Five people waiting at a bus stop in New Orleans were shot during a police shootout with a robbery suspect Sunday, police said. The suspect was fatally shot by a Louisiana State Police Officer at the end of foot chase with gunfire throughout, Chief Shaun Ferguson said. Ferguson said detectives had been investigating two armed…… MORE
The New York Police Department is investigating allegations that a precinct commander threatened rapper and actor 50 Cent, NYPD Sgt. Jessica McRorie told CNN Sunday. The New York Daily News reported Sunday that Deputy Inspector Emanuel Gonzalez, who is commander of the city’s 72nd precinct in Brooklyn, allegedly told officers to shoot 50 Cent “on…… MORE
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Sunday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “offered to wear a wire into the White House,” resurfacing one of the most controversial and disputed episodes of the Justice official’s tenure. McCabe told CBS’ Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” that Rosenstein said, “‘I never get searched when I go…… MORE
President Donald Trump’s allies are mounting a stiff defense of his declaration of a national emergency amid increasing signs that the biggest threat to his border wall now comes not from Congress, but the courts. One of the President’s top policy advisers, Stephen Miller, on Sunday indicated that Trump would cast the first veto of…… MORE
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe outlined on Sunday the reasons top officials decided to open a counterintelligence probe and obstruction of justice investigation into President Donald Trump. In an interview with CBS’ Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes,” McCabe said Trump had been speaking in a “derogatory way” about the Russia investigation for weeks, which…… MORE
A former director of Cambridge Analytica, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the 2016 US presidential election, was subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and cooperated, according to her lawyer. Brittany Kaiser was a director at the controversial data company that worked for the Trump campaign and visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy…… MORE
Last Thursday, Mary Kay Mace marked the 11th anniversary of her daughter’s death in a shooting spree at Northern Illinois University on February 14, 2008. On Friday, she learned of a workplace shooting that claimed multiple lives not far from NIU’s campus in a manufacturing plant in Aurora. On Sunday evening, she stood in the…… MORE
An inmate in southern Florida used his criminal skills for a good cause. He and a group of four other low-level offenders in Pasco County, near Tampa, broke into an SUV on Thursday to rescue a 1-year-old girl who was accidentally locked in, according to CNN affiliate KABC-TV. The mother of the child, Shadow Lantry,…… MORE
Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison and is serving out the rest of his sentence in a halfway house, records show. The former Democratic congressman from New York was originally sentenced in 2017 to 21 months in prison for sexting with a minor. Weiner served about 15 months in the Federal Medical Center…… MORE
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker declined on Sunday to comment directly on reports that police believe actor Jussie Smollett paid two men to carry out a hoax assault on himself last month. Smollett told authorities he was attacked in late January by two men who were “yelling out racial and homophobic slurs.” Two law…… MORE
