The subreddit for grad students, /r/gradschool, is generally not a very happy place––trust me, I spent 6 years on that subreddit. It’s usually filled with grad students complaining about their advisors, agonizing over upcoming defenses, or lamenting failed experiments. But every now and then they do something fun. One member of the sub suggested that …

The disgraced singer and producer R. Kelly has been charged 11 new felony counts of sexual abuse. Some of those carry a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Court records show that those those counts include: four counts of aggravated criminal sex assault; three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a victim …

Rarely has a press conference in which so little was said been interpreted to mean so much. Robert Mueller’s press conference essentially reiterated his report, but nearly every media outlet is suggesting that Mueller’s statement was actually his way to encouraging Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. Slate, for example, argues that Mueller was speaking (almost) …

Maine is now one of four states to prohibit religious or philosophical objections to vaccines. Now, the only way to be exempted from vaccination is for medical reasons. The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, said in a statement: “People of good will hold sincere beliefs on both sides of the issue, but Maine has a …

Stephen M. Calk, CEO of Federal Savings Bank, has been charged with bribing .Paul Manafort in order to secure a position in the Trump White House. According to the Justice Department filing, Calk is charged with “financial institution bribery for corruptly using his position as the head of a federally insured bank to issue millions …

On Sunday, Donald Trump tweeted: “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!” The next day, he told reporters, “We have no indication that anything’s happened or will happen, but if it does, it will be met, obviously, with great force. We will have no …

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 …

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, …

Despite appearances, sometimes a chicken sandwich is not just a chicken sandwich. According to some university students and faculty, a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich is a violation of their school’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Cal Poly’s Academic Senate, which governs the California university’s faculty, voted to remove Chick-fil-A from campus by an overwhelming margin. The …

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, is heading to Ukraine to pursue two investigations that could help President Trump in the 2020 elections. The first is about the origin of Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and the second is about Joe Biden’s son’s involvement in a Ukrainian0owned gas company. The …