While many of America's classrooms remain criminally regressive when it comes to their sexual education policies, today Illinois has helped put a kibosh on some of that bullshit by stepping slightly into the 21st Century.
The FBI has reportedly arrested a 37-year-old suspect in a Spokane ricin letter scare, not to be confused with last month's Ricin letter scare
The U.S. government formally—and finally—admitted to killing four American citizens today, one day before President Obama is set to deliver an important speech on national security and counterterrorism issues.
Flying Metal Pipe Impales Driver in Nightmare Come to Life
You know that feeling you get when you're driving on the freeway behind a truck laden with metal pipes and your immediate instinct is to get away from that truck before one of those pipes flies out and impales you? Well, it turns out that's not such an irrational instinct.
ThinkProgress goes long on this question: "If [Jason "Latinos Have Low IQs
With a vote of 13 to 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a landmark immigration bill that would offer a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living in America illegally.
The AP is not alone
"Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) rejected comparisons between federal aid for [yesterday's tornado] and the Hurricane Sandy relief package he voted against. That was a 'totally different' situation, Inhofe told MSNBC..." Of course it was, James.
Anti-Gay Marriage Historian Shoots Himself at the Altar of Notre Dame
Dominique Venner, a notable far-right French historian, shot himself in the head
(Update) Yet Another Gay Man Was Attacked in New York City Last Night
Just a few days after a homophobe murdered gay man Mark Carson
