For Ross Roberts, it was a lack of resources that drove him from the classroom. For Danielle Painton, it was too much emphasis on testing. For Sergio Gonzalez, it was a nasty political environment. Welcome to the U.S. teaching force, where the “I’m outta here” rate is an estimated 8 percent a year — twice […]
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Trump Threatens Female Accusers With Lawsuits
Donald Trump vowed Saturday to sue every woman who has accused him of sexual assault or other inappropriate behavior, as an adult film star claimed publicly that the Republican presidential nominee offered her $10,000 for sex 10 years ago. Trump called his accusers “liars” and blamed the Democrats for orchestrating their allegations. Trump’s campaign had […]
Britain Pardons Men Convicted of Being Gay
By all accounts, Alan Turing was a genius. At age 15, he wrote an abridged version of Einstein’s theory of relativity for his mother. By 22, he was cracking long-unsolved conundrums that had vexed Europe’s most cunning mathematicians. By the onset of World War II, he’d become the British military’s most brilliant code breaker. He is credited with […]
Trump Boo’d at Annual Charity Fundraiser
UPDATE: After earning hearty laughs for many of his early jokes at the annual Al Smith dinner, Donald Trump appeared to lose the crowd as he crossed the line from jokes to deeply personal insults aimed at rival Hillary Clinton. Trump was repeatedly booed when he described Clinton as corrupt and latched onto information contained in […]
Black Lives Matter Leader Abandons Movement
A Black Lives Matter leader in Minnesota who once led a rally chanting, “pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon,” has since abandoned the movement, saying that it is “on the wrong side of history.” He attacked the organization as bad for the black community, especially on the issue of education. Shortly after defending the hateful […]
Wheelchair-bound, Patriotic teen shames anthem protesters
A Florida teenager with spina bifida was caught on camera shaming athletes who sit for the national anthem — using his arms to proudly “stand” from his wheelchair as the American flag passed by him during a parade. Arek Trenholm, 16, has become a social media sensation after his uncle Myron Leggett, a professional photographer, […]
Trump Blames Hillary for Accusers Coming Forward
Donald Trump has been accused by several women of sexual assault and abuse. Many of these stories are backed up by witnesses, whom the women told of the alleged assaults over the course of many years. In Wednesday’s final presidential debate, Trump was asked about all of these women and why they might possibly be […]
Clinton Campaign Disgusted by Black Lives Matter
WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of leaked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign this month has not yet produced the kind of bombshell revelation that some hoped would sink the Democratic nominee’s presidential bid. But one email reveals the tension between the Clinton campaign and one of its biggest critics from the left, the Black Lives Matter social […]
Melania Attacks Trump’s Accusers
Two months after she was humiliated when she delivered a plagiarized speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Melania Trump emerged from near-total silence to defend her husband during the worst stretch of his candidacy, calling his behavior toward women “inappropriate” but adding, “We are moving on.” Ms. Trump faced a firestorm of criticism […]
Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Shooting at George Zimmerman
A Florida man convicted of shooting at George Zimmerman’s car last year was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison, ending a trial that again put Mr. Zimmerman, who was cleared of the 2012 killing of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, back in the spotlight. A jury last month found the man, Matthew […]
Video illustrates everything that’s wrong with policing in America
Last Wednesday, a black man was walking down a street in suburban Edina, Minnesota, when a plain clothes officer grabbed him and refused to let go. The officer’s conduct drew the attention of a bystander, who took out her phone and started filming. As the officer forcibly pulls the man toward his police car, he […]
Oregon votes on marijuana expansion
Last year, Golden Leaf Holdings, a leading cannabis company, paid $3.3 million for almost 100 acres of land in Oregon to build a marijuana growing, processing and research site. The future looked bright: Oregon voters had legalized recreational marijuana in 2014. But Measure 91 gave counties and towns the opportunity to opt out and ban […]