“We’re improving the workplace by measuring it.” That’s the idea behind InHerSight, a platform where women can evaluate their employers and rate how female-friendly workplace environments are. The idea is…
Maggie Baumann was completely unprepared for the backlash she received, when after more than 20 years, she started opening up about struggling with anorexia while she was pregnant. Baumann discussed…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City must offer more sports opportunities for high school girls in order to comply with federal Title IX provisions, federal officials said in a…
NEW YORK — In a surprising about-face, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators against the New York City Police Department over mass…
Listen, not everyone was playing spin the bottle or seven minutes in heaven in junior high, so some of us are a little late to the kissing game. That being…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s official booster Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 to the city’s public schools. – A publicist for Swift says the singer will continue to…
www.nytimes.com: WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers…
Brazil has detained a land-grabber thought to be the Amazon’s single biggest deforester, the country’s environmental protection agency said. – The Amazon extends over 3.8 million square miles (6.1 million…
Supposedly, a movie is in the works, called “Family First: The Marshawn Lynch Story,” about Marshawn Lynch and starring Marshawn Lynch. It has an IMDb page that says it is…
Sen. Cory Booker has urged supporters to read Michelle Alexander’s award-winning book about the U.S. criminal justice system, ‘The New Jim Crow.’ He joins HuffPost’s D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim…
www.vanityfair.com: What do Channing Tatum, Serena Williams, Irina Shayk, Jony Ive, and Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson have in common? Not much, besides an affinity for stealing kisses and making funny…
Hillary Clinton lamented the number of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math at a Silicon Valley women’s conference on Tuesday, and called for more action to…
How much do you love your favorite pop star? Enough to spend $175,000 to look like them? TLC’s “My Strange Addiction” series recently profiled Adam Guerra, a Madonna superfan from…
A Missouri man used the light from a headlamp he was wearing to see and methodically shoot and kill a pregnant woman and two other people in a mobile home,…
The Justice Department decided to not pursue charges against George Zimmerman — Americans with heart conditions are advised to stay away from their Facebook feed for the next few days….
Téa Leoni has a great co-parenting relationship with ex-husband David Duchovny, but in a new interview with More magazine, the “Madam Secretary” star admits that every once in a while,…
Marijuana is far safer than alcohol, tobacco and multiple other illicit substances, researchers say, and strict, legal regulation of cannabis might be a more reasonable approach than current prohibitions. Those…
The nation’s first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags will not go into effect this summer after all. The California secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday that a referendum to…
There’s no question that babies look really cute bopping and dancing around in a swing, but one dad decided to take his baby’s moves to the next level. – H/T…
Bill O’Reilly continues his frenzied attacks on Mother Jones’ David Corn, even after at least seven former CBS colleagues have come forward, with varying degrees of outrage and disdain, to…
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Television shows upset their fans for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it’s the sudden death of a character, a controversial rape scene or even character changes. But it was something…
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will not run for California’s open Senate seat in 2016, the Democrat told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. – Harris, who was the…
Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Antonio Zambrano-Montes were all unarmed men who died at the hands of police officers, sparking protests from critics who questioned whether the killings were justified….
Look at this face. – If you’re looking for a companion of your own and are ready for the responsibility, take a look at the ASPCA adoption site or Petfinder.com.
One of the biggest barriers both men and women face in their careers today is the internal struggle with past failures — but even the most accomplished individuals experience low…
Go, go Power Rangers? They’re back, like you’ve never seen them before. Producer Adi Shankar and director Joseph Kahn have brought to the world “Adi Shankar Presents a Mighty Morphin’…
This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. Not long ago, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt…
Sonic Youth front-woman Kim Gordon’s new memoir, Girl in a Band, confronts the way the musician’s gender often played a too-prominent role in how her work was discussed. In an…
None of us want to face it, but the time has come to say our goodbyes. After seven seasons, the “Parks and Recreation” gang will part ways in Tuesday night’s…