Some Republicans have condemned former President Donald Trump’s recent dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, while other GOP lawmakers have remained silent. After last Tuesday’s dinner was reported in the media on Friday, Trump said that he didn’t know who Fuentes was, nor that West would …
Read More »Pennsylvania teen confesses to murder and shows body on Instagram video chat, police say
A Pennsylvania teenager was arrested on Friday after police he say he confessed to murder in an Instagram video chat. Authorities said they later found the body of a girl in the teenager’s trailer. On Friday, a woman called 911 saying that a teenage boy, later identified as 16-year-old Joshua …
Read More »Walmart shooting raises need for violence prevention at work
The mass shooting Wednesday at a Walmart in Virginia was only the latest example of a workplace shooting perpetrated by an employee. But while many companies provide active shooting training, experts say there is much less focus on how to prevent workplace violence, particularly how to identify and address worrisome …
Read More »Amy Schneider wins “Jeopardy!” tournament of champions, putting icing on cake of huge year
New York — Forty-game winner Amy Schneider capped her big year by winning a hard-fought “Jeopardy!” tournament of champions in an episode that aired Monday. Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California, won three games in the tournament finals, narrowly beating Andrew He, a software developer from neighboring San Francisco, who won …
Read More »Full transcript of “Face the Nation” on Nov. 20, 2022
On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Former Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinFormer Vice President Mike PenceDemocratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of CaliforniaKara Swisher and Scott Galloway, co-hosts of the podcast “Pivot”Democratic Rep. Karen Bass Click here to browse full transcripts of “Face the Nation.” MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m Margaret Brennan …
Read More »Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee murders: Authorities unknowingly rescue Alan Lee Phillips from a snowdrift after he killed 2 women near Breckenridge, Colorado
It was Jan. 6, 1982, a bitter cold evening with blizzard-like conditions, when two women hitchhikers vanished from the popular ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and were later found shot to death. Even though the women — 29-year-old Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and 21-year-old Annette Schnee — disappeared on the …
Read More »Harvard and Yale law schools ditch U.S. News & World Report’s rankings: “Profoundly flawed”
Officials at Yale’s and Harvard’s law schools said Wednesday the institutions will no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the top law schools. An official at Yale Law School called the methodology behind the influential listing “profoundly flawed.” Yale Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken, …
Read More »Former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg takes the stand to testify against the company
New York prosecutors Tuesday called Allen Weisselberg, who spent half a century working for the Trump Organization, to testify as part of their case against the company. Weisselberg said in court that after entering a guilty plea in the Trump Organization’s criminal fraud and tax evasion case in August, he …
Read More »California mother arrested after toddler dies from fentanyl overdose
A California mother has been accused of child endangerment after her 3-year-old son died from a fentanyl overdose earlier this year, police said Thursday. On May 4, police received a call about an unresponsive child who was turning blue and not breathing in a San Luis Obispo home. The fire department …
Read More »CDC tells pregnant people, seniors to stop eating deli meat, cheese amid listeria outbreak
Some people should not eat any meat or cheese from any deli counters due to an ongoing outbreak of listeria in the U.S. that has killed one person, sickened more than a dozen others and caused a lost pregnancy, federal health officials say. “You are at higher risk for severe …
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