By Erica Wenig Attackers stormed a factory and killed one person in a suspected terror attack on a U.S.-based chemical factory in France on Friday. Two individuals beheaded a man, put the severed head on a gate at the industrial gas factory’s entrance, and posted an Arabic-language note to it, Bloomberg reports. Then, attackers drove into gas cylinders, trying to…
By Blake Neff Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University graduate immortalized as “Mattress Girl” for carrying a mattress as her senior thesis, has been accused of launching an organized “anti-male” campaign with Columbia’s support by the attorneys representing Paul Nungesser, the man she accused of raping her. Sulkowicz became a national celebrity in 2014 when she began a senior art project…
A video currently going viral shows a horrific scene of a black girl attacking a white mother holding her baby. The Libertarian Republic has contacted several news outlets to confirm the location and date of the incident, but so far details are not yet available. Some reports have incorrectly linked this to a similar incident…
By Josh Fatzick Roads are pretty bad across the entire country, but none are as bad as the ones in the nation’s capital, according to new data gathered by TripNet, a transportation research firm. The TripNet report, which was compiled from Federal Highway Administration data, shows that while 28 percent of the country’s major roadways are in “poor”…
By Jonah Bennett The U.S. Army confirmed Wednesday it won’t be changing the titles of bases named after Confederate generals. For the military, the generals aren’t being honored because of their ideology, but because of their individual characters, Stars and Stripes reports. Following the shooting at a black church which left nine dead in Charleston, S.C.,…
By Peter Fricke At least one French official is prepared to surrender to taxi drivers after they shut down roads in Paris and other major cities while protesting against ridesharing service Uber. “UberPOP is illegal,” French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve said in a press release. “The competition that its drivers work against taxis and VTC is unfair: they do not…
A town in Florida is considering an ordinance which would fine car owners for backing into their driveways. The city council of Jacksonville is considering a proposal which they claim is aimed at preventing blight by demanding that citizens’ cars clearly display their licenses and tags from the street. The proposal, which has been approved…
By Blake Neff Amazon’s rush to eliminate any non-book products bearing the Confederate flag appears to have claimed several innocent victims: Historical board games allowing players to recreate historic Civil War battles. The game, called Battle Cry, is published by Wizards of the Coast (also behind popular games like Magic: The Gathering) and was available on Amazon as…