Miss USA, Sarah Rose Summers, faced backlash after being accused of mocking two fellow Miss Universe contestants — Miss Vietnam, H’Hen Nie, and Miss Cambodia, Rern Sinat. Summers later apologized for her actions in a statement on her Instagram page. The incident was captured in a video on the Instagram account of Miss Colombia, Valeria Morales. In the […]
Newly inaugurated California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) hit the ground running by taking aim at the state’s growing wildfire crisis from multiple angles after he was sworn in to office Monday. Newsom spent his second day as governor in the wildfire-prone city of Colfax, where he introduced two executive orders and announced a partnership with Govs. […]
Surveillance videos obtained by the Arizona Republic show migrant children being slapped, pushed and dragged by employees at a since-shuttered shelter run by embattled shelter provider Southwest Key Programs. In one video, a male staffer at the Hacienda Del Sol shelter in Youngtown, Arizona, is seen pulling and dragging a young boy into a room […]
Outgoing Republican senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is walking back comments he made to CNN earlier this week suggesting he doesn’t care about President Donald Trump’s possible connection to crimes carried out by his longtime fixer Michael Cohen, who was sentenced to three years this week for violating campaign finance law and lying to Congress. On Tuesday, the […]
LOS ANGELES, Dec 16 (Variety.com) – “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is the new box office king, collecting a solid $35.4 million during its first three days of release. That’s hardly the biggest opening for an animated film this year, but it does rank as the best start for a cartoon in the month of December. […]
Yet again, a domestic violence charge against Reuben Foster has been dropped. TMZ reported the State Attorney’s Office in Florida has dismissed the misdemeanor domestic violence charge on Nov. 24 that led to Foster’s release from the San Francisco 49ers. The Washington Redskins claimed Foster off waivers right after he was cut. Foster has been on […]
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) offered on Friday to pardon potentially thousands of people who have a misdemeanor marijuana possession conviction in his state, where weed has long been legal. Inslee’s new “Marijuana Justice Initiative” will provide pardons on an individual basis to adults who have a single misdemeanor conviction for marijuana possession on an otherwise […]
Police in Texas arrested a gun-wielding man dressed in tactical-style clothing on Sunday after he told officers he was headed to church to fulfill “a prophecy.” Tony Dwayne Albert II, 33, was detained and transported to Guadalupe County Jail in Seguin, roughly 50 miles southwest of Austin. He was booked on charges of being a […]
President Donald Trump’s shifting language on his proposed southern border wall with Mexico isn’t an attempt at compromise, Chris Cuomo said on Monday. Calling the wall a “farce,” the CNN host described Trump’s wall as a campaign gimmick that was never meant to be real. Now, the president’s change from a long-promised concrete wall to steel […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri poacher has been ordered to repeatedly watch the movie “Bambi” as part of his sentence for illegally killing hundreds of deer. The Springfield News-Leader reports that David Berry Jr. was ordered to watch the Walt Disney movie at least once each month during his year-long jail sentence in what […]