A Pennsylvania woman attempting to escape from police drove her SUV into a river and then calmly sat inside the vehicle drinking beer while ignoring police as they urged her to come ashore.
A store clerk in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood wrestled a gun away from two robbery suspects Tuesday, then shot them both.
Chicago Police held a press conference Wednesday evening to address a Facebook live video showing assailants beating and at one point slashing a victim tied up in an apartment, in which they were heard saying “f*** white people” and “f*** Trump.”
The former California Attorney General often compared to outgoing President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday as California’s newest — as well as first black and first Asian — U.S. Senator, as Democrats grasp for the future of their party.
Smithsonian magazine turned a story on the recent discovery of the grave of an ancient Mycenaean soldier that lay undisturbed since 1600 BC into a “warning” about the “rising nationalism and xenophobia” in the United States of America — a country not founded for thousands of years after the soldier died.
Finland is launching a “radical experiment” to see if a simple monthly payment can replace the nation’s ever-expanding tangle of welfare programs.
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” conservative political commentator and former staffer for Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan Pat Buchanan said President Barack Obama was acting with “bitterness” when today at a meeting on Capitol Hill he
Following the nearly 4,400 shootings that marred Chicago’s 2016, hopes were high that 2017 would be different. But as of January 4, a total of 54 people had already been shot in Chicago during the new year.
Republican senators put in motion the repeal of President Barack Obama’s landmark health care reform, Obamacare, Wednesday — successfully voting to open debate on the budget resolution, 51-to-48, with only Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) breaking ranks.
Chicago Police Department officials will not yet confirm if an alleged kidnapping and video-recorded physical attack of a young white man with special needs will be prosecuted as a “hate crime.”
As Missouri lawmakers convene for the 2017 legislative session, they will consider legislation that holds gun-banning businesses liable for injuries against concealed carry permit holders who are disarmed via the businesses’ gun-free policies.
A homeless man was indicted Tuesday for killing and castrating his lover, authorities said.
A removal van has been spotted outside the White House, as President Barack Obama’s eight years in office finally draw to a close.
On Wednesday, President Obama added another prestigious medal to his Nobel Prize collection when he had Defense Secretary Ash Carter award him with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
The Senate is set to hold confirmation hearings for nominees to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet Jan. 10, with the goal of having at least Rex Tillerson for State Department and retired Marine Gen. James N. “Mad Dog” Mattis at Pentagon in place upon the start of the new administration.
Three people have been arrested for vandalizing a Jewish couple’s headstone at a cemetery in Indiana.
The Business Roundtable, the Washington-based association of CEOs from America’s largest corporations, announced today that an adamant critic of President-elect Donald J. Trump, Joshua B. Bolten, is taking over as the group’s chief executive officer, signaling that Big Business is poised to oppose Trump and his agenda.
A pot advocacy group is pledging to lead a pro-pot march while handing out 4,200 joints to random people in the crowd attending Donald J. Trump’s January 20 inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C.
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed former RNC Chief of Staff Katie Walsh to serve as his Deputy Chief of Staff to the White House, according to a release from the transition team.
Democratic leaders of the California legislature have hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to represent the liberal state in future legal battles with the Trump administration.
A student at Castle Heights Middle School in Rock Hill, South Carolina was diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in December.
During a March 10, 2015 press conference meant to address the growing controversy surrounding her private email server, Hillary Clinton famously claimed the emails she deleted were “within the scope of my personal privacy” – including messages about her yoga routines,
On Sunday night, a grandmother retrieved her handgun, opened fire on an intruder, and chased him from the house.
The affluent region of Boulder, Colorado has declared itself a “sanctuary city,” to shield illegal immigrants from federal agents ahead of President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
President Barack Obama celebrated the social changes made in the military during his administration by allowing gays to serve openly in the Armed Forces and opening combat roles to women.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he would skip President Obama’s Capitol Hill meeting with Democrats on defending Obamacare.
MEXICO CITY (AP)—Ford Motor Company’s cancellation of plans to build a $1.6 billion auto manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi has sounded alarms throughout Mexico.
House Republicans passed new rules Tuesday to fine members for taking pictures or video from the chamber floor. The move was intended to discourage Democrats from carrying out another protest similar to their gun control sit-in last year, during which they used photos and video taken from the House floor to press for gun control votes on social media. Prior to the adoption of the new rules, however, a number of Democrats kicked off the 115th Congress by taking photos from the floor in protest.
At least a half-dozen NAACP members, including the organization’s national president Cornell William Brooks, were arrested Tuesday night during a sit-in demonstration in protest of Republican senator Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is reportedly adding several of Hillary Clinton’s former campaign staffers to their planned political “war room” against President-elect Donald Trump.
“As President Obama comes to Capitol Hill to try to save his failed health care law, I am proud to take one of the first steps in repealing and replacing this law in order to save the American people from its harmful consequences,” Rep. Kelly said in a press release. “The widespread pain of Obamacare’s higher costs and broken promises is already being felt by countless families and workers, yet with the law’s looming Cadillac Tax, in many ways the worst is yet to come.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) introduced a constitutional amendment Tuesday that would impose term limits on members of Congress, following up on a proposal made back in December.
Incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he regrets a 2013 decision by Senate Democrats, known as the “nuclear option” to decrease the number of senators needed to confirm Cabinet picks from 60 to 51 votes.
Wikileaks editor Julian Assange calls it a “stupid maneuver” for the Democratic Party to continue making unsubstantiated claims that Russian cyberattacks influenced the presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan describes Wikileaks editor Julian Assange as a “sycophant” to the Russian government, following the unsubstantiated claims that leaked emails published by Wikileaks came from Russia.
Senator Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Attorney General, is already facing fierce opposition from the establishment left, with a series of coordinated protests kicking off Tuesday to try and derail Session’s nomination. A former Department of Justice official says, however, that the real battle will begin after Sessions takes office.
The Trump transition team wants copies of every single executive order and directive outgoing President Obama ordered on immigration, along with several other documents that will let them assess border security better, according to a Reuters exclusive.
Mexicans sent billions of dollars back to Mexico in November after President-elect Donald Trump’s election win, Reuters reports.
United Van Lines names South Dakota as the state seeing the highest percentage of incoming moves for 2016.
Exxon’s former CEO Rex Tillerson received a $180 million retirement package, according to the Wall Street Journal, as he prepares for congressional hearings to confirm his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.
