The Dalai Lama has apologized following the outcry over him kissing a young Indian boy on the lips and asking him to “suck” his tongue. The spiritual leader’s office released a statement on Monday after footage of the bizarre interaction, which occurred last month during an event for India’s M3M Foundation, went viral on social media. The statement said he “wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused,” according to CNN. “His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and
Five people were killed and six others injured after a gunman opened fire in a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, Monday morning, police said. The mass shooting unfolded just before 8:30 a.m. at the Old National Bank in the city’s downtown area, near Slugger Field, the Louisville Metro Police Department said. The mass shooter was killed in the ordeal, cops said. Police said in a tweet the shooter had “been neutralized,” but LMPD Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said the circumstances surrounding his death weren’t immediately known. Video below: BREAKING: Five people were killed and six wounded, including a police officer, in
China’s global campaign to win friends and influence policy has blossomed in a surprising place: Utah, a deeply religious and conservative state with few obvious ties to the world’s most powerful communist country. The Chinese Communist Party has made significant inroads into U.S. institutions from the highest reaches of the federal government down to the smallest branches of local government. The Chinese strategy to cultivate U.S. state and local leaders has been described by some analysts as “using the local to surround the central.” China’s operations have been so widespread that they even targeted an elementary school in Utah. After
Fallon Fox is a retired transgender MMA fighter. He was born a man, but now lives as a woman and is still in the process of transitioning from male to female with hormone therapy. In addition to hormone therapy, Fox had gender reassignment surgery back in 2006. Fallon Fox’s story has been very controversial because up until 2011 it was not known that she came from a life of being male. She fought several times before her gender history surfaced and became public. Since then there has been heavy debate about whether or not she should be able to fight