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Grindr, the world's biggest dating app for the LGBT community, is being sued for allegedly sharing personal information such as people's HIV status with third parties. According to the claim, lodged at the High Court in London, "covert tracking technology" was deployed, and highly sensitive information was illegally shared with advertisers. Law firm Austen Hays says there are more than 650 claimants and "thousands" of UK users were affected. Grindr says it will "respond vigorously" to the claim.

As we step into STI Awareness Week (April 14-20), it’s time to spotlight a crucial health conversation that often lurks in the shadows of taboo, misinformation, and stigma. At Legacy Community Health, we’re committed to reinforcing the importance of sexual health awareness by speaking on the topic and offering free walk-in HIV testing and affordable full panel STI testing.

A recent drone search for a missing husky in Kamchatka, Russia, took a surprising turn when the pet was found not alone, but playfully interacting with a group of wild brown bears. The undated footage, now going viral on social media, shows the husky trailing the bears and even circling them excitedly. While one bear attempts to nudge the dog away when it gets too close, the overall interaction appears non-threatening.

An Air Force cadet and a Navy midshipman have won their lawsuit after being denied promotions for being HIV-positive. Former Navy midshipman Kevin Deese and former Air Force cadet John Doe (a pseudonym) filed the lawsuit against the Department of Defense in 2018 when they were denied commissions after graduating from their respective service academies simply because they are living with HIV. The settlement, announced Monday, will see that the two are commissioned as officers "in recognition of the status and military careers they qualified for and earned years ago," according to a Lambda Legal press release.

Mpox cases have been elevated since October, with an average of roughly 200 monthly cases detected per month, spurring efforts to avoid a summer surge like what was seen in 2022. Recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a startling difference between the first quarter of 2023 and 2024, with the first three months of this year seeing nearly double the rate of cases seen the same time last year.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ( D-TX) once sat on the House Science Committee and the House Space Committee. But understanding astronomy seems to elude her. Jackson Lee attended an event at Booker T. Washington High School where the “Trust the Science” party member clearly does not understand the science. Jackson Lee explained to the crowd, “You have the energy of the moon at night.” What?

According to the Daily Wire, a 28-year-old Dutch woman with no physical health conditions is scheduled to die by euthanasia only because she is depressed. Zoraya ter Beek says she has mental health issues, autism, and borderline personality disorder and that her psychiatrist told her, “There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.” She told The Free Press, “I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.”

The FDA is set to axe its ban on gay and bisexual men donating sperm, it has been revealed. Under the current rule, men who have had sex with men within the last five years are blocked from anonymously donating sperm amid fears of HIV infection. But the agency is now seeking to scrap the blanket ban, and replace it with screening questions that assess a donor's risk of carrying HIV or other infections.

An elderly, single friend of mine had to quickly downsize due to some health issues and contracted with an estate liquidator, with my help. The liquidator was listed as a preferred servicer in some trusted real estate literature, so we thought it would be safe. It was an off-site sale since his home needed to be empty for listing (long story) and the liquidator said it would be 30 - 45 days for settlement of the sale. Contracted movers were very friendly, local, and vouched for the estate liquidator. More than six months later and dozens of calls, and the...

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department is ponying up money — and rewriting outdated hiring policies — after denying an HIV-positive man a job as a first responder. The unnamed Black man was refused a job with the MNPD in 2020, prompting him to sue the department last year. At the time of the man applying for a position, the MNPD followed hiring practices set forth by the United States Army. The Army previously barred people living with HIV from enlisting, but no longer discharges military members due to HIV status or considers HIV in deployment or commission decisions.

Amid warnings about “Christian nationalism,” the number of voters who view the U.S. government as a threat to religious liberty has sharply increased. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 56% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the federal government today is a threat to Americans' religious rights, more than double the 26% who consider the government a protector of religious rights. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. In 2017, 39% viewed the federal government as a protector of religious rights and 38% saw it as a threat.

Bill Whatcott is one of those people who ultimately helps change the world for the better. Many people talk about fighting back against the radical agendas degrading society – but back off when the government (or the Left) threatens them. Bill Whatcott takes his Christian faith seriously and refuses to back down! The details of this outrageous situation are documented by MassResistance here. The “crime” In 2016, Bill and his friends registered to march in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade as members of the “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association.” Marching in the parade wearing masks and green body suits, they...

I want to donate to Trump, both to his campaign and to his legal defense. Is there an official website to do this? I know there are a lot of charlatans out there and didn't want to get swindled by a bogus site.

An Oklahoma district attorney declined to file charges in connection with the death of nonbinary teenager Nex Benedict, officials said Thursday. Benedict, a 16-year-old student at Owasso High School near Tulsa, died by suicide on Feb. 8, one day after a fight in a high school bathroom. "Based upon the investigation of the Owasso Police Department, I am in agreement with their assessment that the filing of juvenile charges is not warranted," Tulsa County District Attorney Stephen A. Kunzweiler said in a statement. "From all of the evidence gathered, this fight was an instance of mutual combat," Kunzweiler wrote.

Members on the leftist state Supreme Court in Washington have ruled that the bar exam for prospective lawyers is racist, so candidates can do something else to qualify, like do an apprenticeship or an internship. Fox News said the court decided the traditional test "disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law." Further, they said, it is "at best minimally effective for ensuring competent lawyers."

The overturning of Roe vs Wade in 2022 that returned the issue of abortion back to the states has failed to reduce the number of abortions, according to the latest research. According to a report released this week by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, there were over one million abortions in 2023, the highest rate in more than a decade and a 10 percent increase in 2020.

Is it a good company? What are the servings like? Need some good, quick, healthy meals for a busy lifestyle.

Almost NO ONE who now calls me is a native English speaker, and has NO phone skills. Low volume, sloppy script, and no supervisor who can relay and intelligible message. The same goes for service desks. When I get a professional, AMERICAN English speaker, it just makes my day.

Support for same-sex marriage in the U.S. has fallen for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a new survey. The Public Religion Research Institute published updates to its American Values Atlas on Tuesday, revealing that public support for same-sex marriage dropped from 69% to 67% from 2022 to 2023.

I've become super-careful and sensitive to online security threats in recent years, through personal experience an those who I love. One question I have advanced is the wisdom of "unsubscribing" to various junk emails from senders who I have no idea how I've been connected to in the first place. Many of them are political emails, which I can understand, since these orgs get names from databases in political donations and party affiliations. I will readily unsubscribe from org e-mailings I'm familiar with, but what about mystery ones? I'm very reticent to click on ANY link without knowing exactly what...