March 9 (Reuters) – Adidas-sponsored players on the team that wins the FIFA Women’s World Cup this year will receive the same performance bonus payments as their male counterparts, the sportswear company said on Friday. The announcement follows news that the U.S. women’s national soccer team is suing their federation with allegations of gender discrimination, […]

Former President Jimmy Carter puckered up for the Atlanta Hawks’ kiss cam on Thursday as he planted a smacker on the lips of his wife of more than 70 years, Rosalynn Carter. Video shows the announcer calling out the couple during the Hawks’ NBA Valentine’s Day game against the New York Knicks at the State […]

An unlicensed gun owner in Indiana is recovering in a hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the penis.  Mark Anthony Jones, 46, told police in Marion that he was taking a morning walk when the Hi-Point 9mm handgun he was carrying in his waistband “began to slip,” according to The Smoking Gun. Jones told police that […]

San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer will take a leave of absence, the team announced on Monday, after a video appeared to capture Baer physically attacking his wife, Pam. “Mr. Baer has acknowledged that his behavior was unacceptable, apologized to the organization and is committed to taking steps to make sure that this never happens […]

The BBC has asked the White House to review the security in place for media attending presidential rallies after a supporter of President Donald Trump attacked a cameraman Monday during an event in El Paso, Texas. BBC editor Paul Danahar wrote a letter to the White House requesting the review on Tuesday, after an unidentified Trump supporter […]

By Marisa Taylor Renowned Harvard University geneticist David Sinclair recently made a startling assertion: Scientific data shows he has knocked more than two decades off his biological age. What’s the 49-year-old’s secret? He says his daily regimen includes ingesting a molecule his own research found improved the health and lengthened the life span of mice. […]

The United Methodist Church, America’s third-largest religious denomination, will likely break apart over members’ inability to reconcile differing opinions on whether to affirm queer Christians. Delegates to the UMC’s General Conference meeting in St. Louis ended a three-day meeting on Tuesday by strengthening the enforcement of existing church doctrine prohibiting same-sex marriage and the ordination […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced Sunday that she will seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, entering an already crowded field of candidates looking to challenge President Donald Trump. “I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to […]

NEW YORK ― The nation’s most populous and most economically influential city could become the country’s first to establish a new agency to manage its efforts to deal with climate change if a new bill announced Wednesday passes. The legislation, authored by City Councilman Costa Constantinides, would create a new commissioner-led department to carry out […]

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) has already come under fire for the way she treats her staff, but there’s one allegation that’s really forked up. The New York Times is reporting that back in 2008, Klobuchar was traveling to South Carolina when an aide procured a salad for her to eat on the plane. Unfortunately, he forgot […]