Who among us has not fantasized being that woman? The badass avenger who brutally — even savagely, if necessary — takes down that gnarly, obnoxious guy who invades your space and brazenly tries to take liberties with your body? Emelia Holden got to live out all of our dreams. For the 21-year old waitress and college […]
An armed man in Florida allegedly provoked an argument over a parking spot before shooting and killing an unarmed man. Michael Drejka, 47, will not face charges due to the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law after shooting dead 28-year-old Markeis McGlockton in front of his five-year-old son and girlfriend in Clearwater on Thursday. Pinellas County […]
Home Depot has reversed course and rehired Maurice Rucker. The Albany Times-Union reports that three days after firing him for verbally defending himself against racist taunts from a customer, they have offered him back his job amid a firestorm of public outrage. The retailer had initially terminated Rucker, a black employee at its Albany, New […]
Four people were being treated at a hospital in Missouri on Saturday, after a tourist boat they were in capsized on a lake near Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people and injuring seven. Two adults and two children remained at the Cox Medical Center Branson, according to ABC News. They were among 31 people, including two crew members, […]
Failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore was endorsed by Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin despite numerous accusations of Moore’s inappropriate sexual behavior with minors. Now Entrekin has also been accused of having sex with underage girls. AL.com, the publication that broke much of the news regarding Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct, reports Entrekin is under investigation […]
A new report in The Texas Tribune found that despite a federal court order that immigrant children separated from their families be reunited with their parents, the number of of youngsters being detained in the state is on the rise. According to The Tribune, the number of children housed in Texas shelters rose from 4,919 on […]
Pretty much everyone assumes that Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, is a target of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Stone even admitted he was the unnamed “U.S. person” mentioned in last week’s indictments of 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking into Hillary Clinton’s […]
Donald Trump complained on Twitter Saturday that his onetime attorney and fixer Michael Cohen secretly recorded their phone calls — an act the president called “inconceivable” one day after a bombshell news report detailed the contents of one of the alleged conversations. But the president assured his 53 million Twitter followers that they have no need to worry […]
State and federal prosecutions of Native Americans and their allies who protested the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline are drawing closer to an end, as two more protesters agreed to plea deals. After investigations that included a review of photographs and video footage, Native Americans were the only protesters targeted by federal prosecutors. The […]
A white supremacist who took part in last year’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia has been banned from the state. Christopher Cantwell, a 37-year-old man from New Hampshire, grabbed headlines after posting a teary video in response to an arrest warrant issued over his actions at the violent rally. The latest news for […]
Over 100 former Ohio State students have accused former physician Richard Strauss of sexual misconduct, the school announced on Friday. The allegations against Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, were made by male athletes from 14 different sports, as well as patients who saw the doctor at Ohio State’s student health center and his off-campus […]
As a more conservative Supreme Court nears, the public is reckoning with the further erosion of reproductive care access and as such the inevitable rise of self-induced abortion. While a wire coat hanger is likely the first image that comes to mind, a modern day self-abortion is more like medication by way of mail administered […]
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal are slouching over a table at Busboys and Poets on 14th Street in Washington, D.C., nearing the end of a day of hyping their new movie and honestly looking like, were it not for this interview they are about to begin, they could curl up on the booth, nestle their […]
