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Neetu Chandak Massachusetts education officials took the rare step of discarding a statewide exam question that some perceived as racially insensitive and even “traumatic.” The prompt asked 10th grade students to write an essay from the point of view of a white woman who is not sure about helping a runaway slave, The Associated Press reported Thursday. It…
Evie Fordham Chicago’s police union and a group of suburban chiefs demanded Thursday that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx resign after prosecutors dropped charges against actor and alleged hate crime hoax perpetrator Jussie Smollett. Duane Mellema, head of the North Suburban Association of Chiefs of Police, said the chiefs voted unanimously to declare they…
Grace Carr The University of Kansas will offer an “Angry White Male Studies” course aimed at investigating the emotional state of Caucasian males throughout history. The public university in Lawrence, Kansas, will offer the course in fall 2019, Campus Reform reported Wednesday. “This course charts the rise of the ‘angry white male’ in America and Britain since…
On Tuesday, April 3rd, Austin Petersen tweeted out that both his personal and public Facebook pages were put on a 3-day ban due to “graphic violence.” What is Facebook referring to you may ask? Well, on Austin’s personal page, he made a comment referring to some shooting and the government getting their gun-grabbing hands all…
Neetu Chandak “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman are set to appear in a Boston federal court with several other parents accused of participating in the nationwide admissions bribery scandal Wednesday. A total of 15 people parents, including the two celebrities, are scheduled to appear in court to face charges…
Tim Pearce GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz met Tuesday with the families of the “CITGO six,” American oil executives held captive in Venezuela, and called for their release. CITGO is a U.S.-based oil company that is majority-owned by PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro imprisoned CITGO’s former vice president for refining Tomeu…
Mary Margaret Olohan Actress Alyssa Milano pushed back Tuesday against a Georgia bill banning abortion after a heartbeat can be detected in a letter to Governor Brian Kemp signed by about 30 other Georgia based TV and filmmakers. Milano, who is currently filming her Netflix comedy “Insatiable” in Atlanta, brought a letter to Republican Governor…
Molly Prince House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got into an exchange Monday after Cheney mocked the freshman congresswoman for flubbing the history of the U.S. Constitution. Ocasio-Cortez claimed during an MSNBC town hall Friday that the Democratic party was at its strongest when former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was…
Kevin Daley The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Missouri can execute an inmate with a rare disease that could cause severe pain when the death penalty protocol is administered. The 5-4 decision, which followed ideological lines, featured sharp exchanges between the majority and the dissents over a case the Court decided in February, concerning a Muslim…
Mary Margaret Olohan Buffalo Niagara International Airport canceled plans to open a Chick-fil-A after a New York politician accused the fast-food chain of discrimination. Democratic New York State Assemblyman Sean Ryan took issue with Chick-fil-A’s Christian stances in a Facebook post that prompted the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) to decide against previous plans to install the Chick-fil-A…