A group of incensed Antifa protesters surrounded the home of FOX News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night. They rang the doorbell and chanted, calling the conservative host a "racist scumbag" for his support of the border wall.

Videos showing the small but rowdy group of self-described "anti-racist activists" rallying outside what appears to be the home of the Tucker Carlson Tonight host were posted by the group Smash Racism DC on Wednesday evening.

The protesters brought multiple posters with them, placing one that read "stop racism" by Carlson's door. At one point, a protester ran up to the front porch and knocked on the door.

The crowd, meanwhile, shouted threatening and abusive chants at Carlson: "Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!"

Embarrassing social media photos could easily sink a congressional campaign, but several lawmakers have shown that you can be charged with corruption and embezzlement and still win re-election.

American voters took partisan politics to a whole new level on Tuesday, after Republican congressmen Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins - both of whom face federal indictments for crimes including embezzlement and securities fraud - won re-election. As long as the Democrats don't win, right?

Once again senior politicians are taking the time to publicly react to the work of comedians. In a recent edition of Saturday Night Live, regular cast member Pete Davidson made a joke about Dan Crenshaw, a Republican congressional candidate in Texas. Renshaw wears an eye patch due to an injury he sustained during his time as a Navy SEAL, which prompted Davidson to liken his appearance to that of 'a hitman in a porno movie', before adding 'I'm sorry, I know he lost his eye in war or whatever'. In the inevitable Twitterstorm that ensued Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, called on the NBC television network to apologise.

By now the phenomenon has become depressingly predictable: a comedian makes a joke, is denounced on social media, and issues an apology soon after. In this instance, the final step seems less likely to be taken, given that the target of the joke in question is on the political right. Whether the joke is best classified as 'punching up' or 'punching down' is a matter for debate. Some would argue that powerful public figures such as politicians are always fair game, but does this apply when the punchline relates to a war injury?

French President Emmanuel Macron has been derided for defending his decision to honor Marshal Philippe Pétain, a veteran leader of the First World War who would later collaborate with the Nazis.

"I consider it entirely legitimate that we pay homage to the marshals who led our army to victory. Marshal Pétain was a great soldier in World War One," Macron said.

Jewish groups, political opponents and French citizens in general have vented their outrage against the president online. #Pétain is now trending on Twitter in light of Macron's highly controversial remarks.

Instead of bringing calm to the besieged Yemeni city, calls for a ceasefire in Hodeidah have brought some of the worst violence the vital port has yet faced in the three-year war.

Baseem al-Janani, who lives in the city, said: "The clashes are absolutely crazy right now. I have a headache from the shelling and bombing in the east. People are trapped in their houses for hours at a time because of shrapnel and gunfire. But their houses are not safe either."

Since the 1960s, women have made sweeping inroads across professions and academic fields, achieving not just excellence but pre-eminence in a wide range of areas. These include medicine, psychology, veterinary science, biology, the law, journalism, and education. This year, the Nobel prize in physics was jointly awarded to Donna Strickland, a Canadian physics professor, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, and her doctoral adviser Gerard Mourou.

Despite these massive gains, however, women have not made sweeping inroads in every field. Some remain stubborn outposts of male dominance. Such fields include mathematics, computer science, and, bringing up the rear, engineering, in which women only make up about 12 percent of the workforce.

For advocates of gender equality in the workplace, women's persistent low representation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is a particular concern. Some have sought to blame it on the prevalence of sexual harassment in these fields, in spite of the fact that sexual harassment across all fields is declining. In 1997, the United States' Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 16,000 complaints about sexual harassment; by 2017, that rate had dropped to 9,800, a decline of 40 percent in 20 years.

Has STEM bucked this trend? A national report on sexual harassment in engineering was released earlier this year and was promoted recently at the October 19th at the Society of Women Engineer's Conference. Entitled 'Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine' (2018), it was produced by a committee of scientists belonging to NASEM (National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine) and published by the National Academies Press. Its claims are stark, pronouncing that "50 percent of women faculty and staff in academia experience sexual harassment" and "20-50 percent of students experience such harassment from faculty or staff." These claims are made in the present tense, indicating this is the current state of affairs.

Six Ryanair cabin crew members pictured sleeping on the floor of a Spanish airport office last month have been sacked, the airline says.

The image, which Ryanair said was staged, was widely shared online. A Portuguese union that represents airline crews criticised the airline.

The staff were dismissed for gross misconduct, a Ryanair spokesman said.

Over 20 crew members were stranded in Malaga airport when their Porto-bound flights were diverted on 14 October.

However Ryanair said that despite the issues, "no crew slept on the floor".

14 sailors working in the nuclear reactor department aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan face disciplinary action for using and distributing LSD, the latest embarrassment for the Navy's scandal-ridden 7th Fleet.

Ten of the sailors have already been disciplined on "LSD related charges," a 7th Fleet spokesman told Navy Times. Two sailors are in more serious trouble, and are heading to court-martial for using, possessing, and distributing the hallucinogenic drug, while the Navy is considering charging another three as well.

All 14 worked on the carrier's nuclear reactors, and were described as "senior personnel." Two Westinghouse nuclear reactors power the 101,000 ton behemoth, which has a staff of almost 6,000 personnel and can remain at sea for over 20 years. Despite the sailors' proclivity for hardcore hallucinogens, the Navy said that the reactors "remain safe."

A UK hospital is probing the cause of a patient's death after the UK's first robot-assisted heart valve surgery. Was it the surgeon's lack of training? His supervisors' early departure? Poor communication? Or...the robot itself?

The pioneering robot-assisted mitral valve repair ended in catastrophe, with a cascade of failures resulting in the death of retired conductor Stephen Pettitt at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, according to a continuing inquest as reported in the Daily Mail.

Lead surgeon Sukumaran Nair and assisting surgeon Thasee Pillay could hardly hear each other due to a "tinny" sound emanating from the robot console Nair was operating. Nair had to shout to warn his colleague that the robot, called Da Vinci, was stitching up the valve incorrectly - and then shout again when he saw the robot "knocked" one of the surgical assistants' arms.

The robot damaged the patient's aorta, spurting blood everywhere, including the camera it used to "see." As events spiraled out of control, the two supervisors - robotics experts normally on hand to take over in a crisis -were nowhere to be found, having gone home part of the way through the procedure.

Fox News is pushing RFID chip implants, encouraging people that the tech is safe and good for medical by stating it's similar to getting a tetanus shot.

Recently in Sweden, thousands of people have reportedly had chips implanted. Fox highlights this news expressing that a company called Biohax has already "installed" around 4,000 chips into "customers."

The article then goes onto explain how awesome it is to have a chip in one's hand, stating that those chipped can open secure doors, pay for tickets, and share emergency medical information.

Years ago, it was seen as a "conspiracy theory" that the elite wanted to microchip the populace. Now, it's right in our faces constantly; it's no longer a secret. I'll start by repeating the words of the great Aaron Russo, Rockefeller's best friend: "Do not take the chip."