Josh Fatzick With the number of gay and transgender people on the upswing in the District of Columbia, city council members want to force doctors to take cultural competency classes to better accommodate them. The council heard testimony Wednesday from local activists urging them to pass legislation that would make“LGBTQ cultural competency training” a part…
Blake Neff Iran’s Islamist government is pretty uneasy about dissidents. So uneasy, in fact, that the government is trying to delete them from history. Iranian television aired footage Sunday from a 1984 speech delivered by Ayatollah Khamenei, who today is the country’s Supreme Leader. In the background is a large photo of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder…
Jonah Bennett As the U.S. embarks on deep cuts to the military, experts warn threats around the world from North Korea, Russia and China are on the rise in a new report on U.S. military strength. The 2016 U.S. Military Strength Index, an annual report produced by the Heritage Foundation, found the U.S. is fast-approaching a…
Steve Ambrose It appears that a familiar cyber foe has been caught (again) with his Chinese hand in the digital cookie jar. U.S. officials have determined that Chinese hackers breached the health insurance company Anthem in order to gain insight into the American medical system, Financial Times reports. Anthem noticed the breach February after the hackers accessed the information of…
Blake Neff A record number of Americans are renouncing their U.S. citizenship in 2015, new figures released by the federal government show. Since 1996, the IRS has published a list of citizens renouncing their citizenship every three months. The most recent IRS report, released Monday, reveals that 1,426 Americans ditched their citizenship in the past three months. That…
Guy Bentley The drive to ban people under 18s from buying and using e-cigarettes could have the exact opposite effect that policy makers intended, a new study has revealed. Smoking rates among 12-17-year-olds actually rose in states that banned e-cigarette sales to minors, a study by Abigail Friedman of the Yale School of Public Health published…
Casey Harper A Texas 7th grade girl says one of her teachers gave an assignment requiring students say God is a myth or receive a failing grade. Jordan Wooley, who attends West Memorial Junior High School in the Katy Independent School District, told her school board Tuesday night they were given an assignment asking them to identify whether…
Connor D. Wolf Rand Paul and Chris Christie staffers are throwing a fit because their accommodations for the Wednesday night Republican debate are cramped bathrooms while top candidates like Donald Trump enjoy lavish seating. Trump’s greenroom is a lounge area with leather chairs and a flat-screen T.V. Rubio’s team has what looks like a movie theater with leather, roomy chairs…
Blake Neff A professor at the University of St. Louis has discovered a new and rather novel kind of racism in the world: One-sided college football games, which he claims exploit “black bodies” for the sake of wealthy whites. The source of law professor Aaron Taylor’s ire is the so-called “guarantee game,” games where small-time…
Andrew Follett The amount of methane leaked from shale gas production has been massively overestimated according to a new study. The study was authored by University of California Professor of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory senior scientist Dr. Richard Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller, a former policy adviser for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation…