Category: Social

The editorial board of USA Today has said President Donald Trump is “unfit to clean the toilets” in Barack Obama’s library or shine George W Bush’s shoes. The scathing editorial comes after Mr Trump claimed a female senator “would do anything” for campaign cash – words which some regarded as sexual innuendo. “Rock bottom is […]

An Alabama protester outside a rally for Republican Roy Moore is slamming the Senate candidate over his rhetoric targeting homosexuals, holding a sign saying that Moore’s own alleged encounters with teenage girls made him “a pervert of the worst kind.” William Nathan Mathis, a 74-year-old peanut farmer, told reporters Monday that his daughter, who was […]

Three women who accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct have demanded a congressional inquiry. At a New York City news conference, the trio accused Mr Trump of groping, fondling, forcibly kissing, humiliating or harassing them. Three of them – Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey, and Rachel Crooks – detailed their allegations shortly beforehand live on […]

Long Island police say they foiled an MS-13 kidnapping and murder plot when they saw the intended 16-year-old male victim being coerced into a van. Plainclothes officers arrested five members and associates of the notorious immigrant street gang on conspiracy charges after Wednesday’s takedown in Brentwood, Newsday reported. President Trump went to Brentwood in July […]

Palestinians have taken to the streets of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for a third day angry at US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Hundreds protested, but numbers were down compared to Friday. Earlier, Israel carried out strikes on Gaza in response to rocket fire aimed at southern Israel. […]

sexual misconduct says she made her own notes below a yearbook signature she claims was made by Moore. Beverly Young Nelson, who has accused Moore of sexually assaulting her decades ago when she was 16 years old, told ABC News in a Friday interview that she made notes underneath Moore’s alleged yearbook signature, but defended the veracity of the message itself. “Beverly, […]

Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for the deadly shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott. U.S. District Judge David Norton ruled that Slager committed second-degree murder and obstruction of justice, when he shot and killed 50-year-old Scott in 2015. The second-degree murder ruling came with […]

An Oklahoma City police officer who shot and killed a suicidal man lat month was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder, authorities said. Sgt. Keith Sweeney, 32, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Charging documents filed in Oklahoma County District Court listed an alternative charge of first-degree murder in the Nov. 15 shooting of 29-year-old Dustin […]

Law enforcement failed to adequately plan for or respond to a violent white nationalist rally this summer in Virginia, leading to “deep distrust of government” in the Charlottesville community, an independent review released Friday found. Former U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy’s monthslong investigation found a lack of coordination between state and city police and a passive […]

PALATINE, Ill. –  A suburban Chicago school district that previously faced a federal complaint over a transgender student’s use of a girls’ locker room is now facing a lawsuit over the issue. Palatine High School senior Nova Maday filed the lawsuit Thursday against Palatine’s Township High School District 211. The lawsuit asks that Maday be […]

A senator, who asked not to be named, told The Times that Trump is having difficulty moving on from his past claims that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. Trump led the “birther” movement against Obama, claiming for years that the former president was born outside of the U.S. Obama eventually released his birth […]

Police in Tampa, Fla., say they have arrested the man they believe is responsible for a string of killings in the Seminole Heights area, thanks to a tip received by a police officer doing paperwork at a local McDonald’s. A customer apparently tipped off the officer that a man at the fast-food restaurant had a […]