The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 ...

The first printed definition of hillbillies appeared 125 years ago, on April 23, 1900, in the New York Journal. Julian Hawthorne, a political writer, used the word eight times in one short article.

The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is defined by “biological sex” under the country’s equality law – excluding transgender women – in a case that is expected to ...

This included the For Women Scotland (FWS) group that fought the case for a more exclusive definition of “woman”. It also found a prominent financial backer in Scottish author JK Rowling. Here is what ...

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That revelation stuck with me, that people in the South had to stay in their place, and how places and spaces get defined in isolation. That’s what makes that sequence where the ancestors, past, ...

Peta Credlin has hailed the UK court ruling on the legal definition of a woman as a "return of commonsense" and a win for "all women around the world, as our biological rights have now been upheld ...

The Supreme Court has ruled on how a woman should be defined in UK law. It's a case which stemmed from a legal dispute in Scotland - but the ruling on 16 April could have a profound effect on the ...

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UK's top court rules legal definition of a woman refers to biological sex The UK's highest court has ruled that, according to its Equality Act, the definition of a woman applies only to biological ...

The judgment added that the definition of woman 'makes clear that the concept of sex is binary – a person is either a woman or a man' and that any other interpretation would be 'incoherent and ...

The opinion aligns the Fourth Circuit with decisions from the Ninth Circuit, which have similarly found that loss causation cannot rest on short-seller publications that are speculative ...