Special counsel Robert Mueller released a memo late Monday summarizing the FBI’s January 2017 interview with President Donald Trump’s then-national security adviser, Michael Flynn. In the interview, Flynn, who was also a senior adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign, lied about his conversations with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for lying to […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation quickly passed by North Carolina’s lawmakers this week would prepare a path for Republicans to dump their nominee in a still-undecided U.S. House race marred with ballot fraud allegations. “I think (legislators are) worried that Mark Harris might be damaged goods and they want to have the opportunity to have […]
Someone, somewhere could lay claim to that $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot from October: We know the sole winning ticket was sold at a grocery store in Simpsonville, South Carolina. But as of Friday no one had come forward to claim the prize, HuffPost confirmed with the South Carolina Education Lottery. The mystery almost-billionaire (the […]
Exiting White House chief of staff John Kelly said President Donald Trump simply isn’t up for the job, according to a piece in The New York Times on Sunday. Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband, George Conway, ever ready to take a swipe at Trump, brought the popcorn to social media. Journalist Maggie Haberman posted a link to […]
After being accused by a second woman of taking part in a trafficking scheme in which she was directed to have sex with him, retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz is threatening to sue. In a tweet posted on Sunday, the legal giant warned that he would take action against the women whom he claimed […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kristi Haynes knew she had a problem when her eyes turned the color of traffic paint. Haynes had been feeling strangely tired, but she didn’t have many opportunities to look at herself in a mirror because she’d been homeless for a few months. Her fiance noticed her yellow eyes and freaked out. […]
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — A former Lehigh University student was accused Thursday of poisoning his roommate. Yukai Yang, a 22-year-old chemistry major, sickened his roommate with thallium and possibly other chemicals, lacing his food and drinks over the course of several months last spring, prosecutors said. Yang will be charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault […]
Though Louis C.K. has fallen under scrutiny for sexual misconduct and more recently, his mockery of survivors of the Parkland High School massacre, fellow comedian Janeane Garofalo is telling the public to back off. In an interview released Friday on “Poptarts,” BUST Magazine’s bi-weekly podcast, Garofalo called for sympathy for the disgraced comic. “Leave Louis […]
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (D- and I-Conn.) complained on Thursday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was getting attention because she’s “different” and “controversial.” He also said she was too “left-left” for the Democratic party as a whole. “With all respect, I certainly hope she’s not the future and I don’t believe she is,” he […]
President Donald Trump’s second year in office is coming to a close, and what a year it’s been. Amid all the major obstacles Trump faced this year ― the Russia investigation heating up, Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial confirmation to the Supreme Court, Michael Cohen’s sentencing, to name a few ― there were many little things that […]