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US | Meet the Man Behind Oregons New Legal Pot Market | When Oregon voters approved Measure 91 in the midterm elections, they became the latest to say that marijuana should be taxed and regulated like alcohol. Now comes the enormous job of actually bringing the legal marijuana market to life. The task falls to Rob Patridge, the chair of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission,... |
US | Fake News President Trump Doubles Down on Twitter Feud With Morning Joe Hosts | President Donald Trump on Friday called MSNBC's Morning Joe "fake news" after host Joe Scarborough alleged senior White House aides asked him to apologize to the President to prevent the publication of a negative story about Scarborough in the National Enquirer. "Watched low rated Morning Joe for first time in long tim... |
US | Cops Arrest 500 Johns in Sex Trade Crackdown | Law enforcement agencies across the country collaborated in a recent series of sex stings that netted the arrests of almost 500 men seeking to buy sex and 14 pimps and traffickers, officials will announce Wednesday. The police crackdown, part of an annual "National Day of Johns Arrests," led to more arrests than any pr... |
US | Feds Say Transgender Students Gender Identity Must Be Respected | In one short paragraph of a 34-page memo released on Dec. 1, the Department of Education articulated a clear stance on gender identity, saying transgender students in public schools should be enrolled in single-sex classes that align with how they live their lives day-to-day. "We're thrilled," says Shannon Minter, the ... |
US | They Were the Yin and Yang of Each Other Pittsburgh Says Goodbye to Inseparable Brothers Gunned Down | Ronna Wedner's voice broke as she recalled Cecil Rosenthal's daily visits to her flower shop in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. "Every day, it was, Good afternoon, ladies.' He would tell you how beautiful you were. Everyone was beautiful to him," Wedner, whose family has owned the Squirrel Hill Flower Sho... |
US | How the Supreme Court Just Slowed Climate Efforts and Why Environmental Activists Remain Optimistic | The Supreme Court's decision to delay implementation of President Obama's Clean Power Plan has dealt a serious blow to American efforts to fight climate change, leaving an air of uncertainty both in the U.S. and abroad with international partners around a plan Obama once heralded as "the biggest, most important step"... |
US | 8th Largest Mega Millions Jackpot in History Up for Grabs on New Years Day | In a potentially lucrative start to the year for America's lottery players, the Mega Millions jackpot climbed to 415 million in a drawing set to take place on New Year's Day Tuesday. The prize will be the eighth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. The jackpot grew from a 348 million prize after no ticket matched ... |
US | These Kids Are Suing the Federal Government to Demand Climate Action They Just Won an Important Vict | A group of young Americans suing the federal government to demand increased efforts on climate change won a notable battle Thursday, as a federal court rejected the government's request to dismiss the case. The ruling paves the way for the 21 plaintiffswho range in age from 9 to 20to take their case to trial in federal... |
US | Chelsea Manning Thanks Prison Inmates for Keeping Her Going | Chelsea Manning has written a letter to her fellow inmates for keeping her "alive for the past six years" at Fort Leavenworth prison barracks where she was serving 35-years for leaking secret military and government documents to WikiLeaks. Manning, who published her letter on the Guardian, assures inmates that "they wi... |
US | Witness Says Gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo Dragged Child Like a Raggedy Ann Doll | One witness who saw a toddler crawl into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo last weekend says the 400-lb. gorilla was handling the child "like a Raggedy Ann doll in his grip," and another called the gorilla's behavior "very violent.", Zookeepers shot and killed an endangered 17-year old western-lowlands gorilla ... |
US | President Trump Threatens to Pull Federal Funding Over Deadly California Wildfires | President Trump threatened to cut federal funding to California over "poor" management as deadly wildfires ravage parts of the state. On Saturday morning, Trump tweeted his first comments on the wildfires since they began earlier this week, making no mention of the nine confirmed victims. Instead, he criticized forest ... |
US | Its a Womens Wave Coming The Womens March Is Turning Into a True Political Force | Dixie O'Connell's older brother cast a write-in ballot for Mickey Mouse in the 2016 presidential election. Fifteen months later, O'Connell marched in the 2018 New York Women's March with a sign that said, "I'm pissed.", She couldn't vote in 2016, but O'Connell is already doing everything she can to cancel out her broth... |
US | Colorado Church Halts Funeral Because Woman Was Gay Friends and Family Say | A church in Colorado reportedly canceled a woman's funeral on Saturday after learning that she was gay. Friends of the woman, Vanessa Collier, who died in December at the age of 33, claim that a church in Lakewood refused to hold a memorial service for her because she is a lesbian, the Denver Post" reports. Collier's f... |
US | 3 Dead in Shooting at Colorado Planned Parenthood | Three people are dead, including one police officer, after a shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs on Friday. The suspected shooter has been taken into police custody, according to the town's mayor. Nine other people have been hospitalized and are in good condition according to police, the Associated Pre... |
US | Making a Murderer Petition Gains Enough Signatures to Reach White House | A petition asking the Obama administration to "pardon Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey for the alleged involvement in the murder of Teresa Halbach" allegations recently brought into the spotlight thanks to Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer has exceeded 100,000 signatures, meaning that the White House must n... |
US | Abducted Ohio Woman Calls Police While Alleged Captor Sleeps | The desperate 911 call of an abducted Ohio woman led police to her alleged captor and the discovery of the bodies of three more women, reports say. , While her alleged captor, Shawn Grate, 40, slept, a woman made a 17-minute phone call to police, begging them for help as she stood in the first-floor bedroom of an aban... |
US | Bill Clinton Remembers His Unlikely Friendship With George HW Bush in an Emotional OpEd | Former President Bill Clinton honored the life of George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30 in his Houston Home, with a touching editorial about an unlikely friendship between two, who were once political adversaries. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, published Dec. 1, Clinton praised the former President and invited all A... |
US | ISIS Claims Responsibility for Muhammad Cartoon Contest Shooting | The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria ISIS has claimed responsibility for the Sunday shooting outside a controversial cartoon competition that lampooned the Prophet Muhammad near Dallas that left the two assailants dead the first time the group has claimed an attack on U.S. soil. A statement read on the extremis... |
US | Measuring Wars Impact on Women | American women have been marching off to war in increasing numbers over the last generation. Soon, the Pentagon expects to lift its ban on their service in ground combat, its most demanding, dirtiest and bloodiest form. Is this a good thing?, In Women at War, Army veterans Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Anne L. Naclerio h... |
US | 3 New Sexual Assault Allegations at Princeton | Three new sexual assaults were reported over the weekend to Princeton University police, at a time when colleges and universities are under increasing national scrutiny for how they handle sexual assault allegations. Two of the incidents were reported on Friday and one on Saturday, the Times of Trenton reports. Two of ... |
US | President Trump Retweeted AntiMuslim Videos Posted by FarRight Group Britain First | President Donald Trump caused waves across the pond Wednesday morning by retweeting three anti-Muslim videos posted on the social media platform by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First. The videos Trump retweeted to his 43.6 million followers are called "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch bo... |
US | Illinois Says Daily Fantasy Sports Sites Are Illegal | The Illinois Attorney General ruled Wednesday that daily fantasy sports are illegal under state law. State Attorney General Lisa Madigan delivered the ruling in an opinion to state representatives, reports CNBC, saying that the paid contests offered by online daily sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings are considere... |
US | Chelsea Manning Breaks Her Silence | Chelsea Manning, the former military intelligence analyst who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified information in 2010, has broken her silence to rail against a lack of military transparency in a New York Times editorial. In the article, Manning calls for a new government body to oversee embedded... |
US | Read Darren Wilsons Testimony to the Grand Jury | Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson described his side of his fatal altercation with unarmed teen Michael Brown in testimony to a St. Louis County grand jury last month. The St. Louis County Prosecutor's office released the transcripts late Monday after the grand jury decided against indicting Wilson in Brown's death... |
US | Donald Trump to Stephen Curry Consider Your White House Invitation Withdrawn | Amid a series of tweets ranging from the NFL to healthcare, President Donald Trump also made an announcement Stephen Curry's White House invitation was withdrawn. "Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!" Trump tweeted... |
US | What to Know About the Mass Shooting in Las Vegas | At least 59 people were killed and 527 were injured after a man opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday in what appears to be the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Police say Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nev. opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival from the 32n... |
US | 12 People on Flights to Philadelphia Have FluLike Symptoms Officials Say | Twelve passengers on international flights that landed at Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday are showing flu-like symptoms, airport officials said. A total of about 250 passengers, plus crew members, aboard two American Airlines flights Flight 755 from Paris, and Flight 717 from Munich were held for medic... |
US | Were Tired of Hearing Politicians Send Thoughts and Prayers Florida Shooting Survivor Speaks Out at | A survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, was given a platform to speak about gun reform and raise awareness of the upcoming March For Our Lives demonstration during the iHeartRadio Music Awards Sunday evening. Alex Moscou was introduced by the rapper Big Sean,... |
US | Michigan State University Wont Remove President Amid Criticisms Over Larry Nassar Abuse | The Michigan State University Board of Trustees said Friday that it would not remove university President Lou Anna Simon, who has faced calls to resign amid findings of abuse by former university sports doctor Larry Nassar. Nassar, who was also a longtime physician for USA Gymnastics, has been accused of sexual abuse b... |
US | US Sent 400M to Iran While American Hostages Were Freed | As Iran released four American hostages in January, some 400 million dollars were flown into Tehran, according to a report. A cargo plane loaded with Euros, Swiss Francs and other currencies made its way to Iran, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing U.S. and European officials and congressional staff who we... |
US | Trump Administration Halts Visas for Unmarried SameSex Partners of Diplomats | A new Trump administration visa policy appears to give the partners of same-sex diplomats a difficult ultimatum get married, or get out. As of Monday, the U.S. State Department will no longer issue visas to the same-sex partners of foreign diplomats or staffers of U.S.-based international organizations like the United ... |
US | Can Computers Fix Gerrymandering | Here's how democracy is supposed to work Citizens go to the polls to choose who will represent them, and when all the seats are filled, the legislative body looks roughly proportional to the makeup of voters. But that's not what happened in Wisconsin's 2012 election, when Republicans took more than 60 of the seats in t... |
US | The Guardian and Washington Post Nab Pulitzer For Snowden Coverage | The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism was awarded Monday to The Washington Post and The Guardian's U.S. edition for their reporting on National Security Agency leaks from its former contractor Edward Snowden. According to the Pulitzer committee, each media organization was awarded journalism's highest h... |
US | Beau Biden Son of US Vice President Dies at 46 | Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, the former Delaware Attorney General and son of Vice President Joe Biden, died at 46 after battling brain cancer, the Vice President's office announced Saturday night. "It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau... |
US | More Than 1000 Pimps and Johns Arrested in Nationwide Prostitution Sting | A coalition of dozens of law enforcement agencies arrested more than 1,000 pimps and sex buyers in a summer-long series of prostitution stings. The months-long annual sting, now known as the National Johns Suppression Initiative, was led by Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Il. A total of 39 law enforcement agencies acr... |
US | Knee Defender Passenger Says He Never Reclines His Seat | An airline passenger who got in a fight over reclining seats and was later booted off his flight says he now feels bad about the altercation. James Beach was on an August flight in which he used a product called a "Knee Defender" which prevented the seat in front of his from reclining. Beach, who is six feet, one inch ... |
US | Nurse Arrested in Sexual Assault Case of Incapacitated Woman Who Gave Birth | PHOENIX A nurse who was supposed to be looking after an incapacitated woman at a long-term health care facility was charged Wednesday with raping her, weeks after she stunned her caregivers and family by giving birth to a baby boy . Nathan Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse, has been arrested and charged with one ... |
US | Private Jets Overwhelm Vegas Airport Before MayweatherPacquiao Fight | Numerous celebrities were on hand to watch Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Manny Pacquiao in Saturday night's "Fight of the Century" in Las Vegas, and they apparently didn't fly coach to get there. Las Vegas's main commercial airport, McCarran International, was reportedly closed to private planes on Saturday after celebriti... |
US | American Freed in Iran Prisoner Swap Feels Born Again | One of the five Americans released by Iran as a part of a prisoner exchange described his return as "like being born again.", Amir Hekmanti was part of a group of freed Americans that included Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian and Christian pastor Saeed Abedini. His family says he was visiting his grandmother in... |
US | Alibi Witness for Serial Subject Adnan Syed Gives Evidence in Court | The alibi witness who says her testimony upends the state's case against convicted killer Adnan Syed finally had her say in court Wednesday. Asia McClain, on whose account defense lawyers have pinned their hopes to win a new trial for Syed in the 1999 murder that spawned the hit true-crime podcast Serial, took the stan... |
US | These Are the Hurricane Irma Evacuation Zones So Far | Officials in several U.S. states that lie in Hurricane Irma's potential path have issued states of emergency and, in some cases, mandatory evacuation zones. The Category 4 hurricane, recently downgraded from a Category 5 late Wednesday, has already destroyed communities across the Caribbean and left at least 10 dead. H... |
US | This Aerial Photo Shows What Wildfires Did to One California Neighborhood | More than a dozen wildfires have devastated Northern California this week, laying waste to 1,500 buildings, injuring more than 100 and claiming ten lives. Inflamed by powerful winds, fourteen wildfires broke out overnight Sunday and wracked the Napa and Sonoma Valleys Monday, displacing thousands of northern California... |
US | Colorado Attorney General Urges Clerks to Stop Issuing GayMarriage Licenses | County clerks in Colorado who have been issuing marriage licenses to gay couples might soon be ordered to stop, if an appeal to the state's supreme court by its attorney general is carried out. Calling the current situation "legal chaos," where clerks are issuing licenses even though Colorado's ban on same-sex marriage... |
US | Family of Alton Sterling He Was Killed Without Regard | Family members of a 37-year-old black man fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, La. broke down in tears Wednesday as they mourned the loss of a father and pledged to fight for justice. Supporters of Alton Sterling, who was killed early Tuesday while police apparently pinned him down outside a convenience store, called... |
US | No Footage Yet of Attack Against Empire Star Jussie Smollett in Chicago Police Say | CHICAGO Detectives have reviewed surveillance footage of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett walking to his downtown Chicago apartment after an early morning visit to a Subway restaurant, but none of the video they've watched so far showed him being attacked, a police official said Wednesday. Investigators "for the most pa... |
US | Tim Kaines Son Was Arrested at a Trump Rally in Minnesota | One of Sen. Tim Kaine's sons was recently arrested after he and a group of people crashed a Minnesota rally where hundreds of people were gathered in support of President Donald Trump, police said. Linwood Kaine, 24, was released from jail Tuesday after the Saturday scuffle but has not yet been charged with a crime, th... |
US | What Cops Say About Policing Today | The Philadelphia cops on the cover of this week's TIME know as much as anyone about the topic looming in the type above them in their unmarked squad car "What It's Like To Be A Cop in America One Year After Ferguson.", The answer, in a word, would be Harder. "Absolutely," says Sean Devlin, 35, the officer in the passen... |
US | Cape Cod Police Officer Shot and Killed While Serving a Warrant to Dangerous Suspect | A Yarmouth police officer who was shot in the head while serving a warrant in the town of Barnstable, Mass. has died from his injuries at Cape Cod Hospital. The officer, Sean Gannon, was shot around 330 p.m. in the Marston Mills neighborhood of the Massachusetts town, according to The Cape Cod Times. Gannon was attempt... |
US | Watch Live 911 Memorial Ceremony in New York City | Nearly 3,000 people died 16 years ago today when terrorists flew two planes into New York City's World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. A fourth, destined for Washington, D.C. crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to overcome the hijackers, killing all those aboard. The 9/11 Memorial Museum will ho... |
US | This Is How Much the California Gas Leak Is Hurting the Planet | A gas leak deep under Los Angeles has been spewing 1.6 million lbs. of methane each day, with no immediate end in sight. The months-long leak in Porter Ranch is already the worst in California's history, and environmental advocates fear it could have a long-term impact on the climate. While methane does not stay in the... |
US | ICE Detainees in Boston Launch a Hunger Strike to Protest Jail Conditions | BOSTON Dozens of people detained by federal immigration officials are on a hunger strike at a Boston jail. Rhode Island-based community groups Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance and the FANG Collective say they've been in contact with about 70 detainees at the Suffolk County House of Correction who are participating ... |
US | How a Revolutionary New Play Takes Aim at President Trumps Immigration Policies | In Robert Schenkkan's new play "Building the Wall," it's 2019 and America is a dystopia under President Donald Trump. Schenkkan says he took inspiration for this work from the "kind of rhetoric that we were hearing, and continue to hear, in regards to border security and immigration.", Schenkkan, a Pulitzer and Tony pr... |
US | Minnesota Lawmakers NBA Tweet Called Offensive | A tweet by Minnesota Republican State Rep. Pat Garofalo about the NBA went viral Sunday night, with many responding to the message calling it racially insensitive. In a statement sent to Buzzfeed responding to the backlash, Garofalo said "I was talking about the NBA's high arrest rate and that their punishment for posi... |
US | Julian Assange Says WikiLeaks Will Release Significant Information That Could Damage Clinton | WikiLeaks will publish information that could damage the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton, the website's co-founder Julian Assange told Fox News Wednesday. Assange described the information as "significant" and said that the leak would include "unexpected angles." Assange said that the impact of the leaks woul... |
US | Young Republicans Favor Gay Marriage | A strong majority of young Republicans support same-sex marriage, according to a new poll. Among Republican under 30, 61 percent are in favor, according to the survey out Monday from the Pew Research Center. By contrast, a mere 27 percent of Republican over 50 support allowing gay couples to marry, according to the pol... |
US | ICE Has Stopped ForceFeeding Detained Immigrants on Hunger Strike | The U.S. government has suddenly stopped force-feeding all nine Indian immigrants on a hunger strike inside an El Paso immigration detention center, according to local reports Thursday. The dramatic reversal comes as public pressure was mounting on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt the controversial prac... |
US | Harvey Weinstein Arrested on Charges of Rape Sex Abuse and More | Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein was arrested in New York City Friday on charges of rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct related to his interactions with two women, the New York Police Department says. "The NYPD thanks these brave survivors for their courage to come forward and seek justice,... |
US | PEZ Cancels Easter Egg Hunt After Parents Cause Huge Mess | An Easter egg hunt hosted annually by PEZ Candy USA was canceled abruptly after parents rushed the field early and caused a "mess," the company said. Chaos erupted shortly after the Saturday hunt began when some parents ignored the planned three start times for different age groups, NBC Connecticut reports. The event f... |
US | Mayor Resigns From Golf Club After Members Say They Shouldnt Welcome President Obama Over Israel Sta | The mayor of a Maryland suburb resigned from his golf club after some members said they might not welcome President Obama if he wanted to join because of his stance towards Israel. Obama played at the historically Jewish Woodmont Country Club in Rockville, MD, four times during his presidency, the Washington Post repor... |
US | Massgov Apologizes for Tweeting Sexual Assault Is Always Avoidable | Massachusetts officials apologized Thursday for an offensive tweet about sexual assault sent from the government Twitter account. "Sexual assault is always avoidable," the Wednesday night tweet from @MassGov read, according to ABC. Many accused @MassGov of victim blaming. "The only person to blame for rape is the rapis... |
US | The Washington Redskins Trademark Just Got Canceled | In another victory for those who say the team's name is offensive and should be changed, a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appeals board on Wednesday canceled the trademark registration for the National Football League's Washington Redskins. The USPTO's decision was the result of a case brought in 2006 by law firm Dri... |
US | Mary Bono Resigns as Interim CEO of USA Gymnastics After Just 4 Days on the Job | Mary Bono has resigned as interim USA Gymnastics President less than week into her job, and following scrutiny from Olympic gymnasts over her appointment. "It is with profound regret, coupled with a deep love for the sport of gymnastics and respect for those who aspire to be great gymnast that I today tendered my resig... |
US | Washington State Mudslide Death Toll Rises to 39 | The Washington State mudslide has claimed 39 victims, according to the most recent count by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office. Agency officials have positively identified 36 of the 39 people killed in the March 22 slide, the Seattle Times reports. Seven people remain missing after the devastating mudslide ... |
US | Ramen Is in Higher Demand Than Cigarettes at Some US Prisons Researcher Finds | Ramen noodles are becoming an increasingly valuable commodity in U.S. prisonswhere they are even more popular than tobacco. According to new research by Michael Gibson-Light, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona's school of sociology, the decline in food quality and quantity in prisons due to cost-cutting ... |
US | US Officially Announces Its Pulling Out of Nuclear Weapons Treaty Over Claims Russia Is Cheating | WASHINGTON The United States announced Friday that it was pulling out of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, accusing Moscow of violating the Cold War-era pact with "impunity" by continuing to develop banned missiles. President Donald Trump said Russia has been secretly developing "a prohibited missile... |
US | The Dawn of a New Form of Capital Punishment | In the weeks following the execution of Clayton Lockett, the Oklahoma death row inmate whose botched lethal injection triggered a statewide moratorium on executions, lawmakers there began rethinking their approach to capital punishment. Among the people they called on to help was Michael Copeland. Copeland is a crimina... |
US | Why Ferguson Looks So Much Like Iraq | The photographs and videos of police trying to calm the rioting in Ferguson, Mo. look like a war zone. There's the black-clad special-ops cops, backed by armored tactical vehicles that wouldn't look out of place on a battlefield. The police are doing their best to restore order following Saturday's police killing of un... |
US | How One Industrial City Is Fighting to Go Green | Larry Atencio is steering his Ford Explorer through the streets of Pueblo, Colo. pointing out how the city is going green. There's the site of a planned community solar garden in an up-and-coming neighborhood, a manufacturing plant for wind turbines that opened in 2010 and the largest solar farm in Colorado, an array o... |
US | Who Is Paul Whelan the American Detained in Russia for Alleged Spying | New details have emerged about Paul Whelan, the 48-year-old Novi, Michigan, resident who is facing 10 to 20 years in Russian prison on charges of espionage. While U.S. court records and the accounts of Whelan's family and workplace cannot clear him from any suspicion of spying, they depict him as a fairly ordinary Amer... |
US | This Map Shows the Deadliest Counties in the US | Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, is the deadliest county in America, at least by one measure it is the place where residents are most likely to die before the age of 75, which health experts consider premature death. The new edition of County Health Rankings from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institu... |
US | Indiana Bill Would Allow the Dead to Vote | It's difficult to vote if you're dead. Unless you live in Chicago. Or New York. Or Florida. But an Indiana lawmaker is hoping to make election season a bit easier for the recently departed at least. Indiana Rep. Matt Pierce proposed a bill taken up by the House Elections Committee Wednesday that would allow an absentee... |
US | The Number of Asylum Seekers Has Risen by 2000 in 10 Years Who Should Get to Stay | It is still dark out when Border Patrol agent Herman Rivera's radio crackles to life. His fellow agents, posted nearby on levee roads above the Rio Grande, report movement along the border with Mexico in the dim predawn. As the first rays of sunlight creep across the horizon, the team bursts into action, charging down ... |
US | Muslim Women and Children Attacked in Hate Crime New York Officials Say | A New York City woman attacked two Muslim women and their infant children in what authorities described as a hate crime. Emirjeta Xhelili, 32, was arraigned on Friday after she hit the women in the face and body and tried to rip the hijab off their heads in Brooklyn on Thursday, CNN reported. The women had been pushing... |
US | Occidental College Republicans Slam Vandals Who Destroyed Their 911 Memorial | Occidental College Republicans organized a memorial meant to honor those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks only to discover the nearly 3,000 American flags they planted on the school's quad ripped up and broken in half. "At midnight early this morning, vandals crushed, snapped, and threw in the garbage every singl... |
US | Fraternity Bans Initiations After Hazing Deaths | Popular fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon SAE announced Friday that it will ban the initiation process for its pledges in the wake of a spate of hazing-related deaths. The policy will be enacted on March 9, the group said on its website. At least 10 SAE members have died in hazing, alcohol or drug incidents at SAE events ... |
US | Abortion Rights Are on the Ballot in Three States | Abortion rights are on the ballot in three states on Nov. 4 as voters in Tennessee, Colorado and North Dakota weigh state constitutional amendments. Here's what you need to know about the three ballot measures that could have national implications, TENNESSEE, Volunteer State voters will be asked to decide whether the s... |
US | Separated Migrant Families Demand Millions in Damages From US Government | HOUSTON Lawyers for eight immigrant families separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday against the U.S. government demanding 6 million each in damages for what they describe as lasting trauma. The parents accused immigration officers of taking their children away without giving them information a... |
US | Americas Uneasy Path Abroad in 2015 | America is not in decline. The U.S. will have the world's most formidable military for the foreseeable future. Its economy remains the world's largest, and its recovery will probably gather more steam in 2015. Its workforce is not aging nearly as quickly as that of Europe, Japan or China. No country has a greater capac... |
US | Massachusetts Poised to Ban Upskirt Photos | Massachusetts lawmakers have had it with "upskirting," or the act of sneaking a photo up a woman's skirt. One day after the state's highest court ruled that a man who snapped "upskirt" photos on the subway had violated no state laws, lawmakers sprung into action. USA Today reports that an "upskirting" ban sailed throug... |
US | Shock Disappointment and Kindness From Worshippers at Shooters Mosque | There's a quote from the Quran on the wall of the Fort Pierce Islamic Center, where Omar Mateen and his family came to pray. "That ye may know each other," it says, "Not that ye may despise each other.", Every time Mateen removed his shoes and walked to the bathing area where Muslims wash before prayer, he would have p... |
US | Female Army Ranger Grads Are Among Nations Top Soldiers But Cant Fight | "What if you gave a war and nobody came?" was the adage uttered amid dwindling public support for the Vietnam War. This weekend it'll be replaced with "What if you're an Army Ranger, but can't fight?", That's because a pair of Army women will graduate Friday from the service's grueling 62-day Ranger course and earn the... |
US | The Fight Over Confederate Monuments Is Moving Beyond New Orleans | A crew of workers in New Orleans on Wednesday removed the statue of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the third Confederate monument to come down in the city in the last month. But it won't be the last. As the city plans to remove a fourth and final monument a statue of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans' prominent Lee Circle cities... |
US | These Are the Victims of the Florida High School Shooting | Among those who were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were a beloved football coach who shielded students from gunfire, an aspiring Olympic swimmer, students who had just made college decisions, and a geography teacher praised for saving lives. Fourteen students, two coaches and one tea... |
US | This Is What JiggeryPokery Means | In a blistering dissent, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wielded an insult on Thursday that has caught the Internet's attention. Arguing against his colleagues' reasoning in their decision to allow health care subsidies nationwide, Scalia accused them of "interpretive jiggery-pokery.", If you're not familiar with ... |
US | San Francisco Pride Amps Up Security After Orlando Shooting | San Francisco city leaders stood on the steps of the emergency management department on Monday and vowed that the city's annual LGBT Pride festival taking place this weekend would not only be safe but one of the "most celebratory" in its 46-year history. The recent shooting at Orlando gay nightclub Pulse, which Mayor E... |
US | The Morning Brief Spain Attacks James Murdoch The Defenders | Good morning. These are today's top stories, ISIS claimed responsibility for a pair of attacks in Spain that left at least 14 people dead and more than 100 injured. In the first assault in Barcelona, a van driver mowed down pedestrians on a popular tourist walkway. Hours later in Cambrils, another vehicle plowed into a... |
US | Edward Snowden Invokes Martin Luther King to Defend Whistleblowing | Edward Snowden on Thursday invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent civil disobedience to condemn the U.S. for how it treats whistleblowers, warning that others may not stand up for alleged wrongdoing if they fear punishment. The former National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 revealed a trove of classified ... |
US | Read Donald Trumps Full Victory Speech After Winning Presidency | Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of his supporters at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning after his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton in the most bitter presidential election in modern memory. Trump's speech came after a remarkable campaign that shattered many of the norms of American poli... |
US | Lone Mississippi Abortion Clinic Fights Closure | The operators of Mississippi's sole abortion clinic appeared in federal court Monday to fight a 2012 state law that would force its closurewhich would make Mississippi the first state in the 41 years since Roe v. Wade to not have an abortion provider. Jackson Women's Health Organization is challenging HB 1390, which st... |
US | Orlando Shooter Omar Mateens Father I Dont Forgive Him | Seddique Mateen is a US Citizen, the self-appointed President of Afghanistan, and the father of Omar Mateen, the man who killed more than 49 people at an Orlando nightclub this weekend in in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. In the aftermath of the shooting, which is now considered the deadliest terrorist attack... |
US | Top Diplomat Says US Has Lost 60 of Its Career Ambassadors Under President Trump | The U.S. has lost 60 of its career ambassadors since January, according to the head of the union that represents diplomatic staff. Barbara Stephenson, the head of the American Foreign Service Association AFSA and former U.S. Ambassador to Panama, wrote in a memo to members that diplomatic leadership ranks are being "de... |
US | California Town Braces for More Immigration Protests | The southern California city that became a flashpoint in the crisis over children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is waiting to learn if the feds will try to send new busloads of undocumented immigrantsand whether the tensions on display earlier this week will flare up again. Dozens of protesters blocked the road to Mu... |
US | What Comes Next for the Dakota Access Pipeline | Supporters of the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline celebrated the Obama administration's decision Sunday not to approve a key permit allowing the pipeline's builder to complete the project. The decision undoubtedly represents a significant victory for those gathered in North Dakota by the Standing Rock India... |
US | Anthony Bourdain Remembered As an Unabashedly Supportive Advocate and Ally in MeToo | Celebrity chef and television host Anthony Bourdain, who died in France at the age of 61, is being remembered for his advocacy and allyship in the MeToo movement. Bourdain openly discussed and criticized harassment and assault issues in the food industry and Bourdain, as a man, took a hard look at his own past to ques... |
US | Google Doodle Celebrates Gloria E Anzaldas Birthday Heres What to Know About Her | Tuesday's Google Doodle celebrates the 75th birthday of American scholar Gloria E. Anzalda. Anzalda spent her life investigating and writing about society, feminism, borders and identity, inspired by a childhood on the Mexico-Texas border. She died in 2004 at age 61. Born on September 26 in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valle... |
US | US Army Kicked Out Thousands of Mentally Injured Vets for Misconduct Report Says | More than 22,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injuries and mental health disorders have been discharged from the Army for "misconduct," an investigation by National Public Radio has found. , Because the soldiers did not receive an honorable discharge, the veterans are not eligible f... |
US | Everything You Need to Know About This Years Womens March | Pink hats will take to the streets again for the second annual Women's March this weekend. Last year's historic march saw millions of demonstrators in 600 cities, on every continent in the world, marching for women's rights and humans rights. In the U.S. the 2018 marches are taking place on both days this weekend, with... |
US | Arizona Governor Wont Seek Reelection | Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Wednesday that she won't run for re-election this year, closing the door on a possible legal challenge that might have allowed her to run for a third term. Brewer, a Republican, had previously cited "ambiguity" in the state constitution's two-term limit for governors because she comple... |
US | Guns Have Divided America Heres What Happens When 245 People Try to Meet in the Middle | Deborah Wallace and Cindy Chester live about 30 miles from each other in Maryland. They ride the same freeways, read the same billboards, dress for the same weather. To some extent they have even encountered the same trauma. But for all that, it's not easy to locate their common ground. Wallace teaches in a part of Bal... |
US | Transgender Teens Death Sparks Outcry From Advocates | The apparent suicide of a transgender teenager in Ohio has become a lightning rod for trans activists after a note she left behind said her parents never accepted her gender identity. Leelah Alcorn, 17, was killed after being hit by a tractor trailer in Ohio on Sunday morning, USA Today reports. She left behind a suici... |
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