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In an interview with ABC News on Thursday, actor Will Smith discussed the firestorm surrounding this year’s Academy Award nominations.
“When I see this list of nominations, everybody is fantastic!” said Smith. “And that’s the complexity of this issue.”
“Everyone is beautiful and deserving and is fantastic,” he continued, “but it feels like it’s going the wrong direction…
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Leading up to the annual March for Life, Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul introduced a bill to Congress on Thursday that seeks to provide unborn children with constitutional rights.
Paul writes in a statement,
“The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known – that human life…
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American astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted images from space of the massive snowstorm currently blanketing the East Coast.
In his tweets, he said that the storm is “clearly visible” from the International Space Station.
Massive #snowstorm blanketing #EastCoast clearly visible from @Space_Station! Stay safe! #blizzard2016 #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/oq6ewYaTPQ…
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released a statement on Friday in response to the State Department’s request to delay releasing the last batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Priebus argued that the delay is a “blatant attempt” to prevent any potential harm to Clinton’s presidential campaign, at least until after the early primaries are over.
“It’…
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Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey believes that Hillary Clinton deserves to be charged with a federal crime for clearly mishandling classified information with her private email server while serving as secretary of state.
In an op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Mukasey said that it is “nearly impossible” to deny that Clinton “knew enough to support…
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An atheist confronted Florida senator and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio at a campaign event in Iowa on Monday night about his recent efforts to win over evangelical voters.
The man asked, “For atheist voters who are looking for somebody that will uphold their rights as Americans and not pander to a certain religious group… How do you plan on upholding our…
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According to a press release obtained by MRCTV, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) launched its first PSA campaign about prediabetes on Thursday to raise awareness and educate the 86 million American adults (more than one in three) currently being affected by the serious health condition.
CDC writes,
The campaign launched today and has a simple but…
Millennials make up almost half (44 percent) of the record 27.3 million eligible Latino voters projected for 2016, the Pew Research Center reports.
“The large footprint of Latino millennial eligible voters reflects the oversized importance of youth in the U.S.-born Latino population and as a source of Latino eligible voter growth,” writes Pew. “The median age among the nation’s 35 million U.S…
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When it comes to the issues that matter to them the most – jobs, education, and student loans – young Americans are more miserable than ever.
Young America's Foundation (YAF) revealed this week that its Youth Misery Index spiked to a record high.
Based on the sum of youth unemployment, student loan debt, and national debt per capita, the Youth Misery Index climbed to 109.9 in…
A majority of Americans (55 percent) now say they are dissatisfied with national security against the threat of terrorism, a poll finds.
This year marks the first time a majority of Americans expressed dissatisfaction with the nation’s ability to fight terror and keep its people safe.
Gallup reports,
“Americans' satisfaction with the nation's security from terrorism has significantly eroded…
