In the wake of University of Missouri football players boycotting team activities to protest purported acts of racism on campus, a Missouri lawmaker proposes to revoke the scholarships of players in state-funded colleges who refuse to play for any reason unrelated to health.
Several of America’s largest retailers are selling shrimp prepared in Thailand by slave labor, including children, says a media investigation.
New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo raised the ire of government reform activists by vetoing two bills that would have loosened the state’s strict controls over its Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to allow citizens quicker and easier access to government records. But then he reversed course the next day and issued an executive order intended to do the same thing.
The weather in Chicago was unseasonably warm for much of the week, and those balmy temps carried over into the weekend. Unfortunately the shootings continued, and the weekend brought yet another large number of wounded and dead Chicagoans. 27 were wounded—including a five-year-old boy—and two killed this weekend.
A Mississippi woman now faces felony assault charges after punching and knocking unconscious her daughter’s basketball coach during an argument after an away game.
A Bible found floating in a New Orleans canal led to the discovery of the body of a missing man, authorities say.
A pair of players on the Detroit Lions, both Muslims, have decided it is time to speak out against Donald Trump.
Police have arrested a gynecologist, Doctor Basharat Hussain, for sexual battery against a patient in Kissimmee, Florida, reports reveal.
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing growing calls for his resignation a full two weeks after the city released the shocking police dashcam video of a city police officer shooting an African-American teen to death.
The troubles facing recently re-elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are mounting as a disparate group of activists are working to force him to resign. More ominous for the mayor, two state legislators are trying a different tactic by filing a bill that would change the law and allow city voters to impeach or recall the mayor.
After injuries to several fans at parks across the country, Major League Baseball has issued a new safety policy.
The University of Mississippi has decided it will no longer hold the “A Grand Ole Christmas” event that has been held on campus for the last six years because the name of the event is “too Christian.”
Officials report that a 19-year-old man was killed during his first day on the job after being pulled into a wood chipper.
A group of team owners got together to petition the NBA to step in and solve the management problems of the Philadelphia 76ers, several sources now say, and the pressure led to the hiring of Jerry Colangelo for a senior position on the troubled team.
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, have arrested a man and charged him with raping and nearly strangling to death a 60-year-old disabled woman.
The Chicago Police Department released the after action reports written by the officers involved in the 2014 shooting of an African American teen on Friday, but those accounts differ significantly from the details seen in the dashcam video of the shooting that sparked a week of protests in the Windy City.
As pressure mounts for his resignation after the year-long delay of the release of police dashcam video of the 2014 shooting of an African American teen, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is denying charges that he delayed the release of the video in order to smooth the way for his re-election eight months ago.
Police in Kentucky have arrested an Indiana man for the stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy, killed during a home invasion in a seemingly totally unprovoked attack.
After losing his top spot for the last two games, Johnny Manziel moves back to starter for the upcoming game against the 49ers.
As authorities continue to unravel the lives and plans of the husband and wife duo who launched a private jihad in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and injuring over 20, the large arsenal they amassed is convincing investigators that the pair planned far more attacks than the single assault that ended in their deaths.
After more than a week of protesters flooding the streets of Chicago over the death of an African-American teen shot by a city police officer over a year ago, the Department of Justice is poised to finally launch a probe into the actions surrounding the shooting.
The Big 12 sent a cease and desist letter to ESPN demanding that it stop using images of Baylor and TCU football players in an advertisement selling the new Star Wars movie, a report says.
Even as the victims of the terror attacks in San Bernardino fight to recover from their wounds, and the day before authorities revealed that at least one of the two Muslims who perpetrated the terror attack had pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Washington Post published a long article featuring the worries of Muslims that they will experience a “backlash” in America.
As troubles for planners of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro continue to grow, organizers announced that due to budget cuts athletes won’t enjoy air conditioning in their rooms unless they, their sponsors, or their countries pay for the service ahead of time.
Before the smoke from the terror attack in San Bernardino had cleared, the liberal narrative was turned to an effort to make the murders into a means to attack Christians and those Republican candidates who had offered prayers for the victims and their families.
