On Monday, the Secret Service arrested a man near the White House after they had been told to be on the lookout for a man who allegedly threatened to kill “all white police.” Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, alerted the U.S. Secret Service that the man planned to go to Washington with the purpose of killing officers at the White House. Secret Service officers later spotted him on Pennsylvania Avenue near Lafayette Park, according to the statement. He was arrested without incident and officials say charges are pending.... [Read Full Story]
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is recovering at his home after being physically assaulted Friday afternoon by a neighbor. Paul sustained five rib fractures, caused by high-velocity severe force and lung contusions. The assailant, 59-year-old Rene Boucher, was arrested by Kentucky State Police and charged with fourth-degree assault. Boucher’s attorney said in a statement that “the unfortunate occurrence of Nov. 3 has absolutely nothing to do with politics or political agendas.”... [Read Full Story]
Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile responded to pushback against her forthcoming book about the Democratic Party, telling her critics to “go to hell.” Amongst other revelations, Brazile has claimed in her new book that she considered replacing Hillary Clinton with then-Vice President Joe Biden as the party’s nominee, mere weeks before Election Day.... [Read Full Story]
A gunman opened fire inside a rural Texas church on Sunday, killing about 25 people and injuring at least another 27. Following the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, law enforcement officials identified the gunman on Sunday evening as Devin Patrick Kelley, age 26, of neighboring Comal County. He was later declared dead, though it was not clear if the gunman shot himself or was taken out by authorities.... [Read Full Story]
Thousands of Apple users around the world lined up to get their hands on the new iPhone X that became available in major markets on Friday. The iPhone X, Apple’s 10th anniversary offering, is loaded with plenty of high-end hardware and new features, including Face ID that unlocks the phone when users look at it. It is also pricey, starting at $999 for the entry-level model.... [Read Full Story]
U.S. government debt yields ticked lower after President Donald Trump announced the selection of Jerome Powell as the next Chair of the Federal Reserve. Powell will run the Federal Reserve once current Chair Janet Yellen’s term expires, in a move widely expected and one unlikely to disturb the roaring stock market. Trump made the announcement Thursday afternoon. ... [Read Full Story]
Two men and a woman were killed in a shooting inside a suburban Denver Walmart on Wednesday night in Thornton, Colorado. The men died at the store, and the woman died at a hospital. Police spokesman Victor Avila said a man nonchalantly entered the store and fired a handgun into a group of people before fleeing in a car. No one has been arrested.... [Read Full Story]
NPR’s Senior Vice President of News and Editorial Director Michael Oreskes was forced to resign from the company one day after the Washington Post reported that two women said he had made unwanted sexual contact two decades ago while employed by the New York Times.... [Read Full Story]
President Trump on Tuesday downplayed the role of his former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, calling him merely a “young, low level volunteer,” whom “few people knew.” The President’s Tuesday morning tweeted his first comments about Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about being offered information from the Russian government regarding Trump’s 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. ... [Read Full Story]
A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen others in what authorities said was an act of terrorism. ... [Read Full Story]
Paul Manafort, the onetime chairman of the Trump campaign was indicted on 12 counts related to money laundering, including “conspiracy against the United States.” A former Manafort colleague, Rick Gates, also has been charged. Gates and Manafort both surrendered to authorities on Monday morning. The two men pleaded not guilty to all charges during a court appearance later that same day.... [Read Full Story]
A federal judge in Washington on Monday blocked President Donald Trump from banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, handing a victory to transgender service members who accused the president of violating their constitutional rights.... [Read Full Story]
Actor Kevin Spacey apologized Sunday night for what he said “would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior” after actor Anthony Rapp accused him of making a sexual advance on him 31 years ago, when Mr. Rapp was 14 years old. Spacey, who has long been private about his personal life, said in a statement that he did not remember any such encounter and also added that the accusation “has encouraged me to address other things about my life” and that he “choose now to live as a gay man.”... [Read Full Story]
More than 900,000 customers were without power in the Northeast on Monday as a major storm battered parts of the region with hurricane-force winds and torrential rain. The power outages spanned several states — including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. ... [Read Full Story]
Former Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling confirmed Thursday that his son, Eric Chase Bolling Jr., died of an overdose of opioids last month in Boulder. The Boulder County Coroner’s Office had previously confirmed that the younger Bolling, who was 19 and a student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, was indeed found dead in early September. The elder Bolling had said initially there was “no sign of self harm” on his son when he was found.... [Read Full Story]
On Thursday, October 26 a federal judge struck down two abortion restrictions in Alabama that limited how close clinics can be to public schools, as well as banning a procedure used to terminate pregnancies in the second trimester. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in the Middle District of Alabama found the laws unconstitutional and permanently enjoined the state from enforcing the measures.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration will release classified government documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, the deadline Congress set for making the files public. Congress mandated the release to the publicof the documents, including FBI and CIA files, barring any action by the President to block the release of certain documents.... [Read Full Story]
Veteran political journalists Mark Halperin is “taking a step back” in the face of five sexual harassment accusations. The story broke as five women came forward and made the allegations to CNN. Halperin co-wrote the best-selling book “Game Change,” about John McCain’s now infamous decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 against Barack Obama.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump has allowed the resumption of refugee admissions into the U.S. under stricter screening rules, but ordered nationals from 11 countries believed to pose higher risk to U.S. national security to face even tougher scrutiny.... [Read Full Story]
Two men were fatally shot early Wednesday morning on the campus of Grambling State University in northern Louisiana, authorities said.Grambling State University Director of University Communications Will Sutton said the victims were Earl Andrews, a senior at GSU, and Monquiarious Caldwell, who was not a student. Both men were 23 years old and from Farmerville, Louisiana.... [Read Full Story]
President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to a retired Army captain during a White House ceremony on Monday. Gary Rose, 69, was awarded the honor for extraordinary heroism during a special forces secret mission in November 1970 against North Vietnamese forces in the Laotian jungle called “Operation Tailwind”.... [Read Full Story]
Fears of a serial killer have police in Tampa escorting children to school in one neighborhood near downtown, and a city bus changed its usual route. Three people have been shot to death in the past two weeks within a 1-mile radius in the normally quiet Seminole Heights neighborhood. Police believe the shootings are linked by proximity and time frame, but they don’t have a motive or a suspect.... [Read Full Story]
Oscar-nominated Hollywood film-maker James Toback has been accused by nearly 40 women of sexual harassment. Reports state that 31 of the women had spoken on the record about their experiences, which span over the last 30 years. Toback has denied the allegations and said he had never met any of the women in question or, if he did, it “was for five minutes and have no recollection”.... [Read Full Story]
A military judge will decide how long U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will spend as a prisoner. Bergdahl pleaded guilty last week to desertion and endangering his fellow troops. He was captured in 2009 after he abandoned his post in Afghanistan.... [Read Full Story]
White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Thursday afternoon to address the controversy stirred by President Trump about the contacts of presidents with the families of deceased soldiers.... [Read Full Story]
Former President Barack Obama made his much-anticipated first post-presidential appearance on the campaign trail Thursday, speaking at events for Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia before elections there next month.... [Read Full Story]
Transgender people would be allowed to use public restrooms in North Carolina that match their gender identity under a settlement agreement filed on Wednesday that aims to resolve the federal lawsuit over the state’s widely criticized bathroom law.... [Read Full Story]
The suspected gunman who allegedly killed three people and wounded three others in shootings across two states was apprehended Wednesday night. The suspected gunman, Radee Prince, 37, was apprehended by U.S. agents and others, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office saids. Prince was also being sought for a shooting in Delaware that took place after the Maryland shooting.... [Read Full Story]
President Trump accused a Democratic congresswoman of having “fabricated” an retelling of what he said to the widow of a fallen soldier — that her husband “knew what he signed up for”.... [Read Full Story]
Authorities say a house fire in eastern Texas has killed a woman and five children. Hardin County Sheriff Mark Davis said the fire was reported around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday north of Silsbee. He says the home was fully engulfed when they arrived and was destroyed by the fire.... [Read Full Story]
