Category: Social

Six people, including the gunman, were dead following a shooting spree in Bakersfield, California, on Wednesday that authorities believe was an act of domestic violence, Kern County sheriff’s officials said. It was not clear why the man went on the rampage, but there may be a connection between the shooter and the victims — all […]

The woman convicted of helping to kidnap Elizabeth Smart will be released from prison next Wednesday, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announced Tuesday — in a surprise reversal of a previous decision. Wanda Barzee, 72, will be released early from Utah State Prison on Sept. 19. Barzee was first sentenced in 2010 to […]

The White House on Monday labeled Bob Woodward “reckless” and “careless” after some administration officials refuted claims attributed to them in his new book “Fear: Trump in the White House,” ratcheting up its war of words with the Watergate reporter. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also didn’t rule out a lawsuit against Woodward. “A […]

“I haven’t had a chance to digest it, I just saw it on my email literally right before I came on,” Avenatti told CNN. “What they’re trying to do is they don’t want me to get a chance to depose Michael Cohen and Donald Trump,” he added. “This is a Hail Mary to try and avoid […]

A Dallas police officer returning home from work fatally shot a neighbor on Thursday after she mistook his apartment for her own, police said. Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall on Friday revealed the department’s intent to charge the officer with manslaughter based on available information. “Right now, there are more questions than we have […]

Former President Obama criticized President Trump in a highly anticipated speech on Friday for capitalizing on racial and economic resentments that he said had been fanned for years by politicians, stepping off the political sidelines and offering a rare criticism of the sitting president by name. “It did not start with Donald Trump. He is […]

At least three people were killed and two others were injured Thursday after a gunman opened fire at a bank’s headquarters in downtown Cincinnati, officials said. The gunman opened fire at the loading dock and lobby area of the Fifth Third Center in the city’s Fountain Square around 9:10 a.m., Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac […]

Some sliced the swooshes right out of their socks. Others lit their shoes aflame in their yards and filmed it. All had strong feelings about Nike’s new “Just Do It” campaign and one of the athletic shoe and clothing company’s newest faces: Colin Kaepernick. Nike revealed on Monday that Kaepernick — the out-of-work NFL quarterback […]

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio pointedly warned InfoWars host Alex Jones “I’ll take care of you myself,” during a stunning clash Wednesday ahead of a Capitol Hill hearing on social media. The warning came after the right-wing conspiracy theorist interrupted an interview, heckling the Florida senator and patting him on the back. Rubio had been talking […]

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward offers a damning portrayal of the Trump White House in a new book, according to excerpts published Tuesday in a story by The Washington Post. The Watergate reporter’s book details numerous instances of conflict between the president and his staff, and paints the picture of a dysfunctional White House full of […]

The father of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts blasted people using his daughter’s death to promote “profoundly racist” views — a day after President Trump’s son published a screed blaming Democrats’ “radical open-borders agenda” for her demise. In an op-ed published in the Des Moines Register Friday, Donald Trump Jr. called Democrats “despicable” for […]

A 44-year-old man has been extradited from Pennsylvania to Kansas to stand trial on 178 counts of sexually assaulting a child over a decade. Eric Millsap, who had been living in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, is charged with 152 counts of rape, 24 counts of aggravated sodomy and two counts of attempted aggravated criminal sodomy. Millsap was […]