Michigan teacher is suspended after classroom activity comparing Obama to monkeys and apes

Michigan teacher is suspended after including photo of Barack Obama in a class about apes, monkeys and lemurs and asking pupils to spot the primate Roeper’s High School in Birmingham suspended the Asian Pacific biology female after her failure to ban the classroom activity caused outrage  The teacher at the $30,000-a-year school said she downloaded … Read more

Ex-Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann trial begins TODAY: Durham probe’s first case gets underway 

The trial of Michael Sussmann, an attorney who previously worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, is began Monday as prosecutors seek to prove the lawyer lied to federal agents when sending them dirt on Donald Trump’s alleged links to Russia. It’s the first trial and one of two indictments in Special Counsel John Durham’s three-year … Read more

New animal species should not be named after famous faces

Scientists should not name new species after celebrities in case they fall out of favour or are ‘cancelled’, an expert has said. In recent years, a millipede has been named after Taylor Swift, a moth after Donald Trump and a rubber frog after Sir David Attenborough. But Professor Robert Poulin, from the University of Otago … Read more

Biden’s ‘Disinformation’ czar pushed debunked Russia collusion claims from Hillary’s 2016 campaign

The head of President Joe Biden’s new Disinformation Governance Board has a history of pushing now-debunked claims that there are ties between Russia and Donald Trump, old and recently resurfaced tweets reveal. Nina Jankowicz promoted several claims from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign on Twitter, including allegations that are now being looked into by special … Read more

Is Britain’s ‘wokerati’ losing Twitter followers too?

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter appears to have led to a split in users’ fortunes along ideological lines – with conservative figures gaining followers while leading ‘Wokerati’ go in the opposite direction. The Tesla founder’s $44billion bid was unanimously accepted by Twitter’s board on Monday. Shortly afterwards, prominent American right-wingers, such as Donald Trump’s son, Don … Read more

Federal judge says Florida’s new election law is unconstitutional and racially motivated

Obama appointee federal judge says Florida’s new election law is unconstitutional and racially motivated and orders state to go to the government before changing its rules again The judge placed the state under a 10-year order forcing it to get approval from the federal government before changing key parts of its voting laws again  Florida was … Read more

Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni reveals she was at the January 6 Stop the Steal rally

Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says she attended the ‘Stop the Steal Rally’ where former President Donald Trump called on his supporters to ‘fight’ on January 6th – but that she left before he spoke. Thomas provided information about her activities the day of the Capitol riot after being … Read more

Bill Barr compares working with Trump and his cronies to ‘wrestling an alligator’

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said vying for Donald Trump’s focus in the White House was like ‘wrestling an alligator’ during a Sunday television interview. He told NBC’s Meet the Press that he and other Cabinet secretaries had to compete with the former president’s ‘yes-men’ to keep him ‘on track’ while he led the country. … Read more

Michelle Obama 2024 bid would put Republicans ‘in a very difficult position,’ ex-Trump aide warns

Despite her past insistence against running for the White House, Michelle Obama is a ‘completely plausible’ 2024 candidate, a former Trump aide said A former Trump administration official this weekend floated the possibility of Michelle Obama succeeding President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee, warning that the former first lady would be a formidable … Read more

Melania Trump releases her third collection of NFTs for President’s Day

Melania Trump launched her latest round of NFTs – or non-fungible tokens – on Monday, with a range of digital art commemorating what she called ‘iconic’moments from her time in office. Selling for $50 apiece, early trade was brisk, with items being snapped up by supporters every six to 10 seconds according to a tally on … Read more