Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the chairman of the House oversight committee, is accusing President Donald Trump of reaping substantial financial benefits from his White House job. In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, Cummings asserted that Trump was making “a lot of money” from the position, implying he was doing so against the law. […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman who thought she was gaining weight because of menopause discovered she actually had a 50-pound tumor that had been growing inside her for decades. Boise television station KTVB reports Brenda Cridland of Meridian chalked up her weight gain to aging, but when her health started to quickly decline about eight […]
Twitter threw up a doozy of a trending topic Wednesday night as hundreds of people dissected President Donald Trump’s personality in hilarious detail. The viral #DonaldTrumpsTheTypeOfGuy hashtag saw folks ribbing the president over his role in the ongoing government shutdown, his repeated lies and embarrassing Twitter typos. Check out some of the best ones below: RELATED […]
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) offered a tongue-in-cheek suggestion for how President Donald Trump could help federal workers who are struggling to pay their rent or mortgages during the ongoing partial government shutdown. “If the president feels this strongly about it, then open up the Trump Tower and let everybody live in there rent-free, and then maybe we […]
For the second time in three days, authorities say a university student has died after being found unresponsive outside as temperatures dipped into the negatives across much of the county last week. Authorities said the 19-year-old University of Vermont student was found lying unresponsive in snow behind a business in Burlington early Saturday. Foul play […]
The George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston was forced to close one of its security screening checkpoints on Sunday because of the partial government shutdown, which has caused a shortage of workers. The airport sent out a message on Twitter saying the Transportation and Security Administration checkpoint for Terminal B would be closed and passengers […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A winter storm that contributed to at least five deaths in the Midwest is pummeling the mid-Atlantic region for a second day, bringing snow, freezing rain and power outages. Nearly 200,000 people were without electricity in Virginia and North Carolina on Sunday morning. The wintry mix was also causing problems at […]
New York and five other states are suing the Trump administration in a bid to force the Environmental Protection Agency to take stronger steps to curb air pollution that blows across state lines. The so-called “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act requires the EPA to police air pollution in certain states to ensure […]
A total lunar eclipse dominated the sky on Sunday night, to the delight of stargazers across America. The celestial event ― nicknamed a super blood wolf moon ― differed from the last two total lunar eclipses because it was visible to Americans from coast to coast, depending on local weather conditions. Sunday’s blood moon was also […]
Chris Christie may have thought he was paying Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) a compliment by calling him “articulate,” but many Twitter users saw it as a dog whistle. Booker announced Friday that he was running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Considering they are both New Jersey politicos, it was a natural topic for Christie to discuss […]