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D.C. Council member LaRuby May (E-Ward 8). (J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post) At a recent “safe communities” meeting in Southeast Washington, where some of the District’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods are located, D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8) offered a sobering take on her short time representing that part of the city. “I’ve been…
Homogeneity is a big problem in an industry whose ambition is to serve and inform an increasingly diverse public. Mark Makela / Reuters We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Landing an…
Boston revealed Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn itself from consideration to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The announcement came hours after mayor Marty Walsh said he wouldn’t sign any contracts that left local taxpayers on the hook for cost overruns, which are virtually guaranteed to balloon anytime anyone hosts a global sporting mega-event. At…
Lion murderer Walt Palmer is an asshole. But, he’s also an asshole who’s contributed more money to animal conservation in Africa than pretty much anyone else. In fact, trophy hunters like him are a large part of the reason we still have animals like lions at all. Hunting is one of those things that, if…
Image: FOX By Laura Vitto2015-07-29 11:00:49 -0400 Way back in 2000, a Donald Trump presidency was still a joke. Just ask The Simpsons.In the Season 11 episode “Bart to the Future,” future President Lisa Simpson and Secretary Van Houten — or, rather, adult Milhouse — discuss the debt crisis former President Trump left. View post…
As soon as this photo hit Twitter, things were only going to go one way. Image: KGC-42/STAR MAX/IPx/Associated Press By Sam Haysom2015-07-30 12:11:07 UTC LONDON – There’s a new royal meme in town, people, and this one looks like a keeper. After Prince Charles was photographed on Wednesday cringing away from a Bald Eagle during…
Taking a firm stand against Obamacare’s controversial contraception mandate, Wheaton College on Friday will stop providing any health insurance for students. The decision, announced to students July 10, will halt health care coverage for about a quarter of the college’s 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students, forcing them to shop for other plans just weeks before…
Popular cereal mascot, Tony the Tiger, relaxed on holiday this week by shooting a dentist in the face with a crossbow.The face of the nation’s favourite frosted flakes “stalked” the dentist by driving up really close to him in a jeep on Bloomington high street, before releasing a crossbow bolt into his eye from just…
Rupert Wyatt is directing the comic book film, which 20th Century Fox hyped earlier this month at Comic-Con Channing Tatum’s “Gambit” deal is in jeopardy of falling apart and he is planning to exit the comic book project at 20th Century Fox, an individual with knowledge of the situation has told TheWrap. The studio had…
The first Dr. Seuss book published since his death 24 years ago hit stores on Tuesday, and initial reviews hint at a deeper political message within the story. It wouldn’t be his first time he has used his children’s books to serve up cultural critiques—far from it. Theodore Seuss Geisel has a long history of writing political allegories. Horton…