Month: August 2017

A Californian first grader was sent to the principal’s office this week after allegedly “misgendering” a transgender student. The incident reportedly took place at California’s Rocklin Academy, in the school playground, where the female student called her biologically male classmate “by his given name – apparently unaware that the boy now identified as a girl,” according to Fox News. “This innocent little first grader sees a classmate, calls him by the name she knew him last year and the boy reports it to a teacher,” claimed Karen England, from the Capitol Resource Institute. “The little girl gets in trouble on the playground and then gets called out of class to the principal’s office.” During her visit to the principal’s office, the child was reportedly “investigated” to determine “whether or not she had bullied the transgender child by calling him by his original name.” “After about an hour it was determined the little girl made an honest mistake and she was not punished or reprimanded. But she was terribly traumatized by the incident,” Fox News claimed. After the child returned home upset, her mother wrote a letter to the school. “I stressed over and over with the principal that I am all

U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters that President Donald Trump’s administration will win in Afghanistan by allowing the country to “be Afghanistan” rather than trying to “create a state in the U.S. image.”

Bodybuilder Rich Piana, a weight lifter who eventually warned fans against using steroids, died Friday after collapsing and being placed in a medical coma. He was only 46.

Friday at the White House press briefing Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he was “100 percent confident” the debt ceiling would be raised, adding, “There is no scenario where the government won’t be paying its bills.” Mnuchin also said he was working with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the matter. “The president and I are on the same page, and we’re speaking on a regular basis on this,” he added. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN  

Half-Life’s final entry may end up being a blog post by one of its creators, written as a letter to those who have longed for a conclusion to the franchise which has lain dormant for nearly a decade.

The Cleveland Browns, and their fans, can’t have nice things. Mainly because they make terrible decisions and unforced errors that result in failure and fan disillusionment. Now, they’ve done it again.

Thirty months ago, I spoke to Conor McGregor about Floyd Mayweather. About thirty hours from now, the two fight.

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon plans to use its deep pockets to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it will cut prices on bananas, eggs, salmon, beef and more when it completes its $13.7 billion takeover next week.

Only six of the 242 House GOP legislators signed an August 22 letter urging President Donald Trump to continue the DACA amnesty for illegal immigrants.

The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) asked the U.S. Border Patrol to stand-down during Hurricane Harvey. They say the agency’s refusal to close checkpoints during the storm puts illegal aliens in grave danger.