One day after Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was threatened with impeachment, both of the women accusing him of sexual assault have made clear to their lawyers that they are prepared to testify. Emails obtained Saturday by NBC News’ Geoff Bennett indicate Dr. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson are willing to speak at an impeachment […]
A former West Virginia official ousted from her county job after calling former first lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” has admitted to defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of more than $18,000. Pamela Taylor, who once directed the Clay County Development Corp., pleaded guilty to embezzlement Tuesday and agreed to repay the $18,149 […]
Nick Sandmann, the Kentucky teenager whose confrontation with a Native American activist went viral in January, is planning to sue CNN for a whopping $250 million over its coverage of the January clash between students and activists. A lawyer for the Covington Catholic High School student announced Sandmann’s plans during an interview scheduled with Fox […]
President Donald Trump’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. lashed out Wednesday about the imminent congressional hearing of their father’s former fixer and attorney, Michael Cohen. Eric Trump tweeted that it was “a national disgrace that on the eve of historic peace talks” between his father and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is still upset over the loss of a planned Amazon headquarters in New York City. In a radio interview Friday on WAMC, a public radio station in Albany, Cuomo said, “What happened is the greatest tragedy that I have seen since I have been in government,” referring to the company’s […]
An Arizona state senator is working to increase regulations on specialty license plates after the state’s “In God We Trust” plate was found to benefit an anti-LGBTQ organization that’s been deemed a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. State Sen. Juan Mendez (D) revealed that proceeds from sales of the specialty license plate support […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Health officials say seven cases of the mumps have been confirmed at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Houston. The Houston Health Department said Saturday that the seven adults were detained during their infectious period. Health officials say there’s no evidence the disease was transmitted outside the facility. The […]
The Maryland House of Delegates unanimously voted to censure Democratic member Mary Ann Lisanti (Harford) on Thursday over her use of a racial slur to describe a predominantly black county in suburban Washington D.C. Members of the state’s legislative body voted 136-0 to formally condemn Lisanti’s remarks after The Washington Post first reported this week […]
BASE jumper Matt McGonagle was steps away from the kind of landing generally only seen in old “Looney Tunes” cartoons. McGonagle was blown a little off course during a Jan. 31 leap from a 300-foot antenna in Arizona. In other jumps from the tower, clips showed McGonagle and his compatriots leaping into a clearing and […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took a dig at Donald Trump’s reading skills after the president criticized, with falsehoods, the Green New Deal during his campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday night. Trump likened the deal — a sweeping House resolution introduced last week by Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) — to a […]