CNN fired back at the Trump administration Saturday after the Department of Homeland Security publicly slammed a recent report that revealed TSA screeners are calling out sick at increased rates amid the government shutdown, which may ultimately lead to less secure airports. “Security operations at airports have not been impacted by a non-existent sick out,” department spokesperson […]
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities say an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, the second immigrant child to die in detention this month. U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the boy died shortly after midnight Tuesday. CBP says the boy showed “signs of potential illness” Monday and was taken […]
As it becomes increasingly clear the federal government shutdown could drag on into January, one GOP lawmaker warned his colleagues to brace themselves. “This is my fifth shutdown,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) told CNN Monday. “I’m beyond frustrated. LBJ said sometimes you just have to hunker down like a jackass in a hail storm and just […]
An Alabama sheriff personally banked $1.5 million in federal funds allocated to feed undocumented immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to an investigation by AL.com. Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin collected the money over a three-year period beginning in 2011, AL.com reported. The funds were provided as part of a federal contract to […]
The man believed to have shot and killed Texas 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in a drive-by shooting late last month was charged Tuesday with capital murder. Police arrested Larry D. Woodruffe, 24, on Saturday on a felony drug possession charge, but it wasn’t until a few days later that prosecutors said they had enough evidence to charge him […]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren is finding friendly faces in unfriendly territory for Democrats on her first trip to Iowa since announcing she will almost certainly challenge President Donald Trump in 2020. The Massachusetts Democrat on Friday and Saturday spoke to overflow crowds that appeared eager to hear her economic populist pitch and […]
Ellen DeGeneres is fighting for actor and comedian Kevin Hart to be reinstated as the host of the 2019 Academy Awards. But her campaign has not been well received on Twitter. In a clip of Friday’s broadcast of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the talk show host revealed she actually called up the Academy of Motion […]
Actor Bob Einstein, who played Marty Funkhouser on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died Wednesday at age 76 in California. Einstein’s brother, the writer and actor Albert Brooks, confirmed the death, tweeting, “R.I.P. My dear brother Bob Einstein. A great brother, father and husband. A brilliantly funny man. You will be missed forever.” He got his […]
The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California is apologizing after tweeting a photo of an otter it described as “thicc,” a word from black culture for a curvy woman. Tuesday’s tweet also contained the line, “OH LAWD SHE COMIN,” an offensive parody of black dialect. Although Abby the otter’s “thicc” pic has earned more than 7,000 […]
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski got slapped down — hard — on “Hardball” Monday for his “Vesuvius of BS” of false immigration statistics to whip up fear for a border wall. Lewandowski was in the hot seat trying mightily to defend the Trump administration’s debunked figure that 4,000 suspected terrorists were detained last […]