A man who allegedly shot a Chicago police officer lashed out in profanity at a judge during his bail hearing. In response to the judge’s decision to hold him without bond, he told him he should have “smoked” the officer.
A California bakery is facing public criticism and customer defections over its decision to bake a controversial specialty cake featuring a transgender version of Ken, the Barbie doll’s male companion.
Tennessee’s insurance commissioner said the Obamacare exchanges in her state are “very near collapse” after she approved rate increases for three insurance carriers on the exchanges in an attempt to give consumers more options for open enrollment in November.
A series of “flash mobs” for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will take place throughout Michigan Aug. 30.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to restore voting rights to 13,000 felons on a case-by-case basis after Republican lawmakers and the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down McAuliffe’s executive order to restore voting rights to over 200,000 felons in July.
A Texas teacher’s “no homework” policy is going viral after introducing a student-centered approach to homework.
A Florida school district is inviting parents to excuse their children from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
The 10 percent tax on tanning services as part of Obamacare has hurt the tanning industry’s bottom line and has caused 10,000 out of 18,000 stores to close, the Associated Press reports.
A judge in Florida sentenced the driver of an 18-wheeler truck with his naked wife in the cab to 20 years in prison for causing a bus crash that seriously injured several children on board.
A Muslim inmate is suing an Indiana sheriff’s office for allegedly refusing him meals that follow Islamic dietary laws.
A man’s online video has gone viral after he questioned why the Black Lives Matter movement has done nothing to help flood relief efforts in Louisiana.
Surgeons in India removed 40 knives from a man’s stomach after a 5-hour-long surgery. Doctors admitted the unidentified 42-year-old patient to the hospital in Northern India after he complained of abdominal pain, weight loss, and weakness.
Police arrested a fugitive disguised as an elderly man after he had been on the run for several months in Massachusetts.
Over half of the Clinton Foundation’s donors would be ineligible to donate money to the foundation under new guidelines that would bar foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president, according to a new analysis by The Washington Post.
President Barack Obama has decided to stay on the golf course in Martha’s Vineyard, despite Louisiana getting hit by floods that are causing one of the worst U.S. natural disasters since Hurricane Sandy.
The Princeton University HR department is telling employees not to use the word “man” in an effort to become more gender-inclusive.
Police arrested a man after a witness saw him attempting sex with a parked van Tuesday.
Prosecutors charged 11 members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect with food stamp fraud and money laundering.
A flood that has left 11 dead and 10,000 people in shelters has caused caskets to be displaced from their burial grounds, WPXI reports.
An upstate New York fire department is in talks of making a compromise after a motion to remove the American flags from fire trucks sparked controversy.
A suspected illegal immigrant is now in custody after he carjacked an elderly Missouri woman and threw her from the vehicle, police say.
An Arizona man lost over 300 pounds by making a commitment to walk to his local Walmart store and back every time he craved a meal.
The owner of an Italian restaurant in New Mexico, who put up a billboard saying, “Black Olives Matter,” is now expanding his marketing strategy to hats, t-shirts, and Facebook ads after making national headlines.
Two South Carolina teenagers shot a Good Samaritan who helped them pull an SUV out of a ditch, police say.
Milwaukee’s leader of the Black Panthers met with the city council president to discuss changes he wanted to see following recent violence on the city’s north side where a black man was shot by police. “Milwaukee is in dire conditions,
