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As a general rule, girls think about suicide more than boys, but boys actually commit suicide more. However, since 2007, the suicide rate for girls ages 10-14 increased by a stunning 12.7%, while the suicide rate for boys the same ages increased 7.1%. The study did not reveal why the rate for girls is increasing …

Last week, Alabama passed one of the strictest anti-abortion bills in the country, banning abortions in nearly every case and creating the possibility of a 99-year prison sentence for doctors who perform abortions. The move has led to national outrage. As Slate points out, banning abortion is always unpopular––especially in cases of rape. Alabama’s law, …

Elon Musk is hoping to launch 11,943 satellites in order to offer global, high speed internet. He hopes that the system, which he calls Starlink, will provide income to keep SpaceX building and launching new rockets. Critics have already drawn comparisons to the villain in Kingsman who offered global internet as a means to destroy …

The College Board is set to add a so-called “adversity score” to its SAT, which will use fifteen factors to access the level of hardship a student has faced throughout life. Those factor include things such as the crime rate, housing values, and poverty rate in their neighborhoods, their family incomes, whether English is spoken …

Unlike Bernie Sanders, who appeared on a Fox News town hall, Elizabeth Warren is not having it with Fox News. She was invited to do a town hall on Fox News, but turned it down, explaining in a very long series of tweets why, with the meat being this tweet: “Fox News is a hate-for-profit …

Alabama has passed the strictest abortion law in the country, which all but bans abortion unless the mother’s health is in danger. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. Anyone involved in an abortion procedure will be guilty of a felony, and doctors will face up to 99 years in prison if they perform …

Two high-profile participants in the massive college admissions cheating scandal have pled guilty: Laura Janke, USC’s assistant soccer coach, and Felicity Huffman. Janke admitted to working with Rick Singer, the man who orchestrated the scandal. Huffman admitted to pay $15,000 for having her daughter’s SAT corrected in secret. Huffman allegedly cried while she admitted to …

San Francisco is the heart and soul of the tech industry, bringing us such dystopian-nightmare tools as Facebook, Facebook-related products, and of course peripherally-related Facebook products. But, for once, the city is leading the charge in a good way––San Francisco has banned the use of facial recognition software by police and other law enforcement agencies. …

There are now 839 confirmed cases of measles in the United States. With a bit over a hundred more, there will be more cases in the country then there have been since 1994, which in turn was the highest number of cases in the past quarter-century. Fortunately, the new cases are not in new states, …

Amazon is introducing machines that will replace workers. The machines, which cost a whopping million-dollars apiece, will recoup their cost in about two years. Why so fast? Because they replace about twelve employees. Amazon has plans to install two machines each at dozens of warehouses, which would equate to about 1,300 lost jobs. An Amazon …

Andy McKean was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1978 when he was in his late 20s. He has served in both the state House and Senate. For most of his career, he was comfortable with his Republican party affiliation. But now, he’s switching teams. “I believe that it is just a matter of time …

Washington state is one of seventeen states that allows for non-medical exemptions to vaccine mandates along personal or philosophical grounds––but not anymore. The state has just outlawed such exemptions, though it continues to allow medical or religious exemptions for vaccines. Washington has experienced 70 cases of measles this year, meaning it accounts for nearly ten …