Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, their first step in an effort to shepherd such a hike through the House as the new majority. The Raise the Wage Act, which has been introduced previously in different forms, would boost the wage floor incrementally until it reaches […]

“Is this the best a man can get?” That’s the question behind the nearly two-minute video the shaving giant Gillette put out earlier this week. In the video, a series of opening scenes show young boys beating each other up, others bullying a boy they call a “freak” and a “sissy,” grown men ogling women, […]

The fluffy, cheerful Pomeranian whose charm and good looks captured the hearts of the internet, has died. Boo, 12, died in his sleep early Friday morning, according to an announcement on social media signed “Boo’s humans.” “With deepest sadness I wanted to share that Boo passed away in his sleep early this morning and has […]

One of President Donald Trump’s wild and rambling rally speeches has finally been given the “Drunk History” treatment.  In a segment made for “The Daily Show” ― which featured “Drunk History’s” Derek Waters on Monday night ― “Trump History” is built around a speech the president delivered in Ohio in October.  Trump shared an anecdote […]

In May 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act establishing the nation’s largest public utility and setting in motion an ambitious New Deal policy to provide electricity and jobs to some of the poorest Americans in the midst of the Great Depression. Nearly 86 years later, a new proposal aims to […]

Click:martial arts uniform kungfu wushu Author Stephen King said the arrest Friday of Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, should make one thing clear.  Stone, who served briefly as a Trump campaign aide in 2015 and remained an informal adviser afterward, was charged with seven counts including lying, obstruction of an official proceeding […]

Fox News anchor Dana Perino made a classic Super Bowl snack Sunday night, but the internet isn’t sure what it was. “I made queso,” she tweeted just after the kickoff, along with a photo of a slightly congealed crock pot of orange-brown glop. Upon closer look, the substance appeared to be separating, lifting from the […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Extremely cold, record-breaking temperatures are settling across parts of the Midwest after a powerful snowstorm pounded the region overnight Monday, and forecasters are describing the subzero weather on the way as potentially life-threatening. Minneapolis Public Schools announced there would be no classes through Wednesday, when the region will experience frigidly low temperatures […]

By April Simpson Cellphone companies often boast about how much of the country they cover. But with billions of federal dollars at stake to expand mobile broadband in rural America, state officials and other groups across 37 states say those claims aren’t always true. The challenge is proving the carriers wrong. In Vermont, that meant […]

A black student is suing her former Kansas high school district and its staff on the grounds that she was racially discriminated against as a member of the school’s dance team, with staff telling her she couldn’t participate in a performance because of her skin color. Camille Sturdivant, who graduated in May 2018, claims she was […]