Sean Salai

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

D.C. area gets ‘F’ for smog from American Lung Association

An annual report card from the American Lung Association gives the air in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington area an "F" grade for smog and says soot also worsened from 2018 to 2020.

April 21, 2022

Progressives demand CU Boulder close conservative center over ‘White supremacy culture’

Progressives are demanding that the University of Colorado-Boulder shut down a privately funded conservative center because it promotes a "White supremacy culture" by cultivating intellectuals connected to former President Donald Trump.

April 20, 2022

Survey: Nearly half of hospital nurses report increased workplace violence

Nearly half of registered nurses are reporting a surge in workplace violence as pandemic-driven staffing shortages worsen in hospitals throughout the country, according to a recent survey from a national nurses' union.

April 20, 2022

Conservatives fight ‘woke math’ textbooks in K-12 schools

Conservatives are increasingly fighting to remove "woke" public school textbooks that present mathematics as a tool of White supremacy.

April 20, 2022

Biden to scrap rule allowing hospitals, employers, staff to opt-out of abortions, trans services

The Biden administration plans to remove a Trump-era conscience clause that protected medical workers from participating in services like abortions and transgender sex-change treatments.

April 19, 2022

Former med school dean starts nonprofit to fight ‘woke healthcare’

A former Ivy League medical school dean pledged to fight "woke healthcare" in a Wall Street Journal editorial on Tuesday, launching a network for doctors and students who resist the fast-growing idea that American medical practices are systemically racist.

April 19, 2022

New study finds suicide, bullying, risky sex more likely among transgender teens

Transgender and gender-questioning teenagers are more likely than their peers to engage in risky sexual behavior, commit suicide and be the victims of bullying, according to new medical research.

April 19, 2022

Report: More universities holding segregated graduation events

Universities are increasingly offering graduation events focused on participants' identities and segregated by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and even income, according to a report by a conservative education publication.

April 18, 2022