A man in Montana who was initially charged with more than 60 counts of child sex abuse has received a deferred one-year sentence after agreeing to a plea deal, according to reports. William Edward Miller Jr., 51, of Great Falls, was arrested in February 2019 after a 14-year-old high school student accused him of raping…
President Trump went virtual – and it paid off.The president raised a massive $20 million as he held the first virtual fundraiser of his 2020 reelection campaign on Tuesday evening.The eye-popping haul is nearly double the $11 million raised last month by Democratic challenger Joe Biden at a fundraiser co-hosted by his one-time boss, former President…
Rep. Ted Yoho apologized to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the House floor Wednesday, while denying profane language was directed at the freshman congresswoman. “I rise to apologize for the abrupt manner of the conversations I had with my colleague from New York. It is true that we disagree on policies and visions for this country,…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins announced Wednesday that he’s jumping into Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race, trying to unseat Republican incumbent Bill Cassidy in a last-minute entrance into the competition as the candidate signup period begins. The Democratic mayor of the northwest Louisiana city, in office since December 2018, launched his campaign…
Florida Republican Rep. Ted Yoho apologized for the "abrupt manner" of an exchange he had with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, following reports he used profane language during an altercation on the Capitol steps on Monday. Yoho’s comments, overheard by a veteran Hill reporter for The Hill, came after the GOP congressman reportedly said…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…