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Two teachers have been fired after being recorded making inappropriate comments and mocking a severely autistic boy in the US.The boy’s mother, Milissa Davis, said she sent her 12-year-old son Camden to Hope Academy in Louisiana with a recording device in his backpack after he became aggressive at home and started wetting his bed.The recordings can be heard at least two adults in the classroom, identified as a teacher and a teacher’s aide, saying nasty things to and talking about the boy.”It’s just writing words. What’s so hard about it?” the adult said. The boy responded with a grunt, after…

Watch as a big trailer flies over an F1 carThe Lotus F1 team arranged a stunt in which a large trailer truck jumped over the race car, breaking not only the axle but also the record.If you know the name Mike Ryan, you’ve probably seen him build and race diesel-powered tractor-trailers in unlikely places like Pikes Peak, or seen videos of Ken Block-esque five-ton, 2,400-horsepower trucks dancing around the harbor in Long Beach.Now Ryan has set a new world record for a semi-jump across the ocean for a British company, with a Lotus F1 car accompanying him to film the…

WARNING – DISRUPTIONARY CONTENT: Police have issued a stern warning about ‘Blue Whale’, a suicide game that began targeting teenagers in Russia and may now be spreading worldwide.Blue Whale reportedly targets players between the ages of 10 and 14, and forces them to complete a series of painful, mundane tasks, including waking up in the middle of the night, carving shapes into their skin, and thinking about death.As the game progresses over the course of several weeks, participants reach the final challenge: suicide.The game, which has become popular online among teenagers, has drawn warnings from police in Europe, Russia, Central…

This article originally appeared on ACLU’s Speak Freely. People across the country filed their tax returns last week, glitches and all. If past trends hold, this year’s taxpayers will include millions of illegal immigrants.While federal law protects the confidentiality of tax information, concerns have been expressed recently that tax-related information provided to the government by immigrants and their employers could be used by the Trump Administration as a new immigration enforcement tool, and evidence suggests that the number of individuals filing tax returns has dropped significantly.That’s why the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request last week, requesting information…

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid and Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook have a history together. The last time the teams met, the two players got into a post-game altercation.Embiid could have ended the battle on Sunday, but he didn’t even need to open his mouth. Instead, he slammed a thunderous dunk over Westbrook’s head and sent the guard tumbling to the floor.Rest in peace Russell Westbrook. Great job.Did Embiid intentionally go for the rim, knowing only Westbrook was nearby? It’s hard to say, but it seems he knew who he was jumping over after the dunk. You can see…

Physicists have designed the first machine to create negatively charged, massive particles, a breakthrough that could lead to an entirely new way of generating laser light using tiny amounts of energy.The key to their success was creating a device that allowed them to create strange particles called polaritons. In this device, University of Rochester researchers arranged two mirrors to form an “optical microcavity.” Within that space, light is held at different colors of the spectrum, depending on the arrangement of the mirrors, according to a University of Rochester press release.The researchers fitted a semiconductor made from two chemical elements, one…

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders addresses reporters during her daily press conference on Sept. 5. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders addresses reporters during her daily press conference on Sept. 5. Getty Images ✓ Link copied to clipboard! Did White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders really tell reporters it was wrong to question a general? That’s exactly what Sanders appeared to say at a White House press conference Friday afternoon when asked about Chief of Staff John Kelly’s dramatic and controversial comments on Thursday in which he blasted a female Democratic congresswoman over the president’s phone…

This article first appeared in the Council on Foreign Relations.The United Nations General Assembly will soon begin, with the traditional opening address by the Brazilian President to be followed by a speech by the US President.This year’s speeches and activities will be, as always, a mix of interesting and boring, important and useless, honest and hypocritical.Whatever is said in the speeches, why can’t the United Nations do more to promote freedom?Although the preamble to the UN Charter states that the purpose of the UN is “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights”, the UN’s track record in achieving that purpose…

This article first appeared in the Council on Foreign Relations.The United Nations General Assembly will soon begin, with the traditional opening address by the Brazilian President to be followed by a speech by the US President.This year’s speeches and activities will be, as always, a mix of interesting and boring, important and useless, honest and hypocritical.Whatever is said in the speeches, why can’t the United Nations do more to promote freedom?Although the preamble to the UN Charter states that the purpose of the UN is “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights”, the UN’s track record in achieving that purpose…

Being poor is a real headache.A new study finds a compelling link between migraines and financial instability. The study, presented at the European Society of Neuropsychopharmacology’s annual conference on Saturday, identified specific mutations in the CLOCK gene, a gene involved in sleep-wake cycles (also known as circadian rhythms), that make chronic stress-related migraines more likely.The findings of the study of more than 2,000 people support the idea that stress can disrupt normal sleep and cause headaches, said Ksenia Gonda, an assistant professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.”This is crucial to going beyond anecdotal stories and…