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Writer, activist and CNN political commentator Sally Kohn is feeling the heat after penning a Feb. 20 column in The Washington Post titled “I’m gay. And I want my kid…
Hey, some people are great at painting or playing an instrument, others can make their face look like any celebrity. Like this young woman, for example. Imgur user CellCow has…
Last week, UCLA Medical Center notified 179 patients that it had potentially exposed them to a fearsome “superbug,” and urged them to get tested. The hospital accidentally infected seven people…
When Texas native Jonathan Chen moved to New York City to attend college, he was struck by how many homeless people filled the streets and subways — and even more…
The answer to the question “How’d you sleep?” has, for most of human history, been “not too well.” Even before the advent of electric light, people slept two or three…
Do you have a tendency to drop F-bombs when you talk? No, not that F-bomb. We mean “feminism”! While the definition of feminism continues to evolve and grow, it’s basically…
WASHINGTON — It’s not unusual for a Republican lawmaker to relate stories of poor people using food stamps to buy questionable items. It’s less common for a congressman to urge…
Heidi Thomas has one question for Bill Cosby, “Look me in the eyes. Do you remember me? Do you remember me?” Watch “No Laughing Matter: Inside the Cosby Allegations” tonight…
Making sacrifices is an unavoidable part of daily life for impoverished people, but many families will do whatever it takes to not give up a beloved tradition. Across the globe,…
Amelia Boynton Robinson was nearly beaten to death in 1965 during the first march in Selma, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr. She was 53 years old at the…
A few days ahead of Netflix’s release of “House of Cards” Season 3, “Sesame Street” released a pretty perfect parody featuring Frank Underwolf. “Some people say there’s too much pork…
If you’ve ever wondered who actually sees those Oscar-nominated movies, you can be pretty sure it’s not these people. It’s no secret that Academy Award nominees don’t always tend to…
PRAGUE, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Eight people were killed in a shooting in an eastern Czech town on Tuesday, news agency CTK reported. The agency quoted Interior Minister Milan Chovanec…
President Barack Obama called on the Department of Labor today to draw up a rule to protect people who save in IRAs, 401(k)s and other workplace retirement plans from hidden…
The real question you should be asking yourself every morning is, “Why wouldn’t I eat pasta for breakfast?” Pasta comes in so many shapes and styles that making room for…
Not many streets have been home to a Nobel Laureateand even fewer have been home to two. Yet, Vilakazi Street in the heart of bustling Soweto has been exactly that,…
Despite claims to the contrary from some of the loudest anti-immigration reform voices in the Republican Party, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed on Monday that undocumented immigrants…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Wesleyan University’s president on Monday urged students to come forward with knowledge of anybody distributing drugs on campus following a rash of hospitalizations among people who…
PARIS — The French authorities began to use new, sweeping counterterrorism powers on Monday to halt the stream of young people going to Syria, confiscating the passports of six people…
WASHINGTON — Newly installed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Sunday that he’s “very open-minded” about transgender people serving in the U.S. military — a sign that the department may be…
“If the biggest attack on Hillary’s going to be that she raised too much money for her charity, okay, I’ll take that,” he said. “No one’s alleging anything beyond that…
Pakistani authorities have arrested a suspect in the December 16 attack on a public school in Peshawar that left more than 140 people dead, most of them children. – CNN’s…
The following is an excerpt from Nietzsche: Great Thinkers on Modern Life, a new series published by The School of Life. In this particular chapter, author John Armstrong uses the…
“Cameron” forever. – “We couldn’t be happier to begin our new journey together surrounded by our closest family and friends,” the couple said in a statement to People magazine.
While Detroit’s systemic problems often seem too large to tackle — like an ongoing foreclosure crisis and a broken transportation system — others have simpler solutions. One such solution has…
NEW DELHI — The authorities on Monday called off the search for survivors of a ferry accident in central Bangladesh, saying that 69 people, many of them women and children,…
FERNDALE, N.Y. — The case of the People of the State of New York against Amber Canavan touches on a variety of issues: animal rights, food culture and tradition, and…
“Glory” from “Selma” won Best Original Song at the 2015 Oscars on Sunday night, beating out “Everything is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie,” “Grateful” from “Beyond The Lights,” “I’m Not…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) castigated the press this weekend for fixating on issues that were irrelevant to most Americans. “I would defy you to come to Wisconsin. You could…
Four people belonging to a group that received training in Belgorod, Russia, have been arrested, Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov of Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council said on his website. A…