Officials in Chicago have charged R. Kelly with 10 counts of criminal sexual abuse, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx officially announced on Friday in what may prove to be a turning point in a long history of disturbing allegations against the singer. During a news conference Friday afternoon, Foxx listed the charges, first reported by The Chicago […]
Activists are calling on California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to file charges against the officers who shot Stephon Clark last year after the Sacramento district attorney said her office would not. On Saturday, Sacramento District Attorney Anne-Marie Schubert said at a press conference the two police officers who in March 2018 shot 22-year-old Clark, who […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday played a prank on viewers when she previewed a montage of lawmakers criticizing President Donald Trump’s reported plan to declare a national emergency to finance his U.S.-Mexico border wall. The host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” said “just the threat” of the declaration “has led, as you might expect, to, […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a series of shocking comments about women prior to and during his employment at the cable network, including instances where he called women “extremely primitive,” said a teacher sleeping with an underage male student was “doing a service to all 13-year-old girls” and lambasted rape shield laws as “totally […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Monday that he plans to release 10 years’ worth of his tax returns, following the example of fellow 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The Vermont lawmaker took questions at a CNN town hall a week after announcing his second consecutive bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. “Our tax returns […]
Jimmy Kimmel had some bogus breaking news on Tuesday night. President Donald Trump is in Vietnam preparing for a summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. So, the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” crew told people on the street that Trump had just made North Korea the 51st U.S. state. Check out how the fake development […]
Janice Freeman, a singer who wowed fans on the “The Voice” with her powerhouse vocals in 2017, died over the weekend, her family has confirmed. Freeman was 33. The singer’s family told TMZ that Freeman had been in her West Covina, California, home with her husband on Saturday when she “started complaining she couldn’t breathe.” […]
An Alabama woman who left the United States for Syria at age 19 to join ISIS said she “deeply regrets” supporting the terror group and longs to “return home” with her young son. Hoda Muthana, now 24, once used social media to urge Americans to kill in support of ISIS. “Go on drive-bys and spill […]
An internal Department of Justice gender equality group that represents almost 400 employees and contractors issued a complaint letter on Tuesday decrying the lack of women leaders at the DOJ, specifically in its litigating divisions. “The dearth of women in top leadership roles sends a negative message, both to Department employees and to the public […]
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday on an involuntary manslaughter conviction nearly five years after he died in a truck filled with toxic gas. Michelle Carter was sentenced to 15 months in jail in 2017 for […]