By Josh Fatzick Mandates from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights may have forced a Virginia school district to add “gender identity” language to its nondiscrimination policy, and it has parents furious. Hundreds of parents crammed in to a Fairfax County Public School Board meeting Thursday night to voice their opposition to…
By Erica Wenig A 20-year-old University of Glasgow student is now the youngest British lawmaker in more than 300 years. Mhairi Black, a self-proclaimed soccer fan and political geek, has been elected as a Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, ousting Scottish Labour Party leader Douglas Alexander. Black, representing the Scottish National Party, defeated…
By Blake Neff Comedian Stephen Colbert declared Thursday he would fulfill hundreds of grant requests by South Carolina teachers on the education crowdfunding website DonorsChoose.org. On the website, teachers can seek funding for projects they want to undertake in the classroom. The pricetag is usually between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Colbert announced that he, ScanSource and The Morgridge Family…
By Peter Fricke Hollywood executives had grave misgivings about Internet net neutrality regulations according to emails leaked in the Sony hack. The email exchanges, which are available on WikiLeaks, took place over the course of several months last summer while the Federal Communications Commission was accepting public comments about proposed net neutrality regulations. The emails indicate Hollywood…
COLONIAL HEIGHTS, VA – A woman, who was found not guilty of attempted capital murder by reason of insanity, was shot after pulling a gun on a police officer. Melissa Alexander was warned ten times to show her hands after the end of a high-speed chase given by Officer Greg Thinness. Officer Thinness fired in…
Cuomo Looks To Raise Fast Food Wages In Spite Of Legislature By Connor D. Wolf New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans Wednesday to bypass the state legislature and raise the minimum wage for fast food workers. “While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did once guarantee opportunity,” Cuomo wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times. “But…
By Ivan Plis Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party won an unexpectedly large share of Parliament in the United Kingdom’s general election Thursday, quashing doubts that the Conservatives would maintain power. The surge was just one of many election night surprises in the U.K., alongside the near-total sweep of the Scottish National Party across 56…
By Josh Fatzick The District of Columbia’s police chief told a city council panel Thursday she would support Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposal to shield all body camera footage from Freedom of Information Act requests. Police chief Cathy Lanier cited privacy concerns and logistical problems with redacting sensitive information from body camera footage as her main reasons for backing the…
By Josh Fatzick District of Columbia Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton told Republicans Thursday to back off D.C. laws and stop using them to further political agendas. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton said there will be no hiding from their constituents if Republicans in the House try again to “infringe on the rights of D.C. residents” and…
By Blake Neff Students at Dartmouth College launched a petition drive demanding the newly-elected student body president resign after they say he was disrespectful to the plight of American blacks and other marginalized groups. The twist: The president is a gay black man. The controversy began last weekend, when a group of demonstrators paraded through Hanover, N.H. on…