A Kansas cow escaped from a processing plant and went down fighting, charging at a police officer and taking a bullet before ultimately being caught and sent back to the plant. Brock Volkman of Richards Cold Storage in the city of Valley Center told The Wichita Eagle that the cow escaped on Thursday while a customer […]

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence may boast about defeating the self-proclaimed Islamic State terror network in Syria and Iraq. But CNN’s Jake Tapper explains in a new fact-checking video that’s not really the case. “Is that true? Has ISIS been, quote, defeated?” asks Tapper in the clip produced in partnership with FactCheck.org […]

United Teachers Los Angeles has overwhelmingly voted to end a strike of more than 30,000 educators, leaders announced Tuesday evening. The agreement ends a strike of over 30,000 educators in the nation’s second-largest school district and puts teachers back in their classrooms Wednesday. “It’s a historic day today in Los Angeles,” UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl said […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is demanding to know why a pharmaceutical company has slapped a $375,000 list price on a drug that patients used to get for free. Sanders accused Patrick McEnany, president and CEO of Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Inc., of “a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers” and “an immoral exploitation of patients who need this […]

With the inaugurations of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday, a majority of Americans now live in a state with a Democratic governor. The two inaugurations mean 175 million people ― a majority of the United States’ estimated population of 325 million ― have Democratic governors. Pritzker, a billionaire former […]

Could this become the anthem of the ongoing partial government shutdown? Cardi B’s viral vent at President Donald Trump has been remixed to one of her hits, “Bodak Yellow.” Andrew Rose Gregory, part of The Gregory Brothers, shared the spoof song to Twitter on Thursday: Compare it with the original here: And check out some […]

President Donald Trump unleashed a vitriolic attack against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and took aim at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in a late-night Twitter tirade on Sunday as the White House deals with yet another spate of scandals related to Trump’s unwillingness to distance himself from Russia. “If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me […]

Meghan Markle knows how to light up a room.  The Duchess of Sussex stepped out Wednesday night alongside her husband, Prince Harry, for a performance of Cirque du Soleil’s show, Totem, at Royal Albert Hall. The evening was a benefit for Harry’s charity, Sentebale, which he and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho founded over a decade ago to help […]

A 2010 video of now-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) boasting about her truancy platform while she was the district attorney of San Francisco has resurfaced and gone viral on Twitter. The video, posted by journalist Walker Bragman on Monday, features Harris, at the time the state’s attorney general, delivering a speech at the Commonwealth Club in […]

By Michael Ollove Editor’s Note: This is part five of the State of the States 2019 series.  Frustrated by federal inaction, state lawmakers in 41 states have proposed detailed plans to lower soaring prescription drug costs. Some measures would give state Medicaid agencies more negotiating power. Others would disclose the pricing decisions of the drug […]