Trump is extraordinarily unpopular with independent voters and Democrats. Over the last six months, more than 7,500 former students have asked the government to forgive their college loan debts totaling some $164 million. Texas grand jury has indicted two anti-abortion activists in a case involving covert videos, San Diego naval base endorses husband of gay sailor for national ‘Military Spouse of the Year.’ 6 Responses To Bernie Sanders Skeptics. An eighth-grader in a Killeen, Texas school was suspended for two days for helping a classmate who collapsed while suffering an asthma attack. A Department of Justice watchdog officially condemned the DEA this month, following a report that the agency had recruited a TSA security screener to search bags for cash that the DEA could confiscate. Several red states are trying to fight against marriage equality by passing discriminatory laws against homosexuals. “Aversion therapy” is banned in many states, but Oklahoma is dead set on allowing parents to try to electroshock their kids into being straight. There have been nine people in total who have been diagnosed with the Zika virus in Florida, though health officials believe that all of them contracted the disease while outside of the U.S. Colorado school district pushes Christian ‘purity’ training for 11-year-old girls to find future husbands. Vermont police could be allowed to search drivers’ phones without a warrant to look for evidence of texting, Independent economists: TPP will kill 450,000 US jobs; 75,000 Japanese jobs, 58,000 Canadian jobs. Bernie slams tax-dodging Walmart heirs: They ‘thank you for paying taxes’ so they don’t have to. Republican governor Rick Snyder released some staff emails on Jan. 20, showing that he was well aware that Flint citizens were slowly being poisoned following a decision by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to force them to live with lead-tainted water. Fiorina’s tough anti-abortion stance briefly sent her soaring in the polls, after a Republican candidates’ debate in which she dared President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to watch what she said was a video in which Planned Parenthood medical personnel harvested tissue from an aborted fetus, the heart of which was still beating. Her campaign was never able to produce a video matching her description (you mean politicians lie for personal gain). Several leading veterans activists and supporters denounced Donald Trump's hastily arranged fundraiser for veterans in Iowa as a "political ploy." "The politicization of veterans' issues is at an all-time high," Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said in an interview. "We hope all the candidates can focus on veteran’s policy and veteran’s issues and not just use veterans as a political prop." The fundraiser grew out of Trump's decision this week to back out of a Fox News-sponsored Republican presidential debate because of his temper tantrum over the choice of one of the moderators, news anchor Megyn Kelly. A Washington woman was critically injured after being shot in the chest when a drunk man fumbled with his gun during a showing of the Benghazi movie “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.” A Georgia Republican is sick and tired of hearing criticism of the Confederacy — and he’s introducing legislation intended to preserve its remaining symbols around the state. A New Hampshire man seeking to get back to the “original Constitution” was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday after he purchased grenades from an undercover agent, telling him he had another $200,000 on hand to buy C-4 explosives and “rocket-type stuff.” As a record-breaking sailor, Dame Ellen MacArthur has seen more of the world’s oceans than almost anyone else. Now she is warning that there will be more waste plastic in the sea than fish by 2050, unless the industry cleans up its act. A promising clinical study shows that the turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor) improves the immune systems of breast cancer patients. The multiyear study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), tracked whether or not turkey tail mushrooms could positively affect the immune system of patients rebound after they ended their radiation therapy. Last week, members of the lower house of the Russian parliament, or Duma, considered a new bill banning homosexuals from public displays of affection. They would be fined for kissing in the street or holding hands on the subway. Homosexuality, the bill’s authors contended, is a Western ideology planted in the minds of Russia’s young people in order to reduce the country’s population. Sondra Earle-Kelly, 51, was charged with aggravated domestic violence after police found her husband with blood 'all over him' and spattered up the walls of their home in Charlotte, South Carolina. The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday that it intercepted 2,653 guns at airport security checkpoints in 2015. An anonymous troll mocked Ammon Bundy on Craigslist, posing as the Oregon occupation leader and offering his ubiquitous plaid ranchers jacket for sale at a bargain price of $50,000 — or 200 cartons of cigarettes plus snacks. School trustees in a conservative community near Fresno are battling to save a dress code that currently prohibits boys from wearing earrings or having their hair long. Pets might run away from home for all kinds of reasons. They might be frightened, overly curious, or even abused. But I’ve never heard of a dog doing anything quite like this.