By Rebecca Beitsch Just as more people fly during the holidays and drive during rush hour, the demand for electricity peaks at predictable times. Flights and some toll roads also cost the most when demand is highest. Now California wants residents to get used to the same dynamic when it comes to purchasing electricity. Starting […]
“Daily Show” host Trevor Noah has a reality check for President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen called his former boss a racist during testimony before Congress. “He told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid,” Cohen said. Noah was incredulous. “What?” he asked. “Black people […]
The wife of one of five people killed in last week’s Aurora, Illinois, massacre revealed her husband’s final text message: “I love you, I’ve been shot at work.” In a Facebook post on Sunday, Terra Pinkard grieved husband Josh, who was killed Friday at water valve manufacturer Henry Pratt Co. when a fired employee opened […]
Former White House communications aide Cliff Sims, who made headlines with his tell-all book Team of Vipers, is suing President Donald Trump, claiming the president uses his campaign organization to punish former employees for exercising free speech. The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in Washington, alleges Trump is using his campaign to enforce […]
More than four years after her #OscarsSoWhite Twitter hashtag helped catalyze change in Hollywood, lawyer and advocate April Reign will finally be in the room where the film industry celebrates itself, confirming Tuesday that she will attend the Academy Awards ceremony for the first time. “I’ve been holding this secret for nearly a year!” she […]
Historian Rutger Bregman, in collaboration with NowThis, has released a tape featuring a heated conversation he says he had with Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “You are a millionaire funded by billionaires, that’s what you are… You’re part of the problem,” Bregman can be heard saying just before Carlson goes into an expletive-filled tailspin. “Moron… […]
A substitute teacher in North Carolina is under fire after she reportedly told a class of elementary school students that assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. killed himself. The teacher is also accused of telling the kids that anyone who didn’t support Donald Trump was not a real Christian and told one child […]
Meghan Markle hopped across the pond reportedly for a private baby shower hosted by friends in New York, just a few months before she’s due to give birth. The Duchess of Sussex was photographed in New York City on Monday night by the Daily Mail, escorted by a security detail. She was seen wearing a long […]
The conservative pundit who mocked “the ghost of John McCain” in her Conservative Political Action Conference speech earlier this month is standing by her remarks. In a Fox News appearance Saturday, Michelle Malkin refused to offer an apology for her jab at the late Republican senator from Arizona, claiming the media took her comments out […]
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds — a stance partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — and state officials said Tuesday that they would end a separate legal fight over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. […]