R. Kelly turned himself in to Chicago police Friday night after being hit with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. According to a police department news release, the singer was taken into custody just after 8 p.m. following his indictment. His bond hearing is set for Saturday afternoon, NPR reported. At a press conference […]
Illinois’ top prosecutor is challenging Jason Van Dyke’s prison sentence after the former Chicago police officer was found guilty in the 2014 murder of teenager Laquan McDonald and was sentenced to 81 months in prison. Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Special Prosecutor Joe McMahon spoke Monday at a joint press conference and released a written […]
In 2016, doctors discovered that Joshua Nerius, a 30-year-old software product manager in Chicago, had developed measles. After texting with his mom from the emergency room, he found out that he had never been vaccinated as a child. “It makes me so angry. My parents thought they were doing the right thing. They were persuaded […]
You’ve never really made it in politics until you’ve inspired a conspiracy theory and now there’s one about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) that’s a doozy. On Monday, the Democratic presidential candidate told the hosts of the New York City radio show “The Breakfast Club” that she supports legalization of marijuana because “I think it gives a lot […]
Tucker Carlson was a viral sensation on Wednesday night, but probably not in ways the Fox News host had hoped. Dutch historian Rutger Bregman was invited onto Carlson’s show after calling out the world’s elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month for not paying their fair share of taxes. Bregman didn’t back […]
Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele is calling out his own party for enabling President Donald Trump’s reported plan to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall. “At the end of the day, this is something Republicans will rue,” Steele said on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” on Thursday. Steele warned that once Trump […]
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said Tuesday that there’s one longtime member of President Donald Trump’s inner circle who could reveal everything if called to testify. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spoke with the former “Apprentice” contestant about the new investigation into Trump launched by House Democrats, who sent document requests to 81 people and entities […]
Did Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry get engaged on Valentine’s Day? That’s the consensus on social media and among multiple news outlets after pop star Perry shared a post — simply captioned “full bloom” — to Instagram early Friday. The image below appears to show Perry sporting a sparkler on what many fans believe is […]
Stacey Abrams laid out how Democrats should fight President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency to fund his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. The former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee noted on Thursday’s broadcast of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” that the border emergency is “not real” and is only in Trump’s head. Democrats should definitely take “necessary […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia lawmaker on Monday backed off his plans to swiftly introduce an impeachment bill seeking the ouster of the state’s leading black elected official as Democrats struggled to address revelations of past racist behavior and allegations of sexual assault roiling its highest levels of office. The effort to impeach Democratic […]