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For the first time in history, a female duo will be calling a NFL game. Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will become the first female broadcasting team to provide commentary and analysis during an NFL game when they call this week's Thursday Night Football matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams on Amazon Prime Video. The live streaming service made the announcement on Tuesday.

In the United States, the percentage of adults identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has increased to 4.5 percent, according to a year-long survey, which also shows that the biggest increase has been among millennials. Gallup's daily tracking in 2017 has found that more than 11 million adults now identify as LGBT in the country, which is 4.5 percent of the population — up from 4.1 percent in 2016 and 3.5 percent in 2012. The increase is driven primarily by the millennials, meaning those born between 1980 and 1999, as those from this group who identify as LGBT rose...

Apple Watch. Seems like Apple has a hit on its corporate hands. Or a preorder hit. The company sold a million Apple Watches in the first 24 hours—just in the U.S.—according to one piece of analysis. That would make it the most successful new product category launch in Apple's history—so what do you do if you've been talking smack about it for months? If you're Roger Kay, you stuff a straw man full of nonsensical numbers that will allow you to declare the device a failure no matter what. It's a neat trick so long as no one applies a...

"He's been asking me for weeks to get him a Nintendo DSi for Christmas," Alicia explained. Her son, Alex, is only nine. Christmas is well over a month away but he's been relentlessly pressing for the "must-have" electronic toy that his classmates already own. Money is tight for Alicia's family these days, and the handheld device starts at 149.99. Games are extra, at $35 a pop. Alicia doesn't indulge in expensive clothes, trendy bags, or "must have" purchases-at least for herself. But when it comes to her son, mom-guilt too easily clouds her perspective. And retailers and advertising gurus wouldn't...

This is the authoritative text on Marxist Pants. The general thesis of this article is that Marxist Pants have a potent influence on Americans class-identification and that this influence, furthermore, is degrading the American Way of Life. Marxism is a volatile pseudo-philosophy which attempts to subordinate all other possible modes of existence to itself. It is especially hostile to the American Way of Life. The insertion of Marxist Pants into our sanguine society is something every American citizen should be concerned about. Without the knowledge contained below, any attempt to fight against this scourge of seductive socialist pants will be...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress is considering an apology for slavery, something five states have done in the past year. While it has apologized before, Congress never apologized for slavery, USA Today reported Thursday. "We've seen states step forward on this," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, noting resolutions in Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia. "I'm really shocked, just shocked" that the federal government hasn't apologized. "It's time to do so." Harkin said he and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., will propose an apology for slavery and subsequent "Jim Crow" laws that furthered racial segregation. Among...

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Rep. Chris Shays, a Republican facing a tough challenge from an anti-war Democrat, on Wednesday called for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign. The Connecticut lawmaker also accused officials at the Defense Department of withholding information about the Iraq war from Congress. "I am losing faith in how we are fighting this war," Shays, a longtime supporter of the conflict, said in an interview. "I believe we have to motivate the Iraqis to do more." Shays said defense officials stopped cooperating with his congressional subcommittee after he proposed setting a timeline for troop withdrawals. Shays, who had previously opposed...

Nine Fads to Ignore (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) By Business 2.0 Staff, October 2005 Issue 1. PODCASTING Yes, it’s nice to get MP3s downloaded to your iPod. But where are the revenues? Podcasting will continue, but as a business, it’s the latest iteration of CB radio. 2. SPACE TOURISM Travel to the final frontier is riskier than buying a vacation home in Aspen. When the first billionaire perishes in the icy void of space, it’ll take years for this nascent industry to bounce back. 3. OUTSOURCING It works for rote or clerical tasks, but creative and management functions are still...

For Melinda Wilferd, nightlife in Los Angeles was a lot like high school. The 35-year-old ran with a crowd that often went to parties in downtown lofts, "where all the faces turn around and look at you, assessing whether or not you're going to fit in the hipster club." Where if you enjoy watching TV, you're held beneath contempt. And where "they talk about music like it's some revelation." Continued

Now that the launch of Arianna Huffington's new group blog is barely a week away, it seems like a good time to pose that oh so important intellectual question that has lingered, unspoken, for an entire generation: does anyone really want to know what goes on in Warren Beatty's mind? Personally, I'd have to answer in the negative. There was, to be fair, a certain amount of pop psychology appeal to trying to deduce how or why Warren might have developed into the narcissistic ego-maniac at the center of singer Carly Simon's 1973 hit "You're So Vain".....

Sometime in the 1960s there arose a new homegrown distrust of the United States, followed by an erosion of faith in the values of the West. Perhaps the culprit was the fiasco in Vietnam or the rise of a trendy multiculturalism that followed from it. Our schools often insisted that all cultures were to be roughly the same. History devolved more into melodrama than tragedy. America was no longer exceptional -- and thus in no position to criticize a Cuba as undemocratic or condemn the Iranian mullahs as murderously theocratic. The enormous wealth and leisure that followed from global capitalism...

Latest Trendy Accessory: Bullet Holes If you have a clean, shiny car, you're passe. Those who squander money on the latest foolish gimmicks are adorning their vehicles with fake bullet holes. The magnets and stickers give "the head-turning illusion of a bullet-riddled vehicle," according to the Baltimore Sun and Wall Street Journal. Stumped? So is Lena Pause, whose company Hardley Dangerous Illusions makes the fake holes. "We started getting calls from Northern Ireland, Kuwait, Israel," she told the Sun. "I said: 'These people got to be crazy. What do they want with more bullet holes?'"

As habitat for the metrosexual male, casual Seattle is no utopia. Ask people here what a metrosexual is and you might hear: Is that, like, a hermaphrodite? Or, is that having sex on the bus? Mais, non. The metrosexual, for non-religious readers of The New York Times, is Madison Avenue's buzzword for a straight, urban man who's in touch with his feminine side. The modern metrosexual -- whether he accepts that particular label or not -- likely enjoys premium shopping, stylish fashion and good grooming. Comfortable with himself, he's neither effeminate nor wimpy. Though most still consider Europeans light years...

Wed Apr 20, 3:35 AM ETTrendy Indians in Gujarat are turning to the sting of a scorpion to get their kicks. (AFP/File)

WHO'S HOT.... 1. TIM ROBBINS SARANDON Among America's leftist media glitterati, washed-up movie star, Tim Robbins Sarandon, is hot, hot, hot. You see, the glitterati are very proud of Robbins-Sarandon and his affirmation of their core American values. In an amazingly overwrought recent speech before the National Press Club, Mr. Susan Sarandon complained about the unjust denial of the right to free speech to such leading American political luminaries as Janeane Garafola, The Dixie Chicks and, er, Tim Robbins-Sarandon -- all of whom made fools of themselves opposing the war in Iraq, loudly predicting an apocalyptic disaster consisting of trillions...

1. KIRSTEN DUNST Hang on to your hats everybody. There's another airhead Hollywood activist on the loose. Spiderman cutie Kirsten Dunst is forming a forum for young Hollywood celebrities in which they'll discuss politics and encourage each other to take world issues more seriously. Now let's face facts here. Kirsten Dunst is adorable and does a fine job on screen; but why she thinks she is well suited to forming an intellectual discussion group is beyond us. The gal didn't even vote in the last election. "I think it was just laziness," she says. Yup, she's off to a good...

WHO'S HOT.... 1. CONDOLEEZA RICE The Bush administration appears to be turning up the volume on the diplomatic drums of war as it gets ready to womp the daylights out of the celebrated Iraqi auteur and psychotic, Saddam Hussein. And in order to counter the international diplomatic rif-raff opposing such an initiative, Mr. Bush has deep-sixed his wussy Secretary of State Colin Powell and has unleashed a diplomatic counterattack featuring the administration's only foreign-policy guru with balls -- the very feminine but otherwise capable and assertive Condoleeza Rice. Ms. Rice, the White House national security adviser, tells it like it...