UPDATE: 2:45 p.m. Jan. 21 — More footage has emerged of the viral moment between a Native American man and a white teenager, complicating perceptions of the incident. Please see the updated story here. PREVIOUSLY: A group of teens wearing “Make America Great Again” hats harassed a Native American Marine veteran during Friday’s first Indigenous […]
President Donald Trump has made his disdain of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, amply clear. He’s lambasted the decades-old alliance as “obsolete,” erroneously accused other members of owing the U.S. money and even came close last summer to threatening to withdraw America from the alliance if other members didn’t increase their defense spending. […]
A police commander in Detroit was arrested by officers from his own precinct early Saturday and is facing misdemeanor drunken driving charges after allegedly slamming into a car stopped at a traffic light. Commander Johnny Thomas, a 20-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.182 at the scene, more than […]
The woman who found abducted Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs last week opened up about the surreal experience in an interview that aired Monday, describing how her past work as a social worker came into play. Jeanne Nutter told “CBS This Morning” that she had been walking her dog in the rural town of Gordon, Wisconsin, […]
Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh likened Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic Party to genocidal dictators on Monday. The host of “The Rush Limbaugh Show” said he agreed with actor Ben Stein’s comments from last week, when he claimed Ocasio-Cortez was promising “the same kinds of things” as despots, including Nazi Germany leader Adolf […]
After it was revealed that President Donald Trump has devoted more than half of his work schedule to what the White House calls executive time, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to give a new name to the president’s ambiguous doings. Axios, which obtained Trump’s day-to-day schedules for the past three months, reported he has […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced he would not deliver the State of the Union address on Jan. 29 as originally planned, and his critics on social media are calling it a win for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Pelosi had earlier this month asked that he postpone the speech due to the ongoing […]
Two lawmakers are seeking to strengthen animal cruelty laws by making some of the most extreme animal cruelty acts a federal offense if committed on federal land or in connection with interstate commerce. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act was reintroduced last week by Reps. Vern Buchanan (R) and Ted Deutch (D), both […]
Most Americans hold President Donald Trump responsible for the partial government shutdown, according to a slate of just-released surveys, including the fourth wave of HuffPost/YouGov’s shutdown tracking poll. The share of Americans who regard the shutdown as “very serious” now stands at a new high of 50 percent, the HuffPost/YouGov survey finds, up from 29 percent […]
Eastern Virginia Medical School apologized Tuesday for its old racist yearbook photos amid the scandal over whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in one of them showing a white man in blackface next to another in Ku Klux Klan attire. The Democratic Virginia governor, clinging to office despite widespread calls for resignation, now claims he is not […]