Chuck Ross Attorney General William Barr told Congress Tuesday that the process of reviewing the Mueller report is going along “very well” and that he plans to release the document “within a week.” In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Barr also dealt a blow to a Democratic talking point regarding a letter he sent to Congress…
Evie Fordham U.S. measles cases are on track to set an alarming record, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released Monday. The number of confirmed cases in a single year is approaching its highest number since public health officials declared measles eradicated in the country in 2000. The CDC has recorded 465 cases…
Neetu Chandak A Utah mom allegedly struck her son with a bag of frozen pizza rolls and kicked him multiple times in late March. Pictured is Kassie Tolman. Screenshot/ Cache County Sheriff’s Office Kassie Tolman, 28, allegedly kicked her 10-year-old son in the head several times before leaving the room and bringing a bag of…
Nick Givas GOP Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas suggested cutting foreign aid to the host countries of illegal immigrants, on “Fox & Friends” Monday, to make up for financial losses suffered by the government. “This bill is a bill that I had introduced before in 2014 when it was predominantly the unaccompanied minors that were…
Chuck Ross The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee is calling on the panel’s chairman, New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, to “immediately” invite Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress. “If you seek both transparency and for the American public to learn the full contours of the Special Counsel’s investigation, public testimony from…
Evie Fordham Illinois raised its age requirement for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21 Sunday when new Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that the state’s former Republican governor vetoed. “We’re dealing with an old problem in a new form,” Pritzker said according to CNN. “And while all our residents have the right to…
Mary Margaret Olohan Researchers from Georgia Southern University claim to have solved a centuries-old mystery surrounding Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski after finding a feminine looking body they believe to be Pulaski. For more than 150 years, researchers wondered whether the Revolutionary War hero had been buried at sea or in an unmarked grave in Savannah, Georgia, according to a…
Neetu Chandak A former California middle school teacher said she felt pressured to kiss and give oral sex to a student Wednesday. Justine Nelson, 33, a former teacher at Tenaya Middle School, said an eighth grade student threatened to expose their relationship to school officials unless she was intimate with him, the Fresno Bee reported. She was…
Kevin Daley The Supreme Court rejected another last-ditch bid to stop the Trump administration’s bump stock ban, denying a gun rights coalition a temporary exemption from the new regulation early Friday afternoon. Friday’s order was the third application relating to the bump stock ban that the Supreme Court has rejected in recent weeks. The plaintiffs in Friday’s…
Chris White A federal judged decided Friday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk must meet with federal regulators for about an hour so they can resolve their problems, chief among them the mercurial billionaire’s twitter behavior. Judge Alison Nathan’s decision comes after a hearing Thursday when Musk’s lawyers and SEC prosecutors got into verbal spats over what constitutes…