Category: Social

When an elderly Pennsylvania man found himself in a bind, local police officers stepped up. As Scranton, Pa., affiliate WNEP reports, the nearby Montoursville Borough Police were called to act last week when they learned that an 84-year-old local man named Roger Baker had no way of getting to an area hospital to visit his […]

Nashville Travis Reinking is accused of killing four people at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee; Jonathan Serrie reports from Antioch, Tennessee. The man who cops believe gunned down four people at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee was arrested Monday, just over an hour after cops admitted he led police on a chase in […]

An Islamic State suicide bomber carried out an attack at a voter registration center in the capital Kabul on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding more than 100 others, said officials from the Afghan interior and public health ministries. Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majro said that among 57 who were killed in the attack, […]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — In a grainy, nighttime video, journalist Angel Gahona, clad in jeans and a blue shirt, holds up a cellphone and narrates as he approaches the facade of city hall in Bluefields, Nicaragua, reporting live via Facebook on protests that have rocked the Central American nation for four days. Seconds later a gunshot […]

Man who tackled Waffle House shooting suspect speaks at news conference with Nashville law enforcement. A 29-year-old man was hailed a hero Sunday after he seized the opportunity to wrestle the gun away from the shooter at a Tennessee Waffle House, saving countless lives during a rampage that left at least four people dead and […]

A Minneapolis-area church pastor who also drives a school bus says his rights to free speech and religion were abridged when he got taken off his route for leading students in prayer. And it’s not the first time prayer on the bus has gotten him in hot water, either. The Associated Press reported that the […]

Schoolchildren across the US are walking out of school on Friday to demonstrate against gun violence. The National School Walkout marks the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Connecticut high school pupil Lane Murdock set up the event in the wake of the Parkland shooting in Florida. Students are leaving schools […]

Miguel Díaz-Canel has been sworn in as Cuba’s new president, replacing Raúl Castro who took over from his ailing brother Fidel in 2006. It is the first time since the revolution in 1959 that a Castro is not at the helm of the government. Mr Díaz-Canel had been serving as first vice-president for the past […]

Lawyers for President Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen have withdrawn defamation lawsuits against BuzzFeed and the political research firm Fusion GPS related to a dossier that included claims Cohen helped organize Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. The lawsuits, withdrawn late Wednesday, would have required Cohen to submit to an evidence discovery process, forcing […]

Two sheriff’s deputies were shot and killed Thursday in a restaurant in Trenton, Fla., in what appeared to be an ambush, officials said. The Gilchrist County deputies died “after a suspect walked up” to the Ace China restaurant around 3 p.m. “and shot both deputies through the window,” the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said in […]

Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who has been waging war on the air against special counsel Robert Mueller and is an outspoken advocate for President Donald Trump, was revealed Monday as one of only three clients that Michael Cohen, the president’s personal attorney, had during 2017 and 2018. In a court filing earlier in […]

Unclear what sparked the major prison riot in South Carolina. A riot spurred over money, territory and contraband at one of South Carolina’s most dangerous prisons left seven inmates dead and 17 others injured, a South Carolina prisons director said Monday. Lee Correctional Institution in Bisthopville, 55 miles east of Columbia, was secured at around […]