7-week-old baby girl hospitalized after getting struck by ball at softball game A 7-week-old is fighting for her life after getting accidentally hit in the head by a softball while at a game with her parents. Lee and Kassy Hovenga took their baby girl, McKenna Hovenga, on one of her […]
Civil Rights Groups Plan to Sue HUD Over Fair Housing Rule Civil rights advocates plan to sue the Trump administration on Tuesday over enforcement of the 50-year-old Fair Housing Act, part of an effort to prevent discrimination in the allocation of funds for Gulf Coast hurricane housing and infrastructure reconstruction. […]
George Zimmerman made “gator” threat to private investigator George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted in the death of Trayvon Martin, has been charged with misdemeanor stalking after allegedly threatening and harassing a private investigator last year, according to Seminole County officials. He’s accused of stalking the private investigator, Dennis Warren, […]
Southern Baptist women want seminary president Paige Patterson fired for remarks Female members of Southern Baptist churches are asking the board of trustees of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to remove Paige Patterson as president of the Texas school over his comments and teachings about women. Nearly 1,900 women, including […]
Melania Trump Rolls Out ‘Be Best,’ a Children’s Agenda With a Focus on Social Media Hours after President Trump took to Twitter on Monday to denigrate the special counsel’s investigation as a “Phony Witch Hunt” and the Iran deal as a “MESS,” Melania Trump stepped into the Rose Garden and […]
Trump Administration Threatens Jail, Separating Children from Parents for Those Who Illegally Cross Southwest Border The Trump administration announced Monday that it is dramatically stepping up prosecutions of those who illegally cross the Southwest border, ramping up a “zero tolerance” policy intended to deter new migrants with the threat of […]
As Lava Flows in Hawaii, Agency Warns, ‘This Is Not the Time for Sightseeing’ To those, Mr. Tarson, 37, had an easy response. He was as compelled as anyone by the sight of lava, which he captured on video Saturday night spurting 230 feet into the air. There was something […]
Eric Schneiderman, New York’s Attorney General, Resigns Amid Assault Accusations Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general who rose to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration, abruptly resigned on Monday night hours after The New Yorker reported that four women had accused him of physically assaulting […]
Republicans in key election races turn down volume on Trump’s tax cuts. Surrounded by jubilant fellow Republicans, he told reporters, “If we can’t sell this to the American people, we ought to go into another line of work.” Four months later, McConnell’s attempt at levity could prove prophetic. The most […]
Trump push for conservative judges intensifies, to Democrats’ dismay As President Donald Trump pursues his goal of making the federal judiciary more conservative, his fellow Republicans who control the Senate are poised to confirm another batch of his picks for influential U.S. appeals courts to the dismay of some Democrats. […]
