Disney has discarded the old princess narrative and, under the guise of self-empowerment, is now teaching generations of young girls to embrace self-serving toxicity. This article contains minor spoilers for ‘Cruella’. In the new Disney movie ‘Cruella’ the Rolling Stones classic ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ plays over the film’s final scene, which felt a bit too on the nose for the origin... 

As the real estate market continues to break records, a cabal of institutional investors has been tossing gasoline on the fire – buying up properties hand-over-fist as middle-American renters watch their dreams of home ownership fade at the hands of pension funds and other financial behemoths. “You now have permanent capital competing with a young couple trying to buy a house,” according... 

Google is attempting to find a new way to measure people’s skin tones, to prevent its products from becoming “biased” against “people of color,” according to a report in Reuters. Dermatologists have used the six-color Fitzpatrick Skin Type scale to determine skin color since the 1970s. But Google thinks it can do a better, more racially equitable job. Via Reuters: Critics say FST, which... 

A Florida man has been slapped with felony charges for leaving tire tracks across an intersection painted in the rainbow colors of the LGBT pride movement. LGBT activists cheered the police for throwing the book at the suspect. Alexander Jerich, 20, turned himself in to police in Delray Beach, Florida, on Thursday. Jerich was seen on Monday allegedly pulling onto the intersection in a pickup truck... 

Former President Donald Trump told the Jewish weekly Ami that he was disappointed in how his pro-Israel policies did not translate into massive support among US Jews during his term and in the 2020 election: The interview, which will appear in the upcoming edition of the US-based publication, was conducted at the 45th president’s Florida home and club known as Mar-a-Lago. “You know what really... 

Just because parents want their offspring to be the world’s wokeist doesn’t mean it will be so. Plonking kids in front of a TV screen and demanding they enjoy a camp concert doesn’t mean they’ll grow up how their parents imagine. If I was an obsessive wokey parent, I’d be very worried about the inevitable blowback. Know what I mean? You’ll no doubt recall your own years of teenage rebellion,... 

Researchers in the United States have developed a new method for controlling the brain circuits associated with complex animal behaviours, using genetic engineering to create a magnetised protein that activates specific groups of nerve cells from a distance. Understanding how the brain generates behaviour is one of the ultimate goals of neuroscience – and one of its most difficult questions. In... 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law (CS/HB 805), which allows Hatzalah — a private Emergency Medical Service that caters to wealthy Jewish communities of South Florida — to operate without special licensing requirements: In an event attended by Rabbonim, Hatzalah volunteers, and many community activists and members, DeSantis signed the bill into law at The Shul of Bal Harbour in Surfside. Hatzalah... 

More than half of popular cosmetics being sold in the US and Canada are likely to contain high levels of toxic chemicals called polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a new study has warned. Researchers from Notre Dame University tested more than 200 products including concealers, foundations, eye and eyebrow products and lip products, and found evidence of PFAS in around half (52 per cent) of them. Worryingly,... 

Juventus talisman Cristiano Ronaldo is not the first sports star to reject a soft drinks brand – in 2017, Virat Kohli, the captain of the Indian cricket team, rejected a multi-million deal with Pepsi. When Portuguese skipper Cristiano Ronaldo’s removed two Coca-Cola bottles from his table during a press conference at the Euros on Monday in Budapest, no one could have imagined just how significant... 

A police detective has testified that the suspect in a weekend shooting spree in Alabama and Georgia that wounded 5 people told investigators he was targeting white men. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported a police detective testified Monday in a preliminary hearing. The detective said Justin Tyran Roberts, who is Black, told police that white men had picked on him all his life. Police accused Roberts... 

Denouncing Facebook’s “insidious” operating practices, iconic Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters did not mince words in rejecting the social media giant’s request to use his song ‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)’ in an ad campaign. At a public forum event in support of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in New York last week, Waters held up a sheet of paper and claimed that Facebook... 

Powerful Jewish supremacy groups are increasing their pressure on President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress to award U.S. citizenship to illegal, undocumented migrants — without the approval of Republicans: In a letter sent Wednesday addressed to Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the groups said such a pathway [to citizenship]... 

As American educational institutions continue to be called into question, a North Korean defector fears the United States’ future “is as bleak as North Korea” after she attended one of the country’s most prestigious universities. Yeonmi Park has experienced plenty of struggle and hardship, but she does not call herself a victim. One of several hundred North Korean defectors... 

Christopher Sign, the man who blew the whistle about the 2016 tarmac meeting between Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, has been found dead in his apartment. His death is being invesitgated by police as an apparent “suicide,” according to Alabama police Lt. Keith Czeskleba. The body of the 45-year-old news anchor for ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, was discovered by Hoover police and...