Category: Social

The FBI on Friday received 203,086 requests for instant gun background checks, which would mark almost a 10 percent increase from 2016 and sets a new record for the most ever in one day, USA Today reported. Authorities did not speculate on why so many Americans are seeking guns this holiday season, but the theory […]

President Donald Trump now claims that the Access Hollywood tape on which he boasted of sexually assaulting women may not be genuine, according to a report in The New York Times. On the tape, which surfaced weeks before the November 2016 presidential election, the former reality star can be heard bragging to TV presenter Billy Bush of grabbing women […]

Time Magazine is disputing US President Donald Trump’s account of how he rejected a request for an interview and photo shoot ahead of its Person of the Year issue. On Friday, Mr Trump tweeted that Time had called to say he was “probably” going to be named Person of the Year. The president was awarded […]

Members of an El Salvadorian street gang stabbed a man 100 times, beheaded him and cut out his heart in a park near Washington DC, police say. Up to 10 members of MS-13 communicated on walkie talkies as they closed in on their victim at a recreational area in Wheaton, Maryland, say officials. The victim’s […]

An 18-year-old woman who accused two NYPD cops of raping her in the back seat of their police van was visited by a group of their co-workers in her hospital room in a bid to bully her out of bringing sex assault charges, her lawyer claims. Michal David, who represents Anna Chambers, said nine police […]

Craig Richard Coley, 70, was pardoned after DNA tests showed he was wrongfully convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 4-year-old son in 1978.  (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP) A California man was finally vindicated nearly 40 years after being wrongly convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 4-year-old son after DNA […]

Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,100 rounds when he killed 58 people and injured more than 500 others at a country music festival on the Strip last month, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told a local newspaper Wednesday. Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was aware of the previously unreported figure because his department’s […]

The reward for information about four deadly shootings in a Tampa neighborhood is now over $100,000, as the city’s police chief said Tuesday he fears the next time his phone rings it could mean yet another victim. Crimestoppers of Tampa Bay told FOX13 Tampa they have received more than 1,100 tips regarding the Seminole Heights […]

NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. –  The man accused of fatally shooting a rookie police officer in western Pennsylvania is in custody. The Pennsylvania State Police on Tuesday announced the apprehension of 29-year-old Rahmael Sal Holt. Details of the arrest are to be released in a news conference later Tuesday. Holt is accused of killing New Kensington […]

Illegal immigrants appeared to have “ambushed” two U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Texas border with Mexico and bashed their heads with blunt objects — possibly rocks — killing one agent and sending another to a hospital in serious condition Sunday, a National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) official told Fox News. Rogelio Martinez, 36, was […]

Mass-murdering cult leader Charles Manson doesn’t appear to have relatives on file with prison officials, meaning his body is likely to be left in state custody following his death on Sunday night. According Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Manson died at a Kern County, California, hospital of natural […]

New Kensington police released a name and image early Sunday of the man they are searching for in the fatal shooting of a police officer in western Pennsylvania. The suspect in the shooting was identified as Rahmael Sal Holt, 29, and said he is expected to be “armed and dangerous.” They released an image of […]