The dress code policy has a caveat that says principals can amend the policy for special occasions and events.

CHICAGO -- No matter what you may think (or have heard), dogs and cats can’t talk. Neither can snakes or guinea pigs or any other species of animals that people consider pets. So it is impossible for ...

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.

For some of us, the opportunity comes once a year — to try on another look and pretend to be something other than ourselves. But for some species, costumes are an everyday essential, and the stakes ...

There isn't much time left until the spookiest night of the year. With Halloween inching close, you're either one of those people that has been planning their costume for months in advance or someone ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Seth Todd was wearing an inflatable frog costume while protesting outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Building in Portland, Oregon, when a federal officer ...

Nigel Drake loves new toys and treats, but he's not about to don a $25 Beetlejuice dog costume, complete with a black-and-white striped jacket and outlandish white wig, for Halloween. My corgi once ...

About 23% of consumers surveyed plan to dress up their pet — roughly the same percentage who plan to visit a haunted house, according to a National Retail Federation survey. Dogs dressed like Dracula, ...

A rumor that U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi said, "We classify inflatable frog costumes as part of the antifa uniform" circulated online in October, with users on social media platforms such as Facebook ...

The "fact-checkers" who pick apart Donald Trump on a daily basis took exception to this recent presidential overstatement: "Portland is burning to the ground, it's insurrectionists all over the place.