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UK School District: “Boys” Can Also Have Menstrual Periods

In a move one member of Parliament has called "insanity," schools in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England will now teach elementary-age students that menstruation is not "gender-specific." This follows the institution of the Red Boxes program, which will provide "period products" for

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US “Life Expectancy” Drops; CDC Cites Suicides, Drug Overdoses, As Causal Factors

Life expectancy, defined as the average number of years a person born in any given year is expected to live, has fallen in the United States, according to the newest reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in Atlanta, GA. (The World Health Organization defines life expectancy

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U.S. Secretary of Labor Gave Billionaire 13 Months for 80 Sex Crimes With Underage Girls

Hedge fund billionaire Jeffrey Epstein committed sex crimes against about 80 underage girls in Florida, but the U.S. attorney at the time engineered a plea deal allowing him to serve only 13 months in a private wing of a county jail on two prostitution counts. That U.S. attorney,

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Japanese Man “Marries” Hologram; Has “Cross-Dimension” Marriage

The Jakarta Post is reporting that Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old Tokyo man, has "married" a hologram – a computer-generated projection – of his "bride." The marriage is described as "cross-dimension," the report says. The digitally-generated "bride" is "virtual reality singer" and alleged

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At His Foundation Summit, Obama Suggests Someone Has “Mommy Issues”

Former President Barack Obama, speaking at his Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago Monday night,  said progressives were not succeeding in America because "we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues." Though the ex-president did not make clear to whom he was referring when he

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Elephant Who Went Missing From Animal Sanctuary Knew Electric Fence Wasn’t On

A 44-year-old elephant once burned by napalm in Vietnam wandered away from an animal sanctuary in upstate New York after she realized the electric fence that ordinarily keeps her hemmed in wasn't on. The elephant, Fritha, did no harm except to a 3-ton pile of hay she encountered

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Robert Royal: Strange Last-Minute Gambit By Pope Stopping American Bishops Shows He’s Part of the Problem

Catholic Church commentator Robert Royal says that Pope Francis's recent request that U.S. Catholic bishops meeting in Baltimore this week take no immediate additional actions to stop clergy sex abuse is head-spinning. "The Vatican knew for months that the bishops would deal with abuse at their

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STUDY: Social Media Use Harmful, Causes Depression, Loneliness

A University of Pennsylvania study claims to have found a "causal link" between "time spent on social media and increased depression and loneliness," Science Daily reports. The study examined the behaviors and moods of 143 participants, all undergraduates, and focused on three social media platforms, Snapchat,