I started today like most Americans: thinking I knew exactly what it means to be a basic bitch. But, boy, was I schooled on the matter.
On Sunday night, season four of “Game of Thrones” premiered, and it broke the Internet.
Today is National Alcohol Screening Day, and more than 600 colleges in the U.S. will be holding free alcohol screenings on their campuses to help students identify any problems they may have with alcohol abuse. It’s a fantastic idea; after all, nearly 2,000 Americans ages 18 to 24 die each year from alcohol-related injuries. The annual screenings are hosted by a nonprofit called Screening for Mental Health, which advocates mental-health and substance-abuse resources to be made readily available to those who need it.
There are two criminal justice systems in the U.S.: one for the rich, one for the poor.
The debate about whether e-cigarettes should be sold to minors in Florida is, as one might guess, a love story between Big Tobacco and a lucrative market: teens with money to burn.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court hammered a new nail into the coffin of American democracy with its ruling in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court eliminated restrictions on the total amount of money individual donors can give to political parties and candidates in a given election cycle.
The recent, tragic developments in the Israel-Palestine conflict are always front-page news. The struggles of the European Union offer promising articles. And for some reason, the media seems to be getting a kick out of the fact that all undergraduates in North Korea must cut their hair like that of their supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. I guess that’s what it takes to sell papers these days.
As the November gubernatorial election looms on Florida’s horizon, the Rick Scott and Charlie Crist camps are neck and neck in the polls. However, a Voter Survey Service poll commissioned by the Sunshine State News released Monday revealed Scott has pulled slightly ahead of Crist. As it stands, Scott leads with a 45-percent poll ranking, and Crist is lagging at 44 percent.
Accent Speakers Bureau announced its sponsoring of Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, before he abruptly canceled the visit on April 1. I find myself defending Accent’s decision to bring the ex-Israeli prime minister. This might strike you as odd, considering Olmert’s dark side, but let me explain.
The Internet has given us so many beautiful and fantastic things. We can communicate with others in far-off lands, we can research almost anything within the span of a minute, and we can create and share information instantly. But it’s also bred a new class of web users that almost everyone with an Internet connection has experienced: the troll.
Here’s a number that’s scary for Republicans: 18 percentage points.
A lot of hoopla was made last week over the revelation that congressional candidate — and UF graduate — Jake Rush participated in various role-playing games, typically starring as a vampire. The story quickly went national, as various political blogs and news outlets wanted to discover more on the vampire who wants to role play as a congressman.
Last October, a 19-year-old made headlines when he announced he would lose his virginity on stage in front of a crowd as part of a performance art piece.
DENVER — In what will go down in history as the biggest national overdose since America died of alcohol poisoning once Prohibition was lifted, the entire state of Colorado has overdosed on marijuana.
Spring is abloom, but ignore the flower prints and bright colors: What you should really be digging out of your closet is the pair of dad jeans you bought months ago at the thrift with the intention of turning into distressed cutoffs.
Is it just us, or was this week not totally hellish? Most of us are in that comfortable lull between midterms and finals, the weather is gorgeous, and McDonald's will be giving away coffee for the next two weeks.
The rapid growth of technology’s capabilities is cause to reflect on what privacy means in the 21st century. But the U.S. government is not concerned with such reflection. In the post-9/11 world, the government has made it a top priority not to redefine but destroy the idea of privacy.
Sitting behind his anchor desk on Monday night, Stephen Colbert offered the nation a firm and righteous apology.
On Monday, I was surprised to learn that Accent Speaker’s Bureau had to cancel its event featuring former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after he backed out of the interview. I assumed it was an early April Fools’ Day joke. The news of the cancellation came the same day that Olmert was convicted of bribery in a Tel Aviv court for taking $160,000 in bribes to speed along government permits to build the Holyland housing estate while he was the mayor of Jerusalem.
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