The name of the author of the ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ Laura Ingalls Wilder, was scrapped from a major children’s book award for being too racist. The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) replaced the name of the award containing the name of the beloved children’s book author with Children’s Literature Legacy Award. ALSC, […]

The police have unveiled that the mystery armed civilian that gunned down and killed a gunman who wounded at least two at a Washington State Walmart on Sunday night is a medic and a pastor. The police found out about the incident while moving toward a vehicle driving in the wrong direction near the store. […]

A federal court in New York ruled Wednesday that the President of the United States Donald Trump cannot block his Twitter critics if he doesn’t like their opinions.  The judge found that the U.S. leader is trampling on Twitter users’ constitutional rights whenever he silences them. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald also ruled that Twitter is […]

The New York City wants the fossil fuel industry to shoulder the hidden costs of climate change like the devastation brought by extreme weather and the climate-related health problems. The city has recently filed a lawsuit against Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, and the Royal Dutch Shell. On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office unveiled the legal […]

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) had to leave Washington, D.C., after being hospitalized because of the multiple side-effects of the cancer therapy he is on in hopes to treat his brain cancer. According to CBS News, the Arizona Republican will spend the holidays in his home state with his family. This means that he won’t be […]

The U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide on whether law enforcement can track suspects without a warrant via their cellphones. The suit will have major implications for personal privacy and policing nationwide. Carpenter v. United States is a very interesting case since one of the suspects in multiple robberies sued the police for having […]

A man from Knoxville, Tennessee, accidentally shot himself on Thursday while advocating for gun rights in a local church. His wife was also injured in the accident. Police said that the man was proudly presenting his Ruger handgun to other churchgoers during a speech designed to promote the right to carry a gun in church. […]

For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Congress questioned a sitting President’s authority to launch a nuclear attack. Democratic lawmakers voiced concerns that President Trump might authorize an attack that is at odds with the country’s national security interests. During the hearing, while most of the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee […]

In the wake of Hurricane Maria that made a landfall in Puerto Rico in September knocking its power grid down, a small Montana firm with deep connections within the Republican Party charged the struggling Puerto Rican energy utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), $319 per hour for every line worker, but paid those […]