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Duchess of Cambridge Has 'a Bastard of a Job', Says Germaine Greer
Feminist thinker Germaine Greer has said that the Duchess of Cambridge has a "bastard of a job" and dismissed the the royal family a “mad anachronism” in a strongly-worded interview with Newsweek...
View ArticleMother of Columbine Shooter to Write About Guilt, Blame in Memoir
The mother of one of the Columbine shooters has signed a book deal to write a memoir, 15 years after Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at the Colorado high school, killing 13 and wounding 24 in...
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Gay Asylum Seekers Forced to ‘Prove’ Their Sexuality
In the summer of 2001, Ugandan police arrested a series of gay men in Kampala, and beat them until they exposed other gay men in the capital. As a result of the crackdown on the gay community, John...
View ArticleGun Deaths in U.S. Twice as High Among African-Americans as Caucasians
A report published in The BMJ last week revealed that in the United States firearm-related deaths are twice as high among African-Americans compared with whites. The Columbia University study is the...
View ArticleEric Holder Announces Resignation at Press Conference With Obama
UpdatedEric Holder, a veteran member of President Barack Obama’s administration, and the United States’s first black attorney general, will step down, President Obama announced today. The announcement...
View ArticleBill Would Prohibit Federal Employees from Browsing Porn at Work
Until now, some federal employees have been able to get away with watching pornography at work—in one case, up to six hours a day. That may soon change if a lawmaker from North Carolina has his way,...
View ArticleIran Blames Western Influences for Rise of Islamic State
Iran President Hassan Rouhani blamed the rise of the Islamic State group and other militants on "certain intelligence agencies" but also said the solution to stopping them must come from the Middle...
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Exclusive Poll: What Britain Thinks of the Duchess of Cambridge
A randomised sample of 3,000 British adults, weighted to represent the general demography of the United Kingdom, were given multiple choice questions to assess their attitude towards the Duchess of...
View ArticleIndia’s Modi: The Man Who Fell to Earth
India yesterday became the first country successfully to complete a space mission to Mars on the first attempt, beating China, which does not yet have a craft in orbit around the planet. It also beat...
View ArticleMuch of Earth’s Water Is Older Than the Sun, and Came From Deep Space
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars,” astronomer and science hero Carl Sagan famously...
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Forbes Columnist Blames ‘Drunk Female Guests’ for Frat Strife, Sparks Twitter...
An inflammatory Forbes.com column titled “Drunk Female Guests Are the Gravest Threat to Fraternities” has added to the number of controversial attempts to analyze issues of sexual assault and drinking...
View ArticleAfrican-American Teenager Fatally Shot by Louisiana Police Officer
On Tuesday night, an African-American teenager was shot and killed during an altercation with a Louisiana police officer. Two officers were investigating a deserted Houma, Louisiana, house after...
View ArticleOne of the Girls Abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria Is Let Go
ABUJA (Reuters) - One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok was freed this week, police and a parent of some of the other...
View ArticleNo Evidence of Islamic State Plot Against Subways, Officials Say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has no evidence to back up an Iraqi claim that Islamic State forces were plotting to attack U.S. subway systems, two senior U.S. government security officials...
View ArticleMilitant in Videos of Americans Being Beheaded Is Identified: FBI
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The masked Islamic State militant in the videos depicting the beheading of two Americans has been identified, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday, but he did not give the...
View ArticleBehold, the World’s Top Vinyl Records Seller...Urban Outfitters?
When it’s not busy offending the public with blood-spattered sweatshirts, lifestyle retailer Urban Outfitters is making serious moola from milking people’s appetite for nostalgia—especially when it...
View ArticleDerek Jeter Was Great, Until He Wasn't
In 1995, I turned 10. For my birthday (September 20th), my mother took me and a few friends to see the New York Yankees host the Toronto Blue Jays. We went early, to see the teams take batting...
View ArticleDid Your Skinny Jeans Bend Your New iPhone 6? Apple May Replace It
An unintended yet predictable consequence of making an ultra-thin cell phone out of aluminum is that it bends. As you may have seen since the iPhone and iPhone 6 Plus became available to the masses...
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Fantasy Football Week 4: Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian Believes in the...
Reddit, with its anti-establishment ethos and general disregard for mainstream values and culture, seems the last place you’d go for fantasy football advice. In fact, the football subreddit isn’t...
View ArticleWho Will Replace Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder?
The minute news broke Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder will soon resign, speculation began about who will replace him. The administration’s top legal official is often the most politicized of...
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