WASHINGTON (AP) — When disinformation researcher Wen-Ping Liu looked into China’s efforts to influence Taiwan’s recent election using fake social media accounts, something unusual stood out about the most successful profiles. They were female, or at least that’s what they appeared to be. Fake profiles that claimed to be women got more engagement, more eyeballs […]
A former director at Wichita State University bought a clock with a hidden camera and placed it in a bedroom, where it captured videos of a minor in various states of undress, a probable cause affidavit released through Sedgwick County District Court says. Christopher Garnier, 46, was charged on May 14 with six counts of […]
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville blamed “too many preachy females” in the party for decreasing President Joe Biden’s appeal to men, especially minority voters. Carville gave his politically incorrect take to Maureen Dowd in her opinion column published Saturday by The New York Times. After Dowd wrote that Carville “has been obsessed with Biden bleeding […]
Democratic strategist James Carville argued “too many preachy females” in the Democratic Party could be to blame for President Biden’s bleeding support from key voters. In an interview published Saturday with New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd, Carville voiced concerns about the culture of the Democratic Party and how it could be impacting Biden’s […]
It sounds like a crime show episode at sea: In late January 2024, federal regulators learned that a dead female North Atlantic right whale had been sighted near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The whale was towed to shore, where more than 20 U.S. and Canadian scientists converged to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy. On Feb. […]
More than 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued by the United Nations children’s agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia are partially or fully removed, Unicef estimated in the […]