By Phillip Stucky Presumptive presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both received low marks on how voters perceive them as honest and admirable candidates, according to a Pew Research national poll published Thursday. Pew polled 4,602 likely voters, and only 18 percent rated Trump as “someone they admire” — Clinton earned only 10 percent. When asked which…
By Jonah Bennett The morning after the terrorist attack in Nice, France, which left 84 dead and 50 wounded, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that the country is “going to have to live with terrorism.” Valls delivered his speech by the Élysée Palace in Paris Friday morning, The New York Times reports. “We would…
By Blake Neff A horrifying video shows the gruesome aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France, which killed at least 73 people attending Bastille Day celebrations Thursday night. The video shows more than a dozen bodies scattered around, many apparently bleeding heavily. According to eyewitness accounts, the driver of the truck drove around, attempting…
By Steve Birr A Washington, D.C., street musician successfully won a lawsuit against the D.C. Metro Monday, and the court is holding Metro responsible for paying the man’s $50,000 legal fees. Alex Young, a street musician playing an acoustic guitar, sued the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in 2014 after he claimed Metro Transit…
After several weeks of vetting potential candidates for his open VP spot, the search is finally coming to an end. Donald Trump has made his choice. Advisors for his campaign have signaled that they will soon announce Indiana Governor Mike Pence as Donald’s presidential sidekick. This comes as a surprise to many, as the Trump…
By Amber Randall The House of Representatives voted to pass a bill Wednesday evening that would protect healthcare providers if they choose to opt out of performing or offering abortion services. The House of Representatives passed the bill in a 245-182 vote that protects healthcare providers from being discriminated against by the government if they…
By Andrew Follett Britain’s new government is about to get rid of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the country’s global warming bureaucracy, according to a report published Thursday in The Financial Times. Officials told the Times that some DECC functions will be outright abolished while others will be handed back to the country’s business…
A new study, recently released by the journal Health Affairs, shows clearly why the big pharmaceutical companies are so worried about marijuana legalization: they can’t handle the competition. A father-daughter research team at the University of Georgia looked at a mountain of data from Medicare Part D payments from 2010 to 2013 in states that…
In light of the recent tragedies in Baton Rogue, Falcon Heights, and Dallas, it seems that every politician in the country has had something to say about race. Some comments have been positive and constructive, and, predictably, some have been counterproductive and shockingly insensitive. But few have been as unique and conversation changing as the…
By Blake Neff A new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News finds the American public is more sour on race relations than it has been at any time in Barack Obama’s presidency. Not only that, but the public is just as pessimistic on race as it was after the deadly Los Angeles riots…