By Connor D. Wolf Walmart executives have reportedly been encouraging some stores to cut hours just months after announcing wages would be raised for 500,000 workers. Store officials, though, say that is not what is behind the move to cut hours. Economist often argue that raising the minimum wage will result in less employment opportunities and reduced…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos PETA slammed President Barack Obama’s plan to appear on Bear Grylls’ reality TV show “Running Wild” Monday, calling the show “sexist” and “speciesist.”“Bear Grylls’ show is known as the bottom of the barrel in demeaning, sexist, speciesist, and who knows what other ‘-ist’ TV reality shows — and that’s certainly saying something,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk…
By Casey Harper A video has emerged showing an angry Michigan father attack his 3-year-old daughter’s killer in court. The video shows Clifford Thomas standing before a judge when the girl’s father, Dwayne Smith, comes from behind and gets a solid whack in before deputies pull the two apart. The entire encounter lasts about 30 seconds….
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The British spy found dead in a padlocked duffel bag five years ago had angered his MI6 boss by hacking into a Bill Clinton file, a new report on the still unsolved case reveals. Gareth Williams had “illegally hacked into secret Clinton data,” and had given a “friend” the guest list of an event both the…
By Guy Bentley Women earn more than men until they hit their 30s when they fall behind, but the change is almost entirely explainable through parenthood and personal choices rather than sexism, according to experts. Using data from the U.K.’s office of National Statistics, the Press Association found from 2006 to 2013 women aged between 22…
By Casey Harper A judge has ruled against an atheist group fighting to get a statue of Jesus removed from the top of a Montana mountain. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that providing a permit for the “Big Mountain Jesus” memorial did not constitute an establishment of religion, defeating efforts by anti-religion activists to have…
By Blake Neff A professor at North Carolina State University is warning students in her gender studies class to refrain from using any “sexist language” in their writing, or else face penalties to their grades. The sexism that professor Nancy Bishop hopes to squelch includes words such as “mankind” and the word “he” when used…
By Jonah Bennett Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said that international rivals should be aware that he’s fully willing to use military force as a future commander-in-chief, if circumstances call for such a decision. Not only should the United States be willing to use military force if necessary, but in order to present an effective front,…
By Ivan Plis Russian President Vladimir Putin and his loyal Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently did a lot of macho activities suspiciously close to a camera. The two leaders were visiting the southwestern Russia city of Sochi over the weekend, ostensibly toattend a martial arts tournament on Saturday. But on Sunday, they spent the morning…
By Casey Harper Some of America’s greatest rivals are working together in tandem in the hopes to outmatch the U.S. in cyber warfare. China and Russia are comparing hacked U.S. databases to help each other identify U.S. intelligence operatives to blackmail and recruit, based on information the two countries have gained through cyber hacks, The Los Angeles Times…