A fifth of all American millennials, people aged 18 to 37, expect to die before their debts are paid off - and older generations are even more pessimistic about their ability to pay off their creditors, according to a new report.

It isn't just millennials - more than a quarter of their parents' generations also believe they'll never pay off their debts, according to a creditcards.com poll. This is true of both the stereotypically cynical "Generation X" - now aged 38 to 53 - and the more idealistic "baby boomers," aged 54 to 72.

The elderly aren't spared: more than a third of Americans over age 73 believe they, too, will die in debt. More than 80 percent aren't sure when or if they'll be able to pay down their debts, a larger share than any other age group.

Angry vegans have let rip at an Australian cafe on social media because it refuses to serve soy milk for health reasons.

Healthy food specialists Rough & Bare - which has cafes at Mona Vale in northern Sydney and St Leonards on the city's north shore - stoked one plant-lover's fury when she read the establishment's menu.

A Facebook user, who is vegan, took a picture of a full-page description inside the menu which states why the management have decided to omit the popular dairy substitute from the cafe's offerings.

Red Lobster is pulling advertisements from Tucker Carlson's prime-time Fox News show amid an ongoing boycott against the conservative host for comments he made about illegal immigration and women's pay.

"Red Lobster's advertising buying guidelines reflect our core values and commitment to supporting programming that represents the highest standards of good taste, fair practice and objectivity," the seafood chain said in a statement Tuesday.

"We reserve the right to make changes to our purchases when the dialogue is no longer in line with our criteria," the company said.

Mr. Tucker sparked outrage last month after he claimed illegal immigration made the U.S. "poorer and dirtier." More recently, he cast doubt on the claim that higher pay for women is a "victory for feminism." Activists like ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum renewed the boycott, specifically calling on Red Lobster to pull its ads.

Outside the world of the internet, there are millions of people who have never heard of Patreon and won't know what you are talking about if you mention the 'Patreon Purge'. Within the world of the internet, it's a different matter. The significance of Patreon and its influence is recognised and bitterly fought over. Though most of the old media will allow such a story to float by, the internet is right on this one.

Patreon, for those who haven't heard of it, is an online membership platform where people can seek crowdfunding from fans. There are 'creators' who use the platform to get people to support them, and there are 'supporters' who donate to those whose work they favour. To an extent, Patreon, and companies like it, have filled the space that the internet destroyed as it popularised the idea that you can get almost anything you like for free.

So companies like YouTube, for example, allow people to infringe copyright by ripping videos from actual 'creators' (musicians, writers, public speakers and others). Nearly all the benefit goes to the platform; a tiny amount (through advertising) in very specific and approved cases potentially goes to the person who has posted it, and zero goes to the person who has actually created the content. This is the way that the internet has been for many years now, and it has come to be accepted as though it was part of nature, rather than the greatest intellectual property heist in history.

Recording shows Eliezer Berland's aides offering followers' political backing in Jerusalem mayoral race in exchange for photo op with ultra-Orthodox leaders.

A popular rabbi convicted of sexual offenses has been negotiating his public rehabilitation with ultra-Orthodox politicians in exchange for his followers' political support, according to a television report on Tuesday.

After evading arrest for three years, Eliezer Berland, 80, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in November 2016 on two counts of indecent acts and one case of assault, as part of a plea deal. He was freed after five months, in part due to ill health. Now, his associates are working to bring him back into the fold, according to a recording obtained by Hadashot.

In the recording, captured before the October municipal elections in Jerusalem, an aide to Berland, Natan Bezenson, is heard speaking with United Torah Judaism's MK Meir Porush. The TV report was aired days after Deputy Education Minister Porush was photographed speaking with Berland at a wedding, sparking an outcry.

UTJ is comprised of two parties, the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel and the Lithuanian Degel HaTorah. The parties ran separately in the local elections, and Berland's supporters apparently made use of this rivalry to offer the support of his followers in exchange for legitimization.

A young Saudi woman has barricaded herself into a hotel in Thailand, saying that she has fled from abusive relatives and will be killed if sent back home. Her claims have caught the attention of human rights campaigners.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, a Saudi national, says she intended to seek asylum in Australia but a representative from the Saudi Embassy seized her passport in Bangkok airport on Sunday.

She has barricaded herself in a hotel room in the airport's transit zone out of fear that she will be deported to her home country. Thai immigration officials initially indicated that the woman would be sent back on Monday, but later clarified that she wouldn't be deported immediately, citing safety reasons.

"If deporting her would result in her death, we definitely wouldn't want to do that," immigration chief Surachet Hakparn noted.

Al-Qunun's lawyers, meanwhile, said that an injunction calling for deportation procedures to be blocked was rejected in court. The legal team is planning to appeal the decision.

With young men in crisis, the American Psychological Association wrongly declares war on 'traditional masculinity'

Yesterday afternoon, immediately after the Dallas Cowboys' hard-fought victory over the Seattle Seahawks, Fox's Erin Andrews interviewed Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott. She asked Elliott what he thought when he saw Prescott take off for a key run that set up the winning touchdown.

"It's simple," Elliott responded, "He's a grown-ass man. That's what it is. That's how he played today, and he led us to this win."

That's a phrase you hear a lot in sports. "Grown man." There's grown-man football. There's grown-man basketball. It speaks to a certain style of play. Tough. Physical. Courageous. Overpowering. It's also fundamentally aspirational. It's quite safe to say that millions of young boys desire to become a grown man - a person who is physically and mentally tough, a person who can rise to a physical challenge and show leadership under stress. In fact, that's not just an intellectual goal, it's a deeply felt need. It's a response to their essential nature.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't deeply moved when the 947 bus pulled into Jerusalem as dusk descended on the golden city on Christmas Day. Who wouldn't be stirred by the dramatic ascent into a town bathed in limestone. It's always been this way for me. And though I'm no longer a Zionist, I remember most strongly what it feels like to be one at that moment I cross the threshold into the city.

Earlier that day, I spent Christmas morning with participants from Taglit Birthright, the free trip to Israel for Jews under age 32, who were attending one of the new study abroad Birthright trips, Israeli Multiculturalism, from December 24 to January 6. I met them at Kibbutz Afik, a collective community in the southern Golan Heights. Afik was established in 1972 by Israelis who did their military service in the Golan Heights and helped Israel occupy the land from Syria in 1967. Today about 250 people live in the kibbutz.

Last year Birthright began offering academic study abroad programs to U.S. college students. Now, in addition to getting a free trip, students can earn three college credits. Birthright also partners with several different organizations like Sachlav, Hillel International, Mayanot, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Hinam, Center for Social Tolerance-an encounter program that "promotes acquaintance" between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel through principles like "colorblindness" and a "positive attitude," according to their About Us page.

The academic-themed courses Birthright offers are: Eco-Israel: Sustainability and Conservation; Food and Wine of Israel; Archeology: Uncovering the Hidden Past; Conflict Management & Counter-Terrorism; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Diplomacy in the New Middle East; and Israeli Multiculturalism. At the end of the program, students have two weeks to write a 7 to 9 page paper that is graded by a professor contracted with Birthright. For just $250, the three credits can be transferred to the student's college. Given that three-credit courses at colleges can cost students thousands of dollars, the Birthright Israel Study Abroad program is a heck of a deal.

I was able to get hold of the Birthright course outline from one of the chaperones. According to the syllabus, the course focuses on five groups that contribute to Israel's multicultural society: the LGBTQ community, the Ethiopian community, members of the settlement movement, the Ultra-Orthodox community, and the Arab community.

Two women have been charged with assaulting a 29-year-old transgender person in a bathroom at a popular Glenwood South bar last month.

According to investigators, the victim was inside the women's bathroom at Milk Bar on Dec. 9 when she was sexually assaulted by two other women. Authorities said the assault continued at the bar, where a bartender saw what was happening and repeatedly told the two women to stop.

Amber Harrell, 38, and Jessica Fowler, 31, are both charged with second-degree kidnapping and sexual battery in connection with the incident.

Harrell, who was arrested over the weekend, was out of jail Tuesday on a $50,000 bond. Fowler was released on a $30,000 bond.

Fowler turned herself in at the Wake County Detention Center on Tuesday afternoon.

Can you imagine how scary it would be to live in a world where your livelihood depended on having the 'correct' politics? It's the sort of thing you might expect of totalitarian regimes - Baathist Iraq under Saddam Hussain; everywhere that has ever tried communism; increasingly, Xi's panopticon China - but definitely not of any liberal democracy in the 21st century.

That dystopian future, though, may be much closer than you think. I only properly appreciated this recently when the podcast I've been doing for the last few years was mysteriously dropped by my regular employer, forcing me to seek funding sources from elsewhere.

If I were impeccably 'progressive', this would be a doddle. I could monetize my content through ads on YouTube, I could crowdfund donations through Patreon, I could promote my work with regular appearances on CNN. But if you're snarky and irreverent and you won't play the virtue-signaling game than your options are much more limited. Any deviation from the path of 'woke' righteousness - even just a misjudged joke or a remark taken out of context - can get you branded a 'far right' extremist and your audience won't be allowed to pay you even if they want to.