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Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said conservatives needed to 'call men back to responsibility,' in a new interview that aired Sunday on Axios on HBO. 'Spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn online while doing nothing is not good for you, your family, or this country,' Hawley said. The Missouri Republican also suggested the left should be blamed for men's undoing.

There is “hubris,” and then there’s “chutzpah.” I don’t know which one we should accuse San Francisco Mayor London Breed of being guilty of after she was caught not wearing a mask while partying at a nightclub with the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza.It’s what she said in her defense that’s so incredible.“We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing, Breed said, trying to dismiss accusations that she had shirked city rules,” according to KPIX.London Breed, mayor of San Francisco, the first US city to...

At bars across the country, people are regularly demanding a vodka or Jagermeister mixed with Red Bull. Now some have the option of switching to alcohol already infused with energy. Some do it for the taste, others for the jolt of energy. But experts say the trendy cocktails could be harmful, giving drinkers a false sense of alertness that could lead to disaster. More than two dozen attorneys general across the nation recently announced that alcohol and energy drinks don't mix, and asked the federal government to take another look at what is in the drinks and how they are...

ATHENS - People here apparently like things the way they are. By wide margins Tuesday, voters in all of Limestone County chose not to increase the sales tax rate and Athens voters elected to continue the legal sale of alcohol. With all but provisional ballots counted, the bid to increase the sales tax by 1 percent countywide failed 7,875 votes to 3,991 votes, or 66.4 percent against to 33.6 percent for. The pro-alcohol sales vote in Athens won by a similar margin - 67.9 percent (4,288 votes) to 32.1 percent (2,030 votes). The Limestone County Board of Education asked for...

The recent indictment of two Rider University administrators following the alcohol-related death of a student at a fraternity is prompting colleges and universities across the state and country to review their alcohol policies. But perhaps a bigger worry for schools is the amount of liability they might be asked to bear for students' dangerous behavior. "I can assure you there are a lot of conversations taking place on campuses about this," said George Brelsford, dean of students at Rowan University in Glassboro. "Certainly we are watching this case very closely. We are reviewing everything we do as it relates to...

The Houston Police Department's Vice Squad is putting together plans to start raiding dozens of the city's sexually oriented businesses. That crackdown, 11 News has learned, could begin within weeks. Owners of more than 120 topless clubs, modeling studios and adults bookstores in Houston will soon receive a two-page letter from the city's Legal Department. The letter says the businesses are in violation of the city's sexually oriented business ordinance; too close to neighborhoods, schools or parks. The City of Houston has spent more than $1.3 million in court costs over the last decade fighting to enforce this ordinance. Now,...

WASHINGTON—Anheuser-Busch should drop its sponsorship of a Washington, D.C. charity event called the "Idiotarod," organized by a local group that goes by the acronym "SMASHED," according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The March 3 event, in which young people are urged to acquire shopping carts and drink beer in one bar after another, is in clear violation of the Beer Institute's Advertising and Marketing Code, which prohibits marketing which encourages rapid or excessive beer drinking or drinking games, according to the group. "Prepare your liver," the SMASHED organizers say on their web site. "We...

A former Jewish grand rabbi Mordechai Eliahu has laid down the law on amateur operatics in the shower: you can hum but you can't sing. "You will not sing in the shower," the former leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews instructed a listener inquiring about Talmudic laws on an ultra-Orthodox religious radio programme. Rabbi Eliahu explained that the Hebrew language, holy to the Jewish religion, was not to be sullied by use in a bathroom, Wednesday's edition of Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported. But the rabbi, considered a religious authority in world Judaism, went on to soften his stand. "To hum without...

LONDON (Reuters) - Funfairs could come under pressure this summer to scrap the age-old tradition of giving away goldfish as prizes because the practice is seen as cruel. Reuters Photo Winning a goldfish in a plastic bag, as synonymous with funfairs as candy floss and a ride on the dodgems, may be on the way out if the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has its way. "We would like to see the end of goldfish in little plastic bags," a spokeswoman for the animal welfare group said on Monday. "The fish can suffer stress and can...

<p>It wasn't yet noon, and Hank Denny had almost finished drinking a 40-ounce bottle of King Cobra malt liquor.</p> <p>Denny, 53, was drinking with his friends at Tuolumne River Regional Park in Modesto. He says he drinks here, and in other parks around the city, often.</p>