Seven inmates have been killed and at least 17 others seriously injured amid fighting between prisoners inside a maximum security prison in South Carolina. Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon announced the grim outcome after State Law Enforcement Division agents helped secure Lee Correctional Institution around 3 a.m. Monday. Taillon said no… Read More
Trump’s lawyer strikes back at investigators
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is trying to prevent federal investigators from using materials the FBI seized in a search of his Manhattan office, apartment and hotel room this week. A federal prosecutor’s office said a hearing has been scheduled before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood for Friday… Read More
Elizabeth Warren STUNNED by poll shocker (WOW!)
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a master of self-promotion and is universally loved by the mainstream media — and she uses the constant media attention to rake in mountains of cash. But there’s one problem: The American people aren’t buying it. Sponsored: The 1 Hillary video you CANNOT miss Despite… Read More
Trump UNLOADS on “Lyin’ Comey” in 2 tweets
by Kylie Handler, editor Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey attacked President Donald Trump as unethical and “untethered to truth” in a sharply critical new book to be released next week. And in his normal style, Trump quickly fired back. Trump called Comey “a weak and untruthful slimeball” after the… Read More
Arizona caves to teachers’ demands, offers raises
As recently as Tuesday, a defiant Arizona governor refused to meet with teachers threatening to strike over low pay and said he was sticking with a 1 percent raise proposal. By Thursday, Republican Doug Ducey managed to scrape $274 million from the cash-starved state’s coffers to offer a 9 percent… Read More
Governor faces mounting calls to resign
Facing mounting calls to resign following sexual misconduct allegations, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens continues to fight for his political survival amid a #MeToo movement that has felled dozens of other prominent politicians and public figures. Referencing events in Washington, D.C., Greitens has denounced accusations of unwanted sexual aggression as “lies”… Read More
Trump SLAMS “failing” New York Times
President Donald Trump ripped into The New York Times on Thursday after the newspaper reported he tried to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller in December. “If I wanted to fire Robert Mueller in December, as reported by the Failing New York Times, I would have fired him,” the president reported… Read More
China denies claims of settling U.S. trade dispute
China’s government on Thursday denied President Xi Jinping’s promise of market-opening measures this week was aimed at settling a tariff dispute with Washington and said negotiations are impossible under “unilateral coercion” by the United States. A commerce ministry spokesman, Gao Feng, complained U.S. President Donald Trump’s government has “shown no… Read More
Trump’s Secretary of State nominee heads to confirmation hearing
Mike Pompeo, the hard-charging CIA director picked to be the next secretary of state, told the Senate on Thursday that years of soft U.S. policy toward Russia is “now over.” Drawing a sharp contrast with predecessor Rex Tillerson, Pompeo vowed to promote democracy and human rights while ending vacancies at… Read More
California Gov. agrees to send troops to Mexico border
California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump’s call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border, but rejected the White House’s portrait of a burgeoning border crisis and insisted that his troops will have nothing to do with immigration enforcement. The Democratic governor broke a week of silence… Read More