Category: Social

An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara. Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor from North Carolina, is facing up to 35 years in prison on charges of “committing crimes on behalf of terror groups […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Former first lady Barbara Bush is in “failing health” and won’t seek additional medical treatment, a Bush family spokesman said Sunday. “Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on […]

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s embattled personal attorney, denied a report that the FBI raid on his Manhattan office and residence yielded evidence that could confirm a key point of the controversial dossier about alleged Trump ties to Russia. “I have never been to Prague,” Cohen told The Post Saturday as he left the Loews Regency […]

President Donald Trump had a relationship with a former housekeeper that produced a child, a former Trump World Tower doorman claimed in a statement released Thursday afternoon. The doorman, Dino Sajudin, spoke out after reports published Thursday morning detailed his agreement with American Media Inc., the publisher of The National Enquirer, that included a $30,000 […]

A California sheriff who’s trying to beat his chief deputy and win re-election is fighting back after the release of a 2006 video in which he says it’s “financially better” for cops to kill suspects than injure them. Sheriff Donny Youngblood, of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, told KBFX Eyewitness News Monday the 12-year-old statements were misquoted. “I stand by […]

Oklahoma teachers carried their walkout over school funding and higher pay into a ninth day on Tuesday as a union leader declared educators had the advantage in a battle with the Republican-dominated state legislature. Republican lawmakers said they have made major moves to boost education spending, but it may be difficult to find more money. […]

The FBI on Monday raided the New York City offices of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing evidence related to the payment Cohen made porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. The raid came after federal prosecutors in New York City obtained a search warrant following a referral […]

A judge on Thursday sentenced an Alabama teenager to 65 years in prison for a series of crimes, including murder, even though a police officer was the one who actually killed the victim. Lakeith Smith, now 18, was convicted under the state’s accomplice liability law in March. Based on that law, a person can be convicted of […]

The body of missing CDC worker Timothy Cunningham was found in Atlanta’s Chattahoochee River with no signs of foul play. The body of a missing employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was found this week in a river nearly two months after his “unusual” disappearance prompted a nationwide search, police announced Thursday. […]

Juli Briskman, the Virginia cyclist who gave a middle-finger salute to President Trump’s passing motorcade last October, is suing the government contracting firm that fired her after the gesture went viral on social media. Now she’s giving the bird to her former employer. “I filed this lawsuit against my former employer today because I believe […]

Police in Northern California say they are responding to an incident involving an “active shooter” at YouTube headquarters. Gunshots were reported at the company’s campus in San Bruno, south of San Francisco. Several people have been taken to hospital but their condition is unknown. Google, which owns the video sharing website, has said it is […]

LOS ANGELES –  The mother of a Phoenix woman killed in San Diego pleaded for the public’s help Tuesday to find her daughter’s boyfriend, a former Marine charged with murder in the case. Josephine Wentzel, a former police detective who has been helping in the hunt for 34-year-old Raymond McLeod, said she’s seeking justice for […]