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A student from a Tampa suburb is facing misdemeanor charges after an apparent confrontation with his teacher who wanted him to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. The 11-year-old refused to recite the pledge, telling his teacher that he believes the flag is racist and America's national anthem is offensive to black people, according to a Bay News 9 report that cited a statement the teacher gave… → Read More
Actor Rob Lowe was skewered on social media because of a now-deleted tweet in which he said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., "would bring a whole new meaning to 'Commander in 'Chief' " - a jab at the senator for claiming to be Native American. The tweet came shortly after Warren formally launched her presidential bid Saturday. Lowe deleted the tweet a few hours later, saying "some peeps got… → Read More
A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot his pregnant mother after finding a loaded handgun inside their Seattle suburb home, authorities said. The woman, who is eight months' pregnant, and her boyfriend were in bed watching TV on Saturday afternoon when the boy walked in, found the handgun and shot his mother in the face, said Sgt. Ryan Abbott, a spokesman for the Kings County Sheriff's Office. The… → Read More
Parents were angered after Louis C.K. mocked victims of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting during a stand-up routine in December. "My daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting. My son ran from the bullets. . . . Why don't you come to my house and try out your new pathetic jokes?" one father tweeted after audio of the set was leaked online. But C.K., who is attempting a career comeback… → Read More
On the eve of a holiday commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Vice President Mike Pence seemed to liken President Donald Trump's push for a border wall to the civil rights leader's legacy. Speaking Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," the vice president quoted from King's "I Have a Dream" speech as he defended Trump's latest pitch to secure funding for a barrier along the United States'… → Read More
President Donald Trump called former Vice President Joe Biden a "weak" man when asked Saturday night about a growing list of Democrats seeking to topple him in 2020. Trump - who prizes strength, attacks his enemies as weak and has often resorted to name calling - resurrected previous insults against Biden as the former U.S. senator from Delaware mulls his third presidential bid. He mocked… → Read More
In his acceptance speech after winning the Golden Globes award for best actor, Christian Bale scorched Richard Cheney by giving an unexpected shout-out to what he said was his inspiration in portraying the powerful and uncharismatic former vice president. "Thank you, Satan," Bale said, speaking in his natural British accent, which also caught many by surprise. He also joked, to the audience's… → Read More
"Poo found on every McDonald's touch screen tested." So says a tabloid headline that conjures an image of stool smeared on McDonald's self-order touch screens ?• you know, those giant screens that people touch just before they eat their cheeseburgers. But the reality is far more mundane, not the public health pandemonium this headline suggests. No, there is no poop on McDonald's touch screens.… → Read More
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has been forthright about what he believes are the root causes of mass shootings. A few months ago, the Republican blamed gun violence on children's access to smartphones, video games and psychotropic drugs. Most recently, he blamed society's obsession with a specific genre of violent entertainment. "Seriously, what's the most important topic that seems to be in every… → Read More
President Donald Trump "has debased" American values and "ceded global leadership to tyrants and thugs," former vice president Joe Biden told a crowd in Kentucky Friday, unleashing some of his fiercest criticisms yet of the president. Biden was campaigning for Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot and political newcomer who's seeking to unseat Rep. Garland "Andy" Barr, R-Ky. Kentucky's… → Read More
Kelli Ward, a U.S. Senate hopeful and a onetime rival of Sen. John McCain, is facing a torrent of criticism after she appeared to suggest that his announcement Friday to halt medical treatment for his brain cancer was timed to hurt her campaign. McCain, 81, died a day after his announcement. One of Ward's staffers on Saturday wrote a Facebook post wondering whether the statement from McCain's… → Read More
The act of kindness seemed destined to pull Johnny Bobbitt from the depths of homelessness and drug abuse he struggled with on the day Kate McClure's car sputtered to a stop in front of him. She was a motorist on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia who found herself stuck on an off-ramp, scared and out of gas. He was a homeless veteran who told her to lock her doors, then spent his last $20 on that… → Read More
Nicholas Dagostino hated female drivers, authorities say, so much so that he shot them while they were driving. Police in Texas linked Dagostino to two recent shootings in which women said they were shot in the arm. Both incidents happened in broad daylight, within a few miles of each other in the Katy area of Harris County, west of Houston. And both involved a suspect - Dagostino - who claimed… → Read More
Faced with criticisms from President Donald Trump that Twitter is "shadow banning" and silencing conservative voices, chief executive Jack Dorsey admitted that those who work for the social media giant have their own biases - and that they're "more left-leaning." Dorsey, however, said in his interview with CNN on Saturday that political ideology does not influence how Twitter determines what is… → Read More
The YouTube ad begins with a volume sign, its familiar white bar dancing left then right before finally switching to mute. For one second, there is only the mute sign against a black background. And then, abruptly, the grisly, zombielike face in a nun's habit leaps at the viewer, accompanied by a piercing sound. The jump-scare ad was over in an instant, but it's apparently so startling to many… → Read More
The Baltimore police officer who resigned Sunday after a video showed him repeatedly pummeling a man on the street is under criminal investigation and, if charged, could face a charge of second-degree assault, officials said Monday. Police officials have revealed little else about the incident in East Baltimore on Saturday, when the officer was captured in a now-viral video repeatedly punching… → Read More
First lady Melania Trump's immigration attorney is criticizing the president's hostility toward "chain migration" - a process by which U.S. citizens or permanent residents can sponsor family members to come to the country - and said the attacks are "unconscionable." → Read More
A former leader of the South Carolina Republican Party known for his incendiary tweets about Trayvon Martin, Nancy Pelosi and others is now facing felony charges after allegedly slaughtering a family dog. Todd Kincannon, a former lawyer, told officers that he had to "sacrifice" his mother's dog. Kincannon also told them he is "the second coming of Christ" and that God told him to kill the dog,… → Read More
Greg Manteufel's symptoms began with fever and vomiting, as if he had the flu. But by the following morning, he was delirious, and his temperature had soared. His wife rushed him to the hospital, a quick drive from their Wisconsin home. Once they arrived, Dawn Manteufel said she noticed bruises - several of them, all over his body - that weren't there when they left their house just five minutes… → Read More
The Hollywood Walk of Fame star belonging to President Donald Trump has been turned into rubble - the second time in at least the past two years that the symbol has been destroyed. Officer L.P. Knight, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said police arrested a man they believe smashed the star with a pickax early Wednesday. Officers were called for a vandalism report at about 3:30… → Read More