On January 17, the NBA will go international when the New York Knicks and Washington Wizards face off in a regular-season game in London, England. But one key player will not be making the trip, because he fears for his life. Enes Kanter, a center for the New York Knicks and native of Turkey, has […]
Local police, ATF Texas Rangers, the FBI, and even NASA, are helping in the search for the suspect who shot and killed a 7-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting near a Houston-area Walmart store on the morning of December 30. Just two days before the new year, Jazmine Barnes, an African American child, was killed […]
Maine approved Medicaid expansion by a ballot initiative more than a year ago, but former Governor Paul LePage had blocked it from taking effect. Thankfully, Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) knows how to keep a promise. On Thursday, in her first executive order on her first day in office, Mills ordered Maine to move forward with […]
National Geographic Channel has pulled Neil deGrasse Tyson’s pop culture and science talk show, StarTalk, from the air while Fox Networks Group investigates multiple claims of sexual misconduct against the celebrity astrophysicist. At the end of November, two women came forward to accuse Tyson of sexual misconduct. One woman, a physics and astronomy professor who knew […]
Rashida Tlaib’s not swallowing her words. The newly-minted lawmaker (D-MI) took her oath of office at the House of Representatives on Thursday. That night, she unleashed a firestorm, after declaring at a post-swearing-in celebration that she was looking to forward to impeaching “the motherf**cker” — by whom she meant President Donald Trump. Video of the […]
Three people have died while visiting national parks since the government shutdown began. The deaths include a 14-year-old girl at Glen Canyon Recreation Area in Arizona on December 24; a man who died on Christmas day at Yosemite National Park in California; and a woman who died two days later at Great Smoky Mountains National […]
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers are among the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are required to work without pay during this partial government shutdown. But as the shutdown enters its 14th day, the workers are starting to take a stand — by calling in sick. According to CNN, the numbers are starting to […]
No need to say Tucker Carlson’s a racist — you can simply point out that the racists think he’s one of them. Fox News’ most-watched pundit is doing what the proudly racist hosts of a prominent white supremacist podcast do — according to the hosts themselves. Joseph Jordan and Mike Peinovich are better known to […]
At least three people were killed in a shooting at a southern California bowling alley late Friday, news report said. The violence erupted at Gable House Bowl, an arcade, bowling and laser tag venue in Torrance, California about 20 miles outside Los Angeles. News reports said three people were dead and at least four more were wounded […]
One day after President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats failed to strike a deal on funding for Trump’s border wall and reopen the federal government, the White House released the PowerPoint presentation Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen prepared to brief Democratic leadership on border security. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and […]
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear challenges to two aggressive partisan gerrymanders — one created by Democrats in Maryland and another by Republicans in North Carolina. The Maryland case is Lamone v. Benisek. The North Carolina case is Rucho v. Common Cause. This will mark the second term in a row where partisan […]
On Thursday night, eight Republicans joined all the Democrats in the House of Representatives to pass a bill that would reopen parts of the federal government — omitting any funding for President Trump’s border wall — in a bid to end the two-week shutdown directly impacting about 800,000 federal workers. On Friday, the upper chamber […]
President Donald Trump repeatedly ignored questions about federal workers affected by the ongoing government shutdown on Friday, telling reporters at a Rose Garden press conference that the best safety net for those worried about their stalled paychecks was a steel border wall. “It’s very important that we have great border security. It will be over […]