Neetu Chandak “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and “Desperate Housewives” actress Felicity Huffman are set to appear in a Boston federal court with several other parents accused of participating in the nationwide admissions bribery scandal Wednesday. A total of 15 people parents, including the two celebrities, are scheduled to appear in court to face charges…
Tim Pearce GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz met Tuesday with the families of the “CITGO six,” American oil executives held captive in Venezuela, and called for their release. CITGO is a U.S.-based oil company that is majority-owned by PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro imprisoned CITGO’s former vice president for refining Tomeu…
Mary Margaret Olohan Actress Alyssa Milano pushed back Tuesday against a Georgia bill banning abortion after a heartbeat can be detected in a letter to Governor Brian Kemp signed by about 30 other Georgia based TV and filmmakers. Milano, who is currently filming her Netflix comedy “Insatiable” in Atlanta, brought a letter to Republican Governor…
Joshua Gill A South Carolina megachurch pastor made a bizarre threat to a local newspaper during Sunday service, saying she had a knife and “I cut people.” Hope Carpenter, a visiting pastor at Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, initially shared a lengthy word of exhortation Sunday with the congregation to “hold fast to your confession…
Molly Prince House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got into an exchange Monday after Cheney mocked the freshman congresswoman for flubbing the history of the U.S. Constitution. Ocasio-Cortez claimed during an MSNBC town hall Friday that the Democratic party was at its strongest when former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was…
Whitney Tipton A sheriff in Colorado said he’d rather go to jail than enforce the gun-control measure state lawmakers passed Monday and sent to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis for signature. “It violates the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the eighth, and the fourteenth amendment. It’s just a very poorly written bill,” Weld County Sheriff Steve…
Kevin Daley The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Missouri can execute an inmate with a rare disease that could cause severe pain when the death penalty protocol is administered. The 5-4 decision, which followed ideological lines, featured sharp exchanges between the majority and the dissents over a case the Court decided in February, concerning a Muslim…
Mary Margaret Olohan A San Diego hospital faces a lawsuit re-filed earlier in March from 81 women who claim they were filmed during gynecological procedures without their consent. Between July 17, 2012, and June 30, 2013, about 1,800 women were allegedly filmed in secret while undergoing procedures at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, BuzzFeed News reported Sunday. Laptop cameras on anesthesia…
Tim Pearce Americans with the least amount of education have seen the strongest growth in their wages in the past decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. Wages for workers with less than a high school education degree grew roughly 21 percent from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2018, according to Department of Labor data…
Mary Margaret Olohan Buffalo Niagara International Airport canceled plans to open a Chick-fil-A after a New York politician accused the fast-food chain of discrimination. Democratic New York State Assemblyman Sean Ryan took issue with Chick-fil-A’s Christian stances in a Facebook post that prompted the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) to decide against previous plans to install the Chick-fil-A…