Law professor Anita Hill took to the pages of the New York Times on Thursday to rue America’s missed opportunity to effectively address sexual harassment and violence in 1991 during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, presided over by then-Sen. Joe Biden. It’s an opportunity that remains missed to this day, she wrote. The editorial was a slam…
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Kim Kardashian’s Tweet About Baby No. 4 Arriving Has Twitter Making All The Jokes
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announced Friday on Twitter that they have welcomed their fourth child, a son, via a surrogate. Click Here: “He’s here and he’s perfect!” Kardashian wrote about the newborn. A tweet that vague can easily be repurposed for all sorts of jokes, which is exactly what the Twitterverse did. So congrats to Kanye…
Elizabeth Warren’s Opioid Plan Welcomed In Area Flooded With Millions Of Prescription Pills
KERMIT, W.Va. ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) outlined her plan to tackle the opioid epidemic during a campaign stop Friday in a small West Virginia town where many attendees were just happy to see a politician show up. Kermit, with a population of 400, has been held up as an example of the nation’s opioid…
About 55,000 Children Could Be Made Homeless Under New HUD Rule
Nearly 110,000 people in public housing could face eviction under a newly proposed Trump administration rule ― and about half of them are children who are legally allowed to live there, the Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged Friday. HUD’s new rule is meant to target families with mixed-citizenship status who are receiving housing…
Trump Reportedly Asked Don McGahn To Say He Didn’t Obstruct Justice
In the wake of the Mueller report’s release, Trump administration officials asked former White House counsel Don McGahn to publicly declare the president never obstructed justice, according to multiple reports on Friday. McGahn, one of the key witnesses in the special counsel’s report, refused Trump’s request in part because he didn’t want to comment on…
Texas Is Talking Tough About Election Fraud, But Here’s What It Really Looks Like
In March of 2018, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office blasted out a press release announcing the indictments of three people in southern Texas for serious election and voting-related crimes. It was one of several press releases his office sent that year trumpeting arrests and indictments connected to voting misconduct. Paxton’s announcements often made headlines,…
Kenan Thompson Makes It To Primetime With New NBC Comedy ‘The Kenan Show’
After being a mainstay on NBC’s “SNL” for nearly 16 years, Kenan Thompson is finally stepping into the network’s primetime spotlight. NBC announced Friday that it was picking up a single-camera family comedy titled “The Kenan Show,” written by Jackie Clarke and due out next season. Thompson stars as a newly widowed father who is now…
College Republican Group Turning Point Has A White Supremacy Problem
Turning Point USA, a nationwide organization of student Republicans with more than 1,000 chapters, has an institutional problem with white supremacy and bigotry. Just after midnight on Friday, the group announced that it had canned its University of Nevada Las Vegas chapter leader, identified as Riley Grisar, after a video surfaced depicting him and a…
‘Spider-Man’ Cast Is Also Very Confused About This ‘Avengers: Endgame’ ‘Plot Hole’
Jimmy Kimmel’s skeptic sense was tingling when the cast of “Spider-Man: Far From Home” visited his show Thursday night. During a very amusing interview that involved Tom Holland (Peter Parker/Spider-Man), Zendaya (Michelle “MJ” Jones), Jake Gyllenhaal (Quentin Beck/Mysterio, Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) and Jacob Batalon (Ned), Kimmel called out the cast on an apparent “Avengers:…
Parents Rally Around Teacher With Cancer Who Has To Pay For Her Own Substitute
Parents at a San Francisco elementary school are rallying around a second-grade teacher after finding out that state law requires her to pay for her own substitute while she’s on medical leave with breast cancer. Some local parents, teachers and lawmakers are now questioning whether the 1970s-era policy needs to change. “She’s an incredible teacher and…