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Apr 24, 2019
One of the suicide bombers who carried out the deadly Easter attacks in Sri Lanka studied in the UK and Australia, authorities in the country said Wednesday. The country's defense minister made the announcement at a media briefing Wednesday afternoon local time after the death toll of Sunday's terrorist bombings rose to 359. "We believe...
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Apr 24, 2019
HOUSTON — A Houston high school principal has implemented a dress code for parents because she says it is necessary to establish high standards for students, despite criticism that the move could be discriminatory. James Madison High School will turn away parents who show up to school wearing pajamas, hair rollers, leggings or certain other...
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Apr 24, 2019
DETROIT — Marking tires to enforce parking rules is like entering property without a search warrant, a federal court said Monday as it declared the practice unconstitutional in Michigan and three other states. Alison Taylor had received more than a dozen $15 tickets for exceeding the two-hour parking limit in Saginaw. The city marks tires...
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Apr 24, 2019
The number of lives lost in Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday terror attacks rose to 359, authorities said early Wednesday. Officials also revealed they've detained more suspects for planning and carrying out out the suicide bombings, bringing the total number of people detained to 58. Police in the country believe several conspirators remain at-large and armed...
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Apr 24, 2019
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency failed to disclose lobbying work he did for a company that is regulated by the agency, according to a federal lawmaker. When EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler joined the agency in 2017, he neglected to mention on required financial disclosure forms that he had just left a two-year gig...
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Apr 24, 2019
A former sports reporter who accused Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton of sexually assaulting her in his hotel room said on Tuesday that she feared he was going to rape her. Kelli Tennant, who claims Walton attacked her when she visited his hotel during his tenure with the Golden State Warriors, said at a news...
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Apr 24, 2019
Sealed tin cans that contain "the air of an outgoing era" have gone on sale in Japan as the country's emperor prepares to be the first monarch in history to abdicate his thrown, a report said. The cans are selling for about 10 bucks in Gifu Prefecture's village of Henari, whose name uses the same...
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Apr 24, 2019
A hit-and-run driver from Staten Island fatally struck a woman with his car this weekend — then repaired the damage to his vehicle in an attempt to cover up the crime, police said. Johnson Kim, 74, was driving a minivan that struck 89-year-old Anastasia Diaz while she was crossing Bradley Avenue at Purdy Avenue in Castleton Corners...
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Apr 23, 2019
On an average day, Sri Lankan cemetery worker Piyasri Gunasena will typically dig one grave — maybe two. But that all changed Sunday. "This has been the busiest time," he told the Agence France Presse. "Even during the war, it wasn't so busy — only the odd funeral for a soldier." Gunasena, 48, said the...
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Apr 23, 2019
A thrill-seeker was reunited with the prosthetic leg he lost while skydiving 10,000 feet in the air, officials said this week. The $15,000 artificial limb fell off mid-flight Sunday and was discovered by a worker in a California lumber yard the next day, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook. Officials investigating the blue,...
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Apr 23, 2019
The former CEO of a major pharmaceutical distributor was hauled into court in handcuffs Tuesday — and faces life behind bars — on charges he illegally supplied shady pharmacies with deadly opioids. Laurence Doud III, 75, is accused of using the Rochester Drug Co-operative to provide pharmacies with highly addictive narcotics despite numerous warnings that...
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Apr 23, 2019
It's one of the iconic images of the Vietnam War. Hubert van Es' snapshot shows a military helicopter perched atop the US Embassy in Saigon as Americans stream up a stairway desperately boarding the last flight out. Except that isn't a military helicopter, that's not the US Embassy, those aren't Americans and that wasn't the...
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Apr 23, 2019
President Trump demanded Tuesday that The New York Times beg for his forgiveness for its coverage of the Russia probe. "I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election," the president wrote in a series of tweets. "But this one will have to...
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Apr 23, 2019
A former pro hockey player and a criminal-justice advocate were found slain in a California condo in a killing now being investigated as a double homicide, according to reports. Wendi Miller, 48, and Darren Partch, 38, were found dead on Sunday night when Partch's roommate walked into their Newport Beach condo and discovered both of...
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Apr 23, 2019
A toddler was found alone in a cornfield at the US-Mexico border Tuesday morning, with just his name and phone numbers written on his shoes, officials said. The 3-year-old was crying when Customs and Border Protection officials found him, according to a tweet from the agency. CBP said they believe the boy was traveling with...
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Apr 23, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un boarded an armored train on Wednesday local time and traveled to Russia for his first summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin, a report said. Kim departed from Russia earlier in the day and was expected to arrive for the meeting in Russia's Far East city of Vladivostok on Thursday,...
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Apr 23, 2019
An Arkansas woman "flew into a rage" and fatally shot her husband inside his man cave after spotting a porn channel on their satellite television bill, according to prosecutors. Patricia Hill, 69, had asked her dearly beloved to cancel his smut subscription with the Dish Network — after she caught him watching dirty TV shows...
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Apr 23, 2019
The man who mailed homemade pipe bombs to media outlets and critics of President Trump said in a rambling letter to a federal judge that attending his first rally for the president was like a "new found fun drug." Cesar Sayoc, 57, who faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to sending the crude explosives,...
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Apr 23, 2019
President Trump griped that Twitter is deleting his followers for much of his Tuesday meeting with company CEO Jack Dorsey, according to a report. A good portion of the closed-door sit-down focused on Trump's concern that the social media platform is tampering with his nearly 60 million followers, a source told the Washington Post. The...
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Apr 23, 2019
A Pennsylvania factory worker died when she reached into a meat grinder — and either fell or was sucked into the machine, officials said.
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Apr 23, 2019
It was a "Sister Act" in Central Park. A group of nuns from Colombia were spotted serenading park goers in Manhattan on a sunny Tuesday afternoon during a visit to the city for Holy Week. The sisters, who were clad in all-white robes, were strumming a guitar and singing a Holy hymn while rowing through...
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Apr 23, 2019
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is facing some heat over a previous stance that classified pizza sauce as a vegetable in school lunches. During a CNN town hall, Thomas Satterthwaite, a sophomore at Harvard University, asked the senator about a letter she sent to the USDA in 2010 petitioning them to keep frozen pizzas...
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Apr 23, 2019
A North Carolina waitress was accused of tipping herself over $3,700 at local eatery, according to ABC News 13 WLOS.
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Apr 23, 2019
The Sri Lankan president on Tuesday vowed a major shakeup to the nation's security agencies that ignored warnings ahead of the deadly Easter Sunday terror attacks — as reports emerged that officials had been tipped off to the bombings "hours before" they happened. The announcement from President Maithripala Sirisena comes two days after terrorists killed...
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Apr 23, 2019
Surveillance footage purportedly shows two of the Sri Lanka suicide bombers riding a hotel elevator and plotting their attack just moments before blowing themselves up at an Easter Sunday brunch, a report says. The suspected terrorists can be seen smiling and talking to each other as they head down to the third floor of the...
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Apr 23, 2019
A pair of Texas drug dealers pleaded guilty Tuesday to peddling millions of dollars in illegal steroids and other substances on the dark web to clients including an NFL football player, Manhattan officials said. The DA's office said the case marks the first conviction for money-laundering involving cryptocurrency in New York state. The defendants started...
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Apr 23, 2019
It's the 'Roid Defense. Lawyers for "MAGA bomber" Cesar Sayoc — the President Trump fanatic who pleaded guilty to mailing explosive devices to well-known Democratic politicians — have had him evaluated in a bid to show how his "extensive steroid use likely affected his mental health," according to new Manhattan court documents. The lawyers informed...
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Apr 23, 2019
The 5-year-old boy thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America this month has "zero evidence of brain damage," the family's pastor said. During his Easter service, Pastor Mac Hammond told the Minneapolis, Minn., congregation the boy's grandfather called with the good news following a brain scan, CBS Minnesota reported. Landen Hoffmann was...
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Apr 23, 2019
Another spa worker was arrested Monday in connection to Robert Kraft's rub-and-tug arrest in Florida. Shen Mingbi, 58, is accused of providing sexual services for the Patriots owner when he allegedly visited the Orchids of Asia Day Spa back in January. Kraft, 77, was caught on surveillance video engaging in sex acts with Mingbi and...
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Apr 23, 2019
President Trump and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will meet Tuesday to discuss "the health of the public conversation" on the social media site, among other subjects, a report said.
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Apr 23, 2019
This jailbird chose a cell over Spain's Canary Islands. The 64-year-old man, who fled an Austrian prison over a decade ago, turned himself in to police over the weekend, saying he was fed up with living in the sunny vacation destination. "Tenerife is not as nice as it used to be," the man reportedly told...
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Apr 23, 2019
Two brothers were both suicide bombers in the Sri Lanka massacre — and one of their wives later blew up herself and their two children during a police raid, according to a report.
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Apr 23, 2019
Seventeen students at the same Ohio high school earned perfect ACT scores, an ultra-rare accomplishment, according to a report Tuesday. Eight seniors and nine juniors at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati aced the standardized test with a flawless 36 points — a triumph only one-tenth of 1% of students pull off nationwide, according to...
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Apr 23, 2019
Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that "any other person" besides President Trump would have been indicted due to the actions described in Robert Mueller's report. Clinton was speaking at the Time 100 Summit when she speculated that the special counsel's office ultimately decided that the Justice Department can not indict a sitting president. "I think...
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Apr 23, 2019
A Florida judge spiked the release of Robert Kraft's alleged rub-and-tug videos on Tuesday, but promised to make the footage public once a jury is sworn or the Patriots owner's case is resolved. Kraft, 77, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution at a day spa in Jupiter, Fla., back in January. He...
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Apr 23, 2019
A Florida judge spiked the release of Robert Kraft's alleged rub-and-tug videos on Tuesday, but promised to make the footage public once a jury is sworn or the Patriots owner's case is resolved. Kraft, 77, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution at a day spa in Jupiter, Fla., back in January. He...
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Apr 23, 2019
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others. The executions were...
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Apr 23, 2019
A mom, who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a car crash, woke up from a coma 27 years later and called the name of her son who she'd saved in the crash.
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Apr 23, 2019
ISIS released a video Tuesday purporting to show the team of suicide bombers who killed at least 321 people on Easter in Sri Lanka. The video surfaced hours after the on-the-ropes terror group claimed a role in the attacks. The roughly minute-long clip, issued through ISIS' Amaq propaganda arm, shows eight men huddled before an...
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Apr 23, 2019
A 24-year-old Wisconsin man came forward Tuesday to claim the $768 million Powerball jackpot — finally ending weeks of feeling "paranoid" someone would snatch his golden ticket. After Manuel Franco realized he was the winner of the March 27 drawing, he immediately put his ticket in a safe. "I got that paranoia when you think...
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Apr 23, 2019
The Florida Senate passed a "school safety" bill Tuesday that would allow teachers to voluntarily pack heat on campus if local school boards agree — a move prompted by the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The measure was approved in a 22-17 vote mostly along party lines, almost guaranteeing it will be signed into...
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Apr 23, 2019
The Sri Lanka suicide bombers had planned an attack on a fourth luxury hotel, but for some reason it never occurred, officials said Tuesday. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe revealed the plot on the unnamed luxury hotel without saying why it failed, according to the New York Times. "This man had also checked into the hotel...
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Apr 23, 2019
Gov. Andrew Cuomo tossed Bernie Sanders under the bus Tuesday, saying it would be "very hard" for the Vermont senator to become president because Americans are leery of electing a socialist. "Let's not be so New York and so coastal right? I think it's very hard to get elected president as a socialist in this...
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Apr 23, 2019
The heartless woman suspected of dumping a bag of days-old puppies in Coachella, California, had dozens of pooches seized from her home. Deborah Culwell, 54, was arrested Monday after seven discarded pups were left in 90-degree weather next to a dumpster behind a Napa Auto Parts store, according to the Riverside County Department of Animal...
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Apr 23, 2019
An Oregon police dog pursuing a suspect had a run-in with a porcupine that left him with more than 200 quills, mainly in the face. The Coos County Sheriff's Office K-9 named Odin was called to the Barview area Saturday night to search for 29-year-old Devin Wilson, authorities said. Wilson, a suspect wanted on several...
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Apr 23, 2019
WASHINGTON - The White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday won't have any White House aides. Sources said that Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley announced Tuesday morning that administration aides are being barred from the annual event, adding that the directive came directly from President Trump. News organizations had already set aside tickets for a number of...
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Apr 23, 2019
His terminally ill wife famously wrote a dating profile for him just days before she died, and now, two years later, Jason Rosenthal says he's finally found "joy" again. "I do definitely find joy and happiness now," he told NBC's Today on Tuesday. "A lot of the time." Jason's late wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, was fighting...
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Apr 23, 2019
A man captured in a viral video unleashing a comically wild beatdown while dressed as the Easter bunny is wanted on burglary charges in New Jersey. Warning: Explicit Language Antoine McDonald, 20, had claimed he hopped in to help a woman who was being attacked by a jerk who spit on her outside of a...
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Apr 23, 2019
A University of Southern California coach accused of helping Lori Loughlin's social media-star daughter get into the school as a bogus athletic recruit as part of the nationwide college admissions scandal has agreed to plead guilty, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Former USC assistant women's soccer coach Laura Janke will cop to racketeering conspiracy and cooperate with...
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Apr 23, 2019
A suburban Texas couple was sentenced to prison for forcing a young African girl who they referred to as a "dog" to work for them for 16 years as a domestic slave. Mohamed Touré and Denise Cros-Touré, both 58, were ordered Monday in Fort Worth to serve seven years each in prison and pay nearly...
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Apr 23, 2019
The tradition of hearing Kate Smith perform "God Bless America" won't end in one popular New Jersey beach town, despite moves by the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Yankees to distance themselves from the late singer over racist lyrics. That's according to Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano, who said the customary 11 a.m. daily broadcast on...
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Apr 23, 2019
Predicting Honolulu will start experiencing frequent flooding within the next 15 to 20 years, state lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that would spend millions for a coastline protection program.
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Apr 23, 2019
In an unprecedented move, federal prosecutors in New York have charged execs of a prescription-pill distributor with felony drug-trafficking charges in their war against opiods. The US Attorney's office in Manhattan, in announcing the charges Tuesday, said the move was the first of its kind in the nation. Authorities targeted the Rochester Drug Cooperative, which...
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Apr 23, 2019
A woman whose face became synonymous with numerous campaigns against drunken driving after she was severely burned in a Texas crash 20 years ago has died at the age of 40. Jacqueline Saburido Garcia died of cancer in Guatemala, having moved there from her native Caracas, Venezuela, several years ago to seek better medical treatment,...
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Apr 23, 2019
The Louisiana State Police on Monday revealed an extraordinary security breach at the Governor's Mansion, saying they had arrested a man last week who trespassed into the building and damaged property before falling asleep on a couch.
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Apr 23, 2019
Joe Biden will announce his 2020 presidential candidacy on Thursday morning with an online video, NBC News reported. Biden will then appear in Pittsburgh Monday for an event at a local union hall, the network said. Axios, meanwhile, reported that the former veep will make the announcement on Wednesday or Thursday. Biden will open his...
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Apr 23, 2019
A sorority sister whose caught-on-camera arrest outside a Colorado bar went viral claims she was publicly humiliated because cops didn't pull down her mini dress — leaving her "lower buttocks" exposed as she got hauled off in handcuffs. Michaella Surat, 24, is suing over the incident in which she was slammed to a sidewalk and...
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Apr 23, 2019
Jared Kushner claimed Tuesday that the investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race were "far more harmful" to the country than Vladimir Putin's effort to disrupt the election. "You look at what Russia did - you know, buying some Facebook ads to try and sow dissent and do it, and it's a terrible...
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Apr 23, 2019
A United Airlines employee repeatedly shouted racial slurs at an actress in view of other customers, calling her a "shining monkey," according to the woman's attorneys and court documents. The actress, Cacilie Hughes, was returning home to Houston on Feb. 26 after a speaking engagement on women's empowerment at a university in Michigan when she...
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Apr 23, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to name a town in the Golan Heights after President Trump — proposing that the community in the disputed territory be dubbed Kiryat Trump or "Trump Town" in English. Netanyahu on Tuesday toured the Golan with his wife and sons and said a community or neighborhood on the Golan Heights...
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Apr 23, 2019
A Chicago special-education student suffered permanent brain damage in a suicide attempt — and his mom blames the classmates and teachers who bullied him, according to a new lawsuit. Woodson Elementary School fourth-grader Jamari Dent was relentlessly bullied before he tried to hang himself Feb. 18 with a bedsheet, according to a federal lawsuit filed...
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Apr 23, 2019
Iran accused President Trump of weaponizing oil after the White House said it would stop granting waivers for countries that import oil from the Islamic Republic, a report on Tuesday said. ?"?America has made a bad mistake by politicizing oil and using it as a weapon in the fragile state of the market?," Iran's Oil...
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Apr 23, 2019
A former New York banker had to make the heart-wrenching decision over which of his two injured children to help during the Sri Lanka terror attacks — just for them both to die. Rutgers grad Matthew Linsey, 60, told The Times of London how his teens Amelie, 15, and Daniel, 19, were both unconscious after...
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Apr 23, 2019
One of two men who broke into a Houston woman's home, swiping an urn containing the ashes of her mother and peeing on a bed has been arrested, officials said. Marcus Cruz Ramirez, 49, was charged Monday with burglary after breaking into the home along with an accomplice in October 2018, according to Harris County...
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Apr 23, 2019
A Texas teen trying to take a selfie while holding a gun ended up in the hospital after it went off, sending pieces of glass and metal into his face and penetrating his brain, according to a report. The photo shoot went awry around 11 p.m. Thursday as the 16-year-old boy was posing with a...
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Apr 23, 2019
Chilling video shows a suspected Sri Lanka suicide bomber calmly patting a young girl's head on his way into church — seconds before a blast killed at least 122 worshipers. Security camera footage shows the young-looking man, dressed in dark pants and a light blue shirt, casually strolling toward St. Sebastian's church with a heavy...
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Apr 23, 2019
ISIS claimed responsibility Tuesday for the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that killed at least 321 people - as an image emerged of three men said to be among the suicide bombers with a flag of the terror group in the backdrop. The three men in the photo released by pro-ISIS TV channels have...
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Apr 23, 2019
President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to accuse the messaging platform of failing to give him and other Republicans a fair shake. Trump quoted Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo saying the "best thing ever to happen to Twitter is Donald Trump" as he launched a broadside into the tech giant. "So true, but...
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Apr 23, 2019
A British reality TV star sparked outrage by urging people not to send "prayers" to victims of the Sri Lanka terror attacks — instead attacking Christian missionaries in the devastated nation as being "cult leaders." Andy West, who found fame in 2016 on the UK's Big Brother, sent the controversial tweet about the suicide bombings...
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Apr 23, 2019
President Trump is going across the pond to meet with Queen Elizabeth. The White House and Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday that Trump and First Lady Melania Trump accepted the Queen's invitation to visit the United Kingdom from June 3 to June 5. This state visit will reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship between the...
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Apr 23, 2019
A radical Islamic cleric who uses the burning Twin Towers as a backdrop to fiery online sermons has been named the mastermind behind the devastating Sri Lanka terror attacks, it was claimed Tuesday. Sri Lankan intelligence has named local cleric Moulvi Zahran Hashim as being behind the coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels that...
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Apr 23, 2019
A radical Islamic cleric who uses the burning Twin Towers as a backdrop to fiery online sermons has been named the mastermind behind the devastating Sri Lanka terror attacks, it was claimed Tuesday. Sri Lankan intelligence has named local cleric Moulvi Zahran Hashim as being behind the coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels that...
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Apr 23, 2019
The 54-year-old great-granddaughter of former New York City Mayor William Jay Gaynor was among the six people who perished in the crash of a small plane in Texas. Angela Webb Kensinger was killed along with her husband Stuart Roben Kensinger, 55, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. According to a 1989 wedding announcement...
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Apr 23, 2019
Sri Lankan police were searching Tuesday for a truck and van feared to be packed with explosives, just days after suicide bombers killed at least 321 in the capital city, according to local media. The State Intelligence Service alerted all security forces about the vehicles — along with some motorcycles — which are suspected to...
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Apr 23, 2019
The terror attacks that killed at least 321 people in Sri Lanka were "retaliation" for the mosque shootings in New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. "The initial investigation has revealed that this was in retaliation for the New Zealand mosque attack," junior minister for defense Ruwan Wijewardene insisted to parliament there. He was referring to the...
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Apr 23, 2019
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian media say the parliament has approved a bill that labels all U.S. military forces as terrorist. The legislation is a step further after Iranian lawmakers last week approved a bill labelling U.S. troops in the Mideast as terrorist, a day after the U.S. terrorism designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guard came into...
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Apr 23, 2019
Freshman US Rep. Ilhan Omar came under fire once again on Monday for allegedly exaggerating the number of Somalis killed during the 1993 military operation that inspired the film "Black Hawk Down," according to a report. The controversial Minnesota lawmaker claimed that "thousands" died in the Battle of Mogadishu — though most reputable sources put...
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Apr 23, 2019
The one-time Nevada lawmaker who accused Joe Biden of inappropriately touching her blasted the former vice president on Monday night for joking about the matter. Lucy Flores called Biden's behavior "so incredibly disrespectful" during a Fox News interview, adding that she wants to force a dialogue on how powerful men treat women. Flores accused Biden...
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Apr 23, 2019
California authorities on Monday arrested the woman who was caught on camera allegedly tossing a bag of newborn puppies next to a dumpster behind an auto parts store. Deborah Sue Culwell, 54, was busted at her Coachella, Calif., home around 5:30 p.m. by Riverside County Animal Services Commander Chris Mayer, the department announced. The alleged...
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Apr 23, 2019
A 66-year-old licensed Bay Area lawyer was arrested Sunday after he allegedly taped a camera to his shoe and then "moved his shoe so that the camera was under a female juvenile's dress" at an Apple Store in Walnut Creek, Calif., police said. Jacques Bloxham, who is a personal injury attorney, was reportedly confronted by the girl's...
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Apr 23, 2019
Authorities have now arrested 40 people in connection with Sunday's coordinated terror attacks in Sri Lanka — including the driver of a van allegedly used by suicide bombers, officials announced early Tuesday. The news came as the confirmed death toll rose to 310. The increase in arrests comes amid a new state of emergency declared...
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Apr 23, 2019
A philanthropist who regularly volunteered to transport people in need of medical care was at the helm of the small plane that crashed in Texas early Monday, killing everyone on board. Houston humanitarian Jeffrey Weiss owned the twin-engine Beechcraft BE58 that went down as it was preparing to land at Kerrville Municipal Airport, WFAA-TV reported....
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Apr 23, 2019
Three people, including the parents of a teenager, were killed in a boat crash off the Florida coast, authorities said Monday. Christopher Colgan, 56, and his wife of 17 years Elisaine Colgan, 38, died when their center console struck a jetty in Miami Beach Saturday night, according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission....
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Apr 23, 2019
A 5-year-old boy went missing in Illinois and cops said on Monday that the mother of the child was not cooperating with the investigation. Andrew ‘AJ' Freund was reported missing from his Crystal Lake home by his parents on Thursday morning when they claimed that they had not seen him since he went to bed...
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Apr 23, 2019
A North Carolina man spent years secretly filming underage girls and adult women as they showered and changed clothes on his private boat — which he dubbed, "Yachts O' Trouble," according to federal prosecutors. William Richard Hilliard, Jr., 49, of Cherryville, pleaded guilty Monday to the despicable acts following a multi-state, multi-agency investigation coordinated by...
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Apr 22, 2019
The grief-stricken father of the young Washington DC boy killed in Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings broke his silence on Monday, saying the terrorists who murdered his son have no idea what they took away from the world. "The terrorists didn't know who they were killing. But we should know what the world lost, what...
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Apr 22, 2019
Washington is on the verge of becoming the first state to allow the environmentally-friendly practice of "human composting" — which turns dead bodies into soil within weeks. The state legislature passed a bill that would legalize the burial alternative, also known as "natural organic reduction," and Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee will decide its fate. A...
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Apr 22, 2019
Sri Lankan officials have pulled the plug on most social media to prevent the spread of fake news following Sunday's terror attacks. Officials aim "to prevent speculative and mischievous attempts to spread rumors," according to Sri Lanka's UN ambassador, Amrith Rohan Perera. The blackout covers Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Viber — but Twitter...
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Apr 22, 2019
The death toll from the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka has reportedly soared past 300. The country's state minister for defense, Ruwan Wijewardene, announced the new number early Tuesday morning local time — reporting 311 dead, up from 290 the day before, according to the Washington Post. More than 500 people were wounded in...
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Apr 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren admitted to shopping at online retail giant Amazon Monday — even though she wants the online retail giant broken up, because she says it's crushing small businesses. During a CNN town hall for Democratic presidential hopefuls Monday, Warren said breaking up Amazon would create "a lot more competition where little...
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Apr 22, 2019
A New Mexico man is accused of illegally detaining migrants at the US border with his right-wing militia group, which — according to him — was also training "to assassinate George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama," authorities said Monday. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, allegedly claimed that his group wanted to take out these individuals...
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Apr 22, 2019
GRAHAM, N.C. — Sheriff's deputies in North Carolina have filed multiple charges against the mother of a 21-month-old child after saying they found methamphetamine near a baby bottle. The Winston-Salem Journal reports the Alamance County Sheriff's Office says its deputies were trying to serve a warrant at a home on Sunday when 27-year-old Kyle Elizabeth...
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Apr 22, 2019
An Australian man described the moment he witnessed the deaths of both his wife and daughter moments after the devastating Easter Sunday suicide attacks in Sri Lanka. Sudesh Kolonne told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he was outside of a church north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo when a bomb ripped through the building —...
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Apr 22, 2019
Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar had her own "please clap" moment during a CNN town hall event on Tuesday night when she told an audience that they were "supposed to cheer."
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Apr 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic leaders doubled down on calls for fellow Dems to back off presidential impeachment talk Monday, according to sources. Pelosi held a caucus conference call featuring six other members of House leadership where they preached caution amid a flurry of impeachment chatter following the release of a redacted...
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Apr 22, 2019
A Wisconsin woman who used social media to spread a "virtual library" of bomb-making instructions pleaded guilty to attempting to support ISIS on Monday, authorities said. Waheba Issa Dais, 45, now faces up to 20 years in prison for doling out "step-by-step instructions" on making an explosive belt and TNT via Facebook when she is...
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Apr 22, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is officially heading to Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin — with the visit expected to happen "soon," according to officials.
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Apr 22, 2019
Customers of the Florida massage parlor where Robert Kraft is accused of paying for sexual favors are fuming over being allegedly filmed by authorities during legal rubdowns. Nearly three dozen men and women filed a federal class-action lawsuit claiming authorities violated their right to privacy by videotaping them in January at the Orchids of Asia...
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Apr 22, 2019
Hospital workers have been struggling to identify the victims from Sunday's deadly Sri Lanka bombings, according to a report.
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Apr 22, 2019
A former firefighter and his girlfriend were identified on Monday as being victims of the tragic Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka.
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