A day after President Joe Biden drew criticism from conservatives on social media for giving unsolicited dating advice to a young teen girl in California, the president is again in hot water for claiming the “economy is strong as hell.” The comment came during a conversation with a reporter at …

A judge dismissed a female juror accused of flirting with one of the defendants charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over COVID-19-era lockdown measures.  Jackson County Judge Thomas Wilson announced Friday that the woman has been removed from the jury, two days after attorneys …

When inflation and crime are voters’ biggest concerns – and the economy and the president are rated negatively – it seems safe to predict the incumbent party will get punished at the ballot box. But political polarization and the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade may spare Democrats a trouncing …

A controversial, anti-violence activist priest in Chicago who once caught attention for his relationship with former President Barack Obama is under investigation for another sexual abuse of a minor case.  The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Saturday that Father Michael Pfleger will be under investigation for a new allegation of sexual …

Iran’s central prison for detaining political prisoners was in flames Saturday, with inmates fleeing the facility and guards reportedly firing on them. The notorious Evin Prison lies in the Iranian capital of Tehran and has long been used to house opponents of the regime. Hundreds of those protesting against the …

Gunshots fired into a crowd at an outdoor gathering in Virginia early Sunday left eight people wounded, officials said. The shooting happened around 2:20 a.m. in the 1500 block of Devon Lane in Harrisonburg, where an unknown individual or individuals fired multiple times into the crowd, the city tweeted Sunday. …

Tom Brady arrived in Pittsburgh alone on Saturday after attending the wedding of his former boss, New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft, in New York City on Friday night. Brady was the only one of his Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates to go to the wedding. He arrived separately from …

An 18-year-old is behind bars on “very serious charges” after allegedly raping, robbing and torturing a college student in south Alabama earlier this month. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said Elijah Persons knew the woman he is accused of attacking and had planned to meet her in Semmes, which is …

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss’ push to cut taxes for her country’s highest earners was a “mistake,” President Biden stated Saturday. Truss was forced to scrap large portions of her tax plan last week amid market turmoil and disintegrating public confidence. White House officials had hitherto declined to comment on …

The body of a missing 12-year-old girl was discovered inside a suitcase in Paris on Friday with her throat cut and numbers placed on her corpse, according to a report. The girl’s parents reported her missing to police Friday evening after she never returned home from school in the French …