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Jan 19, 2020
That's one crappy computer glitch. Facebook was forced to apologize Saturday after a "technical issue" caused Chinese leader Xi Jinping's name to appear as "Mr. Sh-hole" when translated from Burmese to English in posts on its platform, the company said. The blunder was noticed on the second day of Xi's visit to the country to sign...
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Jan 19, 2020
A streaking meteor soaring low over Puerto Rico amazed and unsettled residents already grappling with devastating earthquakes. Puerto Ricans posted photos and videos of the fireball on social media after it passed overhead Friday afternoon — with some fearing that it was a crashing aircraft. Eddie Irizarry, an astronomy professor in Puerto Rico and vice...
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Jan 19, 2020
The pilot known for his heroic "Miracle on the Hudson" landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009 has written an op-ed in The New York Times defending Joe Biden's stutter after it was mocked by the president's daughter-in-law — and revealing that he, too, stuttered as a child. Capt. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III started...
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Jan 18, 2020
Royal Caribbean is blaming a "reckless and irresponsible" grandfather in the death of an 18-month-old toddler who fell 11 stories while on their ship last summer, according to the Indianapolis Star newspaper. Salvatore Anello was playing with his granddaughter, Chloe Wiegand, in the "Kids Water Zone" of the Freedom of the Seas ship when he...
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Jan 18, 2020
A Pennsylvania woman intentionally drove into oncoming traffic in a twisted effort to test her faith, state police allege — and although she survived without injuring herself, the crash injured two other motorists. Nadejda Reilly, 31, was allegedly driving along Route 93 on Jan. 7 and awaiting a calling from God when she decided to...
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Jan 18, 2020
In a move certain to raise alarms with federal elections officials, two Republican state senators from Oklahoma have proposed a state law that would allow residents to buy specialty license plates reading "Make America Great Again" and "Keep America Great." State Sens. Nathan Dahm and Marty Quinn want the plates to benefit veteran groups Warriors...
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Jan 18, 2020
Tourists clamor to see Petra in Jordan, Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Machu Picchu in Peru — onetime megacities that now capture our imagination and fuel legends. But they're not the only mythic spots. Here are some of the most mysterious abandoned locales in the world. El Dorado/The Lost City of Z: Brazil If you...
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Jan 18, 2020
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, already under fire for walking out on 500 people protesting unsafe schools at a Queens education council meeting, is now being blasted for saying the concerned parents were "grandstanding." "I feel that he is not a human — that he has no feelings," Katty Sterling, who was confronting the educrat at...
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Jan 18, 2020
An insensitive Amtrak conductor tried to boot Sherrilyn Ifill, the director-counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, from her seat on a Baltimore-bound train she boarding in Washington, D.C., Friday evening — the start of the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend — despite having no discernible reason. Thankfully, Ifill tweeted the whole story. Amtrak...
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Jan 18, 2020
The impeachment of President Donald Trump could be a boon for the presidential candidates serving in the Senate, one expert believes. The jury of 100 senators which will decide the president's fate will include Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. "They are going to get a lot of the limelight just being part of...
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Jan 18, 2020
Florida man strikes again. The former mayor of Milton, Fla., was sentenced last week to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay back $650,000 he stole from the United Way. Guy Thompson, who served as Milton's mayor from 1994 to 2014, stole the funds while he was the executive director of the United Way...
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Jan 18, 2020
Michael Cullen is traversing the 1,000 miles to raise money for Leave the Light On.
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Jan 18, 2020
Ray, who died earlier this month at his home on the Upper West Side, shot some of the most iconic celebrity images of the 20th century.
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Jan 18, 2020
President Trump's legal team denounced the articles of impeachment leveled against him, in an aggressive seven-page response Saturday evening.
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Jan 18, 2020
The Vatican has ordered Timothy Cardinal Dolan to probe allegations that Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio sexually abused an altar boy at a New Jersey church in the 1970s, The Post has learned. On Jan. 7, "the Cardinal received instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that he is to begin an investigation....
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Jan 18, 2020
The Vatican has ordered Timothy Cardinal Dolan to probe allegations that Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio sexually abused an altar boy at a New Jersey church in the 1970s, The Post has learned. On Jan. 7, "the Cardinal received instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that he is to begin an investigation....
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Jan 18, 2020
President Trump's legal team will categorically reject the articles of impeachment and charges levied against the president in their official response to a Senate summons Saturday evening, sources close to the president's legal team confirmed to The Post. The response, which has to be submitted by Saturday night, will call the articles constitutionally invalid and...
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Jan 18, 2020
From supervolcanos to asteroids to infectious diseases, here are some ways we all could die.
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Jan 18, 2020
The Bernie Sanders campaign is saying no to war — this time with Elizabeth Warren. Senior surrogates for the socialist senator from Vermont took to Twitter Saturday to call for a truce with Warren, warning that continued bickering with her would undermine progressive chances to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. "If progressives attack each...
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Jan 18, 2020
The image, a sea of protesters in Washington, D.C., during the 2017 Women's March, featured one person holding a sign which read "God Hates Trump" — with the president's name obscured.
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Jan 18, 2020
Jerry Holliman received his pair of prosthetic legs but they were taken away when the Department of Veterans Affairs refused to pay for them.
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Jan 18, 2020
Mississippi hunter Tyler Hardy found himself in excruciating pain Wednesday after the freak attack in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Jan 18, 2020
Political figures have long used their families to route power and benefits for their own self-enrichment. In my new book, "Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite," one particular politician — Joe Biden — emerges as the king of the sweetheart deal, with no less than five family members benefiting from his...
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Jan 18, 2020
Migrants from central America stormed a border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on Saturday. Dramatic video shows mobs attempting to break through a line of Mexican marines along a narrow bridge over the Suchiate River, which separates the countries, Reuters reported. Mexican authorities has been bracing for the group, which had traveled to Guatemala from...
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Jan 18, 2020
He's not campaigning in Iowa, he's not taking the Democrats' debate stage - and he's keeping details of his wealth to himself. Mike Bloomberg's unusual presidential campaign has won a second reprieve from the Federal Election Commission, delaying the filing of required financial disclosure forms for another 45 days. That means he won't have to...
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Jan 18, 2020
Portland, Oregon's bike thieves are so brazen that not only does the city's police department have its own dedicated bike theft task force — this week the criminals stole a police patrol cycle. PPB Bike Unit Officer Dave Sanders told local KOIN6 news he'd secured his bicycle outside the Multnomah County Courthouse using handcuffs instead...
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Jan 18, 2020
These outfits are way too down to Earth. The US Space Force unveiled its utility uniform nametapes on Friday, stirring up a controversy of intergalactic proportions. The reveal showed the nametape — "US Space Force" handsomely stitched in navy embroidery — oddly affixed to a woodland camouflage top. The contrast was not lost in space....
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Jan 18, 2020
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan chided NATO's European allies Saturday for refusing to wade into the conflict in Libya, where Turkey is giving military assistance to the troubled country's recognized government in Tripoli. "Our European friends and allies need to understand that they cannot change the world simply by complaining and expressing concern," Erdogan wrote in...
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Jan 18, 2020
A deadly virus in China may be significantly more widespread than officially reported, according to a disturbing new study. The mysterious coronavirus, which originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has already caused the death of at least two people. Wuhan health officials on Saturday confirmed four more people had contracted the virus —...
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Jan 18, 2020
A heavy rain gave Australia a reprieve from the deadly bush fires on Saturday, but brought a new problem — flash flooding and road closures. Authorities shuttered major highways, parks and tourist attractions in Queensland and power outages were reported in New South Wales Saturday after the downpour, which began on Wednesday along the eastern...
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Jan 18, 2020
The heavily damaged flight data recorders from Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 are on their way to Kiev — 10 days after the Iraqi military shot down the passenger plane. Experts from France, the US, and Canada are expected to examine the black boxes in Kiev, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported Saturday, but plan to...
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Jan 18, 2020
The word "Trump" in a sign that originally read "God Hates Trump" was blurred out in a huge, four-foot-by-six-foot photo display that greets visitors to an exhibit on the history of women's rights.
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Jan 18, 2020
Irma Acosta Arya's habit attracted "flocks of defecating, vomiting vultures, as well as raccoons, alligators and a bobcat."
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Jan 18, 2020
Four California teachers want to teach Delta a lesson. The educators are suing the airline after a Delta jet with engine trouble had to dump fuel over their school in a densely populated area near Los Angeles, according to Gloria Allred, their attorney. "The plaintiffs could feel the fuel on their clothes, their flesh, their...
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Jan 18, 2020
A Michigan man found more than loose change when he searched his secondhand couch's cushions. Howard Kirby had purchased a sofa and ottoman from a Habitat for Humanity ReStore location in central Michigan for $70, but noticed one of the sofa cushions was uncomfortable. After three weeks he and his daughter-in-law investigated and found a...
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Jan 18, 2020
It's the red new deal. An art exhibition featuring a painting of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decked out as communist Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara will land in New York City later this month. The work, titled #Cracked, is a creation of retired Lt. Col. David Richardson, an ex-Marine and current Department of Homeland Security training contractor....
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Jan 18, 2020
Mystery solved. Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has ‘fessed up to giving explosive text messages of FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to the press in 2017. The messages between the two, exchanged in 2016 while both were involved in sensitive political probes, revealed their antipathy to then-candidate Donald Trump and loyalty to...
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Jan 18, 2020
HARRISBURG, Pa. — On paper, Rep. Sheryl Delozier, a Republican from a predominantly white conservative district, and Rep. Jordan Harris, a Democrat from a predominantly black Philadelphia district, would be considered an unlikely alignment. If they sat on a cable-news panel they'd be expected to yell and point fingers at each other over partisan slights....
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Jan 18, 2020
The mother of protester Heather Heyer, who was killed in the 2017 Charlottesville white supremacist rally, has a message for attendees of an upcoming pro-gun demonstration: "To anybody planning violence, stay the hell away from Richmond." Susan Bro's warning, delivered via UK newspaper The Independent, came after the FBI arrested multiple suspected neo-Nazis who discussed...
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Jan 18, 2020
President Trump performed a dramatic retelling of the US drone strike on Qassem Soleimani for top GOP donors at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser Friday night. In audio from the $10 million event, Trump explained that Soleimani was "saying bad things" about the United States in the run-up to his targeted killing. "How much of this s-t...
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Jan 18, 2020
A Dutch researcher known as "the Indiana Jones of the art world" beat German and Iranian law enforcement officials to recover an ancient volume of 15th-century Persian poetry that was the subject of a decade-long search and is valued at more than $1 million. Arthur Brand found the "Divan of Hafez," a gold-leaf book by...
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Jan 18, 2020
What a difference a week makes. A far cry from last Saturday's balmy 68-degree weather that brought shirtless revelers to Central Park, the Big Apple could land up to three inches of powder in the afternoon, starting at around 1 p.m., with temperatures of 23 degrees, going to a high of 36. The precipitation is...
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Jan 18, 2020
What a difference a week makes. A far cry from last Saturday's balmy 68-degree weather that brought shirtless revelers to Central Park, the Big Apple could land up to three inches of powder in the afternoon, starting at around 1 p.m., with temperatures of 23 degrees, going to a high of 36. The precipitation is...
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Jan 18, 2020
In the rainforests of the Congo, Cameroon and Central African Republic (CAR) lives an elusive mammal that looks like a cross between an anteater, an armadillo and a pinecone. And thanks to poachers, the pangolin is the most trafficked animal on earth. In April 2019, Singapore seized a world record 25.6 tons of pangolin scales,...
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Jan 18, 2020
A nasty blizzard struck northeast Canada Friday night in a chilling preview of what's to come in the northeast US. Official measurements from the Canadian government recorded nearly two feet of snowfall and over 100 mph winds as various Twitter users shared photos and videos of the chilly storm. The social media posts included images of...
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Jan 18, 2020
Sit down, shut up and keep that phone in the closet. Detention for high schoolers? Nope, it's the rules of the impeachment trial for US Senators. Lawmakers who normally relish bloviating on the Senate floor will be forced to remain silent throughout every session of the impeachment trial of President Trump when it begins Tuesday...
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Jan 18, 2020
A twisted teen is accused of slaughtering four family members during a shooting spree inside a Utah home, reports said. Neighbors called cops to the Eastmoor Drive home in Grantsville around 7 p.m. Friday after hearing gunshots, according to the Salt Lake City Desert News. Authorities discovered five people with bullet wounds and arrested the...
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Jan 18, 2020
A winter storm causing chaos in the Midwest and snarling Chicago's O'Hare Airport is plowing its way to the Northeast and could bring snow and rain by Saturday afternoon. In Chicago, conditions were so bad the Federal Aviation Administration nixed all flights into and out of O'Hare. So far, more than 600 flights have already...
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Jan 18, 2020
The UK's worst pedophile was strangled with a guitar string, choked by pens and condoms, and stabbed during a grisly jailhouse slaying last year, according to a new report detailing his demise. Richard Huckle was behind bars in Yorkshire for abusing more than 200 Malaysian girls and boys between the ages of 6 months and...
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Jan 18, 2020
He may have been the world's shortest man but he led a tall life — traveling to dozens of countries and making appearances on international television. Khagendra Thapa Magar, who stood at 2 feet and 2.41 inches tall, died Friday at 27 after recent battles with asthma and pneumonia, according to his family. "He has...
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Jan 17, 2020
A wild avalanche struck a ski resort near Lake Tahoe in California Friday, killing at least one skier and injuring another person, according to a report. Rescue teams were dispatched after the dramatic snow slide hit the Alpine Meadows ski area at around 10 a.m., according to a tweet from the Placer County Sheriff's Office....
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Jan 17, 2020
Here is the vicious, girl-vs-girl beatdown — in a New York City middle school cafeteria — that has parents fuming, teachers wringing their hands and the schools chancellor walking away rather than dealing with. New video emerged Friday of the epic fight that broke out last week at Marie Curie Middle School in Bayside —...
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Jan 17, 2020
Federal health officials announced Friday that they will screen airline passengers arriving at three US airports - including JFK - for a new virus that has killed two people and sickened dozens. Starting Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will take temperatures of passengers at JFK and the Los Angeles and San Francisco...
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Jan 17, 2020
Monica Lewinsky responded with some choice words Friday to the news that Ken Starr will join President Trump's impeachment defense team — tweeting, "Are you f-king kidding me?" The famously scandal-scarred former White House intern — whose affair with President Bill Clinton was exposed by Starr, leading to Clinton's impeachment in 1998 — appeared to be...
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Jan 17, 2020
No compraro, senoro! Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg big-spending presidential campaign has found one thing it can't buy — Twitter tormentor, El Bloombito. The former mayor's campaign tried to pitch the Twitter parody account that mocks the billionaire's awkward Spanish speaking on a collaboration to boost the billionaire's White House quest. A rep from the multibillionaire's...
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Jan 17, 2020
A Seattle cop has been fired for suggesting "sending package bombs" to Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama so they "finally STFU," according to a new report. An internal investigation that launched in 2018 found the unidentified police officer's "unprofessional" posts on a private Instagram account "negatively impacted the department's ability to serve the...
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Jan 17, 2020
A morbidly obese ISIS fanatic dubbed "Jabba the Jihadi" has been captured by Iraqi forces -- who loaded him onto a flatbed truck because he couldn't fit in a police car.
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Jan 17, 2020
President Trump on Friday welcomed the college champion LSU Tigers to the White House to celebrate their historic achievement — and cracked a couple of impeachment trial jokes along the way. After summarizing the highlights of LSU's season — which culminated in a 42—25 rout of Clemson for the national championship — the president invited...
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Jan 17, 2020
An Oregon banker gave $20 out of her own pocket to a struggling customer on Christmas Eve -- but her good deed backfired when her employer sacked her days later.
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Jan 17, 2020
Two General Motors engineers turned Kentucky streets into their own personal racetrack — reaching speeds up to 120 mph in new 2020 Corvette Stingrays as part of a stunt that earned them speeding tickets, state police said. Alexander Thim, 27, and Mark Derkatz, 30, were pulled over after racing on Jan. 8 in Bowling Green, where...
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Jan 17, 2020
Long before Hunter Biden capitalized on his father's last name to land a gig with a Ukrainian company, the then-vice president's younger brother touted his family connections to promote his business, according to a report. When Joe Biden became veep, his brother Frank Biden used his DC ties to help secure a series of contracts...
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Jan 17, 2020
President Trump seems to really want to face far-far left Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders in the general election — tweeting Friday that the Senate impeachment trial is going to hurt the senator.
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Jan 17, 2020
Authorities are hunting a convicted rapist accused of burying the body of Paighton Houston -- the Alabama woman whose remains were discovered in a shallow grave.
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Jan 17, 2020
RENO, Nev. — A pigeon wearing a tiny sombrero in Reno, Nevada, was discovered following sightings of its cowboy hat-wearing cousins in Las Vegas, a city manager said. Reno City Manager Sabra Newby tweeted about the bird Wednesday, saying it's quirky and fun but still inhumane, KOLO-TV reported. It is the first known sighting of...
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Jan 17, 2020
Polish investigators fear a pig farmer may have been devoured by his own livestock after a neighbor discovered bones on the property.
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Jan 17, 2020
President Trump took a swipe at Mike Bloomberg on Friday for not taking part in televised Democratic debates because "he is a terrible speaker" — and slammed his ads as "purposely wrong." "Mini Mike Bloomberg doesn't get on the Democrat Debate Stage because he doesn't want to — he is a terrible debater and speaker,"...
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Jan 17, 2020
President Trump's defense team in his impeachment trial will include Whitewater prosecutors Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, according to reports.
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Jan 17, 2020
Ukraine's prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submitted his resignation Friday, days after he was caught on tape saying the country's president knows nothing about the economy.
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Jan 17, 2020
A former top teacher in Minnesota took a knee during the national anthem at Monday's college football championship to stand up for "marginalized and oppressed people," she said.
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Jan 17, 2020
A man claims the porn site has violated his and others' rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act because the deaf and hearing-impaired can't understand the audio portion of the skin flicks.
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Jan 17, 2020
Iran's supreme leader on Friday described Trump as a "clown" who only pretends to support the country's people, as he called the republic's recent missile attack on troops in Iraq an "American humiliation."
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Jan 17, 2020
GREENBELT, Md. — A former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who authorities say are linked to a violent white supremacist group were arrested Thursday, just days before they were believed to be headed to a pro-gun rally in Virginia's capital. The three men, members of The Base, were taken into custody on...
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Jan 17, 2020
A Wisconsin man busted for selling weed and possessing other drugs told police he ingested his dead mother's ashes, a report said Thursday. Austin Schroeder, 26, allegedly sold drugs to undercover cops a number of times from November 2019 to January 2020 in Waukesha County, west of Milwaukee, a local Fox affiliate reported. A drug...
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Jan 17, 2020
The Recording Academy has placed Deborah Dugan, its president and CEO of just six months, on administrative leave following an allegation of misconduct by a senior leader at the organization. The move announced late Thursday comes 10 days before the 2020 Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles. "In light of concerns raised to...
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Jan 17, 2020
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii Democrat, came prepared for an unexpected push-up contest after she was challenged to one at a New Hampshire town hall. Gabbard, a combat veteran who served in Iraq and a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, had previously shared videos of her workout routine on social media. "One of those...
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Jan 16, 2020
The Texas man seen in a viral video licking a pint of ice cream then returning it to a store shelf in a Walmart pleaded guilty on Thursday, reports said. D'Adrien Anderson pleaded guilty to criminal mischief for the stunt that was recorded at a Port Arthur store in August 2019, a local NBC affiliate...
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Jan 16, 2020
Iran's missile attack on bases housing US troops in Iraq last week injured 11 American troops — despite the Army previously claiming no causalities were recorded, a report said Thursday. Officials from the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq told CNN in a statement that troops suffered concussion-related symptoms that emerged days after the attack....
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Jan 16, 2020
CHICAGO — Two gunmen fired through the window of a Chicago barbershop Thursday evening, injuring three juveniles and two adults who were getting their hair cut, police said. Chicago police Deputy Chief of Patrol Ernest Cato told The Chicago Tribune that the gunmen had walked into the store in the West Garfield Park neighborhood and...
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Jan 16, 2020
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang's wife said on Thursday she was sexually abused during her first pregnancy by a notorious Manhattan doctor who was accused of sexual abuse by 17 women. Evelyn Yang told CNN she was assaulted in 2012 by convicted sex offender Dr. Robert Hadden while he was a practicing OBGYN at Columbia. She...
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Jan 16, 2020
A Bible-studying South Carolina woman on Thursday was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally poisoning her husband with eye drops. Lana Clayton, 53, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and tampering with food on Thursday in connection with the July 2018 death of her hubby, Steven Clayton, local outlets reported. Lana had initially told...
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Jan 16, 2020
DETROIT — Starbucks has a point to prove: There's more to the company than selling $4 lattes to rich people. The Seattle-based coffee giant that has cultivated a reputation for being socially responsible said Thursday it is expanding its effort to put more coffee shops — and create more jobs — in poor neighborhoods. Starbucks...
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Jan 16, 2020
She volunteered for an airport strip search. A woman could be seen on video slowly stripping naked while strolling through the baggage claim area at Miami International Airport. The fully nude woman is then seen jumping on top of a cop car. In the wild cellphone footage posted on Twitter, she belts out a song...
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Jan 16, 2020
A 14-year-old Mexican teen was caught at a U.S.-Mexico border checkpoint in California with three bundles of crystal methamphetamine strapped to his body, authorities said. The boy was with two other minors and one adult, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said, when he approached the State Route 94 checkpoint in Jamul, east of San Diego, Monday night. As border agents questioned the group, who...
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Jan 16, 2020
"I don't know him at all. Don't know what he's about. Don't know where he comes from — know nothing about him," Trump said of Parnas. "This is the current hoax."
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Jan 16, 2020
A Thai woman had a ssscary experience in the bathroom — when a snake attacked her as she was sitting on the toilet, according to reports. The woman's daughter, Chunya Sittiwichai, posted about the terrifying experience on Facebook, saying her mom was going about her business when suddenly a serpent that'd been hiding in the...
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Jan 16, 2020
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley released an emotional video statement Thursday in which she talked about battling the hair-loss condition alopecia — and ended the clip by publicly revealing her bald head for the first time. The Massachusetts Democrat told The Root that she first began noticing bald patches in her hair in the fall — and...
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Jan 16, 2020
Two of the most crucial swing votes in the Senate are keeping mum on whether or not they think Hunter Biden or John Bolton should testify in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) have both repeatedly told reporters throughout the week that it's too soon to decide...
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Jan 16, 2020
Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing another GOP challenger in November's election — and she's also a Muslim refugee. Dalia al-Aqidi, a former White House correspondent from Iraq, said she felt compelled to run against the Somali-born lawmaker, calling her a divisive figure who has neglected her Minneapolis district. "She's spreading hatred, and she is spreading...
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Jan 16, 2020
The man accused of killing his wife, kids and pet dog in the Disney town of Celebration, Florida, was hauled before a judge Thursday — as it emerged that the feds had been investigating him for health care fraud. Anthony Todt, 44, was silent at his first appearance in court Thursday, nodding as Circuit Judge Margaret...
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Jan 16, 2020
An illegal immigrant has been indicted in the "heinous" Jan. 6 killing and sexual assault of a 92-year-old "cat lady" in Queens, prosecutors announced. Reeaz Khan, 21, was hit with seven charges in the Richmond Hill attack on Maria Fuentes, including second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, first-degree attempted rape, first-degree sexual abuse and tampering with physical...
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Jan 16, 2020
TALISAY, Philippines - At the crack of dawn on Thursday, Manolito Malaluan set out with a band of rescuers to ferry to safety two horses trapped on a Philippine island where a volcano has been spewing ash for days. They took a motorboat across a lake, defying official warnings to stay out of a danger...
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Jan 16, 2020
A Trump supporter from Wisconsin claims she was booted from her job over her Facebook posts supporting the president. Robyn Polak, 35, of South Milwaukee, posted an article from the conservative Daily Wire website praising Trump on Facebook Monday along with a caption saying how "extremely lucky" Americans were to have such an "amazing" commander-in-chief....
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Jan 16, 2020
Southern Africa is in the grips of a severe drought, as climate change wreaks havoc in impoverished countries already struggling to cope with extreme natural disasters.
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Jan 16, 2020
The thugs who killed and dismembered 17-year-old Irish teen Keane Mulready-Woods — whose severed head was found inside a burning car — during an apparent gang hit may have filmed the brutal slaying and posted it online, according to a new report. A clip has emerged purporting to show the sick murder of Mulready-Woods, who...
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Jan 16, 2020
A Missouri man will spend five years in prison for blowing up his ex-wife's car using a makeshift bomb built out of fireworks and Tiki torch fuel.
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Jan 16, 2020
Chief Justice John Roberts arrived in the Senate Thursday afternoon to be sworn in to preside over President Trump's impeachment trial, and then swore in the 100 senators who will decide whether to convict or acquit the president. GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa administered the oath to Roberts, an appointee of President George W....
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Jan 16, 2020
Six students were there with no adult present on Tuesday afternoon when a 16-year-old boy, whose name was not released, produced a pistol from his waistband and pulled the trigger.
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Jan 16, 2020
The GOP-controlled Senate overwhelmingly passed a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada on Thursday, giving President Trump another trade win a day after he inked a partial agreement with China. The bill to replace the Clinton-era NAFTA pact passed by a 89-10 vote, sending it to the president's desk for his signature. The US-Mexico-Canada...
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Jan 16, 2020
"House Democrats are working to weaken our president," Cheney warned.
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