
If a lawsuit filed by the Chicago Tribune against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is any indication, it looks like another Obama operative is under fire for using private email addresses to escape accountability and open records laws.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Sep 2015, 7:27 PM PST0

John Calipari, head coach of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, doesn’t want any part of the negativity surrounding Pope Francis’ visit to the nation’s capital. In fact, Calipari was so pleased to be headed to D.C. to see the Pope that he filled his Twitter feed with his excitement.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Sep 2015, 1:47 PM PST0

Ohio’s Wright State University is calling a video of a man ripping up a Koran on campus an expression of religious freedom after the video went viral this week.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Sep 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

To commemorate the upcoming 50th Super Bowl, the NFL has mandated that every team paint their 50-yard line markers gold. But the Oakland Raiders refused to add gold to their silver and black.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Sep 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

American Airlines courted criticism last weekend when airport ticket takers told a wounded Marine veteran with PTSD that his service dog would not be permitted to go with him aboard his flight home to Virginia.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Sep 2015, 9:18 PM PST0

On Wednesday, the Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a fine of $400,000 awarded to a group of transgender customers who were banned from a bar in Portland, Oregon.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Sep 2015, 8:48 PM PST0

A 16-year-old Pittsburgh girl has been charged as an adult for allegedly throwing gasoline on two high school security guards and trying to light them on fire.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Sep 2015, 5:37 AM PST0

Advocates for the wheelchair-bound in Connecticut are angling for new handicapped signs, saying the old ones are discriminatory because they feature a sedentary figure.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Sep 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

The Minnesota Vikings find themselves in an unusual contract dispute that keeps one of the team’s most cheered performers off the sidelines rather than off the field.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Sep 2015, 11:49 AM PST0

Officials in Santa Clara, California consider a ban on selling alcohol after halftime at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium after a violent beating of a visiting fan, reports say.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Sep 2015, 8:11 AM PST0

A man was arrested in Des Moines, Iowa, for allegedly punching a cop, but the police report also contained an odd tidbit: the man was “chewing on a condom” when he attacked.
by Warner Todd Huston21 Sep 2015, 7:06 PM PST0

In a new interview, legendary modern journalist Tom Brokaw praised Breitbart News for the in depth research undergirding its reportage and noted that too many news outlets today seem to draw conclusions before facts are in.
by Warner Todd Huston21 Sep 2015, 5:09 PM PST0

Even for a city used to high crime and violence, with 42 wounded and six dead, the toll of violence was high in Chicago over the last three days.
by Warner Todd Huston21 Sep 2015, 5:45 AM PST0

A teenager in North Carolina was arrested and then prosecuted as an adult for allegedly having nude photos of himself on his own cell phone.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Sep 2015, 8:30 PM PST0

Media Pushes Ted Cruz To Declare Obama Is A Christian
by Warner Todd Huston20 Sep 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

With a wave of renewed criticism about the wild-card playoffs in Major League Baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred seems poised to attempt to tweak the rules.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Sep 2015, 7:01 AM PST0

To support Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim high schooler who found controversy when he brought a purportedly homemade clock to his Texas high school, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hung a clock of their own in the school’s entrance.
by Warner Todd Huston19 Sep 2015, 8:49 PM PST0

In the face of criticism over how his department handled the call to investigate 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s “homemade clock,” Irving, Texas, police Chief Larry Boyd insisted on Friday that they handled the situation professionally, quickly, and properly.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Sep 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

The United Nations is hailing a change of language used by the United States to discuss human rights. From this point forward, the Obama administration has announced that it will switch to the UN-approved terminology of “sexual rights” to describe sexual reproduction and other issues.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Sep 2015, 7:43 PM PST0

The latest video by conservative black teenager C.J. Pearson is going viral after his criticism of Obama for inviting a Muslim kid to the White House struck a cord with hundreds of thousands of viewers.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Sep 2015, 6:57 PM PST0

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed his disappointment Thursday over the fact that the Women’s National Basketball Association attracting far fewer fans than projected upon its founding twenty years ago.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Sep 2015, 1:00 AM PST0

For one of the most heartwarming stories of the week, two dogs that had been missing for over a week were found in an isolated place on Vashon Island near Seattle, Washington.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Sep 2015, 9:59 PM PST0

The Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s department recently announced the arrest of a woman for smoking meth in her car, which was parked near the city’s Social Security offices. Shockingly, as she took the drug the woman’s baby was resting in her lap, police said.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Sep 2015, 9:19 PM PST0

Calling the city’s Confederate monuments “false history,” New Orleans’s Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin revealed that a private citizen is footing the entire bill for the removal of four of the city’s decades-old statues erected to memorialize several Confederate leaders and one battle.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Sep 2015, 7:05 PM PST0

Authorities have identified and charged the woman said to have disrupted an American Airlines flight on Monday, causing the plane to make an emergency landing in Indianapolis.
by Warner Todd Huston16 Sep 2015, 6:04 PM PST0