As part of National Bullying Prevention Month, first lady Melania Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos kicked off the “Week of Inclusion” on Monday at a Michigan middle school, where they participated in “lessons about respecting others, kindness, and inclusion.” President Donald Trump ’s White…

ESPN on Monday dropped its partnership with Barstool Sports after concerns over sexist and misogynistic comments made on one of the website’s blog posts and podcast episodes. The network originally signed on with Barstool to convert its popular podcast “Pardon My Take” into a series called “Barstool…

The Texas dad police accused of leaving his 3-year-old daughter outside in the middle of the night as punishment for not drinking her milk was charged with a first-degree felony on Monday, the day after authorities found a child’s body near the family’s home. Wesley Mathews, 37, voluntarily met with…

After landfall of deadly category 5 storm Hurricane Maria in September, the island of Puerto Rico is still in dire condition, with many families left to cope with the after-effects with limited or no access to power, clean running water, food and cellular service. Paris Jackson , who is deeply…

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is a man of his word, according to allies who said the Breitbart chairman is more determined than ever to wage war on incumbent Republicans in 2018 even without President Trump's endorsement. Hours after Trump decried inaction by congressional…

October remains a lukewarm month at the box office, as this weekend’s returns confirm. The No. 1 movie in North America, Tyler Perry’s “Boo 2! A Madea Halloween,” debuted to an estimated $21.7 million, dipping from the $28.5 million that its predecessor, “A Madea Halloween,” earned last year . The…

HOUSTON -- Scoot over, Killer B's. Make room for the Sluggin' Stros. It took all seven games and every ounce of the invaluable home-field advantage they earned during a six-month, 162-game, regular-season grind. But the Houston Astros finally vanquished the upstart New York Yankees in the American…

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) was right to call former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon a white supremacist, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) contended on Sunday. “I agree that Steve Bannon is a white supremacist, and [senior White House adviser] Stephen Miller seems to be. And I know that…

Former porn star Jenna Jameson has stripped away any doubts about how she feels about Playboy featuring its first openly transgender Playmate after publicly slamming the magazine’s decision as “ridiculous” and liking a series of transphobic tweets. Followings news of French model Ines Rau’s upcoming…

Astros starting pitcher Justin Verlander got his second win of the ALCS on Friday. (Troy Taormina/USA Today Sports) HOUSTON — At a few seconds before midnight on Aug. 31, the final signatures were secured, the official documents were routed electronically to Major League Baseball’s Manhattan…

Members of the left wing of the Democratic Party are furious at Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez for removing party officials who backed Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison’s chairmanship bid from key party committees. “It’s a slap in the face to the activists in the party that are working…

President Donald Trump got a salute as his motorcade drove through Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening, but it wasn’t one of a military nature. A pool report notes that the press accompanying the president spotted someone offering the passing motorcade a moon. The pool report from Yahoo’s Hunter…

Former President Barack Obama condemned Ed Gillespie, the GOP nominee for Virginia governor, for airing a misleading, race-baiting ad tying Democratic opponent Ralph Northam to the notorious MS-13 gang, calling the advertisement “cynical” and “corrosive.” Appearing at a campaign rally in Richmond,…

WASHINGTON — Academy Award-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for decades has been hearing about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuse, and regrets not taking the accusations more seriously, he told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday. “I knew enough to do…

David Blaine is under investigation by London police after a model accused the famous magician of raping her in 2004, according to a report from The Daily Beast. Natasha Prince told the news outlet in an exclusive interview published Thursday that Blaine, 44, raped her at a private U.K. residence…

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As firefighters in Northern California the Sonoma County sheriff is facing a different battle: fighting misinformation about how the fires started. Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano issued a statement Thursday on Facebook calling out Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for spreading “inaccurate,…

A cub scout in Colorado has been cast out of his den after he asked a state legislator pointed questions about racially charged comments she made about African-Americans in 2013 and a gun bill she co-sponsored. Ames Mayfield, 11, and other members of his den in Broomfield had a question-and-answer…

Former President Barack Obama has talked about his penchant for writing heady love letters during his college days. Now, we know a little more about what he wrote in them. Nine handwritten letters from Obama to his college girlfriend, Alexandra McNear, were recently obtained by Emory University and…

Scientists soon will be able to compare DNA extracted from a human bone, found during an investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, to missing Maryland native Robyn Gardner. “I am going to submit my DNA in the next few days to see if there is a match,” Gardner’s sister,…

One Facebook page is truly delivering the goods. UPS Dogs is an online community for UPS drivers to share photos and videos of all the furball friends they meet on their routes. Sean McCarren, 41, has been working for UPS for 17 years and is the mind behind the page. “When you’re running into dogs…

Mayim Bialik has issued an apology for her New York Times opinion piece about the allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein and sexual misconduct in Hollywood. In the op-ed, which was published last week (Oct. 13), Bialik spoke about the “luxury” of being a ”‘nontraditional’-looking woman” in…

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’d give himself “a 10,” on a scale of 1 to 10, for how he has responded to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit the island. “I’d say it was a 10,” Trump told a reporter at a White House event with Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. “I give…

Former President George W. Bush critiqued President Donald Trump’s worldview in a speech Thursday, but failed to acknowledge his own part in creating conditions that powered Trump’s rise. Bush, speaking at the George W. Bush Institute-hosted “ Spirit of Liberty ” forum in New York City, outlined…

After defending accused rapist Harvey Weinstein, Lindsay Lohan claims she didn’t receive any public support from “most women in America” when she was in an allegedly abusive relationship. As accusations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein continue to mount, the actress took to Instagram once…

Texas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson thinks women bear some of the responsibility in preventing sexual harassment and abuse. Rep. Johnson told local news station NBC 5 that she was disappointed and angered by the allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and misconduct against Hollywood…

Chelsea Handler is quitting her weekly talk show on Netflix . The comedian revealed via Twitter on Wednesday that she wouldn’t return for a third season of “ Chelsea ” in 2018, and was instead turning to political activism. “ Like so many across the country , the past presidential election and the…

The FBI, along with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, recovered 84 children and arrested 120 suspected traffickers as part of a nationwide initiative to clamp down on the sex trafficking of minors. Operation Cross Country XI, which ran from Oct. 12 to Oct. 15 and focused on…

Stephenie Larsen is a busy mother of six. When she isn’t wheeling across town, dropping her kids off at school or sports, she runs a support network for gay youth. Larsen opened the nonprofit Encircle LGBTQ Family and Youth Resource Center in downtown Provo, Utah, in February. The center aims to be…

With reporting by Eric Baker, Morgan Berry, Jenna Crowther, Savannah Hopkinson, Matt John, Tassji Krup, Ashley Lee, Saul Marquez, Carley Porter, Laura Spilsbury, Hannah Stanford, Camilla Stimpson, Rebecca Sumsion and Anne Taylor. PROVO, Utah ― For millennials in Utah, one of the most conservative…

This is the first episode in the HuffPost podcast series “ I’m Still Here ” that visits communities whose tales of adversity have put them on the map and explores what “survival” in America really looks like. In this episode “We’re The Bathroom State Now,” James Michael Nichols travels to Asheville,…

Solange has a clear message for the London Evening Standard: Don’t touch my hair. dtmh @eveningstandardmagazine A post shared by Solange (@saintrecords) on Oct 19, 2017 at 9:25am PDT On the cover of the latest issue of the Evening Standard Magazine , the singer is seen wearing a white ruffled dress,…

After a four-month military offensive, U.S.-backed forces this week drove militants from the self-described Islamic State out of what was once their de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria. But the city Kurdish-led fighters entered bares hardly any resemblance to what extremists captured in 2014. Years…

A Gold Star father whose son died while serving in Iraq and who became part of the contentious 2016 presidential campaign said President Donald Trump simply can’t comprehend what it means to make the “ultimate sacrifice” for his country. Khizr Khan spoke to HuffPost Thursday following a series of…

NOW PLAYING Kelly Weighs In On Trump's Call To Widow White House Chief of Staff John Kelly defended President Trump’s call to a Gold Star family. During a press briefing, he slammed Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) for discussing the call publicly and stood by Trump’s message that the fallen soldier…

It’s been nearly two months since Taylor Swift gave us the first taste of her upcoming album, “Reputation,” but it already feels longer than every excruciating minute she spent on screen in “Valentine’s Day.” After splintering the internet into a million pieces with her first single, “Look What You…

Almost every Senate Republican voted Thursday to block an amendment that would have protected a swath of the Alaskan Arctic from oil exploration, flouting attempts from Democrats and environmental groups to keep the region under government protection. Democrats, led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.),…

White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted Thursday that criticism about President Donald Trump ’s controversial condolence call to the widow of a soldier killed in Niger was “just the haters being presumptively negative, as they always are.” Conway, in a Fox News interview with Harris…

“Geostorm,” the new disaster flick notching fair-weather reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, may not have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning over critics. But this prank to promote it is pretty cool. Inspired by the movie’s plot of satellites that control the weather going haywire, Thinkmodo rigged a…

A judge rebuffed former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s request to expunge his criminal conviction for unlawfully detaining individuals based on suspicions of their legal status after President Donald Trump pardoned him in August. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton ruled Thursday that the…