Why would the Trump administrations admit to wanting to abuse children, something one would hope all Americans (realistically, minus the hardcore racists) could unite behind? The White House is frustrated by rules established by the 1997 Supreme Court case of Reno v. Flores. The case began as a class-action lawsuit involving migrant children including Jenny Lisette Flores, who was placed for two months in an adult detention center with men and women she did not know and subjected to regular strip searches in 1985....

While Bolton’s book focuses more on the administration, scandals, and political maneuverings, Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” will focus largely on Trump’s upbringing and the personal scandals within his own family. Trump has already fought to delay the release of Bolton’s book, with the Justice Department suing to block the release of the scandalous text, while experts think that Trump may move to do the same thing with his niece’s book....

In May of 2020, the New York Times reported that Betsy Devos — the Education Secretary who is currently urging schools to reopen in the fall and who has long been an investor in and advocate of private, for-profit, and religious schools — has been funneling money allocated to educational institutions. She’s been doing this through the CARES Act which was passed in March of 2020. And the money is going away from public elementary, secondary schools and colleges and instead, going to private and religious schools....

Being the average 9-year-old, my son is obsessed with watching content on YouTube. Think the episode of South Park wherein Ike and all his friends would rather watch YouTube videos of video games being played than actually play the video games themselves. As any father would, I initially tried to bond with him over his newfound hobby by setting up his iPad to stream videos to the TV in the living room....

Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, who are real-life buddies that trained together before the games, could not best each other in the final. They had a nearly identical final jump. It seemed like Barshim had won gold when the official let them know that they both had reached 7 feet, 8 inches. “They spoke to me,” the official explained. “It’s too tight. We can continue with the jump-off....

According to Fox 11 Los Angeles, Quest has an IQ of 146 and she can count to 100, identify all 50 states by shape, and is already learning Spanish, English, and sign language. Kashe’s mother Sukhjit Athwal said that she started to notice her daughter’s memory was great early on and by 18 months, “she had recognized all the alphabet, numbers, colors, and shapes.” the high IQ society “Kashe is a remarkable girl, and what may be rare here is that Kashe’s gifts have been recognized so early in life....

The best American action movie of the last five years was, hands down, the gun-fu epics John Wick and John Wick 2. These movies are pretty much perfect, capturing everything that’s great about action movies: the simple plot, the subtle, but extremely intricate world-building, and the fucking-up of bad dudes in increasingly creative ways. But the inciting incident is where the film goes astray. There was no question that, 25 years ago John Wick would have been a dad motivated to avenge the death of his kids or a wife....

RELATED: The Best Backpacks For School & Kids Book Bags What makes the UNO II Interchangeable Backpack so distinct is that it’s crafted from a single piece of water-repellent fabric and has only one zipper. So you can literally zip in and out. In fact, when completely open, the backpack lies flat on the table, enabling you to not only access all the diapers and goldfish crackers but also to use it as a changing pad....

According to CNBC, wholesale used-vehicle prices are falling from the record high prices earlier this year. In January, inflation rose the costs of used cars to astronomical levels. A previous report indicated that some used cars were up 69 percent in price from the prior year. And that wasn’t a wild number. The Wall Street Journal shared that used car prices rose 40.5 percent overall last year, citing data from the Labor Department....

His first design was a half joke. “Big and awkward and goofy,” he says. But it sold. As did the next one. And before he knew it, half of Passenger’s business at Venom Defense & Design was coming from fidget toys. Now, Venom’s high-performance spinners aren’t the kind parents are buying their kids. No, these spinners are targeted toward collectors and are made from heavy and exotic metals like titanium, tungsten, and niobium....

In a viral TikTok where Ludacris is driving his children in a car around, Luda showed just how much of a regular old dad he really is. At the very beginning of the video, which is focused on his face only, you can already see the look of annoyance on Ludacris’ face as one of his kids (whose faces aren’t shown) asks him if they have the correct spelling of fart....

No one wants to end up like Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, angrily wondering what happened to the money that was supposed to help get you through the holiday season. Unfortunately, more managers are beginning to look like Frank Shirley, Griswold’s stingy boss. The recruiting firm Spherion Staffing Services released a survey of employees this week in which nearly half the respondents said they don’t expect their company to dish out a holiday bonus this year....

And while the federal government is considering putting 4 weeks of federal paid family and medical leave in Biden’s Build Back Better plan — a human infrastructure bill that would provide the benefit for the first time on a federal level by 2024 — it will be a long time before paternity leave in the US or paid family and medical leave in the US is offered on a federal level....

Nafise Motlaq, who was born and raised in the country and now lives in Turkey, set out to change that, but mostly by accident. It was only after having left Iran and living in Malaysia for nearly a decade that she realized that something, anything, had to change about how people viewed the country. She started taking photos of Iranian fathers and their daughters. She found that relationships between fathers and daughters are mostly beautiful, mostly loving, sometimes distant, sometimes contentious....

No one knows this better than journalist Rob Mitchum, who back in 2007, accidentally popularized the term “dad-rock” when he used it as an insult to describe Wilco’s then-new album Sky Blue Sky in a Pitchfork review published that year. But now, in a new essay just-published by Esquire, Mitchum is apologizing or, at the very least, saying he regrets using “dad-rock” as an insult. The entire essay is super smart and worth a read, but this section near the end is particularly relevant....

By the time of the 2016 election, my husband was already estranged from most of his family following a business issue, save for one brother. The political differences were significant and didn’t help. So after the election, he also lost his relationship with his one remaining brother. Our political differences had caused heated debates, which definitely didn’t help resolve the other issues. When I’m spending time with family, particularly those who watch Fox News, I can’t even bring myself to try to debate or explain the many detailed legal reasons why I know they are wrong....

Noah Moskin and Maya Grobel understand this. The Los Angeles couple had trouble conceiving. Within a year, Maya was diagnosed with a ‘diminishing ovarian reserve’. So they began the process of In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), and embarked on a four-year journey to conception. It was difficult, they said, to not blame themselves or feel ashamed. And to find support. So they decided to document the experience. The ensuing film, One More Shot, is available now and details their winding road to parenthood and what they learned on the way....

Here’s what families need to know about the American Families Plan, the second part of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better agenda that’s due to be released ahead of his address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. What programs would the American Families Plan fund if passed? $225 billion for childcare, $225 billion for paid family and medical leave, and $200 billion for federal universal pre-K.Post$300 billion in education fundingFirst Lady Jill Bidenmore money for nutritional assistance programs....

“I was supposed to be the career expert,” she says. “And I immediately realized that I didn’t know a lot. I didn’t know how to find care. I didn’t know how to tell my boss that I was still interested in promotion even though I just had a baby. I didn’t know any of it.” To prevent fellow parents from feeling the same helplessness, and to push for larger change on their behalf, Dowling became an ally to working parents....