UPDATE (5/1): Delta Upsilon and Phi Psi have announced that they will be disbanding, according to statements on their respective Facebook pages Tuesday night. “Since the start of our membership, we made it our mission to improve the culture and perception of Phi Psi,” Phi Psi said in a statement. …
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Rolling Stone‘s March Issue, “Women Shaping the Future,” featured Nancy Pelosi along with three resilient members of the congressional freshman class — Jahana Hayes, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar — on the cover. Despite chatter that incoming liberals would clash with the old guard in Congress, they all voted for Pelosi …
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The college admissions scam (aka Operation Varsity Blues) is truly the gift that keeps on giving, in the sense that it serves as a constant, grim reminder of the myriad ways in which the wealthy and privileged exercise their considerable power to put poor and disenfranchised people at even further …
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UPDATE: Jussie Smollett plead not guilty to 16 counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reports. The former Empire actor was arrested after allegedly orchestrating a hate crime against himself, though he was released from prison after posting $10,000 of a $100,000 …
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For decades, law enforcement officers in California could rest assured that their personnel records — including civilian complaints, use of force reports and disciplinary measures — would never face public scrutiny, shielded, as they had been since the 1970s, by the state’s strict police privacy laws. That all changed last …
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A Banksy mural outside Paris’ Bataclan that paid tribute to the victims of the November 2015 terror attack was stolen late Friday night. “We are today filled with a deep sense of indignation,” the Bataclan tweeted. “The work of Banksy, a symbol of contemplation belonging to all – residents, Parisians …
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Joseph DeAngelo, the man alleged to be the long-sought ‘Golden State Killer,’ has been cleared in the 1975 murder of 14-year-old Donna Jo Richmond in Exeter, California. Richmond was beaten, strangled and stabbed 17 times; Oscar Clifton, a convicted sex offender, was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to …
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On December 7th, Kelly Stough, a 36-year-old black transgender woman from Detroit, was shot and killed in the city’s Palmer Park neighborhood. On Monday, Albert Weathers, a 46-year-old preacher, was charged in her murder. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office charged Weathers with the use of a firearm in the commission …
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Life expectancy in the United States has dropped for the third year in a row, as suicide and overdose deaths continue to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics. The average American life expectancy dipped just slightly from …
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More than 30 years after she first imagined the totalitarian theomany at the center of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood is returning to the fictional Republic of Gilead to write a follow-up to the celebrated dystopian novel. On Wednesday, Penguin Random House announced that a sequel, The Testaments, will be …
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