CHICAGO (AP) – The victims of a disgruntled employee who opened fire at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers ranging from an intern to the plant manager. A look at the victims: TREVOR WEHNER The 21-year-old Northern Illinois University student was on his first day as an intern in human resources at Henry Pratt Read More…
CHICAGO (AP) – The Latest on the investigation of the attack on Jussie Smollett (all times local): 11 p.m. Attorneys for Jussie Smollett say there is no truth to reports that the “Empire” actor played a role in an assault on him last month by what he described as two men shouting homophobic and racial Read More…
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago police said Saturday the investigation into the assault reported by Jussie Smollett has “shifted” due to information received from two brothers questioned in the case, and attorneys for the “Empire” actor blasted reports alleging he played a role in his own attack. Chicago police had arrested, then released the two Nigerian Read More…
CHICAGO (AP) – The victims of a disgruntled employee who opened fire at a suburban Chicago industrial warehouse were co-workers ranging from an intern to the plant manager. A look at the victims: TREVOR WEHNER The 21-year-old Northern Illinois University student was on his first day as an intern in human resources at Henry Pratt Read More…
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on an officer involved shooting in Alabama (all times local): 6:05 p.m. Authorities have identified an Alabama police officer who was shot multiple times after responding to reports of an armed robbery. In a news release Saturday, police confirmed the identity of the officer as 30-year-old Justin Sanders, of Read More…
CLINTON, Miss. (AP) – Authorities say four people are dead and a suspect is in custody after a domestic dispute in Mississippi led to a fatal hostage standoff. Clinton city spokesman Mark Jones says the incident began about 2:30 a.m. Saturday inside a Clinton home and lasted for about 12 hours. Jones says four people Read More…
NEW YORK (AP) – A second suspect has been charged with murder in the friendly fire death of a New York City police detective. Police announced charges of murder, robbery, assault and criminal possession of a weapon on Saturday against 25-year-old Jagger Freeman. Police believe Freeman acted as the lookout in the Queens robbery that Read More…
LAS VEGAS (AP) – American Airlines says one of its jets inbound to Las Vegas’ airport was diverted to a nearby military base to refuel after experiencing weather-related delays in the area. Airline spokesman Josh Freed said Flight 671 from Dallas landed safely Saturday at Nellis Air Force Base, which is on the outskirts of Read More…
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — The man who opened fire and killed five co-workers at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant took a gun he wasn’t allowed to have to a job he must have known he was about to lose. Right after learning Friday that he was being fired from his job of 15 years at Read More…
HARRINGTON, Del. (AP) – Delaware authorities have charged a Maryland man with reckless endangering after a New Jersey man was fatally shot when he showed up at his ex-girlfriend’s house. State police say 25-year-old Devon Emfinger of Aberdeen was with the 24-year-old woman on Valentine’s Day when 24-year-old Donte Demunguia from Absecon, New Jersey, entered Read More…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland teachers say they will strike starting Thursday. The union representing the 3,000 teachers announced the walkout Saturday, making it the latest in a wave of educator activism that has swept the U.S. since last spring. The union wants smaller class sizes, more counselors and full-time nurses, and a 12 percent Read More…
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) – Authorities have identified a husband and wife found stabbed to death in a New Jersey home. Another family member is being sought. Chief Lawrence Suffern of the Englewood police department told the North Jersey Record that officers called to the house Saturday morning found two bodies with stab wounds and were Read More…
AURORA, Ill. (AP) – Hundreds of officers swarmed the scene Friday after receiving reports that there was a man shooting people at a suburban Chicago manufacturing warehouse. Authorities on Saturday provided a detailed account of the harrowing events that unfolded Friday afternoon at the Henry Pratt Co., when they say 45-year-old Gary Martin began shooting Read More…
BINGER, Okla. (AP) – The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it’s been asked to assist in the investigation of the death of a man in Binger, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Oklahoma City. An OSBI news release says it was contacted Saturday by Binger Police Chief James Pate after the body of Read More…
LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) – Authorities in western Washington say they’re looking for a man who shot a woman multiple times in a hotel parking lot. Lakewood Police Lt. Chris Lawler tells the Seattle Times that the woman was shot at about 7:40 p.m. Friday by a man police believe to be her husband. He left Read More…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A 25-year-old Alabama mother has been charged with murder in the death of her infant son last year. Al.com reports Lakendra Yashekia Williams, of Tuscaloosa, was booked Thursday into the Tuscaloosa County Jail after a grand jury indicted her on charges of murder and aggravated assault. Williams was initially arrested on Read More…
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Gunmen burst into a bar in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun and opened fire, killing five people and wounding five more, authorities said Saturday. Quintana Roo state prosecutors said in a statement that the attack took place in a club called La Kuka, which is located on a main avenue Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The only thing President Nicolas Maduro has to offer the Venezuelan people now is more Marxist cruelty. He has plenty of that. His country is slowly starving to death, with vast stocks of food (and medicines) awaiting delivery from Colombia and Brazil just next door. The groceries have collected there, a gift from the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: A meeting between Kim Jong-un and President Trump in Singapore in June is presented by the White House as something of a triumph by the president for defusing the possibility of conflict on the Korean peninsula. Defusing conflict, particularly in the nuclear age, is always a good idea. But is another meeting between Mr. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, announced her candidacy for president the other day and several Republican colleagues were prominent among those who noticed. If the Republican side of the U.S. Senate were an oil field, Mrs. Klobuchar hit a gusher. A dozen Republican senators were so effusive in their praise — “for Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Spooks sometimes like to make up their own rules. They’re often up against a ruthless enemy of the nation, and it’s tempting to think anything goes. It’s becoming clear now that certain officers within the U.S. intelligence community took considerable liberties with the tools of their trade to watch certain civilians inside the 2016 Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Japan emerged from World War II as a crushed survivor of its own ambition and cruelty, despised by the Asia it described as a “partner” in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Asia was a very junior “partner” indeed. The Japanese military that fought World War II is remembered for the rape and pillage Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Diplomat-speak is not President Trump’s greatest talent, but recognizing threats to U.S. national security is, and the civilized world can be grateful. The president’s blunt language describing why the United States must keep an eye on Iran from a watching post in neighboring Iraq did not please the mullahs in Tehran, but America and Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Trump’s State of the Union speech was perhaps the best speech of his presidency and one of the best State of the Union speeches of any president of the modern era. The final 10 minutes brought tears to the eyes of everyone, Republican and sometimes Democrat, black and white, who love America for Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The growth of the Chinese economy has slowed to the lowest in three decades, suggesting peril to world security by the second-largest economy and principal trader. When China spits, as the proverb goes, Asia swims. The rest of the world gets wet feet, too. Weaker growth of Chinese exports has reduced demand for imports Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Constitution requires that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” For Donald Trump, that “time to time” will fall Tuesday evening. By many accounts, the state of the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Troubled times are closing in on “the lucky country.” Australia hasn’t had a recession in almost 30 years, which is one good reason to call it lucky. Australia has made good use of geography and happy fortune. It escaped the global financial crisis of 2008-09 and it has skillfully exploited its natural resources to Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It used to be, when you lose an election, you had a trio of options: You could slink off into obscurity. Nothing wrong with that. Many honorable losers leave town with a discreet slink. You could run for a lesser office. Or, you can try again for the office you were booted from. (Richard Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The Democrats have tried to sell the notion that there’s no such thing as voter fraud in America — that it’s only an urban legend that thousands of people who have no business in a polling place have cast illicit ballots and altered outcomes of elections. But the fraud is real. A revelation of Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The status quo on the Korean peninsula, which had been frozen in place for decades — binding northeast Asia, including Japan and China, in an icy embrace — has begun to show signs of cracking. President Trump is preparing for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, accepting Mr. Kim’s professions of Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s not true that the government shutdown, concluded over the weekend after 35 days of shutdown, accomplished “nothing.” President Trump did not score a policy victory on the issue that led to the shutdown. The continuing resolution that is to run for three weeks, as signed by the president, does not include a dime Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Once upon a time and not so long ago Venezuela was the most prosperous nation in South America. When the late Hugo Chavez took over as maximum leader, he put it on the road to socialist hell. Under his successor, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela got there. President Donald Trump took a dramatic step last week Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Justine Sacco was a public relations executive about to embark on a trip to South Africa back in the day of 2013. Before boarding her plane, Miss Sacco put up a lame joke to her 170 Twitter followers: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” The joke was a Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Trump’s extended hand to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, in the form of concessions meant to reopen the government, has come back a bloody stub. If it wasn’t clear already, there is little doubt now that the primary concern of “the loyal opposition” is neither ending the government shutdown nor solving Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Two years down and two to go. Like him or loathe him, Donald Trump is the force of nature his supporters hoped he would be and his detractors feared he would be. There’s no reason to think he will change his ways of getting things done leading up to the 2020 presidential election. If Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Ours is the era of the Twitter celebrity. Gun control activist David Hogg, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and of course President Trump owe their celebrity to Twitter, giving most of them (the president excepted) celebrity and fame just for being famous. None would have ascended to such fame but for the social networking platform. Twitter Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: The balance of political power in Washington requires a nimble gait afoot for those who come to town to do good and stay to do well. William Barr, the president’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, has navigated skillfully the avenues that lead to the top at the Department of Justice. If confirmed as the Read More…