• Poll: Most Black Americans Want Police to Remain in Their Areas

    Poll: Most Black Americans Want Police to Remain in Their Areas

    Most black Americans say they want police to continue their current presence in local areas, even as protests against racism and police brutality sweep the nation, and calls to reform and even defund police departments persist. Close to two-thirds, 61 percent, of black Americans said they want the police presence in their area to remain …
  • Maddie Ziegler apologizes for past ‘racially insensitive’ videos

    Maddie Ziegler apologizes for past ‘racially insensitive’ videos

    Maddie Ziegler issued an apology after “racially insensitive” videos from her childhood resurfaced online. “There are a few videos some of you have seen from when I was about 9 years old where I thought it was funny to mock people and accents,” the former “Dance Moms” star wrote in a statement posted to social …
  • Portland theater pulls ‘Kindergarten Cop’ after ‘over-policing’ complaints

    Portland theater pulls ‘Kindergarten Cop’ after ‘over-policing’ complaints

    A Portland theater has scrapped plans to screen the Arnold Schwarzenegger flick “Kindergarten Cop” after complaints that the comedy “romanticizes over-policing.” The Northwest Film Center announced this week it would pull the 1990 film starring Schwarzenegger as a detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to bust a drug dealer, The Willamette …
  • Trump Admin Looking to Boost Arms Sales to India after Deadly China Clashes

    Trump Admin Looking to Boost Arms Sales to India after Deadly China Clashes

    The Trump administration is seeking to boost arms sales to India following deadly clashes between Chinese and Indian soldiers, Foreign Policy reported on Tuesday. India reported 20 soldiers killed and dozens injured in fights with their Chinese counterparts in a border region in the Himalayan Mountains. The soldiers fought with clubs wrapped in barbed wire, rocks, …
  • Ryan Reynolds apologizes for marrying Blake Lively on a plantation

    Ryan Reynolds apologizes for marrying Blake Lively on a plantation

    Ryan Reynolds says he and Blake Lively are “deeply and unreservedly sorry” for getting married on a slavery-era plantation. “It’s impossible to reconcile. What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest,” he told Fast Company. “What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.” The pair wed in 2012 …
  • Meadows Pushes Trump to Address COVID Relief Through Executive Orders if Legislative Negotiation Falls Through

    Meadows Pushes Trump to Address COVID Relief Through Executive Orders if Legislative Negotiation Falls Through

    White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows suggested Monday that President Trump will issue executive orders regarding another wave of coronavirus relief should negotiations with Democrats on another relief package fail. “This president will do more in the next four weeks than Joe Biden and his team did in the last 40 years, so you …
  • Kanye West’s behavior, presidential bid a ‘nightmare’ for Kim Kardashian

    Kanye West’s behavior, presidential bid a ‘nightmare’ for Kim Kardashian

    Kanye West’s behavior and presidential bid is a “nightmare” for Kim Kardashian, according to a well-placed source. Kardashian begged West to end his presidential aspirations for the sake of their family — but the rapper refused and instead upped his operation. Kardashian flew to West’s ranch in Wyoming early last week after his emotional speech …
  • Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank boss Neel Kashkari: ‘Hard’ shutdown can save economy

    Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank boss Neel Kashkari: ‘Hard’ shutdown can save economy

    Locking the country down “really hard” for a period of several weeks could save the economy from long-term pain, the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank said Sunday. In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Neel Kashkari said that the only way to have “a real robust economic recovery” is to quash the …
  • Ellen DeGeneres is not quitting her show, executive producers say

    Ellen DeGeneres is not quitting her show, executive producers say

    Don’t count Ellen out. Scooter Braun may be the only celebrity in her corner right now, but embattled talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is not going down without a fight. She’s also going back to work this month, according to an internal email from the show’s executive producers obtained by the Post. Reports of her …
  • Sasse Mocks Dems for ‘Hyperventilating’ about ‘Illuminati’ Federalist Society

    Sasse Mocks Dems for ‘Hyperventilating’ about ‘Illuminati’ Federalist Society

    A judicial panel decided Thursday that federal judges won’t be barred from membership in the Federalist Society, leading Senator Ben Sasse (R., N.E.) to mock Democrats for their “smear campaign” against the conservative organization. “I’m glad the Judicial Conference decided not to participate in a vicious liberal smear campaign against the Federalist Society,” said Sasse, …