Just 12 days in to the New Year, the White House is already in serious damage control mode. In addition to the publication of an explosive book alleging chaos inside the White House, President Trump faced blistering criticism Friday for using a vulgar expletive during an Oval Office meeting on […]
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Wake Island: Where America’s day really begins
In the months to come our Conor Knighton is doing some “Island Hopping.” First stop: a tiny speck in the Pacific Ocean… The dawn’s earliest light — the first rays of sun on U.S. soil – shine upon Wake Island. Every morning America wakes up on Wake Island. Guam claims […]
How it happened: Donald Trump’s “sh*thole countries” remark
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin says he had high hopes of securing President Trump’s approval of a bipartisan plan for “Dreamers” when he and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham went to the White House to make their presentation at about noon Thursday. Durbin told reporters in Chicago on Friday that […]
Cops: Man sought in woman’s killing “ambushed” officers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man suspected in the shooting death of the mother of his baby was killed and an officer wounded in a shootout outside police department headquarters in North Carolina. Jonathan Bennett, 23, was shot Thursday night after ambushing officers as they gathered for a briefing in a parking […]
Edgar Ray Killen, “Mississippi Burnings” Klan leader, dead at 92
JACKSON, Miss. — Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state’s corrections department announced Friday. The one-time Klan leader was serving three consecutive 20-year […]
How two university students are battling fake news
BERKELEY, C.A. – At the University of California, Berkeley, two juniors studying computer science are battling fake news. “One of the things we wanted to see was where did this fake news originate from,” said Rohan Phadte. “How did it become so popular?” Digging deep into Twitter, Ash Bhat and […]
Students decide the time was right to right a wrong
POCONOS, Pa. – At the Mount Airy Resort in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, reverend Gilbert Caldwell and his wife, Grace, arrived recently for their second honeymoon. They were greeted warmly — a sharp contrast to their first visit, 60 years earlier. In 1957 they were married in North Carolina, then […]
Coach sentenced to die in girl’s street kidnap, killing
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A former middle-school football coach convicted of abducting and killing a 10-year-old Missouri girl has been sentenced to death. Circuit Judge Thomas Mountjoy sentenced 49-year-old Craig Wood on Thursday for the February 2014 death of Hailey Owens. Woods was convicted of first-degree murder in November but the […]
Mom says “heartless” hospital dumped daughter in the cold
The mother of a 22-year-old woman who was discharged from a Maryland hospital and left to fend for herself in freezing cold weather at a bus stop is speaking out to correct misconceptions about her daughter. The mother, who asked to be identified only as Cheryl, says she wants to “correct […]
“Sh*thole countries” respond to Trump’s rhetoric
JOHANNESBURG — Africans woke up on Friday to find President Donald Trump had finally taken an interest in their continent. It wasn’t what people had hoped for. Using vulgar language, Trump on Thursday questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “sh*thole countries” in Africa rather than […]