Republicans are understandably nervous about the political position they’ve found themselves in. A year after an election that vaulted them to total dominance over the levers of federal power, GOP officials have effectively nothing to show for their efforts; Donald Trump is the least popular first-year president of the polling era; the Russia scandal is […]
Category: Domestic
Transgender Woman Wins Council Seat In Minneapolis
Andrea Jenkins became the first openly transgender woman of color to be elected to public office in the country after she won the Ward 8 seat of the Minneapolis City Council on Tuesday night. The Minneapolis Star Tribune confirmed her victory. Jenkins is also the first transgender person to be elected to any municipal office, and […]
Manhunt For Escaped Homicide Suspect Underway
A manhunt is under way in Tennessee after three people — one of them a murder suspect — escaped from a county jail Wednesday. Dylan Cecil Ferguson, a 20-year-old homicide suspect, escaped from the Macon County Jail on Wednesday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. TBI warned Ferguson “should be considered armed and dangerous.” Ferguson, […]
Trump Rejects Notion Of Tougher Gun Laws
US President Donald Trump has said that “hundreds more” would have died in a Texas church mass shooting if US gun laws were more stringent. He told reporters in Seoul that such measures would have “made no difference” in Sunday’s attack, which left 26 people dead and 20 injured. Gunman Devin Patrick Kelley was found […]
Trump Urges North Korea To Find Diplomatic Solution
President Donald Trump has said it makes sense for North Korea to “do the right thing” and discuss the possibility of giving up its nuclear weapons. Speaking at a joint press conference Tuesday alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul, Trump said, “North Korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action.” He added […]
Another Trump Campaign Adviser Lied About Russia Contacts
The House Intelligence Committee on Monday night released more than 200 pages of transcripts from its marathon interview of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, sprawling testimony that contained new details about the closely-scrutinized foreign policy aide’s relationship to Moscow. The at-times tense interview — which took place behind closed doors last week — also highlighted an […]
Church Shooter Was Atheist That Abused Wife And Child
Devin Patrick Kelley allegedly opened fire in the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas killing at least 26. Shocked former classmates who attended middle and high school with Texas church gunman Devin Patrick Kelley described him Monday as being heavily medicated and someone who kept to himself — despite a deluge of posts on […]
Hero Chased Texas Church Shooter After Massacre
One of the men who said he helped run the Texas church gunman off the road Sunday is being hailed as a hero for potentially preventing more bloodshed after the deadly shooting. Johnnie Langendorff told Fox San Antonio he decided to track down the killer after seeing the gunman, Devin Kelley, exchanging fire with another member of […]
Woman Fired After Flipping Off Trump’s Motorcade
WASHINGTON ― You may have seen this photo of President Donald Trump’s motorcade winding down a wooded road last week as a woman on a bicycle pedaled by ― giving the middle finger to Trump. The picture, snapped by a White House photographer traveling with the president as he left his golf course in Sterling, […]
Multiple Victims In Mass Shooting At Texas Church
A gunman opened fire at a church in Texas during Sunday services, resulting in multiple reported casualties. The attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County. Local ABC affiliate KSAT 12 reported the gunman entered the church at around 11:30 local time and began shooting. Police told the outlet there […]
Mueller Has Plenty Of Evidence To Indict Flynn
Special counsel Robert Mueller has amassed enough evidence to charge President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his son as part of his investigation into Russia interfering in the 2016 presidential election, NBC News reported on Sunday. Trump fired Flynn in February after just 24 days on the job when news reports revealed […]
Protesters Meet President Trump At Airport In Hawaii
President Donald Trump may have put the Barack Obama birther conspiracy lie behind him, but Hawaii voters haven’t forgotten. For years, Trump promoted the damaging fake story that the former president wasn’t born in Hawaii — but in Africa. So when Trump landed in Honolulu Friday as he set off on his Asia tour, Trump was greeted […]