Category: Social

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Authorities say gunmen have attacked a Catholic church in Burkina Faso, killing a priest and five worshippers. The attack on Sunday took place in Dablo, about 124 miles from the capital, Ouagadougou. Urbain Kabore, a government spokesman for the West African country’s Sahel region, said the gunmen also set fire to […]

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. is putting a spotlight on a split within the GOP conference between it and another key panel investigating the 2016 election — the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Intelligence Committee has long been seen as the last bipartisan investigation into the 2016 election on Capitol Hill. Chairman Richard Burr(R-N.C.) […]

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton continued her attacks on President Trump, this time in response to the president’s refusal to comply with Congressional subpoenas. Clinton charged that Republicans have a choice to make — side with the White House or the rule of law. “We’ll see whether it’s the rule of law or the rule of Trump […]

The Department of Homeland Security sends word back to the White House that the idea to ease the burden on border cities would be illegal and logistically impossible; John Roberts reports. An Oregon man was sentenced to four months in prison on Monday for trying to bribe an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to deport […]

U.S. health officials say at least 60 more measles cases have been reported, increasing a 2019 tally that is already the highest in 25 years. Officials on Monday said 764 cases have been reported as of last Thursday. It’s the most in the U.S. since 1994, when 963 were reported. New York has had the […]

President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen heads to jail on Monday to begin serving a three-year sentence for campaign-finance violations, tax evasion, bank fraud and lying to Congress. Cohen spent his final weekend of freedom trying to maintain a semblance of normalcy — leaving his Manhattan apartment building on Saturday with his son to […]

A Texas bartender accused of serving an intoxicated man who later went on to kill 8 people during a shooting rampage at a football watch party in 2017 was charged Tuesday with a misdemeanor. Lindsey Glass, 27, was arrested Tuesday and faces a fine up to $500, a year in jail, or both, after allegedly […]

Zac Efron believes white privilege allowed notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to get away with his crimes for so long. The 31-year-old “Baywatch” star plays Bundy in the new film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile,” which tracks the life and crimes of the infamous murderer from the perspective of his girlfriend. Fox News caught […]

A former New York school bus driver was reportedly sentenced to probation on Thursday after he admitted to raping a student. Shane Piche, 26, pleaded guilty to third-degree rape in February, according to the Watertown Daily Times. He received 10 years of probation and must register as a sex offender. The man, who drove for the […]

Maria Butina, the Russian operative who used her NRA activism to illegally infiltrate conservative political circles, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a federal judge Friday. The 30-year-old American University graduate student pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign official. She was arrested […]

A person was taken into custody by Secret Service after they allegedly threw a phone at President Trump during his speech to the NRA. A man in the crowd at President Trump’s speech to the National Rifle Association in Indiana was arrested Friday after allegedly throwing a cell phone at the stage as the president approached the lectern, […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s defense minister said Tuesday that the coordinated Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 321 people were in retaliation for the recent Christchurch mosque massacre in New Zealand. “Extremist group named National Thowheed Jamaath carried out Sunday’s terror attacks in response to terror attacks in Christchurch,” Defense Minister Ruwan […]