The city of West Palm Beach, Florida, is driving out homeless people who need to sleep by playing obnoxious music all night long near a banquet venue. The continuous loop of children’s songs, such as “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos,” is meant to keep people from congregating outside the glass-walled Waterfront Lake Pavilion, which is expected […]
A sweet puppy dropped off at a California animal shelter inside a cereal box now has much more comfortable quarters. Last week, Riverside County Animal Services posted an adorable photo of what it called “one of the oddest ways a pet came to us as an over-the-counter dropoff” ― a puppy squeezed into a Cap’n […]
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello said on Tuesday he will stay in office despite protests calling for his resignation that turned violent overnight. A peaceful demonstration that drew thousands to the streets of San Juan on Monday turned hostile in the evening when protesters and police clashed, injuring 21 law enforcement agents, officials said. The […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The director of Iowa’s social services agency was a huge fan of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, and he frequently let his subordinates know it. Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven routinely sent messages to employees lauding Shakur’s music and […]
An alligator dubbed “Chance the Snapper” has been captured after more than a week eluding human authorities in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. Frank Robb, a Florida alligator wrangler the city brought in to catch Chance, nabbed him at about 1:30 a.m on Tuesday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The alligator is a male and is 5 […]
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new rule that would virtually end asylum protections for Central American migrants. The new rule, announced Monday and expected to go into effect Tuesday, would make any migrants who pass through another country on their journey to the U.S. ineligible […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything, it seems ― except for calling President Donald Trump a racist. At a time when Trump is being widely condemned for his racist Twitter tirade against four congresswomen ― and even though he has used the name “Pocahontas” as a slur against Warren on multiple occasions ― the Massachusetts Democrat declined to directly […]
The Green New Deal has picked up endorsements from two major Christian groups, signaling a growing base of support among the faithful as climate change projections look increasingly apocalyptic. The Unitarian Universalist Association passed a resolution at its general assembly in late June endorsing the Green New Deal resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. […]
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway did not show up to testify at a hearing on Monday about Hatch Act violations for a second time, despite being issued a subpoena by the House Oversight and Reform Committee following her absence at the first hearing last month. “In defiance of that subpoena, Ms. Conway is, again, refusing to appear,” Committee […]
The South Bend, Indiana police officer who shot and killed Eric Logan has resigned, officials confirmed on Monday. “I can confirm that Sergeant Ryan O’Neill resigned from the South Bend Police Department effective immediately,” Police Chief Scott Ruszkowski said in a statement on Twitter. O’Neill, who is white, was reportedly investigating reports of car break-ins on […]