So far, Senate Republicans have kept their promise not to vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. In response, some analysts say that Obama may be setting in motion a plan that could force Congress to act. And the move may just help him give the… Read More
Clinton caught operating secret shell company
Get to know WJC, LLC. It has no employees. No assets. Its existence was not reported by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign. In fact, it seems to exist only to collect and hide large checks to former President Bill Clinton from foreign backers and Wall Street donors. And… Read More
Teen suspect arrested in horrific Texas ballerina murder
A 17-year-old homeless man has been arrested and will be charged with murder Friday in the killing of a University of Texas dance major whose body was recovered in the heart of the bustling campus — unnerving one of the country’s best-known schools. Investigators said Meechaiel Criner wasn’t a university… Read More
NBA team ties impressive record
Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors reached a milestone that only Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls have achieved in the history of the NBA. All that’s left for Golden State to do now is win three more games and become the winningest team of them all. Curry scored 27 points… Read More
I now pronounce you… robbed! Wedding thief sentenced
A thief who posed as a guest at California weddings and stole wallets, credit cards and cash from brides, guests and wedding workers will be honeymooning in prison. KNSD-TV says Denise Gunderson was sentenced Wednesday to seven years behind bars. She has previous felony convictions. Prosecutors say last year, Gunderson showed… Read More
Trump campaign adds heavyweight political veteran
Donald Trump is expanding veteran operative Paul Manafort’s role in his campaign amid the increasingly likelihood of a contested Republican convention. The campaign said in a statement Thursday that Trump is “consolidating the functions related to the nomination process” and assigning them to Manafort, who last week was named convention… Read More
GOP senators not swayed by Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz’s growing success with voters isn’t rubbing off on his fellow GOP senators, who remain decidedly cool to his presidential candidacy. The Texas Republican is notorious for alienating his colleagues with tactics that have included pushing a fruitless government shutdown in 2013 and accusing the Senate majority leader… Read More
Prisoner killed his ex-wife and buried her body… under his cell!
Officials say an inmate apparently killed his ex-wife and buried her beneath his cell in Bolivia’s largest prison — with nobody taking notice for nearly a year. Chief prosecutor Gomer Padilla tells The Associated Press that the body was found after a fellow inmate confessed to helping bury Kenia Hidalgo… Read More
ISIS kidnaps 300 workers as fighting worsens
In a brazen assault near the Syrian capital, Islamic State militants abducted 300 cement workers and contractors from their workplace northeast of Damascus on Thursday, as fighting against the extremist group raged in the country’s north ahead of a new round of peace talks. In a blow to the Islamic… Read More
Putin: Panama Papers are US-plot to weaken Russia
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any links to offshore accounts and described the Panama Papers document leaks scandal as part of a U.S.-led plot to weaken Russia. Putin also defended a cellist friend named as the alleged owner of an offshore company, describing him as a philanthropist who… Read More