Category: Social

Authorities in California are struggling to enforce a state law that permits officials to seize firearms from people with previous criminal convictions or mental health issues. Authorities in California are struggling to enforce a state law that permits officials to seize firearms from people with previous criminal convictions or mental health issues – running into […]

The Aurora shooter brought a gun to his termination meeting and opened fire as soon as he was fired, according to police. The disgruntled worker who killed five people in Aurora, Ill., last week after being fired had passed two gun background checks five years ago, despite a criminal record that should have prevented him […]

Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman who pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit material to a teen, has been released from federal prison ahead of the end of his 21-month sentence. Federal records show Weiner, who was imprisoned in Massachusetts, is now being housed at a Residential Re-entry Management facility in Brooklyn, New York, ahead […]

Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump called him up on a stage to express pride in the Houston Police Department, Chief Art Acevedo struggled to explain a scandal in which one of his narcotics agents allegedly lied to get a no-knock warrant for a drug-house raid that left a married couple dead and […]

Federal authorities seized two massive shipments of cocaine at the same California port of entry in late January. The total for the two shipments was 221 pounds — the largest at that port in 25 years, according to officials. The busts, which were announced on Friday, were both found aboard ships at Port Hueneme in […]

CNN host Jake Tapper said Monday that President Trump was holding a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, as part of an effort to spread a “falsehood” about how barriers reduced crime in the city. “The president is lying to you to get his border wall,” Tapper said on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” […]

Hundreds of leaders and volunteers within Southern Baptist churches across the nation have been accused of sexual misconduct against young churchgoers for decades – many of them quietly returning to church roles even after being convicted for sex crimes. A bombshell investigation by the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News found that over the last […]

“What I did was took a knee against racial discrimination, which is basically when people are mean to other people of different colors,” said Liam. His dad, Scott Holmes, said he talked to Liam about it beforehand, but he wasn’t sure if he’d follow through. “When he did it I was really surprised and also […]

A Milwaukee police officer was shot dead in the line of duty Wednesday morning while executing a search warrant, officials said. The slain officer is the third Milwaukee police officer to die in the line of duty in the past eight months, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said at a news conference. The officer, whose name […]

The Canadian serial killer responsible for murdering eight men in the Toronto area dressed his deceased victims in fur coats and placed cigars in their mouths for a series of morbid, staged photographs, a prosecutor has revealed as his sentencing hearing resumes Tuesday. Bruce McArthur, arrested in early 2018, pleaded guilty last week to eight […]

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent died while working in Texas on Saturday, officials said. Agent Donna Doss, 49, was helping state police near Interstate 20 in Abilene just before 9 p.m., the agency said in a news release. While she assisted, Doss was “struck and killed by a passing vehicle” and died at the […]