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Children draw in one of the classrooms at the Children's Promise Centers child care center in Albuquerque, N.M., April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

PragerU CEO ties classroom ‘adultism’ push to socialist agenda

A growing "ethnic studies" push in American classrooms is teaching students that ordinary parenting amounts to oppression, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit warned in a recent interview. She said the curriculum leans heavily on the term "adultism," a concept that originated in sociology to describe age discrimination against children.

July 29, 2026
In this April 27, 2019, file photo, Jared Leto attends the screening for "A Day In The Life Of America" during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Leto says he just emerged from the desert to find a world transformed and was stunned to find much of the world shut down and sheltering over the coronavirus pandemic, which had long since begun but had not yet had such vast impact on life the U.S. when he left. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, file)

Jared Leto accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women

Actor and musician Jared Leto has been accused of criminal sexual conduct by four women in a new BBC documentary, which aired Wednesday. In total, 10 women spoke to the BBC for the film, nine of whom said they were sharing their accounts publicly for the first time. Some claim they were underage at the time of the alleged misconduct. Leto has denied the accusations.

July 29, 2026
An American flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Kansas teacher says she’ll keep using students’ preferred pronouns despite probe

A science teacher with Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, says she has no intention of stopping her use of students' preferred names and pronouns, even as the district faces the possible loss of federal funding over the practice. The teacher said: "If your child was born Nicole, and one day they ask me to call them Nick so they feel more comfortable, then I am going to call them Nick and keep it moving. That is not indoctrination. That is a teacher being a safe place for ALL kids. Period."

July 28, 2026