A historic church in New York City was destroyed in a raging fire just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter. The fire that started at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan sent plumes of smoke billowing into the city’s skyline. The fire… Read More
Last show for Ringling Bros circus elephants
The curtain fell a final time for elephants performing at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as the circus ended a practice that enthralled audiences for two centuries but became caught between animal rights activists’ concerns and Americans’ shifting views. Six Asian elephants danced, balanced on each others’ backs… Read More
New rule: No more voting selfies
If you want to share your voting experience on social media, you’ll have to find some way other than taking a photo in the voting booth. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant says it’s forbidden. Tennant said in a news release Friday that it’s illegal to photograph any… Read More
The most bizarre end to a softball championship ever?
It ain’t over until a team is sure the umpire has signaled the final out. A Dallas-area high school softball team lost a district championship game Friday night by celebrating too soon while three runs scored after an umpire called a runner safe when the team thought it had gotten… Read More
US cruise ship heads into Havana
The first U.S. cruise ship in nearly 40 years was crossing the Florida Straits from Miami to Havana on Monday, restarting commercial travel on waters that once represented a half-century of Cold War hostility. The 704-passenger Adonia was to finish its nearly 17-hour journey at 9:30 a.m. EST, becoming the… Read More
Trump converting GOP establishment
Donald Trump, the outsider, is making his case to California’s Republican establishment after he kicked off his crucial campaign for the state’s presidential primary with an enormous rally marred by confrontations between protesters and his supporters on the streets. The front-runner and his two rivals pitch their campaigns from the… Read More
Obama “worst president since Hoover”
After nearly eight years under President Barack Obama, there is one fact that is undeniable — his presidency has been bad for the U.S. economy. Now that his second term is nearing the end, however, it is becoming clear to economists just how bad Obama has been. Historically bad. In… Read More
Blackmail scandal erupts during NFL draft
Mississippi offensive lineman Laremy Tunsil tumbled down the NFL draft board Thursday night after a bizarre video of him was posted on his Twitter account minutes before the start of the proceedings. The video potentially cost him millions of dollars, and it’s being widely speculated that it was the end… Read More
[Report] North Korea on brink of collapse?
They were the duds heard ’round the world. And the failures could be setting tyrant Kim Jong Un up for a date with the executor. North Korea’s crazed young leader has been obsessed with earning respect through loud demonstrations of his nation’s supposed military might. But he keeps coming up… Read More
John Wayne under attack from PC police
What a California lawmaker intended as a benign resolution honoring a late, world-renowned movie icon exploded into a politically correct hissy fit Thursday. Their target: the iconic and all-American John Wayne. Republican State Assemblyman Matthew Harper of Huntington Beach sought to declare May 26 John Wayne Day to mark the… Read More