Because of a recent scandal that damaged Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, Speaker John Boehner (R, OH) has been reduced to making personal phone calls in order to drum up enough support to be returned to his leadership role as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the NYPD on Monday, calling them “disrespectful” for using the funerals of two slain officers as a platform to scorn him.
The Midwest is being hit with the first arctic blast of the new year with subzero temperatures expected to last well into the week, meteorologists say.
Ronnie Berlack, 20, and Bryce Astle, 19, both died in an avalanche near the Rettenbach glacier in the mountains over Soelden, the site of the annual season-opening World Cup races.
BlackLivesMatter protesters are trying a new protest tactic. They are going to restaurants filled with mostly white people that have nothing to do with police or any case of brutality and disrupting everyone’s brunch.
A new study by the liberal Brookings Institute has found a jump in numbers of interracial couples across all races in the United States.
Defense lawyers for accused boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lost another bid to delay the trial on Saturday after a U.S. District Court rejected the request. This is not the first time. On December 31, Judge George O’Toole Jr. denied
New Year’s Day was particularly dangerous for residents of Chicago as nine were shot, including a 14-year-old girl. Two days later, by Saturday, seven more shootings were added to the toll. According to police, several of those shot on New
Several organizers of the “BlackLivesMatter” protests have come out to criticize TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey for saying that their movement is “leaderless.”
Only days after receiving criticism for missing a walk-through and treatment session on Saturday because he stayed out late the night before partying with friends, Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel partied it up in Miami, Florida.
According to his Friday schedule, shortly after announcing sanctions against North Korea, President Obama once again took in a relaxing round of golf.
Both of the Chicago bids for the Barack Obama Presidential Library are falling flat. The foundation tasked with selecting the final site for the president’s library has New York as a leading contender instead of Obama’s hometown, a report says.
The latest in the wide ranging athletic grade fixing scandal in the nation’s colleges and universities finds the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill moving to dismiss a staff member and attempting to fire a professor involved in helping athletes pass non-existent classes in order to maintain eligibility for the school’s athletic programs.
An African virus has been spreading inside the USA via Central America and the Caribbean, and according to authorities it appears that this invader isn’t going away any time soon.
The first winter snowstorm of 2015 is already brewing and promises to stretch from Chicago eastward to Boston, meteorologists say.
Since its debut in 1989, business news network CNBC has been a business news powerhouse on cable. But this year, the news leader had its worst ratings ever.
Despite pleas from the police to choose another night, Ferguson protesters in Boston disrupted the decades-old “First Night” celebration by holding a die-in, hoping to scare kids and ruin everyone’s New Year’s Eve party.
During CNN’s 8th annual New Year’s Eve telecast from New York City with anchor Anderson Cooper and comedienne Kathy Griffin, the cable newser featured a segment from Havana, Cuba, and, while the network expressed hope for renewed relations between the US and Cuba, anchors made no mention of the Castro regime’s arrests of pro-democracy activists this week.
President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit 48 percent as 2014 came to a close. Just after the November election, Obama’s approval rating began to surge. Much of his signature polices were funded in the “CRomnibus,” including executive amnesty and Obamacare, which was passed with bipartisan support.
Gang violence in Chicago has gotten so bad that jails are now treating prisoners for a civilian form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Chicago Police Department arrested 30-year-old driver Uber driver Maxime Fohounhedo and charged him with one count of criminal sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual abuse for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old woman in his apartment on November 16.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a sordid story tracing the decades-long grade fixing scandal that has engulfed college sports, revealing a scandal that reaches from the players and their representatives all the way to the teachers, coaches and college administrators.
The country, especially the Midwest, is being socked with a flu strain that the Centers for Disease Control has rated as “severe” because of the higher-than-average number of cases being reported.
Police arrested a Las Vegas man after he robbed two stores that sell remote-controlled drones to pay off drug debts.
A man in Pennsylvania was shot and killed by police when he tried to run them down with his car on Tuesday.
Once again Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has angered team members, coaching staff, and fans with carefree antics and a lack of professionalism. Some are beginning to tire of it all.
Charles Chipps, Sr., is a world famous spiritual leader who for decades has inspired members of the Oglala Lakota Nation with his guidance at South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian reservation. But shocking charges that he sexually molested a long list of teen girls have divided the community.
Out of 20 crazy politicians, GQ could find only three Democrats who it felt were qualified enough to be labeled “crazy.”
A one-year-old boy who was visiting a home on the 6400 block of North 73rd Street was killed when bullets were fired into the home from the street, officials reported Saturday.
On Sunday, social media and pop culture news website Mashable jumped to report on the massive protest near the Washington Redskins stadium in Washington D.C.
A slew of shootings starting on Christmas Eve and stretching out toward the weekend left at least 12 wounded and five dead in the nation’s capital city.
After a quiet Christmas, dipping temperatures and snow surprised many parts of the Midwest with sections of Oklahoma, Idaho, Minnesota and north into Wisconsin and Michigan experiencing one to three inches of snow Saturday. The wintry mix swept across the
On Friday evening, thousands of New Yorkers attended a memorial service for Rafael Ramos, one of the two NYPD officers assassinated a week ago by an Eric Garner protester. The service brought mourners from every corner of the city. Noticeably late was embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made it to the service only just before its conclusion.
Police arrested one of two women who engaged in a fight using their walkers as weapons. Eventually, one had fallen and couldn’t get up, and the other was charged with a felony.
On Friday, the state of Michigan has taken the step to implement a mandatory drug test for recipients of state aid who authorities suspect are taking illegal drugs.
In April of 2013, bowing to pro-illegal immigrant activists, the Associated Press announced that it would ban the use of “illegal immigrant” in its reporting. But despite the attempt to change the media culture, the term persists—sometimes even in Associated Press articles.
A Queens man arrested after he was allegedly overheard vowing to kill white cops in New York was found to have an “arsenal” of weapons, including bulletproof vests and firearms with serial numbers filed off, the NYPD reported. Police say that
Always looking for new and improved ways to determine the suitability of promising college players, the Milwaukee Bucks have contracted with a “face reader” to determine if players have what it takes to go pro.
On the day before Christmas, the United States got a reminder of a danger many had probably started to forget: the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced a lab technician in Atlanta was being monitored for possible exposure to Ebola.
The fast developing and deadly tick-borne virus that killed a man in Kansas has been identified. The virus is so deadly that doctors were barely able to keep up with the symptoms.
