The Education Department and State Department sent letters to American schools and universities, alerting them to the Chinese government's "real and growing threat" to students, the Clarion Project reported.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wrote the letters on Oct. 9 to state education commissars...
Actress Kirstie Alley, known for her roles in “Star Trek” and “Cheers,” endorsed President Donald Trump on Saturday, citing his job performance and outsider status.
I’m voting for @realDonaldTrump because he’s NOT a politician. I voted for him 4 years ago for this reason and shall vote for him again...
(Headline USA) From the perspective of late-night joke writers, there's really only one person running for president.
A staggering 97% of the jokes Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon told about the candidates in September targeted President Donald Trump, a study released Monday found.
That's 455 jokes about Trump and 14 about Democrat...
(Associated Press) President Donald Trump on Monday said Sudan will be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism if it follows through on its pledge to pay $335 million to American terror victims and their families, but some hurt in the attacks weren't happy with the deal.
The...
WNBA player Sue Bird suggested people don’t tune in to watch women’s basketball games like they do for the national soccer team because most basketball players are “cute and white and straight.”
"It's 70%-80% black women, a lot of gay women. We're tall; we're big. And I think there's just...
(Headline USA) The #MeToo movement hinted that it was putting its pro-female-empowerment agenda on the back-burner as it hopped on the racial-justice bandwagon.
When the hashtag went viral three years ago on Oct. 15, 2017, it sparked a global conversation about sexual harassment and assault that, in its wake, brought...
(Associated Press) Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of the late Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help woo voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, has died. She was 108.
A spokesperson for daughter-in-law Cindy McCain says Roberta McCain died Monday. A cause of death was not immediately released.
“It...
Dozens of black employees at Planned Parenthood reported encountering racism in the workplace, according to a recent investigation.
The Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance conducted an internal audit of the national organization, which was based on interviews with 64 current and 12 former black employees.
Almost every one said they were...
Thursday's announcement of the Nobel Literature Prize (to American poet Louise Glück) found this former English teacher sentimentally reflecting on past works of high-minded literary expression.
Like so many other fields, literature has lately become a victim of the pernicious PCism and partisan cancel-culture that threaten any empirical, truth-seeking explorations...
Yelp announced this week that it will allow customers to report “overtly racist actions” in their reviews and attach a warning to a business’s page based on those reviews.
If a business “gains public attention for reports of racist conduct, such as using racist language or symbols,” Yelp will place...
(Headline USA) “Sesame Street" has always pressed for inclusion. Now in the wake of the national reckoning on race, it's going further---teaching children to stand up against racism, and to report any violators to the nearest authority figure.
Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street” — will...
Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has given his state’s NFL team, the Miami Dolphins, the green light to have a full capacity of 65,000 fans at Hard Rock Stadium, according to a spokesperson for DeSantis.
Talk show host Andy Slater announced this week that the Dolphins had been given clearance...