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"The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah criticized "gender reveal parties" earlier this week, arguing they should only happen when the child is "old enough to know their actual gender." "Celebrating a baby's genitalia is starting to feel very outdated," Noah said on Tuesday's show. "Like, given everything we're learning about gender, gender reveal parties should only happen when the child is old enough to know their actual gender." Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, responded Friday by mocking Noah's comments on Twitter, writing, "Hollywood is funniest when they don’t intend to be."

The hostess with the moosest [Mark Steyn] Over in the Frumistan province of the NR caliphate, our pal David is not happy about the Palin pick. I am - for several reasons. First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old Canadian woman who survived a car crash carried her severed arm with her until she could receive reattachment treatment. After Joni Ross' car slipped off a road outside the Canadian village of Pemberton last week, the injured college student clutched her severed left arm and walked for help, the Vancouver Sun reported. After finding no one home at an area house, the University of British Columbia student waited on the road Thursday until a passerby, an off-duty paramedic, got her medical attention. The injured woman endured a nearly three-hour helicopter ride...