A young Muslim college student in Tennessee has been expelled from school simply for wearing a hijab, a civil rights organization said. On Tuesday, Muslim Advocates and a local law firm sent a letter to the Georgia Career Institute, demanding the college refund Linde McAvoy’s tuition and amend its dress code. According to the letter, staff had told McAvoy […]
President Donald Trump shot down reports Tuesday that he was worried about being impeached, telling Reuters that he had engaged in no wrongdoing. “It’s hard to impeach somebody who hasn’t done anything wrong and who’s created the greatest economy in the history of our country,” he said. “I’m not concerned, no,” he continued. “I think […]
The New York Times has changed a headline after facing backlash for what critics said was its suggestion that white people represent America’s main culture. On Thursday, The Daily, a podcast the Times releases five days a week, featured a headline that read, “The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, and How We Missed It.” Several media […]
A woman who became enraged after being told her daughter couldn’t pet a group of service dogs has been dubbed “Service Dog Sally” after footage of the incident went viral. In a Facebook post, Meg Stoff said the woman had originally walked away after being told she couldn’t touch the dogs, but came back moments […]
Click:hollow block machine The Environmental Protection Agency is set to run out of money one week after President Donald Trump refused to sign a spending bill because it lacked $5 billion in funding for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, prompting a partial government shutdown. Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told federal employees in a […]
To mark the end of 2018, we asked writers to revisit some of the year’s most noteworthy (for good or evil) events, people and ideas. See the other entries here between now and the new year. Was it a blue wave? A blue tsunami? Or a blue trickle? That’s been the debate of the chattering […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg wore a stunning metallic statement necklace in the most recent Supreme Court portrait ― and one fan couldn’t be happier about it. The 85-year-old associate justice received the stylish present from Los Angeles-based lawyer Susan Hyman, Town & Country magazine reported Thursday. Hyman said she was inspired to send the limited-edition Silver […]
Mick Mulvaney may have become the acting White House Chief of Staff, but Twitter users have a message for the former director of the Office of Management and Budget: Be careful what you wish for. President Donald Trump announced Mulvaney’s new position on Friday via ― where else? ― Twitter. Twitter users immediately chimed […]
The so-called “War on Christmas” has apparently spread to the world of gingerbread cookies. That is, if you want to believe Fox News host Tucker Carlson and network contributor Tammy Bruce. On Tuesday’s show, Bruce lamented a recent decision by a coffee shop on the grounds of Scottish Parliament to rename “gingerbread men” “gingerbread people.” […]
President Donald Trump’s White House reportedly will not host a holiday party for members of the press this month. Trump himself canceled the annual shindig, making “the decades-old tradition a victim of his increasingly contentious relationship with major news organizations,” Fox News reported Thursday morning. CNN, which Trump often slams as “fake news,” boycotted the event in […]