Sean Salai

Pro-life activists protest Warren Buffett ahead of shareholder meeting

Pro-life activists called on Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to renounce CEO Warren Buffett's funding of abortion rights in a protest outside the site of the firm's shareholder meeting on Friday.

April 29, 2022

Study: Nonsuicidal gun violence rose during COVID-19 restrictions

Non-suicidal gun violence rose in the U.S. during the restrictive first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study in a leading medical journal.

April 29, 2022

Florida restores 9 ‘woke math’ K-12 textbooks after changes

Florida education officials say they are reinstating nine "woke math" textbooks for K-12 students after publishers agreed to remove left-wing materials.

April 29, 2022

Conservatives rack up wins against ‘woke’ corporations

Conservatives have claimed a series of victories as they escalated their assault on "woke" corporate culture with a campaign of letters, boycotts and shareholder activism.

April 29, 2022

Sulzberger defends ‘diversity of view’ at New York Times

A.G. Sulzberger says The New York Times still values "diversity of opinion" despite conservative claims of left-wing bias.

April 28, 2022

Maryland advises teachers to hide gender identity issues from K-12 parents

Florida has recently banned sex education before fourth grade, but Maryland is a different world: For years, the state school system has directed teachers not to inform parents about gender-transitioning students.

April 28, 2022

Ex-AG William Barr: Public education replaces God with government

Former Attorney General William P. Barr says public education in the U.S. is setting up the government as a new religion against the constitutional rights of American parents.

April 28, 2022

Washington state bans ‘marijuana’ from legal code as racist word

The state of Washington is replacing 'marijuana' with 'cannabis' in its legal code, citing racist origins in the Spanish-derived word.

April 27, 2022

Bank of America, Citigroup shareholders reject proposed anti-racism audits

Bank of America and Citigroup shareholders rejected proposed audits of the companies' anti-racism policies Tuesday during their annual meetings.

April 26, 2022

Inflation has super-sized a Big Mac’s bite on the consumer wallet

The price of a McDonald's Big Mac is seeing super-sized inflation.

April 26, 2022

Historians see Grant eclipsing Lee in 200th birthday celebrations

President Ulysses S. Grant's tomb is a rare Civil War memorial that racial protesters haven't defaced -- and historians say that shows how his legacy has eclipsed that of Robert E. Lee on his 200th birthday.

April 25, 2022

Google pauses ‘inclusive language’ corrections

Google is pausing a controversial "inclusive language" feature that it launched this month to correct writers who type what the company deems as politically incorrect words or phrases into its online word processor.

April 25, 2022

Study: Adolescent suicides rose in first year of pandemic

Suicides among American adolescents in more than a dozen states rose during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published in a leading academic journal.

April 25, 2022

Report: More than half of U.S. universities have anti-bias speech codes

A conservative free speech group reports that more than half of private and public American universities have implemented "bias reporting systems" that censor unpopular student political opinions.

April 25, 2022

Taxpayers subsidize premium content streaming app for PBS

The Public Broadcasting System's inclusion of a premium access service on its digital streaming app is stirring debate about whether government funding gives it an unfair advantage in the streaming wars.

April 24, 2022

Utah leads conservative economists’ ranking of business-friendly states

Utah ranked as the best U.S. state for businesses for the 15th year in a row in an annual conservative economic forecast this week, with New York ranking dead last.

April 22, 2022

Florida releases examples of rejected ‘woke math’ textbooks

Florida education officials have released four images of "woke math" in textbooks they rejected last week for use in K-12 public schools.

April 22, 2022

Job trends report sees high demand for ‘workplace diversity experts’

A report from a leading software company sees a high demand for workplace diversity, equity and inclusion officers among U.S. tech employers as the economy recovers this year from COVID-19.

April 22, 2022

Study prescribes anti-racism training for non-Black medical school faculty

A new study in a leading academic journal recommends that medical schools implement mandatory anti-racism training for all non-Black faculty members as part of a "comprehensive intervention for dismantling anti-Black racism" in the U.S. health care system.

April 22, 2022

Appeals court strikes down University of Central Florida speech code

A federal appeals court struck down the University of Central Florida's speech code on Thursday night, siding with conservatives who accused the public research institution of using anti-bias policies to silence right-leaning thought.

April 22, 2022