Daily Archives: December 15, 2017

Demands grow louder on Friday for the resignation of a University of California regent who last year allegedly asked an actress at his podcast company if could hold her breasts, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Continue reading →

For real Green Berets, there was one dead giveaway that Brooklyn Army vet Papotia Reginald Wright was an imposter. Continue reading →

Alabama Republican Roy Moore on Friday told supporters that the “battle is not over” in Alabama’s Senate race even though President Donald Trump and others have called on him to concede. Continue reading →

They are scenes reminiscent of the Vietnam War and the Pacific Theater during World War II: U.S. soldiers, caked with mud and dripping wet from monsoon rains, quietly traversing thick jungle brush. Continue reading →

The former Florida soccer coach, who was found in New York with a 17-year-old girl he reportedly ran away with, has been extradited back to his home state and charged, according to court records. Continue reading →

A former chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has been accused by nine more women of subjecting them to inappropriate sexual conduct or comments, The Washington Post reported Friday. Continue reading →

A mother in Tennessee was arrested on Dec. 8 after officials claimed her 6-year-old son was discovered weighing 13 pounds, Fox 19 reported. Continue reading →

The Carolina Panthers founder and owner Jerry Richardson is under investigation for workplace misconduct. Continue reading →

Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson claimed Friday that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told him to avoid working with actresses Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino as part of a “smear campaign” against them. Continue reading →

A high school teacher in Oklahoma was fired Thursday after she and her 16-year-old student allegedly applied for a marriage license, according to reports. Continue reading →

A high school teacher in Oklahoma was fired Thursday after she and her 16-year-old student allegedly applied for a marriage license, according to reports. Continue reading →

Congressional Republicans unveiled the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax code in three decades Friday evening with an eye toward final passage next week after two key GOP senators endorsed the legislation. Continue reading →

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has found a county prosecutor’s office did nothing wrong when it refused to pursue charges against two deans from an elite prep school for failing to properly report sexual-assault allegations. Continue reading →

Congressional Republicans unveiled the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax code Friday evening with an eye toward final passage next week after two key GOP senators endorsed the legislation. Continue reading →

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is warning against dangerous flights by Russian fighter jets over what is considered a safe zone in Syria, questioning whether recent close calls were mistakes or deliberate. Continue reading →

A Maine hunter charged with killing a woman he mistook for a deer has been formally charged with manslaughter. Continue reading →

Residents of one neighborhood in cash-strapped Venezuela say they’ve found a solution to a lack of paper money by creating a quasi-currency called the “honeycomb.” Continue reading →

A Florida soccer coach arrested in New York after accusations that he ran away with a teenage girl has been returned to his home state. Continue reading →

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A provision that would have freed churches to make political endorsements has been dropped from the Republican tax overhaul, dashing the hopes of a segment of religious conservatives on what has been a key issue to the Trump administration. Continue reading →

North Korea’s friends and enemies joined forces Friday in opposing its determination to be recognized as a nuclear weapons state and calling on leader Kim Jong Un to negotiate the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula — but the North gave no sign of… Continue reading →

A suburban Chicago woman has been sentenced to natural life in prison without the possibility of parole in the 2012 fatal stabbings of her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl she was caring for. Continue reading →

Ontario’s health minister says the founder of drug company Apotex and his wife have been found dead. Continue reading →

Two former jailers for Oklahoma County have been charged with assault following an investigation into the death of an inmate who was repeatedly shot by pepper balls. Continue reading →

An alleged serial killer has been indicted in the slaying of a North Texas college student nearly two decades after she went missing. Continue reading →

Chuck Frankzke, a WWII vet, dances to Frank Sinatra’s version of “Jingle Bells” in celebration of Christmas and his 95th birthday. Continue reading →

Coldilocks, the oldest living polar bear in captivity in the U.S., celebrated her 37th birthday on Thursday and zookeepers at the Philadelphia Zoo threw her a party for the ages. Continue reading →

In a Dec. 14 story about former Kentucky lawmaker Dan Johnson, the Associated Press incorrectly reported that the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting wrote that Maranda Richmond went to police two years ago about being sexually assaulted in 201… Continue reading →

Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the FBI Friday, hours after President Donald Trump ripped the bureau’s leadership and suggested that its reputation was “in tatters.” Continue reading →

Minnesota has released first baseman Byung-ho Park who will return home and rejoin the Korea Baseball Organization Continue reading →

Pentagon Secretary James Mattis didn’t borrow his boss’s favorite phrase to refute a Washington Post report that President Trump doesn’t want to hear about Russia from his intel chiefs, but he might as well have called it fake news. Continue reading →

A U.S. District Court judge on Friday released former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort from house arrest on $10 million bail. Continue reading →

Republicans are wrapping up the biggest tax cut bill since 1986, despite the fact that the elite media has spent weeks attacking, distorting, and undermining the GOP tax cut legislation. Continue reading →

A gunman fleeing police in a car shot wildly at officers and pedestrians across a swath of Baltimore on Friday as he led cruisers on a desperate chase that looped through streets of the city for at least 20 minutes before he was captured. Continue reading →

A Virginia jury has chipped in to pay the fine of a maid it convicted of stealing three rings from a house she was cleaning. Continue reading →

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says North Korea’s most recent test of a long-range missile did not demonstrate an imminent threat to the United States. Continue reading →

The Latest on the Polish government’s changes to the judicial system: (all times local): 9:35 p.m. Poland’s senators have overwhelmingly approved legislation that gives the ruling party control over a top court and a key judicial body despite warnings … Continue reading →

A former congressional aide Friday accused Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., of sexually harassing her and claimed she was fired and blackballed from further work on Capitol Hill when she refused his advances. Continue reading →

A gunman fleeing Baltimore police shot at officers and pedestrians during a chase that looped through the city for at least 20 minutes before he was captured. Continue reading →

Authorities say it could take months before DNA from the remains of three children found in Montana can be compared to DNA in the 2010 disappearance of three Michigan brothers. Continue reading →

The House Ethics Committee confirmed Friday it has opened an investigation into Nevada Democratic Rep. Ruben Kihuen tied to allegations of sexual misconduct. Continue reading →

Conservative and nationalist parties in Austria say they have reached a deal on creating a new coalition government that will make 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz the new chancellor and Europe’s youngest leader. Continue reading →

Thousands of opposition supporters have constructed burning barricades to block highways in Honduras in protest of the country’s Nov. 26 presidential elections. Continue reading →

A man accused of shooting and injuring two co-workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in suburban Cincinnati has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges. Continue reading →

An ex-soldier from Texas has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for threatening to go on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Continue reading →

Maria Menounos is coming clean about her health. Continue reading →

Bruce Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general who was demoted at the Justice Department in the wake of revelations about undisclosed meetings he had with officials from Fusion GPS, is expected on Monday to testify in a closed-door hearing bef… Continue reading →