“Our main story tonight – and I cannot believe I am saying this – is Donald Trump.” Those were the introductory words of Sunday evening Last Week Tonight host John Oliver. On last Sunday’s segment, John Oliver decided that it was time to take on billionaire Republican candidate Donald Trump. As Oliver pointed out, the […]

Wal-Mart officials have said that three trucks were shot Sunday night and three more were shot on Monday night while travelling along a stretch of highway in Oklahoma. In addition, one other commercial vehicle — reported to have been a Swift truck — and one personal vehicle were hit over the last two nights. The shooter […]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the court, is dead. Scalia was found dead Saturday morning at a ranch outside of Marfa, Texas, where the justice had been hunting quail. The death was of natural causes, according to federal officials. A priest has been called to Marfa to provide for the deceased. […]

The Center for Climate and Security, in partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering Program, the Center for New American Security, and the University of Oxford released the report, “The U.S. Asia-Pacific Rebalance, National Security, and Climate Change,” Tuesday. Dr. Leo Goff, program manager of the CNA Military Advisory Board, and Nilanthi Samaranayake, […]

The Pentagon has confirmed that it will go forward with plans made public last month to sail US Navy ships to the contested Spratly Islands, where China is undertaking large construction projects. The Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer U.S.S. LASSEN (DDG-82) has been deployed to the South China Sea, sending a message to Beijing that China’s recent claims to […]

Decides in favor of communities’ right to initiative; bars chief elections officer from keeping duly qualified initiatives off the ballot – even those involving fracking COLUMBUS, OH:  Today, the people’s constitutional right to vote on local County Charter initiatives was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court. The Court ruled that Ohio Secretary of State John […]

Despite being incarcerated, former beauty queen Brandi Weaver-Gates now feels free, she says, after asking for forgiveness for faking cancer and receiving money through cancer fundraising, and promising to pay the money back. Weaver-Gates made her first statement since she was charged last week. The statement came through her lawyer: “Although Brandi’s incarcerated, she feels […]

A new early recording of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” sentiment has been unearthed by researchers working on a documentary about the preacher and civil rights advocate. The recording was made eight months before King made his historic speech in front of 250,000 people gathered at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, […]

Multiple gunshots rang out during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri Sunday night, scattering protesters on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. Police came under heavy gunfire from two sources, which resulted in exchanges that left two men wounded, the St. Louis Police Department reported. At least one person — a young black man — was […]

US citizen and former president George W. Bush was among a group of potential jurors in a Dallas courthouse Wednesday. “President Bush received his jury summons and reported for service this morning at the George Allen Courts Building in Dallas,” Bush spokesman Freddy Ford told CNN in a statement. “He sat through the jury selection […]

An evacuation is underway at Lakebay Marina due to shots being fired in the air by a man who has claimed to have a bomb strapped to the fuel and propane tanks on his 30-foot cruiser boat, docked at the marina. The man has been sitting on his boat and has threatened to blow up […]

“Middle-Eastern males” are approaching the families of US military personnel at their houses, the FBI has warned in an unclassified situation information report published Sunday. The report initially publicized by an American veterans advocacy organization. The report matches a similar force protection advisory released by the Washington National Guard describing a incident in Washington. The FBI […]