|
Nov 21, 2018
Turkey on Wednesday blasted as "comic" President Trump's decision to stand by Saudi Arabia despite the CIA concluding Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was behind the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "It is not possible for an intelligence agency such as the CIA, which even knows the color of the fur on the cat walking...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
HONG KONG — A U.S. aircraft carrier docked in Hong Kong on Wednesday, days after a pair of American B-52 bombers flew over the disputed South China Sea. The arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group in the Asian financial hub is being seen as a friendly gesture ahead of a planned...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
NEW DELHI - A jobless 20-year-old Indian man has confessed to raping and killing at least nine girls aged between three and seven in New Delhi, the capital, and three other cities over the past two years, police said on Wednesday. The case spotlights the number of young children who go missing every year in...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — South Korea's Kim Jong Yang was elected as Interpol's president on Wednesday, edging out a longtime veteran of Russia's security services who was strongly opposed by the U.S., Britain and other European nations. The White House and its European partners had lobbied against Alexander Prokopchuk's attempts to be named the...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
NEW DELHI — An American is believed to have been killed by an isolated Indian island tribe known to fire at outsiders with bows and arrows, police said on Wednesday. Police officer Vijay Singh said seven fishermen have been arrested for facilitating the American's visit to North Sentinel Island, where the killing apparently occurred. Visits...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
DENPASAR, Indonesia — Indonesian police say an American woman allegedly threw her 2-month-old daughter from a moving car on the tourist island of Bali and then tried to kill herself by jumping from the vehicle. South Denpasar police chief Nyoman Wiarajaya said Wednesday that officers haven't been able to question Nicole Stasio, who he said...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Police in Florida say a man inadvertently showed officers two dead alligators stored in the trunk of his car when he went to surrender stolen fishing gear. News outlets report a Fort Pierce police report says 25-year-old Christian Thomas Elmore was seen Monday leaving a Walmart with the stolen gear. It...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
The wildfire that ripped through Southern California last week, burning down homes of celebrities as it cut across Malibu, left a scar on the earth that is visible from space, according to an image released by NASA. "The Woolsey Fire in Southern California has left a scar on the landscape so large that it is...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A Pennsylvania mom faces criminal charges for allegedly driving with her son on the hood of her car after the boy refused to go to the dentist. Police in Bethlehem Township say the incident began last Wednesday when the 12-year-old boy told 36-year-old Shaurice Jones he wasn't going to the dentist and...
|
|
Nov 21, 2018
DUBUQUE, Iowa — A man accused of driving onto and damaging the eastern Iowa baseball field made famous by the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams" must serve two to five years of probation. Television station KCRG reports that 21-year-old Austin Pape, of Dyersville, also was granted a deferred judgment at his sentencing Monday in Dubuque....
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A man in Washington reportedly cut off his own testicles while he was undergoing an alcohol detoxification. Officers with the Kennewick Police Department received a report on Friday of a male cutting an animal with a knife, KEPR-TV reported. But as officers arrived at the scene, they discovered a man "covered in blood on his...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
President Trump said he might attend the upcoming White House Correspondents' Dinner because the organization has decided to host a historian — not a comedian. "So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
The US military spent $72 million on thousands of troops sent to the US border shortly before Election Day in advance of an expected migrant caravan. The Pentagon will likely spend a total of $210 million on the mission, which includes $138 million for National Guard troops who have been performing a separate border mission...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, are on the hunt for a person who tossed a massive chunk of concrete off the side of a bridge and into a local driver's windshield — causing a fatal wreck on Tuesday, cops said. Joe C. Shelton Jr., 54, was traveling to work in his Nissan GT-R sports car on...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, are on the hunt for a person who tossed a massive chunk of concrete off the side of a bridge and into a local driver's windshield — causing a fatal wreck on Tuesday, cops said. Joe C. Shelton Jr., 54, was traveling to work in his Nissan GT-R sports car on...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A Mississippi senator who cracked a joke about attending a public hanging earlier this month also dressed as a Confederate soldier while visiting a Jefferson Davis museum. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith posted a photo of herself in the Confederate regalia during a visit to the museum in 2014. "I enjoyed my tour of Beauvoir. The Jefferson...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups, bottles and flip-flops, a park official said Tuesday, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic-polluting countries. Rescuers from Wakatobi National Park found the...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A Republican senator has requested information from the White House regarding Ivanka Trump's use of a personal email account for official government business. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, tweeted on Tuesday night that he has sent a letter to the White House asking for a briefing on the issue. The...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Democrat Ben McAdams ousted GOP incumbent Rep. Mia Love in Utah to flip yet another House seat for Democrats in a race that was called two weeks after Election Day. The tight race was called as McAdams held fewer than 700 votes more than Love, just enough that to ward off a recount. Democrats have...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that the US law against female genital mutilation is unconstitutional, dismissing the charges against eight people, including two doctors. District Judge Bernard Friedman said "Congress overstepped its bounds" by outlawing the practice known as female circumcision, or cutting. Friedman said it was up to states rather than Congress...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that the US law against female genital mutilation is unconstitutional, dismissing the charges against eight people, including two doctors. District Judge Bernard Friedman said "Congress overstepped its bounds" by outlawing the practice known as female circumcision, or cutting. Friedman said it was up to states rather than Congress...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
President Trump attempted to have two of his largest rivals prosecuted by the Justice Department but was discouraged by White House counsel, according to a report published on Tuesday. Trump sought to order the legal action against his 2016 presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton, and former FBI director James Comey earlier this year, according to The...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A bomb-sniffing dog was alerted to a package addressed to "Donald Trump" at the Trump International Hotel in Midtown on Tuesday — but the parcel turned out to be dog food, sources said. The package was delivered in an Amazon box and was spotted by hotel security on a loading dock shared by the Trump...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A California prostitute known as "Pretty Hoe" admitted to luring teens into sex trafficking and coercing one victim into getting a face tattoo of her pimp's name, officials said. Melanie Denae Williams — who often refers to herself as "The Most Hated Hoe in LA." — pleaded guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud or...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A Moroccan woman is accused of killing her boyfriend in the United Arab Emirates — then cooking and serving his remains in a traditional homemade dish, officials said. The woman, whose identity wasn't released, allegedly wanted revenge because her boyfriend dumped her after she financially supported him over the course of their seven-year relationship, according...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Michigan State University's former president Lou Anna Simon was hit with felony charges on Tuesday for lying to police during the Larry Nassar investigation. The longtime MSU employee allegedly told authorities back in May that she knew of a sports medicine doctor being investigated for sexual abuse in 2014, but failed to reveal it was...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
WASHINGTON - President Trump joked his way through a pardoning of "Peas" the turkey, suggesting its understudy "Carrots" had asked for a recount. "This was a fair election," Trump said Tuesday at the annual turkey pardoning ceremony in the Rose Garden. "Unfortunately, Carrots refused to concede. And demanded a recount. And we're still fighting with...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
President Trump has reportedly submitted written answers to questions from Robert Mueller. Trump lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said the questions related to the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, according to ABC News. "The President today answered written questions submitted by The Special Counsel's Office," Sekulow told the network in a...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
He's the Billy the Kid of bitcoin. Twenty-one-year-old Manhattan con man Nicholas Truglia hacked into the phones of Silicon Valley bigwigs to try to steal their cryptocurrency — and in one instance, pulled it off, authorities said Tuesday. Truglia, who claims on Facebook to be a Harvard University student, targeted the Who's Who of the...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico — Biologists are trying to save the last of the endangered Puerto Rican parrots after more than half the population of the bright green birds with turquoise-tipped wings disappeared when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and destroyed their habitat and food sources. In the tropical forest of El Yunque, only two...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
NEW YORK — Health officials in the US and Canada on Tuesday told people to avoid eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak. The US Food and Drug Administration said it was working with officials in Canada on the outbreak, which has sickened 32 people in 11 states in the US and...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A serial rapist who later died of cancer has been identified as the killer of a 23-year-old Harvard graduate student in 1969, ending a nearly 50-year-old mystery, authorities announced Tuesday. Advances in DNA technology and testing led authorities in Massachusetts to identify Michael Sumpter as the man who raped and killed anthropology student Jane Sanders...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Two adults and two children were found dead at the scene of a raging New Jersey mansion fire on Tuesday that is being probed as an arson — and at least one of the victims was shot to death, according to reports. The blaze broke out around 12:38 p.m. at 15 Willow Brook Rd. in Colts...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
At least one person was found shot dead outside a New Jersey mansion fire that claimed "multiple fatalities," according to reports. "Our office is on the scene of a fire in Colts Neck with multiple fatalities," said Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Chris Swendeman. "Firefighters are still working on the fire so the investigation is...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Recreational marijuana shops opened for the first time Tuesday in Massachusetts — and a mayor was the first in line at one of them. The two pot stores opened in the town of Leicester and the city of Northampton after Massachusetts voted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016. Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz made the first...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
American voters approve of the way President Trump is handling the economy by 53 percent to 42 percent — his highest grade ever on that issue, a Quinnipiac University poll said Tuesday. But that was about the only good news for Trump in the survey, which also showed that overall, Americans disapprove of the way...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Michael Avenatti allegedly dragged his actress girlfriend out of bed and called her an "ungrateful f-king bitch" during a recent spat over money, according to a report Tuesday. Mareli Miniutti claims she was injured in the brawl last Tuesday with her boyfriend Avenatti, whom she'd been living with in Los Angeles since January. The lawyer...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
WASHINGTON - House Democrats plan to probe Ivanka Trump's use of personal email in the White House to determine whether she violated federal record keeping laws. "We plan to continue our investigation of the presidential records act and federal records act, and we want to know if Ivanka complied with the law," a Democratic aide...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
President Trump said Tuesday that the world may never know whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman masterminded the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — declaring that "maybe he did and maybe he didn't!" In a lengthy statement, he addressed Khashoggi's killing — which the CIA has said was ordered by the prince and carried...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke blamed "environmental radicals" for the devastating wildfires in California that have killed 79 people, accusing them of blocking forest management practices that would lessen the severity of such blazes. "I will lay this on the foot of those environmental radicals that have prevented us from managing the forests for years. And...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Scientists have discovered eight-foot high, 4,000-year-old termite mounds in the Amazon. The piles of earth, which are as old as the pyramids, cover an area bigger than Britain and are visible from space. The mounds are not nests but the product of a slow and steady excavation of interconnected underground tunnels, according to a study...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Airbnb plans to discontinue listing housing in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a new report said Tuesday. Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin described it as a "disgraceful surrender," while senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat called it an "initial positive step," NPR reported. Palestinians and the international community view the settlements on occupied land...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Walmart is requesting a refund of its $2,000 donation to Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the race for the US Senate in Mississippi, after actress Debra Messing publicly chastised the retail giant for funding her campaign. Hyde-Smith had been the heavy favorite in the Nov. 27 runoff against Democrat Mike Espy until she made a...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A North Carolina school considered a stronghold of the anti-vaccination movement is now at the center of the state's largest chickenpox outbreak in at least two decades. Thirty-six students at the Asheville Waldorf School have contracted the varicella zoster virus, which causes chickenpox — making the outbreak the largest in the state since a vaccination...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A GOP leader in Ohio is being blasted for calling California's killer wildfires "God's punishment" to the "liberal" state. Dave Johnson, the Republican Party chairman in Columbiana County, posted the flip meme — then deleted it — on Sunday. It also included a photo of the burning fires and the caption "Hell on Earth brought...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in Nancy Pelosi's corner. The 29-year-old progressive star, who will become the youngest member of Congress, criticized a letter signed by 16 Democrats calling for new leadership and announcing they will not vote for Pelosi as House speaker. "When I was reading this letter that was kind of released today, my main...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A Pennsylvania dad was sentenced for involuntary manslaughter Monday in connection with his 4-year-old son's accidental shooting death last year. Ryan Koch, 23, of Stroudsburg, will serve one to two years in Monroe County prison along with three years' probation for the tragic death of his son, Bentley Koch, according to WNEP. Authorities say Bentley...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
It's a case of hit and the runs. Police are searching for a cyclist in Victoria, British Columbia, accused of ramming his bike into a car before hurling his own poop at the vehicle on Saturday, Victoria News reported Monday. No injuries were reported during the foul exchange. A witness recorded the colonic culprit as...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi pleaded with four men to "release my arm" after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul — chilling comments caught on tape in the final moments before he was murdered and dismembered, Turkish media reported. Khashoggi, 59, was confronted by four men when he arrived Oct. 2 at the consulate's "A unit," where...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
The woman who filed for a restraining order against lawyer Michael Avenatti — days after he was arrested for domestic violence — is an Estonian actress who recently had a bit part in "Ocean's Eight." Mareli Miniutti also has credited roles in upcoming 2018 films "Crypto," starring Kurt Russell, and "Sargasso," according to her IMDB...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Sarah Palin excoriated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for "fumbling basic civics" by misidentifying the three branches of government — even though the ex-Alaska governor has been ridiculed for her own series of political blunders. The gaffe by the newly elected congresswoman was made in a recent Zoom video, in which she tells her supporters, "… if...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A Florida man has admitted having sex with a male pony, telling investigators that he's a "sick man," deputies said. Nicholas Anthony Sardo, 21, of Citra, was arrested for having intercourse with a small horse named Jackie G. after a witness reported to deputies that she saw Sardo attacking the animal in a pasture on...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A Florida man has admitted having sex with a male pony, telling investigators that he's a "sick man," deputies said. Nicholas Anthony Sardo, 21, of Citra, was arrested for having intercourse with a small horse named Jackie G. after a witness reported to deputies that she saw Sardo attacking the animal in a pasture on...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Authorities on Tuesday identified the jilted lover who killed his ex-fiancée and two others, including a police officer, at a Chicago hospital. Juan Lopez, 32, stormed the Mercy Hospital campus to confront 38-year-old Dr. Tamera O'Neal, in the parking lot at around 3:30 p.m. Monday, police said. The confrontation was apparently over their "broken engagement,"...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
Social media users mocked First Daughter Ivanka Trump for using a private email server with the same words her father deployed against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election - "lock her up." An investigation by the White House found Ivanka Trump, who has an office in the West Wing and is an adviser to...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
A naked man who was caught on video stealing from neighbors' homes in Arizona was arrested and charged in at least five burglaries, authorities said. Jeremy Lawrence, 47, of Florence, was collared Friday after several victims provided surveillance video from their homes to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in connection with the bizarre string of...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
CHICAGO — Parents of players on a Chicago high school football team have filed a lawsuit, claiming a parent of an opposing player wore a referee uniform and influenced the outcome of the game. The Simeon Alumni Association and parents of Simeon Career Academy players filed the lawsuit last week against the Illinois High School...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Islamabad on Tuesday to protest President Donald Trump's allegation that the country had harbored al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden despite getting billions of dollars in American aid. According to a statement, Foreign Secretary Tahmina Janjua told the U.S. diplomat, Paul Jones that "such baseless rhetoric …...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
TAMPA, Fla. — Florida detectives say they're investigating after firefighters found three homicide victims inside a burning house. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reports that the bodies were discovered last week in Tampa. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue responded to the home following a 911 call Thursday afternoon. While putting out the fire, rescue workers found...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
HOUSTON — A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Monday from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments in San Francisco. The request was made by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights,...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
The woman who first called for a women's march after the election of President Trump is now calling for the group's current leadership to step aside — slamming them as anti-Semitic and anti-gay rights. Teresa Shook, a retired lawyer based in Hawaii, called out Women's March, Inc., board members Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
DUNNELLON, Fla. — Authorities in Florida say a pit bull climbed into a crib and fatally attacked a 5-day-old girl. Investigators with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office say they are investigating the girl's death as an accident and no criminal charges are expected to be filed. The Citrus County Chronicle reports the attack took place...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
BERLIN — A swimming instructor in southwestern Germany has been convicted of sexually abusing 37 girls he taught. Germany's dpa news agency reported the 34-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday in Baden-Baden regional court. His last name wasn't given in keeping with German privacy laws. Prosecutors said he abused the...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University officials say someone painted a Nazi symbol on a mural honoring victims of last month's Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. University president Vincent Price said in a letter to the school community that a red swastika was painted Sunday night on the tribute to those who died in the shooting at the...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
ARLINGTON, Texas — Police in the Fort Worth area say a 2-year-old girl died after a caregiver hit her with a belt and burned her buttocks for discipline. Police were called to an apartment in Arlington early Saturday because a child wasn't breathing. The girl, Aniyah Darnell, was pronounced dead at a hospital. An autopsy...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
HOUSTON — Police have charged a Houston man with child abandonment after concluding that his 6-year-old daughter strangled her 1-year-old brother with a seatbelt in the family car parked outside a thrift store while their father shopped. Adrian Dreshuan Middleton was charged Friday in the May 20 incident on the eastern edge of Houston. A...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
TORONTO — Police arrested six students from a prestigious private all-boys Catholic school in Toronto on Monday and charged them with sexual assault related to a video that was posted on the internet. Toronto Police Inspector Dominic Sinopoli said the teens, who are all 14 and 15, are from St. Michael's College and were charged...
|
|
Nov 20, 2018
BALLWIN, Mo. — Police in suburban St. Louis on Monday were searching Monday for a gunman who went into a religious supply store, sexually assaulted at least one woman and shot a woman in the head. Police said the shooting victim later died at a hospital. The shooting happened about 3:15 p.m. at a Catholic...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
The former CEO of New York's oldest credit union pleaded guilty to embezzling millions of dollars in funds on Monday — admitting to using the company's dime to buy a Mercedes Benz, lease luxury cars and stay in high-end hotels, prosecutors said. Kam Wong, 62, former CEO of the Municipal Credit Union, pleaded guilty to...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
An aspiring actress filed a petition for a restraining order against lawyer Michael Avenatti on Monday. Mareli Miniutti — who played a bit part in "Ocean's 8" — filed the paperwork at a Santa Monica courthouse just days after Avenatti was accused of a domestic violence incident that allegedly left a woman's face "swollen and...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
President Trump was hands-on Monday as he and First Lady Melania Trump greeted the White House Christmas tree as it was delivered by a horse-drawn wagon. The president surveyed the 19-and-a-half-foot Fraser fir at the North Portico as he and Melania, in a festive, holiday-hued cape, held hands and the Marine Band played Christmas carols....
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
Pompeii archeologists announced Monday the discovery of this erotic depiction of the Greek myth "Leda and the Swan," which was hidden under ash for centuries It's believed to have adorned a bedroom wall in a home at the center of the ancient city, near modern-day Naples, which was buried by the lava of Mount Vesuvius...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A Chicago police officer died on Monday night, just hours after he was shot by a gunman who opened fire in a hospital. Officer Samuel Jimenez was fatally shot at Mercy Hospital after a man arrived at the location and gunned down his former fiancee. "It's with profound sadness that we share the death of...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A curling team that included a 2014 Olympic gold medalist was kicked out of a tournament for being "extremely drunk," according to reports. The Canadian team was booted Sunday from the Red Deer Curling Classic in Alberta over "unacceptable behavior" that included intoxication, the CBC reported. The ejected teammates were identified as 2014 gold medal...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A disgraced former judge from Ohio is suspected of stabbing his estranged wife to death — then ramming into a police cruiser while fleeing the scene, according to reports. Lance Mason, an ex-Cuyahoga County judge, was taken into custody Saturday after allegedly killing a beloved sixth-grade teacher, 45-year-old Aisha Fraser Mason, at a home in...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to discuss official White House business with aides and cabinet officials, a report said on Monday. The president's eldest daughter sent hundreds of emails under the private account, with a domain that was shared by her husband, Jared Kushner, throughout 2017, according to The Washington Post. Ivanka Trump...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to discuss official White House business with aides and cabinet officials, a report said on Monday. The president's eldest daughter sent hundreds of emails under the private account, with a domain that was shared by her husband, Jared Kushner, throughout 2017, according to The Washington Post. Ivanka Trump...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
US troops at the southern border — deployed by President Trump before the midterms to deter what he called "an invasion" of asylum-seeking migrants — are heading home and should be reunited with their families by Christmas. The Army commander in charge of the mission — derided by critics as a political stunt to fire...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
PHILADELPHIA — Two men and two women were found shot and killed in a basement of a house being renovated on Monday. Police received a call in the morning to check on the welfare of people at the house after a family member arrived to find the door ajar. Responding officers found the four in...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
WASHINGTON - A group of 16 rebellious House Democrats — including four New Yorkers — released their long-awaited letter on Monday, saying they will oppose Nancy Pelosi as speaker. The elected officials called Pelosi a "historic figure" who ushered in important legislative achievements. But they also vowed not to vote for her in upcoming leadership...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital on Monday, injuring numerous people, including a cop. Police responded to Mercy hospital after reports of shots fired at the location at around 4 p.m., according to Chicago cops. "Reports of multiple victims from incident at 26th and Michigan. Please avoid area," tweeted Chicago Police spokesman Anthony...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital on Monday, shooting three people, including a cop. Police responded to Mercy hospital after reports of shots fired at the location at around 4 p.m., according to Chicago cops. "A #ChicagoPolice officer has been shot in the active shooter incident at Mercy Hospital," tweeted Chicago Police spokesman...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital on Monday, shooting three people, including a cop. Police responded to Mercy hospital after reports of shots fired at the location at around 4 p.m., according to Chicago cops. "A #ChicagoPolice officer has been shot in the active shooter incident at Mercy Hospital," tweeted Chicago Police spokesman...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A gunman opened fire in a Chicago hospital Monday — fatally shooting a doctor who was his ex-fiancée, a police officer and a pharmaceutical intern, authorities said. The shooter was also killed. It was not immediately clear whether he was shot by police or turned the gun on himself. Officer Samuel Jimenez was fatally shot...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital on Monday, shooting three people, including a cop. Police responded to Mercy hospital after reports of shots fired at the location at around 3:30 p.m., according to Chicago cops. "A #ChicagoPolice officer has been shot in the active shooter incident at Mercy Hospital," tweeted Chicago Police spokesman...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
The names of New Jersey priests and deacons credibly accused of sexually abusing minors will be made public early next year, the archbishop of Newark said Monday. Archbishop Cardinal Joseph Tobin said the naming of the predator priests and deacons is in coordination with the New Jersey attorney general's ongoing task force into clergy sex...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
President Trump will hand over written answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller about Russian election meddling as early as Tuesday and no later than Thanksgiving, according to a report on Monday. Trump's lawyers set the informal Thanksgiving deadline for the president to complete his responses and he is just about ready to submit...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
One of the accused New Jersey GoFundMe fraudsters who allegedly scammed $400,000 from people over a supposedly homeless vet is now claiming that she's the one who's been had, according to secret recordings released by her lawyers Monday. The tapes suggest that Mark D'Amico, 39, forced ex-girlfriend Kate McClure, 28, to peddle a phony tale...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
Rainstorms heading toward California this week could make it almost impossible to finish recovering and identifying remains of people killed in the deadliest wildfire to ever hit the state, an official said. "It's a disheartening situation," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said about the grueling search for remains in areas of Northern California scorched by...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A pair of crooks were busted for looting a California fire station amid the most deadly and devastating wildfire to ever strike the state, officials said Monday. Robert DePalma and William Erlbacher, both from Concow, were charged with vehicle theft, looting during an emergency and possession of stolen property for allegedly robbing a Cal Fire...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
LONDON — What single word best captures the tone of the past year? Oxford Dictionaries says it's "toxic." Oxford University Press monitors changes in the English language and each year selects a word that catches the annual mood. Its lexicographers said Thursday that "toxic" grew into "an intoxicating descriptor for the year's most talked about...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
Ultra-Orthodox passengers aboard two delayed El Al flights from New York to Israel erupted in violence amid fears they would still be flying after the start of the Jewish Sabbath - leading one of the planes to divert to Athens, according to reports. The two flights were scheduled to take off from JFK Airport on...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
A North Carolina teacher who went missing in Mexico was killed by a member of the drug cartel once led by the notorious Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, officials said. Patrick Braxton-Andrew, 34, a Spanish teacher from Davidson, disappeared in the central American country on Oct. 28 after leaving his hotel in Urique to go for...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
DERBY, Vt. — A mystery man is providing cheer to Walmart shoppers in Vermont. The man paid off the entire lot of layaway items at the store in Derby, near the Canadian border. Brownington resident Sandra Cortez tells WCAX-TV she thought it was a rumor. But she learned it was real when she went to...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
WASHINGTON - Comedian Michelle Wolf called the White House Correspondents' Association "cowards" after the organization announced Monday that it had chosen a historian to headline next year's annual dinner instead of a traditional comedy act. "The @whca are cowards. The media is complicit. And I couldn't be prouder," Wolf tweeted Monday after the WHCA announced...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
New York Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backs calls from fellow progressives to mount primary campaigns against moderate Democrats whose politics they believe are to the right of their constituents'. "Long story short, I need you to run for office," Ocasio-Cortez said on a video conference call hosted by the leftist Justice Democrats, as the group launched...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman once had the brother of a leader of an allied cartel killed because he didn't shake his hand — a hit the sparked a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez enterprises, a witness testified in Brooklyn court Monday. The pint-size drug lord and head of the world's most powerful cartel...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
The Colorado man who coldly murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Christopher Watts, 33, pleaded guilty to the heinous slayings of Shanann Watts, 34, and the couple's daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, earlier this month in exchange for prosecutors sparing him the death penalty. "We...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
One of these turkeys will officially be spared the guillotine this week — but the other one likely won't end up on President Trump's dinner plate, either. A pair of gobblers from South Dakota, aptly named Peas and Carrots, were living the high life at DC's swanky InterContinental hotel Monday as they await the outcome...
|
|
Nov 19, 2018
President Trump boasted on Monday that he "pointed" out Osama bin Laden before the 2001 World Trade Center attacks in one of his books and chided former President Clinton that he "famously missed his shot" at killing the terrorist leader. "Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed...
|
|
Private Label