Philadelphia — Thirteen Philadelphia police officers will be fired over racist or offensive Facebook posts. More than 50 other officers are being reprimanded or suspended. "I continue to be very angered and disappointed by these posts," said Police Commissioner Richard…
Trump says U.S destroyed Iranian drone The U.S. destroyed an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, President Trump announced in the East Room of the White House. The president claimed the action was a defensive one after…
Michael Cohen begins prison sentence President Trump talked about quashing stories about his alleged affairs in the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election, according to documents unsealed in the Michael Cohen case Thursday. A federal judge in Manhattan…
Some states are raising the minimum wage The House has approved legislation to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour. Democrats pushed through the bill Thursday with a party-line vote of…
Several male Morehouse College students have posted videos of themselves on Twitter, alleging they had been sexually assaulted by a male staff member at the school. The explosive videos went viral, and Morehouse College has responded to the allegations against…
President Trump criticized the leadership of Puerto Rico in a series of tweets Thursday, saying that Congress "foolishly gave 92 Billion Dollars for hurricane relief" to the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Mr. Trump's tweets come…
Jeffrey Epstein was denied bail by a federal judge on Thursday as he faces criminal charges for sex trafficking, CBS News confirms. Judge Richard M. Berman ruled that Epstein, 66, will need to remain in jail as he awaits trial.…
On Amazon Prime Day, some customers ran into a glitch that prevented them from loading items into their carts. Others experienced a much more advantageous glitch. Several customers said they bought thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment for a…
Los Angles—A man was charged Wednesday with murder after prosecutors say he drove his family off a Los Angeles pier, killing his two severely autistic sons. Ali Elmezayen faces two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and…
Most kids are selling lemonade on hot summer days, but a boy from Utah had an even better idea — ice-cold beer. Root beer, that is. Seth Parker set up his "ICE COLD BEER" stand in front of a church…
St. Louis, Missouri — Extreme heat warnings are posted across the central U.S. Temperatures feel well over 100 degrees. Public health officials are warning people to heed their heat warnings. St. Louis is in the excessive heat danger zone. Prolonged exposure…
The House on Tuesday voted to formally condemn President Trump's racist tweets telling Democratic congresswoman of color to "go back" to where they came from. But long before that, the federal agency charged with enforcing anti-discrimination laws offered up that…
Dramatic video shows dozens of beachgoers working together Tuesday to save nearly 50 whales that were beached or dangerously close to shore in Georgia. Three of the animals did not survive. Multiple pilot whales repeatedly beached themselves on St. Simons…
Drake, Kevin Hart, LeBron James, the "Stranger Things" cast, and just about everyone else seems to be posting artificially-aged selfies on social media in the latest viral trend, called the #FaceAppChallenge. All you have to do is download FaceApp and…
Sen. Rand Paul blocked a vote to permanently reauthorize the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, which provides financial assistance for first responders suffering from 9/11-related medical issues. Paul prevented the Senate from voting to approve the bill through unanimous consent because…
Special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress has been delayed until July 24 under an agreement that gives lawmakers more time to question him. Mueller had been scheduled to testify July 17 before two house committees about the findings of…
J.T. Lewis was just 12 years old when his younger brother, Jesse Lewis, stood up to a gunman who had entered his first-grade classroom, before shooting and killing 20 innocent young children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary…
Officials in West Palm Beach have a new way to keep homeless people from laying around the city's Lake Pavilion: "Baby Shark." The extremely popular — and extremely repetitive — children's song can be heard playing on loop all night…
Ocean City, Md. -- Police in Maryland say a small plane has crashed in the water just off a beach in Ocean City. Police said on its Twitter page that the small plane made an emergency landing at around 6:19…
Police escort Thomas Gambino after his arrest in a joint raid by the FBI and Italian police in Palermo, Italy, July 17, 2019. ANSA/AP Rome -- More than 200 Italian police officers and FBI agents launched coordinated raids overnight targeting…
Several civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the Trump administration's new rules that effectively end asylum protections. Under the rules, migrants who pass through another…
A 4.3-magnitude earthquake and a 3.5 aftershock rocked northern California on Tuesday, less than two weeks after large earthquakes struck south in the Mojave Desert. Shaking was felt in a wide area of the East Bay and people reported feeling…
United Nations — Warning that heat waves are "one of the deadliest natural hazards facing humanity," the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Tuesday that the threat posed by extreme heat "will only become…
Ikea is close its only U.S. factory, located in Danville, Virginia, and shift production to its European plants. The Swedish company attributed the move to cost of raw materials in the U.S., saying it is more expensive than in Europe.…