Nickalay Lamm started a research project to study how fashion dolls distort women\'s body proportions -- and his idea has translated into a new toy that figures to challenge Mattel\'s message about body image portrayed through its Barbie doll. His invention has realistic proportions and offers ...
The state of Kentucky pulled the plug on its pledge to provide a tax rebate for the Ark Encounter theme park, announcing Dec. 11 it will not give the enterprise the promised tax relief because the park\'s owners intend to engage in \"religious indoctrination.\"
Hallmark Cards is pulling rolls of gift wrap from Walgreen stores after a Southern California customer noticed a pattern in the paper that resembled a swastika.The Kansas City-based company learned of the gift wrap gaffe Sunday night, after the customer contacted her rabbi and then called the ...
Grand Theft Auto V, a popular video game, has broken through a ceiling that even concerns a well known gamer.In the re-mastered version of Grand Theft Auto 5, originally released in 2013, players no longer have to imagine wreaking havoc by watching a character on the screen, but now can ...
Visitors to Florida\'s capitol will see an assortment of holiday decorations–from the sacred to the profane–in the building\'s rotunda this December.The Florida Department of Management Services gave the green light Dec. 3 to the display from the Satanic Temple being placed in the state\'s capitol.
A federal appeals court has found a Florida state law that required welfare recipients to pass a drug test unconstitutional. The December 3 ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals said welfare applicants \"are not stripped of their legitimate expectations of privacy\" when they apply for aid.
After bouts with protesters ransacking and burning businesses in Ferguson, Missouri, it would be natural for shop owners to fear the gathering of masses. But crowds of a sort are flocking to the aid of the St. Louis suburb and community leaders are pleasantly overwhelmed.
A Portland, Ore., television station has exposed the Adolescent Sexuality Conference for teaching students, as young as 11 years old, to watch porn and illegally use meth among a range of inappropriate behaviors. Event organizer, Brad Victor, however, claims nothing that took place broke the law, ...
When the Supreme Court allowed lower federal court rulings to stand, Oct. 6, ending bans on same-sex marriage in five states, the common view was the court was moving out of the way to permit the wholesale redefinition of marriage. But Justice Thomas recently penned his displeasure with the ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the current healthcare law does not \"substantially burden a person\'s exercise of religion\" by requiring plans covering women to include contraceptives, essentially forcing a Catholic group to ignore church teachings.Priests for Life, one of ...