By Connor D. Wolf Wal-Mart announced Wednesday that it would challenge a federal labor board judge’s recommendation that the store be charged with worker rights violations. Managers were a two of the retail giant’s California stores were charged with discouraging workers from going on legally protected strikes. This was based on a complaint filed just after…
FARAH, AFGHANISTAN – 25 Taliban fighters lay dead after an intense 7-hour gun battle in the Farah province in Afghanistan. Their killer? A bereaved mother whose son was killed in an ambush. With no formal training in combat, Reza Gul, her daughter and daughter-in-law used an AK47 and grenades to kill the Islamic militants. Gul…
HARYANA, INDIA – Video of two sisters who beat on three men who were sexually harassing them has gone viral. The video shows the women beating and slapping a man who it was said was threatening and abusing them. 22-year-old Aarti and 19-year-old Pooja are seen lashing out at their attackers when no one would come to…
By Blake Neff Voters in Missouri will decide this November whether to weaken teacher tenure and tie salaries to performance, now that the measure has qualified for the ballot. Constitutional Amendment 3 would require at least half of a teacher’s performance evaluation to be tied to the academic performance of his or her students, and…
A supermarket store in the United Kingdom has gone off the national electricity grid by recycling its own rotting food. The Sainsbury’s store in Cannock is running entirely on electricity that is generated from refuse. It’s the first time a grocer from a major retailer is not relying on the national grid for power. Outsideonline…
By Blake Neff North Carolina’s governor announced Wednesday afternoon he will sign a bill that makes his state the latest to potentially modify controversial Common Core education standards. Gov. Pat McCrory says that he will sign off on a compromise measure that has both sides of the Common Core debate claiming a measure of victory….
By Blake Neff The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), one of the nation’s leading campus free speech organizations, announced Tuesday that it is launching a major legal offensive against universities it says are enforcing illegal speech codes. “Universities’ stubborn refusal to relinquish their speech codes must not be tolerated,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff…
16-year-old Nicholas Rubin has restored this reporter’s faith in young people. While his peers were busy copying their homework off Wikipedia or blasting One Direction, Rubin decided to take an active stance in politics. The teen quickly understood the power money donations wield over politicians, calling it a “social and industrial disease of today.” As a…
“You’re protected under the Missouri constitution and the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. constitution that you will be secure in your persons, papers, homes and effects,” says Republican state Sen. Rob Schaaf. “And this would just add on ‘electronic communications’ to that, which is what people expect. People want to be secure in knowing that…
Illinois police departments may no longer assign ticket quotas or evaluate officers based on how many tickets they issue, thanks to a law signed by Governor Pat Quinn on Sunday. Quinn says the legislation will strengthen law enforcement by allowing police to use their own judgment rather than pressuring them to issue citations unnecessarily. “Law…