Washington (AFP) – Charges against Stormy Daniels following an Ohio strip club arrest were dropped Thursday after her lawyer slammed a “politically motivated” setup against the adult film star suing US President Donald Trump. Daniels, 39, was apprehended without incident during a performance late Wednesday at the Sirens club in Columbus, Ohio after officers accused […]
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Cohen’s Lawyer Says Trump Committed Impeachable Offense
Michael Cohen’s new lawyer cited President Trump’s interactions with former national security adviser Michael Flynn in stating that lying about an abuse of power could be an impeachable offense. Lanny Davis made the remarks during an interview that aired Wednesday on Hill.TV’s “Rising” with Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball. He referenced testimony by former FBI […]
Entire Thai Soccer Team Rescued From Cave After 18 Days
Thai Navy SEALS report that all 12 members of the team and the coach are out of the cave while four rescuers remain inside. The dramatic three-day rescue of a Thai youth soccer team that had been stuck in a flooded cave came to an end Tuesday when the last boy and the team’s coach […]
Thailand Cave Rescue Frees 4 More Boys, 5 Remain
Rescuers in Thailand on Monday freed four more members of the boys soccer team stranded in a flooded cave complex, as part of the second phase of a desperate rescue operation that aims to save four more kids and the team’s coach before heavy rains imperil the effort. Four ambulances with flashing lights were spotted […]
Harvard And Yale Refuse To Change Affirmative Action Policies
Some Ivy League schools are doubling down on race-based admissions policies, defying the Trump administration’s action to rescind Obama-era affirmative action guidelines. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sent a “Dear Colleague” letter last week to schools turning back several Obama-era guidelines the administration deemed beyond constitutional bounds and “unnecessary” given Supreme Court precedent. At the […]
4 Boys Rescued From Thai Cave, 9 Remained Trapped
Four members of a Thai youth soccer team were rescued from a cave in northern Thailand on Sunday, leaving another eight boys and their soccer coach in the flooded cavern after 18 divers began a daring mission to bring home the group who have been trapped in the flooded cavern for more than two weeks. […]
Red Hen Restaurant Fully Booked Despite Protests
The Lexington restaurant opened its doors for dinner for the first time in nearly two weeks after it gained national attention for refusing to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and asking her to leave. On June 22, Red Hen co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson told Sanders the restaurant has “certain standards” that it has to uphold […]
Charlottesville Killer Pleads Not Guilty To Murder
James Fields, the man accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last summer – leading to the death of one woman – pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime charges. Fields, 21, from Ohio, made the appearance in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville […]
Mar-A-Lago Resort Files Request To Hire 40 Foreign Workers
HPresident Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida has asked the federal government for permission to hire 40 foreign workers, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Labor Department. The Palm Beach resort wants to hire waiters and waitresses who would be employed using H-2B visas, which businesses typically obtain if they can establish that there […]
Mother In Texas Arrested For Trying To Sell Her Children
A Texas mother has been arrested for allegedly selling her young children. Esmeralda Garza, 29, was arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials on Friday after she allegedly sold her 7-year-old boy to two men, KRIS-TV reported. Garza was also in the process of selling two other children – a 2-year-old girl and […]
“Trans-Racial” Woman Rachel Dolezal Booked On Fraud And Other Charges
Former Spokane NAACP President Nkechi Diallo — who became infamous as Rachel Dolezal, a white woman identifying as black — was booked and fingerprinted at a Washington state jail Monday as she awaits trial on multiple charges, including welfare fraud. Diallo pleaded not guilty to state charges of first-degree theft by welfare fraud, making false […]
Terror Plot In Cleveland Thwarted By FBI
An Ohio man has been accused of plotting an attack on Wednesday’s Independence Day parade and fireworks in downtown Cleveland, the FBI announced Monday. Agents said they had charged Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts with one count of attempting to provide material support to Al-Qaeda. “I’m trying to figure out something that would shake them up on […]