Chicago reached 59 murders and 362 gunshot victims in September, marking the Democratic-run city’s deadliest month since 2002, according to analysis by The Chicago Tribune. The last month of summer featured more homicides than any other month this year, and
Vice President Joe Biden has had the Democrats on the edge of their seats over his decision whether or not to run for president, and now, insiders close to the Veep are saying he may decide in the next week.
The National Basketball Association announced its appointment of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey to the new role of special adviser to league commissioner Adam Silver.
Administrators of the Chicago Public Schools were forced to lower the last four years’ graduation rates after admitting they inflated the passing rates and fudged the number of dropouts. The schools’ Inspector General had raised the alarm over the falsified stats early this year, but the district took no action until October. That was five months after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won re-election, in part, because he used the false statistics as a campaign issue.
Though it now appears that Hurricane Joaquin won’t make landfall on the United States, it will likely coincide with a storm that will bring a “thousand-year rainfall.”
Late Thursday evening, police named 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer as the man who shot and killed at least nine students, many of them women, at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
The Philadelphia Eagles waded into the attack on the name “Redskins” with a decision to eliminate the rival team’s name from game schedules and media packets.
As the retail sector continues to contract despite claims that the economy is doing better, Dunkin’ Brands, the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, have announced that, from now and into next year, the company will be closing at least 100 stores across the nation.
A federal appeals court struck down a lower court’s ruling ordering colleges and universities pay college athletes $5,000 a year for the right to use their likenesses and names in sports department merchandising.
The owner of a Worcester, MA, convenience store has been arrested and charged with allegedly running a $3.6 million food stamp fraud scheme since 2010.
An extreme sports star died during a stunt when he struck a tree trying to land during a skydiving show.
New York police arrested the mother of a newborn for killing the baby by throwing it out a 7th-story window, reports revealed on Tuesday.
The video of a mother giving her young teenager the first doses of hormones needed to continue a transgender transformation has gone viral.
Parents in Walton County, Georgia, are meeting with school officials about the district’s curriculum, which parents feel pushes Islam on students.
ESPN commentator Curt Schilling has announced his return to the sports network for postseason coverage despite the ongoing attacks over his post on social media that got him suspended as well additional posts.
A Gallup poll finds that Americans still don’t trust the media and that low level of trust remains at an all-time low.
President Obama appeared before the United Nations on Monday, receiving hearty applause from the officials in attendance. But at least one in the audience responded with a literal yawn.
The violence in Chicago did not stop even for a minute during the beautifully cool weekend that featured a “Blood Moon” and first supermoon eclipse in over 30 years. With 53 wounded, including a ten-year-old girl, and four killed during the weekend, the moon was not the only place for blood in the Windy City.
Former President Bill Clinton thinks that Donald Trump could very well win the Republican primaries and become the party nominee for 2016.
Upsetting millions of Brazilians two years ago, soccer star Neymar jumped from Brazil to Spain to play for Barcelona. Now a Brazilian court is taking a shot of its own by charging that Neymar didn’t declare all his businesses, income, and assets and owes the nation of his birth millions in taxes.
When news of GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner’s resignation filtered into the Values Voter Summit on Friday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal used the occasion to call for GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell to follow the Speaker into retirement.
A Democrat Congressman with a long pro-abortion voting record swiped a bizarre papal souvenir when the Pontiff left the podium after his address to Congress this week. The Democrat stole the Pope’s water glass in order to sprinkle the “holy” water on his grandchildren.
Earlier this month, administrators at Mercer Island School District in Washington State felt compelled to do something for their children this year by banning the playground game of tag, because it just might make some kids feel bad, they said.
A Taco Bell employee in Sandusky, Ohio, lost his job after a photo showing him with his hands down his pants at work surfaced online.
A man arrested for spanking a woman on the street in New Orleans claims that he acted in self-defense, reports say.
