Abbott Elementary is an amusing show when it isn’t bashing charter schools. But the ABC sitcom took a disquieting turn in its latest episode with a storyline about a nonbinary teacher. In season three’s “Breakup,” teacher Melissa Schemmenti (Lisa Ann Walter) thinks something is off about the new second grade substitute teacher, Cassidy Jeffrey. When […]
Putin’s end game is to pressure the U.S. back into strategic arms control talks and is doing so by utilizing the Russian strategy of “escalate to de-escalate” as part of his nuclear saber-rattling.
Mark Cuban, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said he would cast his vote for President Biden over former President Trump in November, even if “he was being given last rites.” “If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still...
Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted there were high tempers on the Supreme Court after it ruled Monday that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. “There was a paradox, about today, at The Supreme Court,” Toobin told CNN anchor John King on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” in a...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is narrowly leading Democrat challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell by 3 points, according to a new poll. A survey from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling, paid for by Emily’s List and first shared with The Hill, shows Scott leading Mucarsel-Powell 44 percent to 41 percent, respectively. Because the margin of error is...
Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found. Once there, these chemicals can mimic — or disrupt — the effects of the hormones estrogen and testosterone on the body, according to the study published on Tuesday in Environmental Science & Technology. Other...