Key Takeaways
• Matt Van Epps wins Tennessee’s 7th District special election.
• Decision Desk called the race with 65% reporting and 53% of the vote.
• Donald Trump praised Matt Van...
On Sunday in Iraq, a massive earthquake measuring 7.3 in magnitude hit the northern part of the country near Halibia, which is a city located in the northeastern part of Iraq near the Iran border.
News outlets report deaths in both Iraq in Iran had occurred, and the number of...
FEMA is planning to arrange some major relief efforts for stranded Puerto Ricans. With hotels filled to compact, electrical contractor issues, and major problems with basic resources two months following Hurricane Maria decimated the country, the agency is now offering free lights and temporary housing in Florida.
FEMA’s traditional strategies...
As the United States prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight ISIS and the Taliban, and the speculation of a nuclear war between North Korea continues to spread with every Donald Trump tweet, it is important to understand that the United States has been fighting in several...
On Sunday, Devin Patrick Kelly ran into First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and started shooting, killing 26 people and injuring 20 more. kelly, a 26-year-old former Air Force Air Man, had been court-marshaled in 2012 and accused of assault his wife and stepson before being dishonorably discharged....
After the resignation of controversial Democrat National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who resigned after leaked emails, revealed she showed a clear bias against Bernie Sanders, political strategist Donna Brazille stepped in to fill the gap until the election.
Now, Politico has published an excerpt from Brazile’s upcoming book...
On Tuesday afternoon in New York City, NBC News reported at least 8 people were killed after shots rang out in the city’s lower Manhattan. Details surrounding the violence indicated that it was not a normal shooting, as multiple news outlets reported that multiple cyclists were hit by a...
The first charges to come from the ongoing investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump and Russia have come to light on Monday morning. According to the New York Times, Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, former Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, and Rick Gates,...
The ambush in Niger that killed 4 U.S. soldiers, two of which being Green Berets, is still under investigation. But, according to a New York Times report, officials have been investigating the death of another Green Beret in Mali this June, which has been ruled a homicide.
The circumstances of...
After leaving the White House in January, Barack Obama has been making his slow transition into public life. He has voiced his opinion about the Trump administration’s attempts at repealing and replacing Obamacare and started campaigning for Democrat candidates across the country. Now he may have to slow down...
On Friday, political journalist Mark Halperin issued a statement of apology to his accusers via Twitter. The NBC News political analyst, who frequently appears on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, is accused of sexually harassing several women while working at ABC News. His initial accusers were five, but CNN report...
A federal grand jury has approved the first set of charges filed by special investigator Robert Mueller and his team, and those charged could be in custody as soon as this Monday. CNN reports that the charges are still sealed, and it is currently unknown what the charges are...
Donald Trump Jr.’s infamous June 2016 meeting is undergoing further scrutiny. According to The New York Times, the Kremlin was made aware of the scheduled meeting between Donald Trump’s son and the Russian government connected attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The New York Times reports Veselnitskaya shared her talking points with...
For the last four days this week, a woman has come forward and accused President George H.W. Bush of sexually harassing them during photo opportunities over the last few years. The first three women all told similar allegations of meeting the elder President Bush backstage at events or productions...
The general counsel for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Marc Elias, is accused of helping organize funding from the campaign to fund the research firm Fusion GPS that helped pay for the anti-Trump dossier.
The same dossier that launched allegations about the president ranging from Russian collusion to "golden showers."
The claims came...
The Taliban had kidnaped Joshua Boyle and his pregnant wife on a trip to Afghanistan in 2012. The captors would later kill his infant daughter, he said, and rape his wife, according to Joshua who described the entire experience as a “Kafka-esque nightmare.” Late last year, the couple were...
Loa Ogunyemi, the Nigerian model who starred in a Dove ad that has been called racist, has come to the defense of the commercial, claiming that the image that has gone viral misrepresents the ad.
“There is a lack of trust here, and I feel the public was justified...
Republican Senator Bob Corker called out President Trump on Sunday evening, saying the president is running the country like a "reality show." Then, Sen. Corker added that Trump could set the United States on "the path to World War III."
The comments appeared in an interview with The New York Times. In...
Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, defended the social networking company against recent coverage of the platform on Twitter.
Stamos was responding to an article by Quinta Jurecic of Lawfare who criticized Facebook’s decision to have human editors oversee more ads as an excuse saying it should fix their algorithms...
60 Minutes reports the Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock took notes and calculated the distance from his window to the victims below and the trajectory of his bullets from the height of his room to “know where to shoot” and kill his victims below. The calculations were on a...
Vice President Mike Pence left an NFL football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday after several players knelt during the National Anthem. The VP of the United States said that he did not want to “dignify” the event.
On Twitter, the Vice President of...
