DETROIT (AP) — A Marine veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder was held for three days for possible deportation before federal authorities learned that he was a U.S. citizen born in Michigan, lawyers said Wednesday. Jilmar Ramos-Gomez, 27, lives in the Grand Rapids area. He was released on Dec. 17 from a detention center in Calhoun […]
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — Police say a Texas woman used her granddaughter’s scooter to defend herself against a pair of machete-wielding men wearing clown masks who attempted to rob the woman and her husband. Police say Aretha Cardinal and her husband, Joseph Nelson, were in the driveway of their Texas City home last week […]
President Donald Trump may be threatening to shut the government down again if he can’t secure the money for his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. But Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist for The Washington Post, believes Trump’s warning is “entirely empty.” In her column Monday, Rubin noted how there was little appetite for another […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — National parks across the United States are scrambling to clean up and repair damage that visitors and storms caused during the recent government shutdown while bracing for the possibility of another closure ahead of the busy Presidents Day weekend later this month. Visitors left human waste, piles of trash, graffiti, […]
Former White House photographer Pete Souza attempted to disprove another one of President Donald Trump’s wild statements on Tuesday. Souza shared a number of images showing former President Barack Obama dining in a private room off the Oval Office to counter Trump’s reported claim to tour guests that Obama “just sat in here and watched […]
By Christine Vestal Editor’s Note: This is part three of the State of the States 2019 series. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dozens of doctors, nurses and researchers here at the Medical University of South Carolina are working on new opioid treatment projects many say they never dreamed possible. “For a small state without Medicaid expansion to […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Sunday called for a Justice Department investigation into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where frigid conditions reportedly have left inmates begging for help. “Disturbing reports have surfaced that the federal government left more than a thousand prisoners without heat, hot water or electricity during subzero temperatures,” Cuomo […]
It wasn’t clear whether Nancy Pelosi would be speaker when Democrats won control of the House in last November’s elections. Considered too much of a lightning rod for Republicans, a couple dozen of the chamber’s Democrats sought to force her to give up the spot at the top of their caucus. The Democratic Party, they […]
“The Mooch” is out early. Again. Anthony Scaramucci has reportedly exited CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother” house after just six days. That makes his 11-day tenure as White House communications director, a length of time that people on social media often mockingly call “a Scaramucci,” now seem like an eon. “I just left the ‘Big Brother’ […]
The Republican National Committee’s attempt to use Twitter to spin the narrative on the ongoing partial government shutdown backfired on Thursday night. The RNC posted six bullet point-style tweets that tried to paint President Donald Trump as some kind of helpless victim of the Democrats’ unwillingness to negotiate over his demand for funding for his proposed […]