We live in scary times: sharia law, foreigners, and rape gangs haunt the streets of this once great nation. Some old people believe that they must arm themselves in order to find peace and safety.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with simple battery today for allegedly manhandling Michelle Fields, a reporter for the conservative news outlet Breitbart. One of the criminal attorneys representing him in these matters is a former U.S. Attorney who left office after it became public…
With a large portion of the national conversation about trans rights hinging on a strawman argument about predatory bathroom behavior, the news of a rape of a 25-year-old trans woman at New York’s historic Stonewall Inn on Saturday night should be as enlightening as it is sobering. (Reminder: Trans people are not a…
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Corey Lewandowski, seen on video manhandling a Breitbart reporter at a Donald Trump campaign events, is now facing battery charges over the altercation.
Wisconsin Governor and failed Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker has announced his pick for commander in chief: Ted Cruz, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone.
Today, Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent death had its most profound impact on America yet.
Last night, journalist and amateur photographer Geraldo Rivera competed on the television show Dancing With the Stars dressed in a Donald Trump costume.
The system of so-called “equitable sharing” of seized assets between the federal government and local police departments has long been a target for proponents of criminal justice reform, so when the feds shut the program down last year, people cheered. It turns out that the whole thing was just about budget cuts,…
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When America first legally integrated its public schools, it faced many years of “massive resistance” from racist white people. Today, private schools—particularly in the South—exist as a shadow system of segregated education.
As police officers across the country push back against the idea that body cameras might help hold them and the citizens they interact with accountable for their actions, one department has bravely stood up in support of the devices. As long as it means they get to secretly tape defense lawyers before trial.
Early this morning a man claiming he had a bomb hijacked an EgyptAir flight and forced the pilots to land in Cyprus.
Oil-and-gas operations have rendered north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas as susceptible to earthquakes as the most high-hazard parts of California: “By including human-induced events, our assessment of earthquake hazards has significantly increased in parts of the U.S.”
More than two weeks after the fact, Donald Trump Jr. has apologized for identifying the woman raising her arm in a Nazi salute at his father’s cancelled Chicago rally as Bernie Sanders supporter Portia Boulger.
Molly Huddle’s smudge-less, next-big-thing in U.S. distance running status took a little hit on March 20, at the NYC Half Marathon. With $20,000 for first and $10,000 less for second on the line, Huddle’s left arm—maybe under the influence of the fight-or-flight, primitive sportsmanship-be-damned part of her…
At a preliminary budget hearing on Monday, New York City Housing Authority chair Shola Olatoye testified before the City Council that the city recently tested the water in random, vacant public housing units. The tests were conducted “out of an abundance of caution” to check for elevated lead levels.
A man was arrested Monday afternoon after he allegedly tried to bring a gun into the Capitol, prompting a Capitol police officer to shoot him before taking him into custody. It’s still unclear why the man had the gun, but he has, according to court documents, a violent history with the building.
A number of letters written by Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, will go up for auction on Wednesday. In one, written just a few months after its April 1990 inauguration, she offers a few choice words on Donald Trump’s $1 billion Atlantic City casino, the Trump Taj Mahal.
