Thousands of left-leaning counter-protesters flooded Boston streets on Saturday, blasting white nationalism and chanting anti-Nazi slogans as they marched peacefully towards a “Free Speech” rally being organized by right-wing activists. At least 500 cops patrolled barricades meant to keep the groups apart, one week after a woman was killed in violent clashes between white supremacist Read More…
Nicholas Fuentes, an 18-year-old student who attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend, said that he’s received death threats for months over his conservative viewpoints — enough for him to decide it’s time to leave Boston University. Fuentes said he made the decision to abandon his Political Science degree a Read More…
Authorities in Florida say a suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a police officer and the grave wounding of another officer. Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said Saturday that Everett Miller was arrested several hours after the shootings late Friday in this city south of Orlando. He faces a first-degree murder charge. Authorities Read More…
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack in the in the Siberian city of Surgut that injured eight people on Saturday, the group’s AMAQ news agency said. Russian law enforcement said they had killed the attacker and is investigating the incident as attempted murder. Share this:
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University has removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee days after it was vandalized. The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness early Saturday morning from Duke Chapel amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. A statue of Lee was at the heart of a violent Read More…
President Trump is skipping this year’s Kennedy Center honors after backlash from the honorees. Three of this year’s five award winners, including television icon Norman Lear, singer Lionel Richie and dancer Carmen de Lavallade, vowed to boycott the annual White House reception. Of the remaining honorees, Queens native and rapper LL Cool J hasn’t commented Read More…
CHICAGO — Two employees of elite universities charged in the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old hair stylist were returned to Chicago early Saturday to face charges of first-degree murder in the brutal killing. Chicago police escorted fired Northwestern University professor Wyndham Lathem, 43, and Oxford University financial officer Andrew Warren, 56, from Northern California, where Read More…
President Trump thanked recently ousted White House strategist Steve Bannon via Twitter early Saturday. “I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service. He came to the campaign during my run against Crooked Hillary Clinton – it was great! Thanks S,” he wrote at 7:33 am. The controversial Bannon, a fierce nationalist who reportedly butted Read More…
BEIRUT – The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier. The Lebanese army operation got underway at 5 a.m., targeting Islamic State positions near the Read More…
BARCELONA, Spain — Spanish authorities pressed their search Saturday for the supposed ringleader of an Islamic extremist cell that carried out vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort, as they looked into links among the Moroccan cell members. Early in the morning, police searched two buses in northwest Catalonia in the hunt for any Read More…
With its compelling action scenes and incoherent plot, the Charlize Theron spy thriller “Atomic Blonde” received mixed reviews. Even critics who praised it acknowledged its flaws. No one, however, thought it was kiddie fare. Except, that is, the people sitting next to us at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles. They brought two children Read More…
HELSINKI – Finnish police are investigating Friday’s knife attacks that killed two and wounded eight in the city of Turku as crimes related to terrorism, they said on Saturday. The suspect was an 18-year-old Moroccan, police added. The two people killed were Finns and an Italian and two Swedish citizens were among the injured. “Due Read More…
SAN DIEGO — A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine from Mexico by drone, an unusually large seizure for what is still a novel technique to bring illegal drugs into the United States, authorities said Friday. 12 packages of methamphetamine that were confiscated Read More…
The Canadian killed in the Barcelona terror attack has been identified as Ian Moore Wilson, whose daughter is a Vancouver police sergeant. Sgt. Fiona Wilson told the Vancouver Sun, “My dad … was a much-loved husband, father, brother, and grandfather, who lived a healthy, active life alongside his partner of 53 years, my mum, Valerie. Read More…
SEOUL, South Korea — America’s annual joint military exercises with South Korea always frustrate North Korea. The war games set to begin Monday may hold more potential to provoke than ever, given President Donald Trump’s “fire and fury” threats and Pyongyang’s as-yet-unpursued plan to launch missiles close to Guam. Will the allies keep it low-key, Read More…
Kenyon the dog Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Up Next Stitches: Winning isn’t everything “Losing is only temporary and not all-encompassing. You must simply… 2 View Slideshow MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — An Oregon family’s golden retriever has been honored by a sheriff for digging up $85,000 worth of black tar heroin in a Read More…
A lawsuit claims that Poland Spring Water is deceiving consumers with evergreen labels that say their bottle contains “100 percent natural spring water” that hails from Maine. The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut claims that parent company Nestle Waters North America is bottling common groundwater that doesn’t meet the federal definition Read More…
Two cops were shot in the Florida community of Kissimmee Friday night — one was fatally injured and the other is in very grave condition according the Kissimmee Police. Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard were responding to a call when it appears they were ambushed, authorities said. Baxter was killed and Sgt. Sam Read More…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Officials are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl at a Florida day care. Escambia County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Maj. Andrew Hobbs tells The Pensacola News Journal that the child may have been left in a vehicle owned by In His Arms Christian Academy in Ensley on Friday. Hobbs says the girl Read More…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker who temporarily posted a Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated could face an effort to remove her from office. Gov. Eric Greitens and Lt. Gov. Mike Parson, both Republicans, said on Friday that state senators should oust Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who has Read More…
PHOENIX — The daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona says the 80-year-old lawmaker has completed the first round of radiation and chemotherapy as he battles an aggressive form of brain cancer. Meghan McCain also tweeted Friday afternoon that her father’s “resilience & strength is incredible. Fight goes on, here’s to small wins.” McCain, Read More…
The sporting goods industry got kicked around on Friday — thanks to a disastrous second-quarter performance by Foot Locker. The sneaker and apparel chain missed estimates on profits, revenue and margins — and investors, scared that the long-running athletic footwear bull market was weakening, ran away from rival Finish Line and Genesco, and from Nike Read More…
Justice may be slow, but this is ridiculous. The Manhattan federal judge who is overseeing a class-action lawsuit against 26 financial firms for allegedly rigging US Treasury auctions last held a hearing for the case on Aug. 22, 2016, court records show. At that time, Judge Paul Gardephe questioned whether the plaintiffs, a group of Read More…
Goldman Sachs is growing bearish on the Trump administration. The chances are dimming for comprehensive corporate tax reform, a campaign promise that has kept the stock market higher since November, the Wall Street Goliath said in a Friday note. “We continue to believe a tax cut is slightly more likely than not, but our conviction Read More…
Foot Locker says it is having trouble drawing crowds — but you wouldn’t know it walking by the chain’s Times Square location Friday morning. A line winding around the Broadway and 41st Street corner pulsed with excitement. A new Air Jordan from Nike, perhaps? Nope. The lineup denizens, dozens deep, were there to catch a Read More…
The terror attacks we just witnessed in Spain and Finland aren’t the “new normal.” Terrorism is inherently abnormal. But it is the new norm. With the caliphate in collapse in the Middle East, these low-cost/high-payoff attacks loom ever larger for ISIS and other terror franchises: They keep the message alive and grab global publicity. Attacks Read More…
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insist that the United States will seek to stop North Korea’s nuclear-missile program through economic pressure “backed by military options.” There is a middle ground, however — and it might be the most effective way to stop North Korea. The administration has good reasons for Read More…
Last week, President Trump promised to “spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,” which he declared a “national emergency.” Judging from the president’s campaign rhetoric and his comments since taking office, which have focused on building a border wall to “stop the drugs,” much Read More…
New York Democrats, unwilling to be left out of the hyper-emotional feeding frenzy over removing Confederate-linked imagery, are racing to get in on the action. Indeed, they’re searching high and low for something — anything — to obliterate in the name of social justice. (Not to mention political self-promotion.) Mayor de Blasio, for starters, sanctimoniously Read More…
Steve Bannon’s White House departure Friday was largely predictable — but not so its impact on Donald Trump’s presidency. At the least, it may help stem some of the infighting among Trump’s staff that has frequently undercut the president’s ability to push his agenda. Bannon’s removal became all but certain when he gave an interview Read More…
Police said Friday they are determined to make an arrest in the killings of three children in a home outside Washington, D.C. An adult family member found the dead children — all with trauma to their bodies — inside the home in Clinton, and no suspects are in custody, said Jennifer Donelan, a spokeswoman for Read More…
Obscured by the tumult surrounding President Trump’s horrendous response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., the White House managed to take a significant positive step this week: issuing an executive order designed to lower regulatory barriers to infrastructure projects, and to speed up and simplify the process for obtaining necessary permits and clearances. It wasn’t Read More…
Billionaire corporate titan Carl Icahn announced Friday that he is resigning from his role as President Trump’s “special adviser” for regulatory affairs. Icahn, 81, a fellow native of Queens, was one of the first prominent business leaders to endorse Trump’s White House bid . Icahn announced he was stepping down from the unpaid, advisory position Read More…
Conservative: Mismeasuring the Trump Riddle Pollsters measuring President Trump’s popularity tend to ignore the “astonishing” fact that 60 percent of all voters had an unfavorable impression of him even back on the day he was elected, recalls Byron York at the Washington Examiner. Current polls show him at virtually the same level. Indeed, “considering all Read More…
Traders at the New York Stock Exchange loudly cheered Friday as news broke of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s departure – a move that sent sinking stocks bouncing back. see also Steve Bannon is out at White House Top presidential adviser and nationalist bomb-thrower Steve Bannon is out… After struggling all day, the S&P Read More…
Wall Street’s top regulator on Friday dropped its civil case against two JPMorgan Chase traders who attempted to hide the infamous $6.2 billion “London Whale” trading loss. The Securities and Exchange Commission decided to stop pursuing charges against Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout after a third trader, a witness in the case, recently changed his Read More…
President Trump’s tweetstorms may keep his beleaguered staff up at night, but they help the people who make a buck from the president’s favorite social media sleep like babies. Without Trump, Twitter Inc. could lose almost a fifth of its value, Bloomberg reported on Friday. That’s the conclusion of Monness Crespi Hardt & Co. analyst Read More…
Vishal Sikka, the chief executive brought in to turn around India’s Infosys three years ago, resigned suddenly on Friday, blaming a “continuous drumbeat of distractions” and a long-running row with founders over the tech firm’s strategy. The departure of Sikka, who was the first chief technology officer (CTO) at German software firm SAP, spooked Infosys’ Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO – The ousted chief executive of Uber Technologies Inc rejected a lawsuit filed against him by one of the company’s top investors as a “public and personal attack” without merit, according to court documents filed late on Thursday. Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, which says it owns 13 percent of Uber and controls Read More…
Pensions representing more than 386,000 public workers across the country sued six banks on Thursday, claiming the Wall Street giants conspired for nearly two decades to inflate prices and stamp out competition in a crucial $1 trillion market. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and others formed a “cartel” in order to keep their dominant Read More…