A viral photo of inmates shoveling snow outside a Chicago jail sparked social media outrage this week as the city deals with record-breaking low temperatures that have already killed people. “La Villita, Chicago,” a Facebook page for the city’s Little Village neighborhood, posted a photo Monday that appears to have originated from Snapchat. The photo […]

SEATTLE (AP) — A 4-year-old boy in a Washington state apartment found a loaded gun under a mattress and used it to shoot his pregnant mother in the face, authorities said Sunday. The 27-year-old woman and her boyfriend were watching television in bed Saturday when their son found the gun between the mattress and box […]

At some point this year, the last American soldiers will return home from Syria per President Donald Trump’s snap decision to end the U.S. mission there against the Islamic State. Their partners in arms ― a Kurdish-led coalition of tens of thousands of Syrians who used support from American airstrikes, intelligence and training to decimate […]

The Transportation Security Administration said Friday that 7.6 percent of its employees took “unscheduled absences” on Thursday instead of working without pay, as the partial government shutdown neared its sixth week. The absence rate was down slightly from the 10 percent figure on Sunday, but still much higher than the 3 percent rate from the […]

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert didn’t pull his punches during a booze-soaked interview with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.  Christie, making the rounds to promote his new book about President Donald Trump, left office mired in scandals and at one point had an approval rating of just 15 percent.  Yet when asked over shots […]

David Callisch, a landlord of a 425-square-foot studio apartment in San Jose, California, thinks his two tenants, Louise and Tina, are pretty ideal. “They don’t drink. They don’t smoke. They don’t play loud music,” Callisch told Bay Area news channel ABC7. Plus, they pay their $1,500-a-month rent on time. Or rather, someone else pays their […]

In a heated round of negotiations over his demands for $5.7 billion to build a border wall, President Donald Trump allegedly berated acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as he tried to work a deal. According to Axios, which broke the story Sunday citing sources present at the Jan. 4 meeting in the White House […]

Last week, the “second lady” of the United States, Karen Pence, went to work as an art teacher at Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia. Immanuel Christian is one of the many American religious institutions, as Rebecca Klein reported for HuffPost, that discriminates both in its hiring and its admissions. The school requires “moral purity” […]

As a polar vortex brings subzero temperatures across the U.S. Midwest this week, communities are looking for ways to support one of the most vulnerable groups: people who are homeless. The National Weather Service has warned of “DANGEROUSLY low” wind chills over the next couple of days across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and other Midwestern states. Wind […]

Samantha Bee picked apart Donald Trump’s “worrying” State of the Union address on Wednesday night. The host of “Full Frontal” honed in on two particular pledges made by the president in his speech the day before: His call for a restriction on abortion rights and his vow to “eliminate the HIV epidemic” in the U.S. […]