I was 12 years old when I was robbed of my innocence. In 2003, my PE teacher at school began to sexually abuse me. He continued to do so for two years. Children are taught to trust adults, especially their teachers, and to believe they will keep them safe. But how could a little girl ...

So much of the discourse about maternity these days, both positive and negative, revolves around babies. On the positive side, common refrains are about the ephemeral sweetness of baby smiles and toddler snuggles, being nap-trapped and inhaling that special infant scent. On the negative side, moms lament the lack of sleep, the endless stuff, and ...

Over the summer, the populist cry for a global AI pause, which started among small activist groups, was taken up by senior AI CEOs and left-leaning politicians. This weekend, AI industry leaders are now suggesting a coordinated slowdown of frontier AI research and capabilities and giving the tech to a collection of democratic nations. This ...

After 18 years in the S&P 100, Nike is out. The company will be removed from the index of the largest, most stable U.S. mega-caps before the market opens on September 21. The company is still large. It is no longer stable. From its 2021 stock-price high, Nike has fallen about 78%. It lost close ...

A Chinese billionaire who has reportedly fathered more than 100 children through American surrogates is raising more concern about the limits of Americas birthright citizenship policy, and whether U.S. citizenship should effectively be purchased by way of a surrogate. CBS News reported that a woman identified as Judy became a surrogate after seeing an ...

Rapper Macklemores anti-Israel rant onstage at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey got him booted from singer Ed Sheerans tour and he responded by blaming a Jewish man. Macklemore released a lengthy statement on Monday via Instagram, doubling down on his anti-Israel stance and then claiming that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft who ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) returned to the Capitol on Monday and cast his first vote in more than three months following a fall that left him briefly unconscious. Today, Ill cast my first Senate vote since I took a bad fall back in June, McConnell said in a statement. Im really looking forward to being ...

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would not run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris enters the race. I wouldnt run if she ran, Newsom told CNNs Jake Tapper. Tapper later wrote that he was stunned by Newsoms answer. Why would I? Newsom continued. I wouldnt waste everyones time. Newsom ...

New Yorks Board of Regents voted Monday to eliminate Regents exams as a statewide high school graduation requirement beginning in 2028, advancing an education overhaul that state officials say will create a more equitable system. The move is part of the states broader NY Inspires initiative, which is designed to replace New Yorks three-tier diploma ...

We are all being played. You are being played. Top AI developers are warning us in the scariest terms that the end of the world is nigh. They say there must be heavy regulation of artificial intelligence development lest AI run out of control, achieve artificial general intelligence, superintelligent sentience, and destroy humanity. So here ...

Dante Paul Lacourte was just 16 years old when his mother found him dead in his bed from an overdose. His body had turned blue, and black fluid was coming from his nose and mouth. She initially assumed that fentanyl had killed her son. His toxicology results revealed that he had instead consumed cychlorphine, an ...

Drivers who typically opt for the driveway oil change to save a few bucks may soon find that the savings arent adding up the way they used to. Club retailer Costco recently increased the price of its generic synthetic motor oil blend Kirkland Signature full-synthetic blend. The price jumped in recent months, from a ...

We have never seen anything like whats happening in Massachusetts right now following the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy triple-murder case. Whatever you think of Lindsay Clancy maybe you dont care about the case at all theres no getting around the fact that this has become a debacle of national significance. And unless ...

Sen. Jon Husteds campaign (R-OH) announced it was parting ways with its political director Friday after a report said he had once used a photograph of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile picture. Stephen Woytek, 25, joined the Ohio Republicans campaign in August as Husted prepared to face former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in ...

Iran-backed Houthi terrorists have rapidly expanded their foothold along Yemens Red Sea coast, seizing strategic territory that has put the once-ragtag militia within roughly 20 miles of a major American military base. The Houthis captured the Red Sea port of Mokha and the strategically located Mayun, or Perim, Island last week before seizing the Greater ...

J.K. Rowlings agent fired back at Lilly Wachowski after The Matrix co-creator accused the Harry Potter author of causing trans genocide and compared her to the Nazis. Wachowski, who identifies as transgender, made the accusations during an interview with Variety that touched on Hollywoods reluctance to finance cool and queer trans stories and the ...

Reps for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts sounded the alarm that the center is on the brink of certain fiscal collapse if immediate action is not taken. The organizations current financial challenges were documented as part of a 57-page packet distributed to the centers board of trustees ahead of a special ...

Welcome to Michigan in 2026. Patriotism is frowned upon. 9/11 is treated like a branding problem. Terrorists are the victims. And the most skin-crawling endorsement in the states Senate race came from a flannel-loving, fastidious fart who thinks 3,000 murdered Americans is, like, not that bad, because the bodies would barely fill a Division III ...

U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) suggested a new plan for how to run our world and the internet thus far appears to be more creeped out than inspired by his idea. Talarico, who is battling Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for the seat currently occupied by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wondered in ...

Radical communist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker spent part of his 9/11 25th anniversary broadcast waxing on about his God-given right to tell the world just how much he hates the United States of America. Piker, a Mao Zedong superfan who has often raved about Chinese communism as a better system than Americas, responded to a ...

Has-been rapper Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheerans tour after he spouted Islamist propaganda on stage. Sheerans tour promoter announced Monday morning that Macklemore would not play the remainder of Sheerans Loop Tour after making headlines for his Free Palestine rant during a concert at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on September 4. As the ...

With the Texas Senate race heating up, one vote from Democrat James Talaricos record in the state House may come back to bite him as he tries to make himself more palatable to voters. While in the state House, Talarico voted against a bipartisan bill championed by ranchers to ban the sale of lab-grown meat ...

Former trillionaire Elon Musk joined some of his biggest artificial intelligence rivals in calling for a slowdown of the technologys development. Musks comment on the issue came in response to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declaring over the weekend that it was time to pace the frontier. Dario is right, Musk said, sharing Amodeis article with ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Justice Department and Small Business Administration announced Monday that a summer crackdown on COVID-era loan fraud produced enforcement actions against more than 160 defendants tied to approximately $245 million in intended losses to taxpayers. Ahead of the presser, Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, Small ...

Tennis titan Alexander Zverev was so insanely dialed in on the hardcourt Sunday night at the U.S. Open final that he completely lost track of the score. When American favorite Ben Shelton landed his match-ending forehand long, the top-seeded German casually strode back to the line, grabbed a few tennis balls, and prepped to play ...