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"Yo! Fat Girl! C'mere. Are ya ticklish?"

So rapped the late rapper Humpty Hump, describing a good opening line to use on women who aren't a Size 4.

Maybe it worked for him. Who knows?

And, yo, if you can't say stuff ...Read more

I heard about the special prison favors granted Ghislaine Maxwell while I was reading “Nobody’s Girl” by Virginia Giuffre, one of her reported victims. The most poignant moment is not the first time Maxwell and ...Read more

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has waged war on suspected drug smugglers in the waters off Venezuela, blowing up boats of what he calls “narco-terrorists” — people accused of bringing fentanyl and other ...Read more

In October of 2018, U.S.-based journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. The CIA concluded that the assassination was carried out by Saudi ...Read more

By the time James Watson died earlier this month at the age of 97, he was one of the world’s most famous — and infamous — scientists.

In 1953, he and three fellow researchers co-discovered the double-helix ...Read more

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to work in Chicago last month when she drove onto a street where an immigration enforcement action was in progress. As she attempted to drive around the chaos, an unmarked vehicle collided ...Read more

When President Donald Trump was booked and fingerprinted at the Fulton County Jail in 2023, there was just one elected official there to support him — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

When Trump was huddling with his ...Read more

As affordability politics take center stage across America, at least 18 states are attempting to lower or eliminate property taxes to offset the dramatic rise in property values. It’s a worthy debate, but wiping out ...Read more

In an ancient fable, a scorpion wants to cross a body of water, but because he can’t swim, the creature asks a frog to hitch a ride on the amphibian’s back.

The frog retorts that he fears the scorpion will sting him. ...Read more

Audiences already know the story of Frankenstein. The gothic novel — adapted dozens of times, most recently in director Guillermo del Toro’s haunting revival now available on Netflix— is embedded in our cultural DNA ...Read more

While America has been obsessing over Jeffrey Epstein, Vladimir Putin has been making dangerous headway in Ukraine — and expanding his war into Europe.

Under such circumstances, genuine peace negotiations are impossible...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- May Sun stood on Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown on Tuesday morning, looking through the fence at the memorial she and another artist designed to honor Robert F. Kennedy near the site of his 1968 ...Read more

Reflecting on gratitude for this holiday, I want to highlight something that can be shared with the wider world. Last year at this time, I focused on reasons to be thankful despite Donald Trump's reelection:

Trump ran on ...Read more

Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course, not everyone believes that, and many who do stop short of saying so. But the ...Read more

The Trump administration filed a federal suit against California and its public university systems, alleging its practice of offering in-state college tuition rates to undocumented immigrants who graduate from California ...Read more

President Donald Trump is expanding tariff breaks for Brazilian food products, widening the scope of relief from import taxes amid growing U.S. voter dissatisfaction over the cost of living.

An executive order Trump ...Read more

DENVER — The district attorney who prosecuted Tina Peters urged Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday to reject the Trump administration’s effort to transfer the former Mesa County clerk into federal custody, where, he warned, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham blocked an attempt to repeal a controversial provision tucked into the bill ending the U.S. government shutdown that could reap him and several other Republican senators millions by ...Read more

As U.S. pressure mounts for Haiti’s transitional authorities to move the country toward long-overdue elections, human rights advocates are warning that a critical gap in a proposed election decree leaves the door wide ...Read more

New York Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the House, said she won’t seek another term next year, joining a growing list of Democrats who say it’s time for fresh leadership.

“I love ...Read more