Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday spoke out against President Trump’s Fourth of July celebration and his controversial decision to display tanks and other military hardware on the National Mall during the festivities. “We need a strong national defense, but a president shouldn’t need it next to him in a parade to show […]
Singer Halle Bailey has been cast in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the first time the studio has cast a woman of color in the role of a traditionally white princess character for one of its new remakes. Walt Disney Studios announced the casting decision Wednesday, to the delight of many fans […]
President Trump on Friday denied that he sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll after the longtime advice columnist accused the president of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. “False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms,” […]
The body of a 7-year-old Indian girl was found in a remote desert area of Arizona on Wednesday — the same day border agents say they were told human smugglers helped five Indian illegal immigrants cross into the U.S. Border Patrol agents with the Tucson Sector recovered the remains of the young girl early Wednesday […]
An 81-year-old man who spent decades behind bars for a series of bank robberies said he stole from an Arizona credit union months after being released from prison because his monthly $800 Social Security payments were too small to live on, according to court records. Robert Francis Krebs walked into the Pyramid Federal Credit Union […]
Spanish police say they have freed eight women who were being held at a house in Marbella, and arrested 21 presumed members of a gang that allegedly sexually exploited them. Police said in a statement Sunday the women were prevented from leaving the basement of the house where they worked as prostitutes. They were subjected […]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s hotly anticipated report not only revealed the results of his long-running Russia probe but exposed a series of clashes over the last two years within President Trump’s inner circle over the direction of the investigation and the president’s efforts to curtail it. The report, released Thursday, showed that investigators did not find evidence of […]
The United States will no longer provide foreign assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. A State Department spokesperson told The Hill in a statement Saturday that the agency was directed by President Trump to halt aid to the so-called Northern Triangle countries. “At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and […]
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Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed Friday after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia looking into the release of documents to WikiLeaks. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton told Manning that she would remain in federal custody “until she purges or the end of the life of the grand jury,” a […]
A Texas police officer was responding to a burglar alarm when the homeowner mistook him for an intruder and fatally shot him on Tuesday morning, reports said. The Midland police officer identified as Nathan Heidelberg, 28, died around 8:30 a.m. at a local hospital, Midland’s KOSA-TV reported. The homeowner, identified as David Charles Wilson, was arrested […]
An investigation was launched this week into a video showing two saluting Marines in blackface. The Marines are wearing their combat uniforms in the video, which has been viewed more than 245,000 times on social media, according to USA Today. One is heard saying, “Blackface” and “Hello, monkey.” The Third Marine Air Wing in San […]
