Actress Jessica Chastain ripped HBO’s Game of Thrones‘ storyline for using rape as a crucible of adversity through which Sansa Stark — a central character played by Sophie Turner — forges her growing strength. Jessica Chastain framed Sansa Stark as a “Phoenix” — a...
CNN is under intense fire Tuesday after the network’s writer-producer John Blake published an article with the sub-headline asking “How Black will the Royal Baby Be?” The piece, published on Monday under the headline “Analysis: Don’t use the royal birth to trot...
Social media giant Facebook will soon give the site’s third-party fact-checkers access to Instagram to flag allegedly misleading posts and photos on the app. The Verge reports that Facebook will soon give its fact-checking partners at Factcheck.org and the...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) criticized journalists on Sunday for spreading a “lie” about the death of a one-year-old Palestinian whom news outlets said had been killed by Israeli strikes, but which the IDF says was killed by an errant rocket fired by terrorist...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday criticized U.S. policies in the Middle East as “destabilizing” and said they would ultimately harm the American people. “These destabilizing actions of the U.S. in the region will undoubtedly be detrimental to the peoples of...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated his government on Tuesday forcing Istanbul to host a do-over of the March 31 mayoral election after secularist opposition candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu won the race against Erdogan’s former foreign minister. İmamoğlu,...
Four-time Grammy-winning pop-soul singer Sam Smith opened up to British GQ about the deep sadness he endures on the days where he is “in the middle of” being a woman and being a man. “Ever since I was a little boy, ever since I was a little human, I didn’t...
Charlie Elphicke is a member of the Treasury Select Committee and is MP for Dover & Deal. Today I’m presenting a bill to Parliament to secure a fairer deal for borrowers. And to set the mortgage prisoners free. Mortgage prisoners are people who have become trapped...
Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said he “can’t imagine” that God would be in the political party that elected President Donald Trump. Reporter Craig Melvin said, “You also spend a fair...
Today sees the publication of the Timpson Review on School Exclusion. It was undertaken by Edward Timpson, a former Conservative MP and Education Minister. The upshot is that it wants schools to be penalised for excluding disruptive pupils – for instance by...
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