After it was revealed that President Donald Trump has devoted more than half of his work schedule to what the White House calls executive time, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to give a new name to the president’s ambiguous doings. Axios, which obtained Trump’s day-to-day schedules for the past three months, reported he has […]
Right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh likened Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic Party to genocidal dictators on Monday. The host of “The Rush Limbaugh Show” said he agreed with actor Ben Stein’s comments from last week, when he claimed Ocasio-Cortez was promising “the same kinds of things” as despots, including Nazi Germany leader Adolf […]
The woman who found abducted Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs last week opened up about the surreal experience in an interview that aired Monday, describing how her past work as a social worker came into play. Jeanne Nutter told “CBS This Morning” that she had been walking her dog in the rural town of Gordon, Wisconsin, […]
A police commander in Detroit was arrested by officers from his own precinct early Saturday and is facing misdemeanor drunken driving charges after allegedly slamming into a car stopped at a traffic light. Commander Johnny Thomas, a 20-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.182 at the scene, more than […]
The Trump Organization said Tuesday it would implement eligibility screening for prospective hires across all its properties to determine if they’re legally allowed to work in the United States amid reports of undocumented workers being employed at the company’s golf clubs for years. “We are instituting E-Verify on all of our properties as soon as […]
President Donald Trump has agreed to sit down with CBS News for a pregame interview before the Super Bowl, a tradition he skipped last year when the game aired on NBC. “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan will tape the interview ― Trump’s first network television sit-down since the partial government shutdown ended last week ― on […]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Tuesday that he will not run for president, knocking down months of speculation he’d be the latest Democrat to join the 2020 race. “I have decided not to throw my hat into the ring to run for president in 2020,” he said at a news conference outside Los Angeles […]
Eastern Virginia Medical School apologized Tuesday for its old racist yearbook photos amid the scandal over whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in one of them showing a white man in blackface next to another in Ku Klux Klan attire. The Democratic Virginia governor, clinging to office despite widespread calls for resignation, now claims he is not […]
Most Americans hold President Donald Trump responsible for the partial government shutdown, according to a slate of just-released surveys, including the fourth wave of HuffPost/YouGov’s shutdown tracking poll. The share of Americans who regard the shutdown as “very serious” now stands at a new high of 50 percent, the HuffPost/YouGov survey finds, up from 29 percent […]
Two lawmakers are seeking to strengthen animal cruelty laws by making some of the most extreme animal cruelty acts a federal offense if committed on federal land or in connection with interstate commerce. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act was reintroduced last week by Reps. Vern Buchanan (R) and Ted Deutch (D), both […]