With the crazy news cycle nowadays, it’s easy to miss images that fly under the radar. From global tragedies like this week’s attacks in Sri Lanka to the joyful arrival of newborn tiger cubs in Mexico, here are exceptional photos from around the world taken between April 19 and April 26. ABOVE: A statue next to…
Anderson Cooper Issues ‘Gaslight’ Warning For Donald Trump’s Latest Charlottesville Claim
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday took President Donald Trump to task for doubling down on his claim that there were “very fine people on both sides” at the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The host of “Anderson Cooper 360°” used footage from the deadly rally to highlight how it wasn’t…
How This Young Political Group Discovered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines on June 26, 2018, after defeating 20-year incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (N.Y.) in the Democratic primary. But the story behind her campaign starts with the progressive political action groups Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress. Ocasio-Cortez’s name was just one of thousands the organizations received in 2016 as part of a massive…
Serena Williams Gets Lost In A Beyoncé Song, Proves Beyhive Membership Beyond Doubt
Serena Williams dancing to a Beyoncé song is everyone dancing to a Beyoncé song. The tennis star admitted to getting “lost” while singing and boogying down to Queen Bey’s 2011 hit “Love On Top” in footage shared to Instagram Friday. Check out the video here: Williams famously appeared twerking next to her friend Beyoncé in…
Donald Trump Handicaps 2020 Rivals, Reveals Which Democrat He’s Rooting For
President Donald Trump handicapped the front-running Democratic presidential hopefuls at the end of his interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night. Hannity asked Trump to give a one-word description of potential 2020 candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Vice President Joe Biden, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Pete Buttigieg,…
Government Must ID Thousands More Separated Children Within 6 Months: Judge
The U.S. government must identify how many families it separated before it instituted a zero tolerance immigration policy last April, according to an order issued by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw on Thursday. The deadline comes three months after an internal watchdog report found that the Trump administration could have separated thousands more children from…
Sri Lanka Minister: Easter Bombings A Response To New Zealand Mosque Attacks
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s state minister of defense said Tuesday that the Easter attack on churches, hotels and other sites in the South Asian nation was “carried out in retaliation” for the shooting massacre at two New Zealand mosques last month, according to a statement. The minister, Ruwan Wijewardene, told Parliament the…
Trump: Special Counsel Probe Was ‘An Attempted Overthrow’ Of The Government
President Donald Trump continued to lambaste the special counsel’s investigation into the 2016 election during a lengthy, rambling interview Thursday night on Fox News. Speaking with host Sean Hannity, the president said Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the campaign amounted to an attempted “coup” that left “great people” suffering at the hands of…
Prince William Draws Upon Princess Diana’s Death In Powerful Speech Against Extremism
Prince William made a powerful call to defeat extremism “in all its forms” in a poignant speech at a New Zealand mosque that was targeted in the March terror attack by an alleged white supremacist gunman. “The global ideology of hate will fail to divide us,” the Duke of Cambridge said during his address at…
This Is Why Canadian Universities Don’t Have College Admissions Scandals
A decade ago, Janice Aurini interviewed 41 upper-middle-class parents in Canada and asked whether they had a preference for where their children earned a university degree. One woman named Grace said her kid wanted to go to medical school, but she didn’t care where because it’s not as if the patients would care. Grace elaborated,…