The fatal police shooting of an armed Alabama man after he was mistaken for a mall shooter in November was “justified and not criminal,” authorities said Tuesday. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall decided that the Hoover, Alabama, officer who fatally shot 21-year-old Emantic “EJ” F. Bradford Jr. will not be criminally charged in the Thanksgiving night shooting. The […]
One person is dead and 12 others hospitalized after suspected fentanyl overdoses in California that sickened two responding police officers, authorities said. Of the 12 overdose victims, four remained in critical condition hours after authorities responded to a 911 call around 9 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday at a home in Chico, said Chico Police Chief Mike […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has signed into law new measures to protect and expand abortion rights across the state. On Tuesday night, after passing the Senate and the Assembly, the Reproductive Health Act received its final approval from the governor. The law essentially codifies the landmark decision made in Roe v. Wade 46 years […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested Monday night how President Donald Trump was with “one genius move” attempting to put the FBI “out of business.” And it’s all to do with the ongoing partial government shutdown, which Trump triggered in December over his demands for money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Maddow noted how […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is adding to the slew of calls for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation amid outrage over a racist photo in his medical school yearbook. In a Saturday night post, the freshman congresswoman demanded the Democrat step down, arguing that “those who try to help him stumble past this deserve scrutiny.” “If you […]
Stephen Colbert isn’t buying President Donald Trump’s latest plan to end the government shutdown. Trump on Saturday offered to temporarily restore some DACA and TPS protections for immigrants in exchange for funding for his border wall. But as the “Late Show” host pointed out, those are protections that Trump himself took away:
Police in Clay County, Florida, have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Ohio, and the arrest photo is going viral because of the suspect’s clothing. Clarence Sheese, 50, was arrested Monday on an out-of-state warrant and charged with two counts of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition, according to […]
Fox News’ Sean Hannity doubled down on his claim that Donald Trump is still in control of negotiations over his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall with a warning to fellow conservatives who are “mad at” the president. The “Hannity” host on Friday insisted Trump still “holds all the cards,” despite the president earlier in the day agreeing […]
President Donald Trump backed down from his demand that Congress give him $5.7 billion for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border late Friday. In doing so, he agreed to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ― which immediately sent ripples around the media, celebrity and political worlds. Trump claimed his backtrack was “in […]
Jimmy Kimmel thinks it’s “shocking” that, according to a new poll, around 12 percent of Americans say they have never even heard of Vice President Mike Pence. So, on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” he got his team to find out if the results of the survey were actually true. Kimmel’s staffers asked people […]