BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland woman whose death last year was blamed on an attack by a panhandler was actually killed by her husband and his adult daughter, police said Sunday. Keith Smith, 52, had told police that his wife, Jacquelyn, an engineer from Harford County, was trying to give money to a panhandler at […]

NEW YORK ― Sex workers could be released from prison and no longer fear arrest under a new bill announced on Monday by New York state Democrats.    The Democratic and Republican parties have both historically ignored the needs and demands of sex-working people. But first-term state Sens. Julia Salazar (D) and Jessica Ramos (D), […]

A Kansas doctor will spend the rest of his life in federal prison after unlawfully prescribing opioid drugs that caused a man’s overdose death, a judge ruled Friday. Dr. Steven R. Henson, 57, of Wichita, learned his fate after being convicted last year for the 2015 death of his former patient Nick McGovern, according to a Justice […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tossed out porn actress Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump that sought to tear up a hush-money settlement about their alleged affair. U.S. District Court Judge S. James Otero in Los Angeles said the suit was irrelevant after Trump and his former personal lawyer agreed […]

“Bricky the Border Wall” got the scoop on Donald Trump’s rally in El Paso, Texas, this week. Trevor Noah sent a spoof “official mascot” of Trump’s proposed southern barrier to interview the president’s supporters at Monday’s event on behalf of “The Daily Show.” And the conversations, which Noah aired on Wednesday, often turned to conspiracy theories ― […]

A Pennsylvania man was arrested last week and charged with aggravated assault after allegedly choking a driver who refused to stop singing out-of-season Christmas songs.  Police said passenger Clayton Lucas, 25, choked the driver until he nearly passed out, per CBS station KDKA in Pittsburgh.   Neither the driver nor the song were identified.  Lucas was […]

Click:confetti machines Don Lemon tackled the latest blackface controversy making headlines on Tuesday. But the “CNN Tonight” host couldn’t help laughing at the story of two white Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police narcotics investigators who wore blackface as part of an undercover sting operation in 1993. “There is no way anyone could have missed that these were […]

A Democratic lawmaker who last week suggested that Fox News host Sean Hannity could end up testifying before Congress about President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen now says he wasn’t serious.  Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday that there’s no need ― because they already know that what Hannity said in […]

Ivanka Trump rejected speculation that she and husband Jared Kushner, both White House senior advisers, were given any preferential treatment by her father upon receiving their security clearances. In an ABC News interview released Friday, Trump told the network’s Abby Huntsman there were “absolutely not” any special considerations granted to her. “There were anonymous leaks […]

Neomi Rao, the nominee for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has apologized for her past writings that blamed sexual assault survivors for their own date rape. Rao wrote a letter Monday to the Senate Judiciary Committee condemning “sexual assault in all forms” and apologizing for her […]