The bodies of two missing Colorado girls, ages 3 and 4, were submerged in crude oil for four days before they were recovered Thursday, court documents revealed. The girls’ father, Christopher Watts, stands accused of murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, 34, and their two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3. The girls may […]
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican expressed “shame and sorrow” Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, calling the abuse “criminally and morally reprehensible” and says Pope Francis wants to eradicate “this tragic horror.” In a written statement using uncharacteristically strong language […]
President Trump on Friday defended his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as a “good person” even as a jury deliberates a verdict in his financial fraud trial. Trump called the trial, the first stemming from the special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, “very sad.” “He happens to be a very good person and it happens […]
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman is reportedly believed to have scores of recordings from her time working for President Trump, leaving other aides concerned. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Manigault Newman could have as many as 200 tapes that may contain information about the president and people close to him. […]
Defendant Siraj Wahhaj and four others have been charged with child abuse stemming from the alleged neglect of 11 children found living on a squalid compound in New Mexico. A judge is facing death threats after granting bail to five adults in an abuse case involving nearly a dozen allegedly malnourished and dehydrated children found […]
One of five suspects arrested at an ‘extremist Muslim’ compound in New Mexico has lived in U.S. illegally for over 20 years according to federal officials. One of five suspects arrested at an “extremist Muslim” compound in northern New Mexico is originally from Haiti — and has lived in the U.S. illegally for more than […]
Hillary Clinton offered another endorsement on Wednesday — to an 11-year-old student who made headlines for kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance. Clinton tweeted in response to a NowThis report on Mariana Taylor, a Maryland sixth-grader who refused to stand for her classroom’s recitation of the pledge, instead adopting the form of protest used by […]
Former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort “lied” and “lied” and “lied” again to avoid paying taxes on money he earned overseas and to get even more money when that income stream ran dry, a prosecutor told jurors as closing arguments began Wednesday in Manafort’s federal trial. “Mr. Manafort lied to keep more money when he […]
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday refused to definitively rule out the possibility that President Trump has used the N-word, but repeatedly pointed out the president has denied uttering the racial slur. “I can’t guarantee anything,” Sanders said when asked if she can assure that the public will never hear a recording […]
Jany Leveille, one of the five suspects arrested at the “extremist Muslim” compound in northern New Mexico, has been transferred to the custody of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said Tuesday. The remaining detainees are currently still in custody, the sheriff said. Siraj Wahhaj, 40 , another suspect from […]
Michael Drejka shot and killed Markeis McGlockton during an argument over a handicapped parking spot at a convenience store in Clearwater, Florida; Phil Keating reports from Miami. A Florida man was arrested on a prosecutor’s warrant Monday in connection with a fatal shooting last month that a sheriff said was justified under the state’s “Stand […]
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team rested its case on Monday against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who is facing tax evasion, bank fraud and money laundering charges. The trial, the first of two Manafort faces, is in its tenth day in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and is expected to resume on […]
