A Massachusetts woman who was convicted of coercing her boyfriend over text messages into killing himself will serve her full sentence following a ruling on Wednesday by the state’s high court. Michelle Carter’s 15-month sentence handed down in 2017 for involuntary manslaughter had been placed on hold as the Supreme Judicial Court reviewed her appeal. This […]
Randy Rainbow has his own amusing take on the government shutdown and President Donald Trump’s demands for a border wall in his new musical spoof. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Vice President Mike Pence and Trump himself are all in the firing line in the YouTube comedian’s reimagined version of “There Is Nothing […]
One of the BuzzFeed journalists behind Thursday’s bombshell report said he understands why Donald Trump would want to shift attention from allegations that he told his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a possible Trump Tower project in Moscow. However, he said he doesn’t understand why Trump is trying to shift it to Cohen’s father-in-law. BuzzFeed’s […]
President Donald Trump’s childhood home in Queens, New York, is on the market for a cool $2.9 million. On Wednesday’s broadcast of “Late Night,” host Seth Meyers made what could be interpreted as the anti-pitch for its sale. Meyers joked about the property still having “all the original teeth marks on the lead-painted window sills.” […]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ attempt to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth with a Twitter tribute didn’t work out as she planned. On Monday, the White House press secretary posted this tweet honoring King as “a great American who gave his life to right the wrong of racial inequality.” Sanders may have sincerely attempted to honor […]
How does Donald Trump spend his days? MSNBC host Ari Melber looked at the records and found that much of the time, POTUS is not working. “We’re seeing a new low in presidential work ethic in contrast to recent presidents who kept far busier schedules,” Melber said. A look at Trump’s schedule revealed that he “comes in […]
Mother’s Day might really awkward this year for a man in Sumter, South Carolina. Authorities are accusing 19-year-old Emmanuel Franklin of faking his own kidnapping in hopes of extorting money from his mother. The desired ransom? A whopping $130, according to local station WACH TV. Franklin was arrested Sunday and charged with blackmail, The Associated […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A white supremacist pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing a black man with a sword as part of an attack that authorities said was intended to incite a race war in the United States. James Jackson admitted to fatally stabbing 66-year-old Timothy Caughman in March 2017 after stalking a number of black […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will tell you what she wants, what she really, really wants ― and that’s the end of the partial government shutdown. The freshman lawmaker made Spice Girls-themed gags on Twitter early Friday as she continued campaigning for the full reopening of the government, which she also demanded in her debut speech […]
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Tuesday called for a constitutional amendment to do away with the state’s lifetime ban on voting for felons, a significant move that would further shrink the small group of states that continue to implement a policy critics say is antiquated and discriminatory. Roughly 52,000 people can’t vote in Iowa […]