A new study from Brunel University London found that physically weaker men are more apt to believe in socialist policies, such as redistribution of wealth. Meanwhile, stronger men are more geared to believe in the capitalist concepts, such as the idea that people should keep what you earn.

Brunel University academics studied 171 men aged 18 - 40, examining their overall physical strength, bicep circumference, weight, and height. They also noted the amount of time each individual spent at a gym, and examined these variables in light of whether they subscribed more to capitalist or socialist ideologies. They found that the more physically strong the men were, the less they believed in socialist policies, and the more they believed certain social groups should be dominant.

According to The Times, Brunel University's senior lecturer in Psychology in the College of Health and Life Sciences Michael Price said the study raises questions about the correlation between physical strength and egalitarianism - and also poses something of a "chicken or the egg" philosophical question.

The Paris Opera Ballet has dropped controversial Ukrainian-born dance star Sergei Polunin from a production of "Swan Lake" after he made a homophobic and sexist rant on social media.

The mercurial "bad boy of ballet", who was compared to Rudolf Nureyev earlier in his career, blasted gay dancers in an Instagram post last month in which he urged male ballet dancers to "man up".

"Man (sic) should be a man and woman should be a woman, that's the reason you got balls," wrote the dancer, who took Russian nationality in November and is a fervent fan of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

"Females now trying to take on the man role because you don't fuck them and because you are an embarrassment," said the 29-year-old, referring to gay dancers.

They "need a good slap", Polunin continued. "Man (sic) are wolves, are lions. Man are the leaders of the family."

Paris Opera confirmed to AFP on Monday that they had withdrawn their invitation to him to dance the lead in "Swan Lake" next month, a production in which the prince is supposed to be played as a repressed homosexual.

Welcome to Casa de Nancy! Laura Loomer and a group of illegal aliens showed up to Nancy Pelosi's Napa Valley, CA lawn and set up a sanctuary camp on Monday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants open borders so certainly she will welcome the new squatters!

This is hilarious.

Loomer and gang set up a canopy on Pelosi's lawn with the word "Immorality" emblazoned in red letters.

Pelosi regularly says walls are 'immoral' when arguing against President Trump's proposals for stronger border security which includes a wall.

The government shutdown has entered week three, the longest in US history because Schumer and Pelosi refuse to compromise on border wall funding.

A truck bomb explosion in the Green Village district of Kabul, Afghanistan, injured almost 100 people, including 23 children. The area is home to many foreigners and non-governmental organizations.

According to police spokesman Basir Mujahid, a vehicle filled with explosives detonated in the area on Monday evening.

"The area is cordoned off... and search operation underway for suspects and attackers," Mujahid told Reuters. Citing an anonymous security source, Reuters reported that the blast destroyed a wall between Green Village and the nearby customs office.

Health Canada scientists say there is no reason to believe the scientific evidence they used to approve the continued use of glyphosate in weed killers was tainted.

On Friday they rejected, again, arguments that the ingredient in herbicides like Monsanto's Roundup causes cancer if the substances are used as they're supposed to be.

The department's Pest Management Regulatory Agency is required to reassess herbicides every 15 years and after such a reassessment in 2017 it approved glyphosate for continued use in Canada with some additional labelling requirements. The review looked at more than 1,300 studies and concluded glyphosate products pose no risk to people or the environment as long as they are properly used and labelled.

Glyphosate is one of the most common herbicides used in the world, is in more than 130 products sold in Canada and has widespread use by farmers to keep weeds out of their crops.

"What we'll do every day is demand that the evil that's committed in our name by the evil that's living in that White House is held accountable to all the immorality that continues to perpetuate under American empire." - Aliya Hana Hussain of the Center for Constitutional Rights

Friday marked the 17th anniversary of the opening of the United States prison compound in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama failed to fulfill his promise of closing the facility and little attention has since been given to the issue by the Trump administration, but activists continue to work behind the scenes to shut down what they call the "moral abomination."

Some 30 protesters dressed in black spit hoods and orange prison jumpsuits demonstrated outside of the White House as a roster of speakers calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison demanded justice and rule of law at the enclave that was seized from Cuba in the 1903. According to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war women's group Codepink, many of the protesters had been fasting in solidarity with those still detained at Guantanamo.

One of the manliest brands in men's products has hit on an unusual strategy for divided times: Questioning "toxic masculinity."

Gillette, the Procter & Gamble Co. brand that for three decades has used the tagline, "The Best A Man Can Get," is building a new campaign around the #MeToo movement, a risky approach that will be the latest test of how successfully big consumer brands can navigate tricky social movements.

The ad, created by the brand's ad agency Grey and titled "We Believe," opens with audio of news about the #MeToo movement, bullying and "toxic masculinity." A narrator goes on to dispute the notion that "boys will be boys," asking, "Is this the best a man can get? Is it? We can't hide from it. It has been going on far too long. We can't laugh it off, making the same old excuses."

Polish police officers have detained a man who made death threats against President Andrzej Duda. The incident took place just a day after the mayor of Gdansk was stabbed to death in a shocking public attack.

A 72-year-old resident of Warsaw was arrested on Monday after he'd called a local Family Assistance Center and uttered threats against the president, police said on Twitter.

"Adamowicz died and Andrzej Duda may die tomorrow," he said, referring to the late mayor of Gdansk, who succumbed to his wounds in a hospital earlier the same day, after being stabbed on stage during a charity concert on Sunday.

In his 2008 book Flat Earth News, long before the current frenzy about 'fake news' and Russian 'disinformation', British journalist Nick Davies sought to explain why the global media contained so much 'falsehood, distortion, and propaganda.' According to Davies, up to about the 1980s, mass media was not predominantly concerned with money-making. In particular, what one might call 'serious' broadsheet newspapers were rarely profitable and often lost substantial amounts of money. They stayed in business because of the subsidies of rich proprietors who felt that owning a newspaper gave them prestige and political influence. In the 1980s Rupert Murdoch changed all that, and set about turning the mass media into a source of revenue. One way of doing this was by cutting costs, which entailed reducing payroll. Thus began a process in which the number of journalists employed by Western media organizations has plummeted. This process has accelerated in recent years, with newsroom jobs falling by 23% between 2008 and 2017 alone. At the same time, the internet has led to a vast increase in the number of media organizations. The internet has also created intense pressure to produce stories quickly. The result is fewer and fewer journalists forced to produce more and more stories faster and faster. The inevitable consequence has been a decline in quality.

Along the way, investigative journalism, which is slow and labour intensive, has fallen largely by the wayside. Instead, modern journalism has become largely a matter of cutting and pasting. Davies and his research team examined where the stories in newspapers came from. They discovered that the overwhelming majority came from two sources: a) a handful of press agencies, such as AP and Reuters; and b) press releases issued by governments and private corporations. Only a few organizations, such as the BBC, produce most of their own news reports. The majority just cut and paste from press agencies or press releases. Fact checking - which is also slow and labour intensive - has largely disappeared. In his 2006 book War Reporting for Cowards, British journalist Chris Ayres explained how the process works. Arriving in New York as the new US correspondent for the London Times, Ayres meets his predecessor. His job, she tells him, is to watch CNN and read the New York Times and then transcribe them for a British audience. Enough said!

Over 50 percent of Russians are disappointed in the government of Dmitry Medvedev, which, they believe, is unable to curb growing prices and provide jobs for people, a new poll has revealed.

Some 23 percent said they were absolutely sure that the government must resign, with another 30 percent telling Levada-Center that they were also leaning toward this opinion.

This means that a total of 53 percent would like the country to have a new cabinet. Trust in the government has crumbled since September, when only 23 percent advocated its resignation.

Meanwhile, the proportion of people who believed the government should stay in charge was 40 percent, with 14 percent expressing full confidence in the cabinet, and 26 percent saying that resignation wouldn't be the best idea.