Category: Current Events

San Francisco is a city of extremes. It has more billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the world, but it also has a homeless problem so severe that it rivals some third-world nations. On any given day you can see souped-up Lamborghinis and blinged-out trophy wives in one part of the city, then walk […]

A rally of far-right groups was met by a large counterdemonstration in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday. Fears that the showdown would turn violent prompted some downtown businesses to close and led to a massive police presence. At least 13 people were arrested, according to Lt. Tina Jones of the Portland Police Bureau. One person was […]

A Fox News poll released Thursday showed President Trump losing head-to-head matchups against four of the top Democratic presidential primary contenders. The poll found Trump with 39 percent support among registered voters in head-to-head matchups against Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The poll found Sanders beating Trump with 48 […]

Wall Street rallied Thursday morning, after a severe routing on Wednesday that saw all three major indices notch their biggest declines of the year on fears of an impending recession. By midmorning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained around 100 points. The S&P 500 was up by just under 0.4 percent and the Nasdaq […]

RINGLE, Wis. — A Wisconsin fugitive wanted on child sexual assault and child pornography charges hid out for more than three years in a makeshift bunker powered by solar panels and a pedal generator before a hunter stumbled onto him last week, police said. WSAW-TV reports that several months ago Thomas Nelson of Wausau found […]

The warden of the federal lockup where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein apparently took his life has been temporarily reassigned and two guards tasked with watching the financier were placed on leave, Justice Department officials said Tuesday. The move to reassign the warden, Shirley Skipper-Scott, came days after since Epstein’s body was found at the […]

Authorities in Wisconsin are searching for more than a dozen registered sex offenders who have tampered with or removed their GPS monitoring devices. Of the 965 sex offenders on active supervision with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections who are mandated to be monitored, 13 cannot be located, according to an agency spokeswoman. Officials with the […]

Democrats eager to oust President Donald Trump in 2020 could pin their hopes on an eleventh-hour bid by former first lady Michelle Obama rather than the roughly two dozen candidates now in the mix, former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested. “I don’t see anybody that’s on this stage right now that can take President […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, is pushing for a reinstatement of an assault weapons ban in the wake of two mass shootings last week that killed 31 people. “The 1994 assault weapons and high-capacity magazines bans worked. And if I am elected president, we’re going to pass them again — and […]

FRONTON, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol says agents patrolling the Rio Grande have been shot at by gunmen from the Mexican side. No agents were injured. But the agency says one of its boats was damaged by automatic weapons gunfire in the shooting around 2:30 a.m. Friday near the South Texas city of Fronton. […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd in Iowa on Thursday that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” an awkward gaffe that came during a conversation about discrimination faced by low-income students. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids […]