
and outward appearance such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and
voice, as well as a person’s name and the pronouns they use.
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Court Rules That Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can't Buy Firearms The court ruled 3-0 on Wednesday that a ban preventing medical marijuana card holders from purchasing firearms is not in violation of the Second Amendment, the Associated Press reports. There are nine western states under the appeals court’s jurisdiction, including Nevada, where the case originated. A lawsuit was filed in 2011 by Nevada resident S. Rowan Wilson after
she tried to purchase a gun for self-defense and was denied based on
a federal ban on the sale of guns to users of illegal drugs. Though
marijuana has been legalized in some places on a state-by-state basis,
it remains illegal under federal law. The court maintained that drug
use “raises the risk of irrational or unpredictable behavior with which
gun use should not be associated.”
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We’re All Guinea Pigs in a Failed Decades-Long Diet Experiment If you're like most Americans, you either aren't sure how to answer, or you're very sure—but very wrong. And it's not your fault. It's the fault, experts say, of decades of flawed or misleading nutrition advice—advice that was never based on solid science. The US Department of Agriculture, along with the agency that is now
called Health and Human Services, first released a set of national dietary
guidelines back in 1980. That 20-page
booklet trained its focus primarily on three health villains: fat,
saturated fat, and cholesterol.
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School bans clown costumes from Halloween celebrations “With the current issues about the clowns we are going to avoid that this year,” said Wilson. After recent clown sightings across the nation, the school said some of their students are afraid. Wilson said after hearing concerns from parents, they have chosen to ban happy and scary clown costumes altogether. They hope to present this to the children in a way that will not evoke more fear. “The principal is very good about being sensitive to how she presents
that,” said Wilson. “It’s going to be something to the effect of, even
though clowns are funny and cute, we’re not going to do any this year
because we want to be a little bit different.”
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City school admins fined for big spending on parties, food The city’s Conflict of Interest Board slapped the education administrators with the fines, saying they had all violated rules that prohibited using their cards for non-city purposes. The largest fine went to Patrick Fagan, a deputy Cluster Leader for
the Children First Network, a now-defunct network of educators who were
supposed to help principals.
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African students speak out against anti-African school dress code Gibbs High School Senior Jelani Masozi was forced by a school administrator, accompanied by a resource officer, to remove her head wrap on Thursday, August 25th, 2016. The intimidating presence of the officer, armed to the teeth with a gun, taser, and pepper spray––identical to the police officers that murder us in the streets––caused Jelani to feel like she had no other option but to remove her headwrap. This humiliating, demoralizing request caused her to call the President
of the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO), Yejide Orunmila,
who directed her to put her headwrap back on.
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Judge Rules Government Can Ban Vegetable Gardens Because They’re ‘Ugly’ The ruling was a whopping ten pages long as it was filled with legal
analysis and definitions of what constitutes a vegetable. Even though
she ruled in favor of the ban, Judge Monica Gordo acknowledged that
she wasn’t quite sure how a vegetable garden can ruin the aesthetics
of one’s property.
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A history of undiplomatic insults Well, he regrets at least how the comment was received. “We regret [that] it came across as a personal attack,” Duterte said through a spokesman. The White House canceled a meeting with Duterte after the outburst. The Philippines' leader is mounting a controversial campaign against
drug dealers and users, which has already led to thousands of extrajudicial
killings.
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India To Bring Back Workers Facing 'Food Crisis' In Saudi Arabia Low oil prices have forced the Saudi government to slash spending since last year, putting heavy pressure on the finances of local construction firms which rely on state contracts. As a result, some companies have been struggling to pay foreign workers and have laid off tens of thousands, leaving many with no money for food let alone for tickets home. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said over 10,000 Indians
in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were facing a "food crisis" because of economic
hardships, while appealing to an estimated 3 millions Indians living
in Saudi Arabia for help.
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Yale Student Petition: Too Many Major English Poets In ‘Major English Poets’ Class Specifically, the aggrieved students want to abolish the storied Major English Poets courses that have long been staples of the university’s English department. Why? According to a petition posted online, the students believe that the
courses feature too many “white male authors,” such as Geoffrey Chaucer,
William Wordsworth, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, John Milton, and
T.S. Eliot. In other words, too many major English poets.
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F-35 Delayed Again: Defective Ejection Seat Would Likely Snap Pilots’ Necks Ejection seats hold a special importance for pilots of the $250 million
fighter jet in light of recent tests that show the fifth-generation
fighter spontaneously shuts down mid-flight due to ongoing software
malfunctions.
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Why police were called to a South Jersey third-grade class party A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was "racist," the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment. The police officer spoke to the student, who is 9, said the boy's mother, Stacy dos Santos, and local authorities. Dos Santos said that the school overreacted and that her son made a comment about snacks, not skin color. "He said they were talking about brownies. . . Who exactly did he
offend?" dos Santos said.
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Texas congressman wants magic to be recognized as a national treasure To fix this, Sessions wants the House of Representatives to declare
magic a "rare and valuable art form," and pledge to support efforts
that ensure magic is "preserved, understood, and promulgated." To this
end, the resolution cites a number of magic's appealing qualities (including
its ability to inspire young children), and praises American magicians
like Harry Houdini and David Copperfield.
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Children to be Expelled for ‘Microaggressions’? The Board of Education of Lawrence Public Schools will soon vote on a proposal to update its discrimination and harassment policy. It would impose stiff penalties on those who commit a microaggression or tout an offensive symbol. The vote on whether to enact this policy, originally scheduled for June 27, was recently pushed back to allow for more discussion. “Any student or employee who violates the Discrimination and Harassment
Policy is subject to disciplinary action,” said Julie Boyle, communications
director of Lawrence Public Schools, noting that each of the 21 schools
in the district issue their own handbooks for students and staff.
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McDonald’s “Summer Camp” Exposes Youth to Fast Food Culture While Training Kids to Sell Their Food McDonald’s Kiddie Crew Workshop is a 5-day summer program designed for kids ages 6-12 years. During the program, Kiddie Crew members experience on-floor restaurant activities like greeting customers and assisting the crew at the drive-thru and front counters, plus, according to McDonald’s Philippines, get to “showcase their skills through creative art workshops, and learn the importance of hard work, discipline and teamwork, through values formation lessons.” You might think a program like this, based around fast food, would
be frowned upon, but the camp has been around since the early 90s and
is hugely popular. In fact, during 2012 about 30,000 kids took part
in the summer workshop participating in activities like burger-making,
the Ronald dance, apron-making, singing of the Kiddie Crew song and
a talent workshop. In recent years, the workshop has added additional
activities such as Kiddie Crew Dance-exercise. At the end of the summer
McDonald’s Philippines holds a series of workshop graduations in major
cities all over the country—Manila, Cebu, Bacolod and Davao – to recognize
the achievements of all Kiddie Crew members and their families by treating
them to a day filled with activities and prizes.
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This High School Senior Got Called Out for Not Wearing a Bra to School Principal Steve Thennis told KRTV that someone in the school building complained that the way Kaitlyn was dressed made them "uncomfortable," so she was asked to either cover up or put on a bra. The Helena High School handbook does not specify that students must wear bras. "I'm not going to check students' undergarments," he told KRTV. "We are going to ask them to dress appropriately and if we feel it is inappropriate, male or female, we are going to ask them to cover up." Kaitlyn says there's no reason a student should have to wear a bra
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Mexican Congresswoman Declares War on Memes Martha Orta Rodriguez suggests a penalty of up to four years in prison and a fine of nearly US$2,000 for those responsible for creating these often humorous and satirical images on the Web. Orta said she is trying to prevent “harmful" and “humiliating” images
from being circulated on the Internet, but unsurprisingly her proposal
was not received well online.
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Plano Senior High School Students Will Not Be Allowed To Display Honors During Graduation Because it might make other students feel excluded, students won’t be able to wear their National Honor Society stoles during graduation ceremonies next month at Plano Senior High School. Students are not allowed to wear National Honor Society regalia (or any other club or organizational regalia) during graduation ceremonies, according to school practices. Apparently, students and Plano East High School and Plano West High
School will be able to wear the NHS stoles.
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Lunchroom Lunacy: Cops investigate $2 bill spent on school lunch Not for some local school cops. For one day, public enemy number one when it came to forgery was 13-year-old eighth grader Danesiah Neal at Fort Bend Independent School District's Christa McAuliffe Middle School. Now 14, Daneisha was hoping to eat that day's lunch of chicken tenders with her classmates using a $2 bill given to her by her grandmother when she was stopped by the long arm of the law. "I went to the lunch line and they said my $2 bill was fake," Danesiah
told Ted Oberg Investigates. "They gave it to the police. Then they
sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big
trouble."
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A Florida woman is facing fines and fees over $100,000 because her car's
tires touched part of her lawn, according to the Institute of Justice
(IJ).
HSBC
has issued a warning to customers as retailers step up coronavirus safety
measures amid a further 1,243 deaths.
NEW YORK — Mr. Potato Head is no longer a mister.
When retired web developer Catherine Kunicki tried to sign up for her
first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in downtown Brooklyn, the AdvantageCare
Physicians website rejected her.
After a whistleblower complained that Coca-Cola was asking its employees
to engage in diversity training offered by LinkedIn Learning that encouraged
them to "try to be less white," the social media firm has removed the
program.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating SpaceX over whether
the company discriminates against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring practices
and said Elon Musk’s company is stonewalling a subpoena for information,
court documents revealed Thursday.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reached such a dire stage in the US, that
the incoming Biden administration has reportedly decided to take a dramatic
step in response to it.
Mandy Cortes, the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was suspended for
helping a friend in class, stated that she would not be taking her son
back to the school. She vowed to home-school him rather than have him
attend Gateway Middle School again.
SCHERERVILLE, Ind. — With so many jobs lost amid the coronavirus pandemic,
eviction is a real concern.
John Kerry, the failed 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, has been
named by Joe Biden to serve as a special envoy focused on climate change.
A
senior Oregon health official has gone viral after dressing as a clown
during the state’s latest coronavirus announcement.
An Oregon nurse is placed on administrative leave after she posted a
TikTok video shunning basic COVID-19 measures.
The slides, flickering silently over Kenton Vizdos’ corner of the virtual
classroom the morning after Election Day, wouldn’t result in his suspension.
At least, not if the 17-year-old student stopped substituting his face
on the screen with photos showing the words “BLACK LIVES MATTER” and
images calling modern-day policemen former “slave catchers.”
A Pennsylvania state representative was caught on a hot microphone joking
about how she would keep her mask on during a press conference as a
bit of "political theater."
The city of Englewood, Colorado, just south of Denver, is requiring
all of its residents to wear face masks amid a spike in coronavirus
cases — and violators could face up to a year behind bars, coupled with
a hefty fine.
LAS VEGAS — A survey given to some high school students in Las Vegas
is sparking outrage from parents.
It was a gorgeous August weekend in New York City, and Andy—a college
senior at New York University (NYU)—decided to attend a rooftop social
gathering with his roommates.
A Harvard University law professor has sparked controversy after calling
for a ban on homeschooling.
MEMPHIS,
Tenn. — A Shelby County man questions what is going on at the Shelby
County Health Department.
A hair salon says it was told by a job centre it couldn't run an advert
recruiting a 'happy' stylist because the word is 'discriminatory' -
against unhappy people.
Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz encouraged his conservative followers to help
“end the Silicon Valley censorship” by joining him on Parler, a “non-biased
free speech driven entity” that really “gets what free speech is all
about.”
COLORADO
SPRINGS, Colo. – A 12-year-old boy has been suspended for having a toy
gun he never brought to school.
Some Wisconsin state officials aren’t fooling around when it comes to
the spread of COVID-19.
An Abbeville man who was serving a life prison sentence as a habitual
offender over a $30 marijuana sale is getting out.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Springfield School District has a dress code
for students who are doing remote learning. There’s one specific rule
that has made some parents upset.
SYDNEY, - It stood for over 46,000 years, but in a matter of seconds
a site of major significance to the world's oldest living culture was
destroyed by a global mining giant.
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, a Democrat, pushed
to make drastic cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) funding
amid a nationwide campaign by the far-left to defund police departments
— a move she made while having an LAPD unit stationed outside her private
home since April.
It
started with a bowl of chicken noodle soup and a desire to help the
community. It ended with the government threatening criminal charges.
SEATTLE -- The state is investigating dozens of car dealerships for
possibly violating the governor's stay-home order in April, according
to documents obtained.
Speaking
at an event in Chato in northwestern Tanzania on Sunday, Magufuli alleged
there were "technical errors" with the tests, hence he had instructed
Tanzanian security forces to check the quality of the kits.
A Baltimore mother is outraged after she says police showed up at her
home last week to investigate a complaint from her son’s school over
BB guns that were seen during a virtual learning lesson.
As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win
New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute
boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than
$1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign.
Following reports of half a dozen parties being held around the Chicago
area this weekend, Mayor Lori Lightfoot issued a sinister warning to
stay-at-home violators: "We will take you to jail, period."
Back in the olden days, when society was civilized, real ladies wore
pearls. Their lives revolved around having babies, churning butter,
worshipping husbands, making sandwiches, and staring lovingly at their
children. Real ladies never complained. They took Xanax, and did everything
while remaining perfectly coiffed. It was a lovely time to be alive.
Way back on Feb. 23, The Post ran an opinion piece by Steven Mosher
saying that we couldn’t trust China’s story about the origins of COVID-19.
He argued that the virus might — might — have jumped to the human population
thanks to errors at a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, rather than via that
city’s now-notorious “wet market.”
In an incident caught on video, a former Colorado State Patrol trooper
said he was handcuffed in front of his 6-year old daughter on a near-empty
softball field Sunday by Brighton police officers enforcing social distancing
rules.
From the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, state
and local governments responded in various ways from issuing emergency
orders?—citywide shutdowns? to school closures and beyond?—but it’s
the suspension of various laws and regulations that is exposing the
unnecessary regulatory web that burdens businesses. As often happens
during emergencies, governors and mayors across the country have used
executive power to waive laws and bypass regulations.
Nevada’s governor signed an executive order Tuesday limiting the use
of anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus
patients.
The Democratic presidential debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders
on Sunday night saw a gaffe made by each candidate when addressing the
spread of COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. Both candidates referred
to coronavirus as a previous virus.
In an attempt to shame rural Americans, a brazen UC Berkeley graduate
and instructor claimed they were "bad people who have made bad life
decisions." Jackson Kernion, who reportedly taught 11 philosophy courses
at the California University, made the controversial tweet last Wednesday.
His restricted mindset couldn't fathom that there exist people who don't
prefer city life. Kernion made this audacious observation within a Twitter
thread which was examining the costs of rural healthcare. Furthermore,
he argued that "City Americans" were leading a more efficient lifestyle
when compared to those in the rural areas. 
A
TikTok video designed to raise awareness of sexual abuse in Finland
has gone viral and received a lot of attention – but not necessarily
for the reasons that they may have anticipated.
Nearly every industrialized nation on Earth subsidizes agriculture to
some extent. It’s a way to make sure production stays high, and prices
stay low.
Many high-ranking officials are pelted by corruption allegations, yet
few (if any) have ever got accused of welfare fraud in another country.
But if Swedish media is to be believed, Iraq’s serving defense minister
is a suspect.
An increasingly popular belief is emerging online where it is deemed
“transphobic” or “transphobia” to refuse to date a transgendered person.
The debate, polarizing communities and debate online, asks whether rejecting
a sexual partner over their genitals constitutes “transphobia.”
Racist and anti ethnic graffiti has been daubed in 20 foot high letters
on the side of a gable wall in Southport.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling for men's restrooms
to include tampons in order to prevent discrimination against "every
person who menstruates."
OTTAWA
— Members of Parliament who have decided not to run for re-election
this fall will cash in a cumulative $1.6 million in severance payments,
and millions more will likely be paid out after the election.
SEATTLE — When a set of guidelines for incorporating ethnic studies
in K-12 math classes went public last week, several online blogs criticized
Seattle Public Schools for bringing race into subjects like addition
and subtraction.
If you’re a trans woman, you may not have given much thought to Pap
tests and cervical cancer. And if you haven’t, that makes a fair amount
of sense. After all, in order to get cervical cancer, you need to have
a cervix — that is, the organ that connects the vagina to the uterus.
Politicians
who declare housing a human right rarely include in that a right to
actually build housing.
A
West Valley, Utah, woman is reportedly facing criminal charges for being
shirtless in her own home. Prosecutors allege her actions violate the
state’s lewdness law; her lawyer argues the law unconstitutionally discriminates
against women who are punished for going topless while men are not.
SAN
LORENZO, California -- Isabel Albright of San Lorenzo was among the
oldest people in America - living through two world wars, 18 presidents
and multiple moon landings. She was born before television came into
existence.
It’s
like something out of The Onion: city manager shuts down preschool farm
stand out of fear that, if allowed, “we could end up with one on every
corner.”
ROCKLEDGE, Fla. - The Florida Department of Education said a former
Rockledge high school teacher told his students demonic energy came
from the bathroom, that a student was his "spirit daughter" and he was
another student's "spirit husband."
Leon Haughton, a legal green card holder from Jamaica who has lived
in Maryland for almost 10 years, arrived at Baltimore-Washington International
Airport on December 29 following his yearly pilgrimage back home. U.S.
Customs and Border Protection detained him. For what, he wasn't sure.
A newly elected single mother of two wanted her kids to walk away from
her swearing-in with an empowering message. So instead of placing her
hand on a Bible to take her oath of office as councilwoman for St. Louis
County, Kelli Dunaway chose “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss.
It's the mantra of every parent:
Capitalizing on Marysville’s current momentum — from redeveloping the
old Mighty Marysville property to improvements at city parks — quickly
became a common theme for city election candidates during a forum Thursday
night.
Robots have rights, too, y'all! YouTube says so — at least, their algorithms
do. After declaring that videos of robots fighting violates restrictions
against depictions of cruelty toward animals, the video streaming site
has begun removing the robot battle videos.
The
South Yorkshire police department in England is receiving some major
backlash online for the #HateHurts campaign it’s been putting out on
social media.
A nine-year-old girl is taking Berlin’s oldest boys’ choir to court,
claiming the state-run institution’s admissions criteria are gender-biased
and violate Germany’s constitution.
Police have warned trolls who mocked a drug dealer’s haircut, that they
could be prosecuted for harassment.
A HERO of the London Bridge attacks says he is on an anti-terror watch
list after far-right yobs got in touch. Millwall fan Roy Larner, 49,
took on the knife maniacs as they struck as he was enjoying a pint.
For government and law enforcement agencies, social media is the perfect
getaway for quick responses and important announcements. However, in
a major gaffe, the provincial government of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
live-streamed an entire meeting by accidentally turning on the cat filter.
With pink ears and cute whiskers, the ministers conducted the meeting
online — leaving Netizens laughing out loud. 
Oregon’s Democratic governor, Kate Brown, has dispatched state troopers
to find missing Republican senators and bring them back to Salem to
legislate.
In Texas, a six-year-old boy is being torn apart by the transgender
debate. James’ mother thinks he’s a girl, but he acts like a normal
boy at his father’s house. Now she’s accusing him of child abuse. Welcome
to 2018.
A British Catholic journalist is being investigated by the police for
allegedly “misgendering” someone in a tweet. Caroline Farrow was contacted
by authorities after making an appearance on “Good Morning Britain,”
in which she engaged in a debate with a transgender activist, Susie
Green, who has a trans child. Following this appearance, which took
place last September, Farrow allegedly referred to Green’s daughter,
Jackie, by the wrong pronoun.
Two male students at Lacey Township High School in New Jersey posted
photos of guns on Snapchat. One of the boys captioned his photo with
"hot stuff" and "if there's ever a zombie apocalypse, you know where
to go."
A recent article published in The Journal of Medical Ethics by a Finnish
bioethicist made a moral case for the legal change of a person’s age
to correspond with that person’s “experienced age.”
A docker from Humberside has been investigated by police over a limerick
he posted on Twitter after an officer claimed it constitutes a ‘hate
incident’ against transgender people.
Democratic socialism is having a moment. Sen. Bernie Sanders mobilized
millions of voters during the 2016 campaign, nominally as a Democrat
but with many self-professed socialists in his bandwagon. And Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez will likely bring her own brand of socialism to Congress
next year, having knocked off New York Rep. Joe Crowley in a primary.
The United States' dairy surplus has reached a record high, rounding
out at 1.4 billion pounds of cheese. Reports attempting to quantify
this astonishing amount have deferred to metrics like "enough to wrap
around the U.S. Capitol." Suffice to say, nobody's suggesting we could
consume it all.
Dress codes seem to make the news every time a new school year kicks
off, and it’s always a heated issue. What’s fair, and what’s foul? Where
do we draw the line with appropriate clothing and styles?
By now you’ve likely heard that “America’s dad,” comedian Bill Cosby,
was found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman, “completing the
spectacular late-life downfall” of a funnyman “who broke racial barriers
in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom,” The Associated Press reported.
The principal of Liberty High School in Hillsboro has agreed to apologize
to a student who was told to go home or cover up his "Donald J. Trump
Border Wall Construction Co.'' shirt in January.
Eric Lundgren built the first “electronic hybrid recycling” facility
in the United States, which turns discarded cellphones and other electronics
into functional devices.
After claiming that mice had eaten a whopping half a ton of weed, eight
police officers have been fired from a police force in Argentina.
An Alberta man has legally changed his gender purely to benefit from
the lower car insurance rates offered to women.
This is the story of an 'emotional support cat' aboard an Alaska Airlines
flight, and a 15-year-old fellow passenger who, it turns out, was severely
allergic to cats.
Racial bias can put people of color at a disadvantage when interviewing
for a job, buying a house, or interacting with the police. New research
suggests that bias may also shape daily interactions between racial
minorities and white people, even those whites who tend to be less biased.
My friend, Pam, was thrilled when her teenage daughter landed a job.
As an HR person herself, though, she was surprised when her daughter's
new manager called to speak with her. After all, it wasn't Pam's new
job--it was her daughter's.
HONOLULU - Three children at an East Honolulu preschool were served
Pine-Sol instead of apple juice earlier this week, and took several
sips of the cleaning fluid before child care workers realized the mistake.
Today's congressional hearing on Google and tech privacy provided yet
another opportunity for America's elected representatives to prove how
little they know about the businesses they would like to regulate.
The judge, the prosecutor and the defendant’s own lawyer all called
it a “stupid” decision. And it cost a Toronto police officer, who stole
and consumed marijuana edibles seized during a raid, then became so
high he thought he might die, his job.
Amazon, which has come under fire for treating warehouse workers "as
robots," is now deflecting criticism for a 2016 patent that proposed
to house workers in cages.
Two high school students are in hot water for their choice of costume.
A group of Roy residents are putting together and all-girl Boy Scouts
of America troop.
Drink upm Nazis.
All Americans with a cell phone will receive a test “presidential alert”
on their phones Wednesday, but a new lawsuit is fighting back against
the mandatory messages.
Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims
that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics
to delete an article he had written for the academic journal because
it considered a politically incorrect subject: the achievement gap between
men and women at very high levels of human intelligence.
Many of our nation’s students have just returned to school for the fall,
and already, some teachers are showing that they really aren’t equipped
to handle the job of educating our children. Take for example a teacher
in Tarboro, N.C., who got offended over the use of the word “ma’am.”
Apple on Wednesday rolled out three new iPhone X models that are as
big or bigger than the its current models. At the same time, the company
announced it would axe its smallest smartphone, the iPhone SE.
A lawyer who has represented women accusing President Donald Trump of
harassment has joked that only black people should be allowed to vote,
after a poll showed African-American support for the president at only
3 percent.
A mother in Chicago is relieved after charges were dropped in relation
to a neighbor calling DCFS when she let her daughter walk around the
block with their family pet.
A much-loved gorilla statue that had been removed from a playground
in Corsicana, Texas, following complaints it was racist is set to return
following outrage and protests from local residents.
Last July, as she has for the past 10 years, Dianne Jones spent 45 minutes
on a city bus heading to the local WalMart.
Wells Fargo acknowledged Friday that hundreds of its customers lost
their homes over a roughly five-year period because of an error by the
bank.
A white van man has been hit with a £300 fine after sandwich wrappers
and crisp packets were found inside his work van.
The bereaved husband of Lindsay Durdle, who died on May 31 aged 37 from
breast cancer that spread to her lungs and brain, contacted the BBC
after receiving the letter. Howard Durdle says he had provided PayPal
with “her death certificate, her will and his ID, as requested.”
Marquette University student Alex Ruiz was recently expelled after school
officials deemed two photos inadvertently sent to a black classmate
“discriminatory harassment,” this despite authorities declining to press
charges, saying there was no intent to harass anyone.
In the week of America’s Independence Day, the algorithms of Facebook
decided that the Declaration of Independence was hate speech.
A Maryland man posted to Facebook describing how a cop arrived at his
home over the post he made on Facebook.
A pregnant black woman in Michigan who pulled out a gun to defend her
family from an attacker is serving time in jail and might have to give
birth in prison, Vox reports.
A boy with autism was arrested for allegedly pretending to fire an imaginary
rifle at his art teacher.
A sex education expert has sparked a debate on sexual consent, after
she argued that parents should ask children for permission before changing
their diapers.
Schools in the United Kingdom are beginning to remove analog clocks
from the classroom — because students are complaining that they can’t
read them, reports say.
Australian nurses and midwives are being forced to announce their 'white
privilege' before treating Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander patients
- a move which has been slammed as 'racist to its core'.
A freshman at West Hills High School in Santee was arrested on suspicion
of making a terrorist threat after he posted a photo of a LEGO rifle
on social media with a threatening caption.
K Street lobbyists are the symbol of Washington influence-peddling as
they push government for favors, subsidies, exemptions, and other special
treatment for their clients. Their customers include, in addition to
domestic clients, foreign governments, oligarchs, fugitive speculators,
and a rogue’s gallery of questionable figures.
A federal cabinet minister says a directive to Service Canada agents
telling them to use gender-neutral language — such as 'parent' instead
of 'mother' or 'father' — when speaking to the public was badly worded
and will be corrected.
It is a painting that shows pubescent, naked nymphs tempting a handsome
young man to his doom, but is it an erotic Victorian fantasy too far,
and one which, in the current climate, is unsuitable and offensive to
modern audiences?
Too many Americans are able to access the country's national parks for
free, says Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and this must end if the U.S.
wishes to address the parks' aging and otherwise declining infrastructure.
SARASOTA, FL - Planned Parenthood is hoping to make life a little bit
easier for the transgender community. They are now offering transgender
hormone replacement therapy for those under the age of 18.
SAN FRANCISCO — California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia — whose high-profile
advocacy of the #MeToo movement earned her national media notice — is
herself the subject of a state legislative investigation in the wake
of a report that she sexually harassed and groped a former legislative
staffer.
While awareness of transgender issues has become more mainstream, there
is still a lot to be learned about what the trans experience is like
-- which was the thinking of Searah Deysach, a Chicago business owner,
who is making waves for selling silicone penises for transgender and
gender non-conforming kids as young as 5.
Norway’s alpine skiing team is receiving backlash after revealing its
official Winter Olympics knitted sweater, which uses a controversial
symbol.
ABC's "The Bachelor" creator and executive producer Mike Fleiss blamed
racism on the part of his show's fan base and President Donald Trump
for his show's low ratings in an interview released Friday in the New
York Times. ABC's "The Bachelor" creator and executive producer Mike
Fleiss blamed racism on the part of his show's fan base and President
Donald Trump for his show's low ratings in an interview released Friday
in the New York Times.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) has sued Motel 6
for providing guest lists to federal immigration agents, Ferguson's
office said Wednesday.
James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after
posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women
may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically
less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against
the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.
A
musician who made a 10-hour long video of continuous white noise - indistinct
electronic hissing - has said five copyright infringement claims have
been made against him.
Two San Diego State University (SDSU) professors recently criticized
farmers’ markets for being “white spaces” that contribute to the oppression
of minorities.
Authorities arrested a Grand Prairie, Texas, father for taking his daughter's
cell phone away as a form of punishment.
A well-known women’s rights lawyer sought to arrange compensation from
donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making
sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final
months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.
Threatening to investigate students for disrupting campus events works
wonders on their willingness to negotiate.
It was a typical night in Staci Burns’s house outside Fort Wayne, Ind.
She was cooking dinner while her 3-year-old son, Isaac, watched videos
on the YouTube Kids app on an iPad. Suddenly he cried out, “Mommy, the
monster scares me!”
ROCKLIN, Calif. -- The Rocklin Academy school board is facing tough
questions from parents concerned over a controversial incident involving
transgender discussions inside a kindergarten class, CBS Sacramento
reports.
According to a report by the Moscow Times, pranksters in Bulgaria are
repainting Soviet-era monuments so that Soviet military heroes look
like American Superheroes. Needless to say, the Russians are not too
happy about it.
Rick Perry, the head of the Department of Energy (DoE), has surpassed
himself. Talking to journalists earlier today, he claimed that fossil
fuels will help to prevent sexual assault.
It’s usually considered that piracy hurts the sale of copyrighted materials,
but that’s not really the case. Over the years, quite a few studies
have reached the same conclusion, and that was piracy doesn’t have an
effect on sales. It sounds strange, but that’s the truth.
Federal and State Authorities today began an investigation into the
Municipality of Patillas after an inspection was carried out today where
allegedly, investigators found food and water provided by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) thrown in a trash container according
to sources.
Members of the royal family aren't often told what they can and can't
do. But just a few days into his first year of school, 4-year-old Prince
George already faces a mandate: No best friends allowed.
An Oxford University student dubbed “too clever to go to prison” has
walked free after stabbing her ex-boyfriend in a drug-fueled frenzy
— but moaned that she can’t go clubbing without being recognized.
Physics is heavily skewed towards boys because they have a unique advantage
when it comes to understanding projectile motion – and, argue Anna Wilson,
Kate Wilson and David Low, it’s an area too heavily relied on in many
curricula.
Modesto parents are upset that their 5-year-old son's "pretend play"
resulted in him being suspended from school, and said they want the
disciplinary action removed from his permanent record.
Director
Rob Reiner, his pal Morgan Freeman and journalist David Frum have joined
forces to create a "Committee to Investigate Russia," designed to uncover
the truth behind Putin-led meddling in the 2016 Presidential election.
A Democrat candidate for New York City’s city council, who lives in
Section 8 housing, went into damage control mode after photos were shared
of her husband on a yacht.
A Florida man who suggested shooting guns at Hurricane Irma out of "stress
and boredom" has found that his idea has captured peoples' imaginations
- with over 46,000 signing up to join in.
The Rochester Institute of Technology recently encouraged students to
masturbate as an alternative to sexual assault during one of its freshman
orientation programs.
Carol Stewart is at wit’s end, because the calls won’t stop.
A Toronto man who spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community
park says he has no regrets, despite the city’s insistence that he should
have waited for a $65,000 city project to handle the problem. The city
is now threatening to tear down the stairs because they were not built
to regulation standards.
JViewed by academics as one of the most influential psychologists of
the 20th century, Jerome Kagan ranked above Carl Jung (the founder of
analytical psychology) and Ivan Pavlov (who discovered the Pavlovian
reflex) in a 2002 American Psychological Association ranking of the
eminent psychologists. He is well-known for his pioneering work in developmental
psychology at Harvard University, where he has spent decades documenting
how babies and small children grow, and is an exceptional and highly-regarded
researcher.
Every Tuesday at 6 p.m., three dozen Coloradans from every corner of
the state assemble in the windowless back room of a small Fort Collins
coffee shop. They have met 16 times since March, most nights talking
through the ins and outs of their shared faith until the owners kick
them out at closing.
What do you do when you have too much money? Most of us never have to
worry about such things, but oftentimes celebrities find themselves
with piles of cash and nothing to spend it on.
Kali Wilgus and Liz “LC” Connelly, owners of Portland pop-up shop Kooks
Burritos, just wanted to make and sell some really great burritos. So
when they were on a trip to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, they “picked the brains”
of the local tortilla ladies and brought those recipes back to the States.
BAYTOWN, Texas - Xavier Davis had no idea his hair could cause him so
much trouble.
A Canadian man’s Star Trek-inspired license plate has been revoked after
his public insurance company received complaints that it was offensive
to indigenous people. The two-year-old plate, which reads “ASIMIL8,”
is a sly reference to the Borg, evil aliens in Star Trek who “assimilate”
their prey and go by the motto “Resistance is Futile.” 
Those
chicken sandwiches you've been getting from Subway might not contain
as much chicken as you'd think, according to an investigation from the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Mayor Ed Murray’s proposed tax on sodas exempts one kind of soft drink
more typically favored by an affluent, educated and white population
in Seattle and beyond: diet drinks.
A single dad has opened up about his anger after his upset daughter
told him the reason her friends won't stay over at her house.
Like her mother before her, Chelsea Clinton appears to be creating a
cottage industry for herself in receiving random awards for her unparalleled
contributions to society, scintillating takes on current events, and
incredibly generous heart.
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich. A small banana. Strawberries. Grapes.
And a handful of dried coconut with raisins.
State Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, filed a bill Friday that would
penalize men for "unregulated masturbatory emissions."
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A Kurdish healer who claims to draw his knowledge
and powers from God says that US President Donald Trump is possessed
and unless he is cured he will either go insane or be killed before
finishing his first term in office.
ATLANTA
— The toddler daughter of Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk has everything
you would expect: a sweet smile, curious nature and finicky tastes.
Venezuela this week arrested four bakers making illegal brownies and
other pastries as President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government threatens
to take over bakeries in Caracas as part of a new "bread war".
Dallas-based restaurant chain Dave & Busters is getting what appears
to be some negative blowback this week after a biker group made up of
military veterans said it was harassed at a Michigan location. MLive
in Grand Rapids first reported on the story on Wednesday, detailing
how a group of American Legion Riders were confronted by management
at a Kentwood, Michigan D&B location on Saturday, Feb. 25.
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP -- The township schools superintendent apologized
to parents for a recent high school lunch menu that served fried chicken
to celebrate Black History Month.
If Laurie Wheeler puts her hands on a horse, she could go to jail.
Zachary, now 19, is in jail awaiting sentencing for five pictures his
teenage girlfriend sent him of herself in her underwear. He faced a
choice between a possible (though unlikely) maximum sentence of 350
years in prison, or lifetime on the sex offender registry as a "sexually
violent offender"—even though he never met the girl in person. Here's
what happened.
A
computer scientist in London has stumbled upon massive networks of fake
Twitter accounts - with the largest consisting of over 350,000 profiles
- which may have been used to 'fake' numbers of followers, send spam,
and boost interest in trending topics.
Utah
has some pretty big hang-ups about pornography. As Science of Us noted
back in April, the state’s conservative legislators are engaged in something
of an anti-porn jihad — in March, they passed a symbolic resolution
stating that “the Legislature and the Governor recognize the need for
education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community
and societal level in order to address the pornography epidemic that
is harming the people of our state and nation.”
A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended
to give more Americans access to higher education.
One of the websites Facebook is to use to arbitrate on 'fake news' is
involved in a bitter legal dispute between its co-founders, with its
CEO accused of using company money for prostitutes.
Nutrition researchers will often talk about a “health halo” — a product
that’s not so great for you enjoying a nutritious reputation it doesn’t
deserve. Salad is one example: Dump a bunch of cheese and croutons on
top of a few leaves, and yes, it’s technically a salad (and probably
delicious), but it’s not the healthy meal that the label implies.
The aloe vera gel many Americans buy to soothe damaged skin contains
no evidence of aloe vera at all.
Who would have thought Canadian values could be so controversial? Plenty
of ink has been spilt in the past few weeks over the suddenly taboo
topic of promoting Canadian values.
TORONTO
— As part of an hour-long YouTube lecture on political correctness,
University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson
is objecting to the Trudeau government’s Bill C-16, which proposes to
outlaw harassment and discrimination based on gender identity and gender
expression under the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code.
If you have a medical marijuana card, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals says that you can’t buy a gun.
Let's say you want to lose some weight. Which of these foods would you
choose: A skim-milk latte, or the same drink with whole milk? A low-cal
breakfast bar or steak and eggs? A salad tossed in light dressing or
the same salad doused with buttermilk ranch?
CROSS COUNTY, AR - Cross County Schools will ban clown costumes for
the first time this Halloween. According to Superintendent Carolyn Wilson,
the school has previously never had costume guidelines other than enforcing
the dress code.
Five city school bigs were hit with fines as high as $2,500 each after
they were caught using their DOE credit cards to buy personal treats
and bankroll lavish staff parties - including one at the hip Harlem
eatery Red Rooster that included a lecture and live jazz performance.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL––Yesterday morning morning, young African women gathered
at the front of Gibbs High School to conduct a press conference to discuss
an incident that had happened a few days prior.
Miami, FL — Last week, a Miami-Dade judge became the focus of much-deserved
anger when she ruled on an ordinance banning front yard vegetable gardens.
The village of Miami Shores, according to the ruling, has every right
to take legal action against residents who dare to grow food in their
own yards because they are “ugly.”
The president of the Philippines, Rodridgo Duterte, says he regrets
calling President Barack Obama the “son of a whore.”
NEW DELHI/DUBAI: India said on Sunday it will send a government minister
to Saudi Arabia to try to bring back more than 10,000 Indian workers
who are facing a "food crisis" because they are unable to afford meals
after being laid off from their jobs.
Angry students at Yale University are demanding that the Ivy League
school completely revamp its core classes for English majors.
The US Air Force is exploring replacements for the F-35 Martin-Baker
ejection seat, citing revelations that the seat could endanger pilots,
according to Defense News. This marks the latest setback for the F-35
fighter jet that has cost US taxpayers over $1.5 trillion.
On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year
class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.
Momentous things are happening in US politics. No, not the slow, miserable
upending of the political system by business Oompa Loompa Donald Trump,
but magic — magic! — might finally be about to get the recognition it
deserves. Earlier this week, Texas congressman Pete Sessions introduced
a resolution to recognize magic as a national treasure, arguing that
it "has not been properly recognized as a great American art form" or
given the "[status] commensurate with its value and importance."
A Kansas K-12 school district may soon become among the first in the
nation to prohibit “offensive symbols” and “microaggressions” and punish
students and employees who violate this ban.
Here at Inhabitots we advocate summer activities and summer camps for
kids, but we’re perplexed by the McDonald’s Kiddie Crew Workshop, a
camp held by McDonald’s Philippines.
Kaitlyn
Juvik, a senior at Helena High School in Montana, went to school in
May without a bra underneath her black, off-the-shoulder tee, though
she was wearing nipple stickers to prevent them from showing through
the material of her t-shirt.
A Mexican lawmaker for the ruling PRI party will present a bill before
her state's congress to criminalize the creation and dissemination of
memes on social networks.
If you were a member of the National Honor Society, you definitely remember
wearing the white satin stole (with the NHS seal) during high school
graduation: signifying your membership. And if you didn’t get to wear
one, you probably remember being envious of those who did.
HOUSTON -- When you think of felony forgery your thoughts might turn
to Al Capone or Bonnie and Clyde shooting it out with the Texas Rangers.