Category: Social

A former religious adviser to President George W. Bush has been accused by federal prosecutors of defrauding investors of $3.5 million. Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell and a business partner, Gregory Smith, sold millions of dollars of worthless Chinese bonds, telling investors to “remain faithful and that they would receive their money,” according to documents obtained by […]

The man accused of killing an off-duty Kentucky police officer was shot and killed during an encounter with law enforcement officers. Mike Tobin reports from Chicago. Law enforcement in Tennessee killed the man authorities said posed as a cop and fatally shot an actual police officer after pulling him over in his car. James Decoursey, […]

Austin’s interim police chief called the city’s serial bomber, who killed himself last week amid a standoff with authorities, a “domestic terrorist” for the impact he had on the central Texas community. “This is a distinction that I want to make today,” Chief Brian Manley said during a panel discussion about Mark Conditt, according to the […]

Fox News host Laura Ingraham apologized Thursday over a critical tweet she sent out the day before about a Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor, as at least seven advertisers pulled their spots from her program. After mocking Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg over his college rejections, Ingraham tweeted an apology “in the spirit of Holy Week” to him and his […]

Contributions to the National Rifle Association’s political action committee tripled in February amid public attacks against the organization following the Feb. 14 high school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Supporters of the Second Amendment donated about $779,000 in February to the NRA’s political arm, the Political Victory Fund, according to recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) data. […]

The Maryland high school student who fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and injured another student also killed himself, authorities said. Austin Rollins, 17, shot himself in the head when he was confronted by school resource officer Blaine Gaskill during the March 20 school shooting, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Gaskill had arrived within […]

The Orlando nightclub shooter’s dad – revealed to be an FBI informant – told authorities who were investigating Omar Mateen before the attack that pro-terror comments the would-be gunman made to coworkers were just examples of him “being stupid,” an agent testified Monday. FBI Special Agent Juvenal Martin, who was on the stand in the […]

President Donald Trump has referred to stories around his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels as a ‘political hoax,’ a friend of the president said. Chris Ruddy, an ABC News contributor and the founder and CEO of news and opinion site Newsmax who said he spoke to the president yesterday, told ABC News […]

Austin serial bombing suspect left 25-minute confession on cell phone; Will Carr reports. The man linked to a series of deadly Austin package bombings called himself a “psychopath” in a recorded confession and said he had no remorse for the explosions that killed two people, a U.S. congressman said Saturday. Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, left […]

What goes up, must come down. Simply put, that’s why there’s so much interest in Tiangong-1, China’s first space station, which was launched in 2011 and has been in decreasing orbit ever since. China admitted last year it no longer had control of the space station –– and now it’s getting close to plummeting back […]

The family of four was found in the condo they rented in a tourist complex in Tulum, Mexico. Family and friends are mourning the loss of an Iowa family of four who were found dead Thursday in a condominium in Mexico after going missing. The family – Kevin Wayne Sharp, 41, Amy Marie Sharp, 38, […]

TREBES, France — A French police officer who offered himself up to an Islamic extremist gunman in exchange for a hostage died of his injuries, raising the death toll in the attack to four. The officer was honored Saturday as a national hero of “exceptional courage and selflessness.” Col. Arnaud Beltrame, 44, was among the […]