(Canadian Women's Foundation) The so-called AwarePod, with the tagline "better safe than stereo," is not actually for sale, and while it's meant to be a joke, it highlights a serious issue.

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Rep. Troy Nehls said if the president-elect asks Republicans to “jump three feet high and scratch your head,” they’ll do just that. Breaking News Reporter A Republican lawmaker made a ...

Whether the two-dozen or so performers and musicians actually call New York home is left unaddressed, but several of them are costumed as pizza rats (well, two pizza rats, one gamine pizza mouse ...

“I’m sorry but what an absolute joke,” one woman wrote on Facebook. Another local slammed it as “outrageous”. “Where was the community consultation?” they said. One ...

The pro-Trump comedian who faced backlash for his joke about Puerto Rico during a campaign rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump last month said he wouldn't apologize for his jokes ...

open image in gallery Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said he apologizes to ‘nobody’ after his ill-received joke about Puerto Rico during a Trump rally (AP) It is the second time Hinchcliffe has ...

It was the summer of 2020, a period marked by emotional isolation for almost everyone on the planet, even laboratory rats. When I walked into the lab, I noticed something unusual: The three ...

Gig workers expressed that, after noticing frequent changes on the listing platforms that were made without their consent, they started to see themselves as laboratory rats rather than valued users.

Through the 1930s, Vereshchagin had personally supervised the introduction of an initial community of 213 giant South American rodents – known as coypu, nutria, swamp beavers, swamp rats or ...

If you've been avoiding the internet this past week, you might not know about the escaped lab monkeys in South Carolina ... According to the AP, "Outside of rats and mice, rhesus macaques are ...