Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and his administration are facing a lawsuit after he signed a bill that aims to stop children from attending drag shows.Hamburger Mary's of Orlando hosts a family-friendly drag show brunch on Sundays, but the restaurant has now had to ban people under the age of 18 because of the law.Owner John Paonessa told WKMG he lost 20 percent of his bookings after SB 1438 was signed into law. Hamburger Mary's filed the lawsuit this week."The language used in the statute is meant to...
More women than men are competing for medals at the Chelsea Flower Show this year -- a first after more than a century of competition at the flagship London event.The highlight of the British horticultural year opened to the public on Tuesday, with some 145,000 people expected to attend by Saturday's close.King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited on Monday, as did Catherine, Princess of Wales, whose husband William is heir to the throne.A decade ago, women made up just 27 percent of medal...
E. Jean Carroll's latest move to seek punishment for Donald Trump for defamation puts new pressure on attorney general Merrick Garland to stop defending the former president, a former federal prosecutor wrote Tuesday.Garland doubled down on his predecessor William Barr's decision to represent Trump in the defamation case filed by Carroll, who prevailed earlier this month when a jury awarded her $5 million in damages in a separate case.But her move to go after the ex-president for repeating his...
Ahead of Donald Trump’s campaign visit to Iowa last week, the Des Moines Water Works Park Foundation made sure it was financially protected from the nation’s bill-skipper-in-chief.According to documents obtained by Raw Story through an Iowa public records request, the public operator of Lauridsen Amphitheater in Des Moines, Iowa, compelled the Trump 2024 campaign committee to sign a six-page contract to use the facility for a May 13 rally that was ultimately canceled because of potential...
About 100 climate campaigners on Tuesday demanded the attention of executives and shareholders at Shell's annual general meeting, refusing to be silenced as they spent several hours disrupting the profits-focused gathering to condemn the oil company for its continued planet-heating fossil fuel extraction.Dozens of advocates gathered outside the Exhibition Center London (ExCeL) with banners reading, "We mourn the lives Shell has taken" and "Shell Profits Kill," while others entered the meeting...
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia, on Tuesday was the highest bidder among House Republicans for a cherry "chapstick" used by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Greene, who promotes herself as a culture warrior and fiscal conservative, made the winning bid for the lip balm after McCarthy sweetened the deal by promising to attend a donor dinner, according to reports."During GOP conference today," Politico's Olivia Beavers reports, "House Rs did about a 15-min fundraising...
Trump backer and billionaire owner of New York City supermarket chain Gristedes Foods John Catsimatidis sleeps with the type of gun used by James Bond under his pillow at night, according to a report.His wife sleeps with a shotgun – and is so jumpy she once blasted it through the bedroom door because she thought she heard a noise.The profile of Catsimatidis' life was published Tuesday by Insider and reveals that the Greek immigrant became a billionaire after he acquired a partial stake in his...
Special counsel Jack Smith is finished with collecting testimony and other evidence in his investigation into Donald Trump's classified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago, according to a report. Reporting Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal revealed that those close to the former president are "bracing for his indictment" and are searching for ways "to fundraise off a prosecution." On Monday, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department had subpoenaed financial documents from seven of...
When former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced that he was bringing his show to Twitter, it may have been, according to media reporters, a violation of a noncompete clause he signed with the right-wing cable news outlet. But fighting Carlson in court may not be worth it for Fox News, as he has an incredibly devoted following on the far right — and those followers may be more loyal to Carlson than to the Fox News/Fox Business brand on the whole.In an article published by the Daily Beast on...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.The big ideaUsing a brain implant that can record neural signals over many months, my research team and I have discovered objective biomarkers of chronic pain severity in four patients with chronic pain as they went about their daily lives.Pain is one of the most important and basic subjective experiences a person can have. While there is plenty of evidence that perception of pain takes place in the brain, there is also a major...
It likely comes as no surprise that women receive a smaller share of research funding than men. But untangling the underlying reasons is no small feat.A recently published international review spanning 45 years found that women accounted for just under a quarter of awards.But our own study of 48,061 grants awarded in Australia by the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council over 20 years points to a complex issue that extends beyond granting systems: fewer...
The growing skepticism over Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis could plunge the Republican primary into chaos for a third straight election cycle, according to an Atlantic columnist.Many of the major GOP donors remain uncommitted toward any of the declared or presumed candidates, and while traditional conservatives never loved Trump much to begin with, they haven't been too impressed by DeSantis as he rolls out his expected campaign, wrote David A. Graham."The growing candidate list reflects...