Grace Carron May 29, 2018 Transgender prisoners in Connecticut can now live with other inmates according to their gender identity rather than their biological sex, marking a departure from federal law and other state laws mandating that prisoners are housed according to biology. The change comes after Connecticut authorities held a teen prisoner in an…
Gabrielle Okun Michelle Wolf was “maybe too nice” at the April White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD), she said to Vogue Magazine in a Tuesday interview. Wolf, 32, comedian and host of the WHCD, now thinks she was too soft despite raising controversy for ridiculing White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the event, Vogue reported….
Joe Simons A lawyer representing Morgan Freeman told CNN that the story about how the actor allegedly sexually harassed women is false and demanded a retraction. In a 10-page letter to network president Jeff Zucker, his lawyer said the reporting was “the product of malicious intent, falsehoods, slight-of-hand, an absence of editorial control, and journalistic…
Peter Hasson Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota called for a boycott of the National Football League over a rule change prohibiting players from kneeling in protest during America’s national anthem. After controversy marred the 2017–2018 season due to protesting players, the league is requiring players to either stand for the anthem or remain in the locker…
Julia Cohen Arlington National Cemetery will be full in 25 years if the number of burials remains steady. The military cemetery, which buries about 7,000 veterans a year, is running out of space. The grounds have little room to expand, surrounded by highways and city development. “We’re literally up against a wall,” Barbara Lewandrowski, public affairs officer…
Gabrielle Okun An artist re-imagined famous world leaders as hipsters in a series, “HIPSTORY,” according to a release The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained. Amit Shimoni, an Israeli artist, creates unique portraits featuring well-known world leaders as hipsters or people decked out in avant-garde modern fashion trends in his HIPSTORY series. Shimoni continues to expand…
In elementary school, students are taught various types of figurative language—idioms, metaphors, and hyperboles. Most students quickly learn that words must be taken in context to properly understand their intended meaning. We also learn that many words and phrases have more than one meaning. “Stand up and be counted.” Is a person in a wheelchair…
John Cleese, the English actor and comedian known for the Monty Python films, thinks political correctness is getting a little out of hand. He’s hardly the first comedian to say so, of course. Funny men such as Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, and others have complained that political correctness is killing comedy. Cleese, like Seinfeld, says…
Ryan Pickrell Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, died at the age of 86 Saturday, according to a statement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Bean died at Houston Methodist Hospital after falling ill two weeks earlier, his family said in a statement. “Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew….
Kyle Perisic Since the rise of Amazon’s Alexa, tech junkies have speculated the device is secretly listening to private conversations. So-called tech experts often laughed at those claims, but it turns out the artificial intelligence device really does listen to people’s personal exchanges. A Portland, Ore., family discovered their Amazon Alexa recorded a private conversation and sent…