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AP Photo On Wednesday, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman in 78 years to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, considered the highest honor in mathematics. She was selected for “stunning advances in the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.” The Fields Medal is awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union…
Pornhub is already the go-to adult content supplier for millions of horny netizens across the globe, but now it wants to become your number one source of guidance on how to lead a happy and healthy sex life on and off the internet. This Wednesday the industry titan made its foray into sex ed with the…
Stock up on BECs, toilet paper and Goya products while you can because Yemeni bodega workers across the city are going on strike tomorrow to protest Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Buzzfeed reports from 12-8pm tomorrow, an estimated 1,000 Yemeni-owned (yeah, that’s how many just Yemeni bodegas there are in New York City) stores citywide will shut down to show…
Refugees come here with the audacity to take the Statue of Liberty literally. Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c on TBS! 0:00 Welcome back to the show. 0:02 If you’re in the middle of tweeting “Dumb Canadian bitch, 0:05 shut up about immigrants,” pause those thumbs a sec. 0:08…
A bonfire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. The event was canceled out of safety concerns after protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and started a bonfire….
The University of California Berkeley has cancelled a speech by rightwing internet troll Milo Yiannopoulos after thousands of students gathered in protest and a group of black-clad anti-fascist activists shot fireworks at the speech venue. The Martin Luther King Jr student union was heavily fortified behind several layers of police barricades when protesters began gathering…
SEATTLE, WA – The man who turned himself in to University of Washington police after allegedly shooting a protester at a demonstration outside a recent Milo Yiannopoulos event on campus is a student, according to a new report. The alleged shooter is 29-year-old senior at the University of Washington, and police have reportedly notified the…
President Donald Trump reacted angrily to overnight protests against alt-right speaker Milo Yiannopoulos at University of California, Berkeley, and threatened to withdraw federal funds if the university “does not allow free speech and practices violence” in a tweet posted early Thursday morning. If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (Image: AP) Today, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit accusing Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, of lying to customers about the internet speeds it advertised and the reliability of its network. Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, was previously known as Time Warner Cable until last year, when the name changed…
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch founded and led a student group called the ‘Fascism Forever Club’ at his elite high school, DailyMail.com can reveal. The club was set up to rally against the ‘left-wing tendencies’ of his professors while attending a Jesuit all-boys preparatory high school near Washington D.C. The name may be inconvenient…