Новости за 10.12.2018

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up two lower court rulings that blocked states from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood—affirming the right of Medicaid recipients to use the organization’s healthcare services while sidestepping what would likely have been the first major case involving…

Voter enthusiasm for any candidate means little if the vote is suppressed, an occurrence that disproportionately affects black voters. And in the aftermath of uncounted votes and purged voter rolls marring the midterm elections cycle, domestic workers and caregivers are at the frontlines in the fight to make sure…

Jacob Anderson, the former president of Baylor University’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity accused of raping a woman at an off-campus party in 2015, will not serve any prison time. Nor will he be required to register as a sex offender. Instead, he will pay a $400 fine and receive counseling, the Waco Tribune reports, as…

Women often pay the price for men’s transgressions—or at least, that’s the conclusion Steve McQueen comes to in his raw, tense, and spectacularly acted action thriller Widows. The film is set in the aftermath of a deadly Chicago robbery that claims the lives of four men who leave behind grieving wives and unpaid debt.…

An investigation by the Forth Worth Star-Telegram has uncovered more than 400 allegations of sexual misconduct at nearly 1,000 churches and organizations affiliated with the independent fundamental Baptist movement across 40 states and Canada, in which 168 church leaders have been “accused or convicted of committing…

Today in unfair and unjust labor practices in the media industry, we look towards NPR, where temporary workers are hired to do the same work as other producers and editors, but regularly have to worry about their assignments ending for no reason, or worse, for a bad reason, like the fact they took a vacation.

Excuse me as I lay all of the cards on the table here: a Netflix adaptation of the comic series Umbrella Academy, written by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way and starring Mary J. Blige as a time-traveling assassin is like a mad-libs of all of my pop culture interests and others I did not know I had until right now. A…

Just in case you haven’t gotten enough of last year’s infamous Fyre Festival (the wild dogs, the disgusting cheese sandwiches in styrofoam), there’s now a documentary on the way about the entire ordeal.

Week after week, it feels like another woman is murdered by a current or previous partner. And often these deaths were entirely preventable, with the killers possessing a documented history of domestic violence. As we’ve seen just this year in the murders of women like Aisha Fraser, Tiffany Wilson, Tamara O’Neal, and …

On first glance, you’d be right to think rappers Bhad Bhabie (real name Danielle Bregoli) and Iggy Azalea—probably the most known white women in hip-hop—were attempting to dethrone one another from some nonexistent top spot with their rap beef. Somehow, Bregoli, once known only as the “Cash me ousside” girl and a Dr.…

Many people who read Watership Down, a dark and weird book about a bunch of rabbits looking for a new home, became lightly obsessed with what it all “means.” Well, the author’s daughters want to assure that it’s really just a book about rabbits.

The marriage between Amanda Teague, a 46-year old Irish woman, and Jack, a 300-year-old Haitian pirate ghost, has ended. Love was alive, briefly, and now it’s dead.

A truly fucked up and disturbing video of New York Police Department officers ripping a one-year-old child from the arms of his mother and then arresting her has sparked outrage and calls for reform.

In its second season, Big Mouth introduced a new devilish character: the looming, judgmental Shame Wizard. In the universe of the show, the Shame Wizard was responsible for maintaining healthy levels of embarrassment in his subjects. To the teens he watched over, he appeared scary and malicious, and yet his presence…

Levi’s jeans, a Fire TV, and KitchenAid’s pasta accessories are some of the best deals online today.

Nearly 30 million people still don’t have health insurance in the United States; among those who do, many are paying enormous premiums that go up year after year. Others rely on crowdfunding platforms for medical care. It’s a grotesque and deadly system, which is probably why universal healthcare polls so well across…

Sales at Zappos are a rare occurrence, so shoe lovers, or even just regular people who wear shoes but feel neutral about them, should listen up: For Green Monday, Zappos is taking an extra 20% select sale styles with promo code EXTRA20. But these aren’t any ordinary select sale styles; items included range from Uggs,…

The Cranston Public School District in Rhode Island is kicking off the New Year by sending debt collection agencies after parents who have not paid for school lunches since September.

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The Christmas trees are up and Drake is out here. On Sunday, Champagnepapi released his first thirst trap of the holiday season, posted to his Instagram story.

It’s unclear who will replace departing White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, but what is clear is that President Trump had a very special favorite in mind for the role—someone molded, some could say, in his very image. Sadly, that favorite said fuck no, and now Trump’s cholesterol-laden little heart is broken.

They say the best revenge is living well. The second best revenge is getting your former paramour to grovel publicly. In Cardi B’s case, consider that achievement UNLOCKED.

The United States continued its efforts to transform this garbage pile of a country into a literal garbage pile this weekend by teaming up with Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to challenge language “welcoming” a United Nations report urging immediate global efforts to reduce the effects of climate change. And while…

In 2018, Kate and Pippa Middleton are royal and royal-adjacent, but over a decade ago, they were just a couple of plucky single-ish gals trying to make it in the big city in a fancy three-story flat their parents purchased for them in one of London’s poshest neighborhoods. Relatable! Now, that apartment is for sale…

A Texas family who bought a Sonic kids meal for their four-year-old discovered an MDMA pill inside a hamburger wrapper.