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'Kate Major Lohan has been arrested for a 'drunken attack' on her husband Michael Lohan [link added], TMZ report.

Kate - who was ordered to rehab by Michael last year - is said to have had an alcohol relapse before getting physical with the father of Lindsay Lohan.

TMZ report that Michael made a 911 call around 7:02pm on Thursday claiming his wife had struck him after coming home inebriated.

Their argument then turned physical, with Kate began scratching Michael's back.

The site also reports that when police arrived Kate was visibly intoxicated, had slurred speech and blood shot eyes.

Kate reportedly admitted she had been drinking, claimed Michael grabbed her by the throat and that the argument was caused by him accusing her of cheating.'

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'Men are brilliant. Seriously, we are. We invented philosophy, medicine, architecture, cars, trains, helicopters, submarines and the internet. Not to mention the jet engine, IVF, electricity and modern medicine.

We’ve led all the industrial revolutions and sent rockets into Space. We’ve fought wars with tin hats and bayonets and won them. The world we live in would be nothing without Alexander Graham Bell, Sigmund Freud, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare and Albert Einstein. The geniuses Leonardo da Vinci, Stephen Hawking, Michelangelo, Beethoven, Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday have all contributed immeasurably to our modern lives.

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'New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) wants to bring the call for potty parity into the political sphere. On April 17, Hoylman is introducing a new bill in the state Senate that would mandate equal access to diaper changing tables for both men and women.

The proposed bill is calls for the amendment to the New York State Civil Rights Law with the addition of a new section 79-o. If the bill passes, any public building or "place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement" that is constructed or undergoing "substantial renovation" after the passage must provide changing stations in men's bathrooms if it includes them in women's restrooms.

“It’s time for men to pick up the slack in raising our kids, and this is part of that responsibility," Hoylman told The Huffington Post."

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'Some of the biggest battles over child custody are playing out not in courtrooms, but in statehouses.

Prompted partly by fathers concerned that men for too long have gotten short shrift in custody decisions, about 20 states are considering measures that would change the laws governing which parent gets legal and physical control of a child after a divorce or separation.

The proposals generally encourage judges to adopt custody schedules that maximize time for each parent. Some of the measures, such as those proposed in New York and Washington state, take an additional step by requiring judges to award equal time to each parent unless there is proof that such an arrangement wouldn’t be in a child’s best interests.

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'A Liberal Democrat activist who sits on two national party committees has been suspended from her regional party after a string of sexist comments on social media. The activist in question, Sarah Noble, made multiple tweets of a disturbingly hateful nature, including “kill all men”, “fuck men”, and “die cis[gendered] scum”.

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'The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has issued three decisions in alimony cases that substantially alter the apparent intention of the Alimony Reform Act.  Steve Hitner, now of the National Parents Organization, was a prime mover behind passage of the Act.  The Alimony Reform Act passed the state legislature unanimously.

Prior to the ARA’s passage, Bay State courts routinely ordered permanent alimony that was difficult to modify even if the payer retired or underwent some other change in circumstances.  Additional problems arose when the payee’s financial circumstances improved as when she began cohabitating with another partner.  That system was an artifact of a time in which fewer women worked for a living, so the law protected their well-being post-divorce.  By passing the ARA, the legislature recognized that the circumstances that gave rise to the previous law mostly no longer obtain.

In light of the recent Rolling Stone debacle, the University of Virginia has reworked its sexual assault policy. In a horrific way.

Now, two clothed persons who hug without agreeing to the contact beforehand can be found guilty of sexual assault. Or take a kiss from a boyfriend to a girlfriend before parting ways, but without prior affirmative consent--now assault.

This broadened definition of sexual assault is out-of-context with how our country defines 'sexual assault' in the law.

Tell UVA to rework its policy to get back to legal norms, or else out-of-control accusations can easily lead to expulsions.

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'A Florida woman who fled with her 4-year-old son to keep his circumcision from going forward has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the boy.

Heather Hironimus, who filed the complaint late Monday, is hoping a federal judge might intervene where state judges haven't.

The complaint is repeating her claims that surgery on her 4-year-old son isn't necessary, that the boy doesn't want it, and that his constitutional rights are being violated.

Aside from seeking to stop the procedure, Hironimus is trying to avoid her own arrest. 

Her arrest was ordered after she fled in February and ignored a judge's demand that she appear in court and allow the circumcision to go forward.'

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'A rape investigation has been discontinued after the complainant admitted making a false allegation.

Police appealed for information amid claims the 33-year-old was raped in Salford, Greater Manchester, on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal.

She had earlier accepted a lift from a man in the early hours of Sunday, Greater Manchester Police said.

However, the force said the matter was now closed after the "vulnerable" woman admitted the rape never happened.

Det Insp Benjamin Hart said: "We take all reports of rape and sexual assault very seriously and we will fully investigate each one until we find who is responsible.'

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'According to a study, girls in French secondary schools are benefiting from a marking bias by math teachers and the author of the study sees this as a positive approach.

Math teachers gave girls grades that were 6% higher than what was given to boys for the same work, says the study by London School of Economics and Paris School of Economics.

The study claims to have analyzed the records of almost 4,500 11-year-olds at 35 secondary school also lead researchers to conclude that the inflated grades encouraged girls to take science subjects later in their school careers.

Students in France at age 11 are to take standardized tests at the beginning of the school year.

The test is graded externally and the examiner did not have information on the student’s name, gender or socio-economic background, so the results of this study were free from any bias.

In those anonymous tests, the boys outperformed the girls in math.'

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'Seeking to encourage more girls to pursue math and science at top caliber levels, the public school system in Los Angeles will try something that has long been the province of private education: the all-girls school.

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'No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, but everyone who lives or works at a college probably should. A Northwestern University professor recently lamented the “intellectually embarrassing” atmosphere of moral panic concerning sex and rape on campus in a column for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Several students who didn’t appreciate her opinion—perhaps it triggered them—responded by filing formal complaints against her with the university’s Title IX coordinator.

Has it truly come to this? Will academics be subjected to heresy trials for daring to challenge their students’ immature, unhealthy, and increasingly dictatorial views about sex and consent?

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'Two Transportation Security Administration screeners have been fired after conspiring to grope attractive men at Denver International Airport, Denver police said.

Here's how police say the scheme worked: When the male TSA officer noticed a man he found attractive, he would alert a female TSA officer.

The female officer would then tell the screening machine that a female passenger -- not a male -- was walking through. And that information would trigger a machine to register an anomaly in the groin area, prompting the male TSA officer to pat down the passenger, police said, citing a TSA investigation.
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Both of the TSA officers investigated have been fired, TSA special agent Charles Stone told police. Authorities did not release their names.
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But it's unlikely criminal charges will be filed because there is no identifiable victim. The TSA said it has been trying to identify the passenger in the February incident but to no avail.

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'Comedian Sarah Silverman admitted that a story she told about wage discrimination (in which she even went so far as to call out a specific employer by name) was a lie — and then said people who might consider her lie a reason to question the movement she was supporting were “maniacs.”
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Notice that the only thing she explicitly said she regrets is not trying harder to not get caught. In fact, she didn’t even acknowledge that she did a “disservice” to the movement by telling a false story — only that it would be a disservice “if [she] were trying” to make the story an example of the wage gap when it wasn’t one. (For the record, specifically citing something as an example of the wage gap seems like a pretty clear instance of trying to make it an example of the wage gap.)