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WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission will vote this week on a net neutrality proposal that could shape the future of a free and open Internet. Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, one…
DAKAR, Senegal — An American missionary was kidnapped on Monday from a school in central Nigeria in an area prone to kidnappings for ransom, officials said Tuesday. The missionary was…
Burning books is bad enough, but peeing on them is another thing entirely. – Police said Wilson is currently homeless and was using the library’s WiFi to download apps to…
An unlikely star of the brand-name beer industry is beer that doesn’t give you a buzz. Beer giants have been contending in recent years with saturation in what are traditionally…
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…
President François Hollande of France confirmed that a Frenchwoman had been kidnapped in the Yemeni capital, Sana. PARIS — A Frenchwoman who works for the World Bank was kidnapped on…
Each rendering was created by plugging an individual genetic profile into a predictive tool created by Mark D. Shriver, a professor of anthropology and genetics at Penn State University. Dr….
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…
The book, which was first reported on by the New York Times, “disarms the major tentacles of the Republican Leviathan: the Koch Brothers, the Obama witch hunters, and the Fox…
TOKYO — The Japanese politician who issued a landmark official apology to women forced to work in wartime brothels urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday to stand by the…
The Oscars sure have a way of starting the most unlikely of friendships. Take Glenn Beck and Lady Gaga for example. – H/T TVNewser
I received a voice mail from a 40-something woman, Cynthia, who requested a late-evening session because she worked long hours at her law firm. She said that I was one…
If only kids’ commercials in the ’90s didn’t have to be so “Extreme.” This law office commercial parody from comedian Adam Murray addresses all those afflicted by that one terrible…
ESPN announced Tuesday that it will keep host Keith Olbermann off the air for the rest of the week following tweets that the network called “completely inappropriate.” Olbermann got himself…
Or, in the case of the Internet, you make fun. There’s John Travolta kissing not actress Scarlett Johansson — as in the original incident from Sunday’s Academy Awards — but…
A television company founded in part by the National Association of African-American Owned Media has filed a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast and Time Warner Cable, claiming the companies have…
There’s a harmful dichotomy occurring in today’s culture in which pregnant women struggling eating disorders receive “positive reinforcement” for losing weight postpartum, the director of programs at the National Eating…
When traveling is so incredibly chaotic, it’s refreshing to see an airline do something nice — and we’re talking more than just free snacks. JetBlue has done a host of…
That case stirred a groundswell of emotion, much of it centered around race. Civil rights leaders, as well as Martin’s relatives, took to the streets contending that the teenwho’d gone…
For over 10 years, Kanye West has consistently created various pop culture trends across the world. And with the recent release of the Grammy Award-winner’s exclusive apparel and sneaker line…
A ketchup and French fry plant exists. You can pluck the fresh dipping sauce straight from the vine, and dig up those crispy potato wonders simultaneously. – Want to read…
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…
Few of us are satisfied with how we sleep; we all want more sleep and better sleep in the hopes of improving our minds and bodies during our waking hours….
The Department of Justice will not file charges against George Zimmerman for the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, ABC News and CBS News reported Tuesday. ABC reports: – “The…
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…
House ethics rules changed in January 2013 to allow members of Congress to fund private flights with taxpayer dollars as long as they pay for just their share of the…
This piece was originally published by Capital & Main. As our “State of Equality” series has documented, economic inequality poses a grave threat to California’s future. But conditions would be…