Officials helping plan activities in Elkhart County to mark Indiana’s bicentennial are forming an expanded organizational committee that will include minority representation.
It is hard to resist eating even a piece of raw dough while making cookies, or letting the kids scrape the bowl, but the FDA says it could make you sick, even if you don’t use eggs. Many people understand the risk of eating raw dough due to the presence of raw eggs and its Salmonella risk. There is still a risk associated with raw dough without eggs, such as E. coli in flour.
Tufts University researchers reviewed several studies representing more than 600,000 people finding butter had either a very small or insignificant association with any risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes or sudden death.
A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was “racist,” the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.
Superintendent Scott Oswald estimated that on some occasions over the last month, officers may have been called to as many as five incidents per day in the district of 1,875 students.
U.S. sailors who blundered into Iranian waters in January divulged sensitive information to their captors while held at gunpoint by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S. Navy report said on Thursday.
A team of researchers lead by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory Climate Change Science Institute discovered a correlation between human activity and the greening of the Northern Hemisphere.
One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”
A large survey of Europeans indicates that more than 6 million have quit smoking with the help of e-cigarettes, while more than 9 million have cut back
A top aide to Hillary Clinton said the former secretary of state’s use of a private e-mail server to conduct government business on at least one occasion got in the way of Clinton’s work and left the aide frustrated, according to a transcript of the aide’s deposition released Wednesday.
Finally making good on long-harbored anger at conservative media, Democrats on the Federal Election Commission voted in secret to punish Fox News’ sponsorship of a Republican presidential debate, using an obscure law to charge the network with helping those on stage.
Louisiana cops, firefighters and EMS officers will soon be given the same legal protections as minority groups under a divisive new bill, lawmakers say.
The separated parents of five children who continued attending Branchburg’s schools last year after they moved out of the township must reimburse the school district $55,000 in #tuition, an Administrative Law judge has ruled.
A “transmasculine” #teacher at an Oregon elementary school has been awarded $60,000 by her school district as compensation for harassment she claims to have suffered on the job, including being referred to by the wrong pronoun.
On Tuesday, Joey Sanchez stepped up to the counter of Leon’s Frozen Custard, a 70-year-old Milwaukee staple, and listened to the customer in front of him place his order in Spanish.
Facebook announced Monday it was sending employees out for retraining and would discontinue some of its practices as it sought to defend itself against charges of political bias against conservatives.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if someone’s fixing it, then it’s difficult to believe it ain’t broke, right? Especially when that someone is a multibillionaire and the something is his Golden Goose:
Officials at Bates Middle School in Sumter, S.C. have suspended an eighth-grade boy for nine days — the rest of the school year — because he brought a tiny pouch of Carolina Reaper pepper flakes to school and gave some pepper flakes to friends.
The #smoking rate among adults in the U.S. fell to 15 per cent last year thanks to the biggest one-year decline in more than 20 years, a new report reveals.
An issue brief published on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control claimed that that Southerners’ “#racism,” and “homophobia” may be causing high #HIV rates in the South that are disproportionately high among African-Americans and homosexuals.
“I am a lowly clerk at the IRS, looking at your application for tax-free status. I go to your web page to see the goals of your group and one of the goals of your group is to abolish the IRS.
Followers of the #biohacking movement, which emerged around the mid-2000s, believe that technology can be harnessed to enhance the human body. Some say these implants could provide new technology-based capabilities and render wallets and keys obsolete. Some even suggest that biohacking could offer a technological leap forward in human evolution.
Anyone who has ever smashed their iPhone’s screen or depleted a battery knows that devices are destined to deteriorate and eventually die. But what if they could one day heal themselves? That’s the vision Chao Wang, a polymer researcher and assistant professor in the chemistry department at the University of California, Riverside has for the future — and he helped invent a super-stretchy, self-healing polymer that could one day make it possible.
Talk about clout. When retired US Army #veteran Leonard K. Jackson talks of his years-long wait to secure #VA disability #benefits for a range of physical and mental health issues suffered while serving, he has the White House behind him. That’s right, the White House, as the Obama Administration has used Jackson as a poster boy of sorts for Obama’s efforts to simplify and speed up the veteran benefits appeals process.
#Hillary Clinton stopped referring to herself as the potential “youngest woman president” during campaign stump speeches after polling showed that it was not helping with voters and donors.
It was the steak dinners, Ethan Brown says, that changed his life. He had embarked on a career in the clean-energy industry, a path befitting an environmentalist out to save the world. But the incongruity he perceived among his colleagues, who would lament environmental problems while eating beef, pushed Brown — a vegetarian since age 18 — in a different direction.
A 14-year old Redding male has been charged with possession of child pornography, obscenity, and harassment, after sharing a photo of another Redding student, police said.
According to newstimes.com, the cops investigated this teen for three months. Three. Entire. Months. How many police resources were tied up while the officers were busy figuring out why two teens were sexting each other?
A 14-year old Redding male has been charged with possession of child pornography, obscenity, and harassment, after sharing a photo of another Redding student, police said.
According to newstimes.com, the cops investigated this teen for three months. Three. Entire. Months. How many police resources were tied up while the officers were busy figuring out why two teens were sexting each other?
A lawyer who represented the so-called “D.C. madam” says he has phone records that could influence the outcome of the presidential election, and he’s threatening to release one or more names on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court if he’s denied a hearing on his right to distribute them.
During the workshop, students can participate in several activities that “examine white privilege and how it is more powerful than other types of benefits afforded by society.” One activity in particular, called the “white privilege survey,” requires students to quantify their privilege based on their responses to a series of statements.
A new analysis published by the personal finance website WalletHub finds that Washington, D.C. is more financially illiterate than any of the 50 states.
“This is not a zoo, people live here,” female resident Amina told Die Welt in an interview Wednesday, adding that the barricade is set up to preserve “an important cultural and political place.”
One such popular app, Hide It Pro, disguises itself on phones as an “Audio Manager.” Even after opening the app, its true intention is still hidden. It shows up as a false app that helps to control the volume level of one’s phone. However, after holding the title bar down, it will ask for a password to unlock all of the user’s hidden content.
