Hanna Bogorowski A 12-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man were injured at a mall near Birmingham, Alabama, Thursday night after a fight led to one suspect pulling out a gun and shooting the other. Witnesses told NBC News that hundreds of Black Friday shoppers fled the mall after gun shots were reported around 10 p.m. local time Thursday. Hoover…
Tim Pearce Crow tribal member Clayvin Herrera was found guilty in 2016 of hunting elk in Bighorn National Forest without a license. Herrera sued Wyoming, claiming an 1868 treaty gives the Crow tribe the right to hunt on “unoccupied” federal land. Herrera’s case will be decided on two questions: whether Wyoming’s statehood in 1890 “occupied”…
Grace Carr Indian authorities reported tribal members residing on an Indian Island near the Bay of Bengal allegedly killed an American tourist with bows and arrows Saturday. The American man, believed to be John Allen Chau, was reportedly killed on North Sentinel Island after several fishermen aided his journey, according to police officer Vijay Singh, The…
Jason Hopkins Democrats are beginning to show support for a “Select Committee on a Green New Deal,” a proposal first introduced by New York Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Nine Democrats — a group made up of longtime congressmen and newly-elected lawmakers — have joined Democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez’s demands for a special “Green New Deal” House committee that, if formed,…
Neetu Chandak A New Jersey university is not bringing Chick-fil-A to its campus over the fast food chain’s “corporate values,” even though the restaurant was the students’ top pick. Rider University surveyed students in the spring and asked which restaurants they wanted the school to bring to campus, Campus Reform reported Tuesday. Chick-fil-A was the top pick. The school…
Tim Pearce A Republican Party county chairman apologized after pasting an image to his Facebook page saying the deadly California wildfires are “God’s punishment to Liberal California.” Dave Johnson, the Republican Party chairman for Columbiana County in Ohio, posted the meme to his Facebook page Sunday after reading a news article “about [Democratic California] Governor…
Evie Fordham Two Massachusetts pot shops opened their doors Tuesday for the state’s first day of legalized recreational cannabis sales. Customers lined up outside the shops as early as eight hours before opening, despite cold weather and the threat of snow, reported Fortune. Cultivate in Leicester, Massachusetts, and New England Treatment Access (NETA) in Northampton, Massachusetts, are…
Evie Fordham Approximately 91,388 pounds of Jennie-O raw ground turkey have been recalled days before Americans gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. Seventy-four people have fallen ill since July, and one person in California died since November 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Friday. Health officials found a multi-drug resistant strain of salmonella in ground…
Luke Rosiak The maker of a viral video alleging racism by Chipotle bragged on Twitter about dining and dashing at restaurants. Masud Ali objected to Chipotle employees wanting proof that he would pay after the employees said he had previously made off without paying. Chipotle fired its manager despite knowing about the subject’s Twitter admissions…
Hanna Bogorowski President Donald Trump said in a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace that he has been fully briefed on a recording that purports to hold part of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he declined to listen himself because it’s a “suffering tape.” “We have the tape. I don’t want…