Wisconsin police have released audio of the 911 call placed after 13-year-old Jayme Closs escaped a remote cabin where she says she was held by 21-year-old Jake Thomas Patterson. Kristin Kasinskas called Douglas County 911 on Jan. 10 after neighbor Jeanne Nutter pounded on the door of her Gordon home shouting: “This is Jayme Closs! […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is adding to the slew of calls for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation amid outrage over a racist photo in his medical school yearbook. In a Saturday night post, the freshman congresswoman demanded the Democrat step down, arguing that “those who try to help him stumble past this deserve scrutiny.” “If you […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested Monday night how President Donald Trump was with “one genius move” attempting to put the FBI “out of business.” And it’s all to do with the ongoing partial government shutdown, which Trump triggered in December over his demands for money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Maddow noted how […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has signed into law new measures to protect and expand abortion rights across the state. On Tuesday night, after passing the Senate and the Assembly, the Reproductive Health Act received its final approval from the governor. The law essentially codifies the landmark decision made in Roe v. Wade 46 years […]
One person is dead and 12 others hospitalized after suspected fentanyl overdoses in California that sickened two responding police officers, authorities said. Of the 12 overdose victims, four remained in critical condition hours after authorities responded to a 911 call around 9 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday at a home in Chico, said Chico Police Chief Mike […]
The fatal police shooting of an armed Alabama man after he was mistaken for a mall shooter in November was “justified and not criminal,” authorities said Tuesday. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall decided that the Hoover, Alabama, officer who fatally shot 21-year-old Emantic “EJ” F. Bradford Jr. will not be criminally charged in the Thanksgiving night shooting. The […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawmaker says a Confederate plaque in the Texas Capitol that rejects slavery as the underlying cause of the Civil War has been removed. State Rep. Eric Johnson on Sunday tweeted a photo of the blank wall where the plaque was once displayed. Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, has long pushed the […]
Jimmy Kimmel thinks it’s “shocking” that, according to a new poll, around 12 percent of Americans say they have never even heard of Vice President Mike Pence. So, on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” he got his team to find out if the results of the survey were actually true. Kimmel’s staffers asked people […]
President Donald Trump backed down from his demand that Congress give him $5.7 billion for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border late Friday. In doing so, he agreed to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ― which immediately sent ripples around the media, celebrity and political worlds. Trump claimed his backtrack was “in […]
Fox News’ Sean Hannity doubled down on his claim that Donald Trump is still in control of negotiations over his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall with a warning to fellow conservatives who are “mad at” the president. The “Hannity” host on Friday insisted Trump still “holds all the cards,” despite the president earlier in the day agreeing […]