Fans of Brazil, a traditional soccer power that hasn’t won much of late, have spent the last decade-plus becoming accustomed to the sort of heartbreak so long relegated to those fans from lesser footballing nations. But Sunday’s 2-1 loss to France in the Women’s World Cup round of 16 brought a special dose of disappointment: Far […]
John Sanders, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is quitting amid heavy criticism of the agency’s inhumane detention centers, including facilities that house children in squalid conditions. And “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert isn’t offering a fond farewell. “You know what they say,” Colbert cracked on Tuesday night. “When the going gets tough, the […]
Popular YouTuber and online gamer Desmond Amofah, who went by the name Etika, has been found dead several days after he was reported missing, authorities said. The 29-year-old’s body was recovered from New York City’s East River on Monday evening, the New York Post reported, and police confirmed the news on Twitter Tuesday. Amofah had posted […]
Democrat Stacey Abrams called on Congress to fully reinstate a portion of the Voting Rights Act barred by a Supreme Court decision that made way for voter suppression tactics across the U.S. Abrams urged lawmakers to address the issue on the sixth anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder, the 2013 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a […]
Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned from at least two boards in the wake of the reignited backlash she’s received for her role overseeing the so-called Central Park Five case decades ago. Fairstein, who has written over 20 mystery novels since the mid-1990s, has resigned from the board of nonprofit organization Safe Horizon and from […]
The mass shooting in Virginia Beach last week has reinvigorated the debate over the regulation of gun suppressors — also known as silencers — which muffle the sounds of gunfire. The shooter behind the attack, which left 12 people dead on Friday, used a suppressor on his firearm. One survivor described the sounds of his […]
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson urged viewers to brace themselves Wednesday before he heaped praise on Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and then criticized the GOP. The host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” spent several minutes lauding Warren for her economic plan. “It’s just pure old-fashioned economics. How to preserve good-paying American jobs. Even more remarkable? […]
A Taco Bell without taco shells might seem, well, criminal. But it’s not something to call the police about. That’s announcement a police department in Louisiana issued this week in response to a citizen’s call for help. Click Here: Sports Water Bottles A Taco Bell in Slidell ran out of hard and soft taco shells, […]
The Trump administration’s new sanctions on Cuba include banning tourist travel, and cruise lines that previously stopped at the island are now scrambling to change their plans. The restrictions announced Tuesday by the Treasury Department include a ban on cruise ship travel from the U.S., which became one of Americans’ most popular forms of leisure […]
YouTube on Tuesday declined to take action against a popular right-wing commentator who has been accused of a years-long campaign of homophobic and racist harassment against a Vox Media reporter. Carlos Maza wrote a series of widely shared tweets last month about Steven Crowder, a conservative YouTuber with nearly 4 million subscribers who has published […]