Stay informed with the latest headlines, breaking stories, and in depth coverage.
2 min(s) read
On Monday, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted full clemency to Cyntoia Brown, an alleged sex trafficking victim serving life in prison for murdering her john. Brown committed the crime at the age of sixteen and described it as an act of self-defense. During the rise of the #MeToo movement, her case…
2 min(s) read
China has successfully landed a robotic spacecraft on the 'dark side' - or 'far side' - of the moon, the first-ever attempt and landing of its kind. State media claimed that at 22.22 (Beijing time) on Thursday, January 3, the un-crewed Chang'e-4 probe touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, an impact…
2 min(s) read
A petition has been launched by Barack Obama fans to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in New York after the former president. Coincidentally, this is the same street that the current president's famous building, Trump Tower, sits on. "We request the stretch of Fifth…
2 min(s) read
A man who was initially forced to pay £4million ($5.09million) to his ex-wife as part of their divorce has now successfully sued her after he discovered that the three kids he had raised were not biologically his. Richard Mason, a 55-year-old businessman and the co-founder of moneysupermarket.com, was never given…
1 min(s) read
Jacqueline Ades, from Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested on Tuesday May 8, on suspicion of stalking and harassing someone she had met online. At the time, she was accused of sending 65,000 text messages to him after their initial date, justifying her position by claiming she "felt like I met my…
1 min(s) read
Police in Phoenix, Arizona are currently investigating a sexual assault, after a woman in a vegetative state gave birth last weekend. An anonymous source explained that the healthcare facility's staff had no idea that the woman was pregnant until she went into labour on December 29. An unnamed woman has…
1 min(s) read
In shocking news, it turns out women have body hair. The horror, the horror! (The jury's still out on whether or not women fart; I'm choosing to believe they don't.) Within the past year, we've seen several stories about women embracing their natural hair, from a proud bearded lady to…
1 min(s) read
Yesterday the 116th Congress was sworn in, featuring a historic number of women and people of color. Among them, the youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representing New York's 14th district. The self-proclaimed 'democratic socialist' unseated a longtime Democratic incumbent with just a fraction of his cash. During her campaign, the Bronx native…
2 min(s) read
Roger Hallam wants to get young people sent to prison. Not thieves, drug dealers or delinquents, but the best and brightest - those who understand the scale of the global climate change problem. Roger is a co-founder of an entity commonly known as XR. Standing for Extinction Rebellion, they themselves…
3 min(s) read
This week, an Ohio medical facility has revealed that it fired one of its doctors in September last year after it transpired that she had threatened to "purposely" give Jewish people the wrong medication. Lara Kollab, a 27-year-old supervised medical resident at the Cleveland Clinic, lost her job when old antisemitic tweets of hers were…
2 min(s) read
A little under a year ago, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian welcomed their third child, Chicago, who was delivered by a surrogate. "Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl," Kim wrote on January 15th, 2018. "We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate…
1 min(s) read
People living in New York City can now change the gender on their birth certificates to 'X'. A new bill, passed and signed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in October, adds the Big Apple to the growing list of US states and cities to offer residents a third gender…
