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PENNSYLVANIA— A 9-year-old reporter who wrote about a suspected murder in her small Pennsylvania town is defending herself after some locals lashed out about a young girl covering violent crimes. Hilde Kate Lysiak got a tip Saturday afternoon about something untoward happening on 9th street in Selinsgrove, about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia. She went…
Until very recently, the 27-year-old New Yorker who goes by the online alias Ricca was not a Star Wars fan. She’d seen the prequels at some point long ago; she didn’t sit down and watch the original trilogy until last year, when, she said, “it was no longer appropriate not to have seen them as…
“After I dropped you off,” Babiker said, “I got three kids who said they really like him, and two who said they were going for fun.” “Right. They wanted to see.” Earlier, in the car, I had struggled to explain how America has always been willing to dare, and double-dog dare, and triple-dog dare…
Facebook wants big media companies like BuzzFeed and the New York Times to use its new livestreaming video service. So it’s paying them to do it. In recent weeks Facebook has been pushing influential media properties and celebrities to use its Facebook Live product, which makes it easy to stream live video from your phone….
(Reuters) – Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Tuesday signed into law a measure affording wide protections for actions considered discriminatory by gay rights activists. The far-reaching law allows people with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples. It also clears the way for employers to cite religion in determining workplace policies on dress…
The weirdest programme of 2013 was Sex Box, a Channel 4 show where people literally had sex in a box in front of a studio audience for some reason. channel4.com The show got terrible reviews and we all thought we would never see it again. Until now. Sex Box is back because according to their survey we are…
Story highlights The school first changed the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL Observers took to Twitter to comment on the acronym’s similarity to a curse word The school first announced it would change the name to The Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSoL, after receiving an anonymous $30 million…
Bernie Sanders (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images) Bernie Sanders sat down with the New York Daily News editorial board last Friday, seeking its endorsement in the upcoming April 19 Empire State primary. It did not go well for the senator from Vermont. Time and again, when pressed to get beyond his rhetoric on the evils…
Making new homes Just when you’re starting to feel that there’s no hope, something good seems to fall out of nowhere and hit you, reminding you of how important you are. The day we announced we needed to stop publishing was an extremely low point for me. Everything sort of imploded. One minute I was…
Imagine you’re African-American and working at a 500-person technology company where everyone else is white, and one day the CEO declares in a national newspaper interview that his company’s lack of diversity isn’t an accident. In fact he prefers to hire white people because when it comes to technology white people simply make better…